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Mitch McCann: US Correspondent on Sean “Diddy” Combs' conviction · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: Right now.
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  Speaker 2: Much McCann is in the US for US Mitch. Lots
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  Speaker 2: of attention, lots of eyes on the courthouse and Lower
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  Speaker 2: Manhattan for the Diddy verdict, and we have one.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's right, Good morning, Ryan. Shaun Didy Combs was
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  Speaker 1: convicted today on two criminal charges of the five he
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  Speaker 1: actually faced this morning. But remarkably, the headline really is
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  Speaker 1: that he escaped the most serious charges, and they were
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  Speaker 1: racketeering conspiracy. This is a charge that is usually reserved
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  Speaker 1: for mafia bosses or gang leaders. Prosecutors say he led
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  Speaker 1: a criminal enterprise and the other charges he escaped were
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  Speaker 1: sex trafficking, so there was a prospect that did he
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  Speaker 1: would be jailed for the rest of his life. Now
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  Speaker 1: there's the possibility that he'll be released this afternoon on
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  Speaker 1: a bond of those charges of which he was goeeing
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  Speaker 1: guilty and may face up to ten years in prison.
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  Speaker 1: But certainly this is a win for Diddy and his
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  Speaker 1: defense team.
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  Speaker 2: And the crowd loves it outside from what I can hear,
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  Speaker 2: the people who are wearing the free Diddy t shirts.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's right. What's interesting about this case, Ryan, as
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  Speaker 1: you have all the meat like you had at Trump's
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  Speaker 1: trials last year. But also it's the middle of summer
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  Speaker 1: here in New York, so you've got dozens and dozens
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  Speaker 1: of tourists that have just turned up to watch. But
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  Speaker 1: you also have the element where this has become the
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  Speaker 1: sort of thing where social media influences turn up with
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  Speaker 1: your selfie sticks and broadcast live, so they everywhere. When
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  Speaker 1: you go up to the court, you've got to navigate
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  Speaker 1: all these little live broadcasts going on.
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  Speaker 2: Meanwhile, you've got your own one going on here. Mitch, Hey,
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  Speaker 2: the big beautiful bill very quickly. Is it going to
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  Speaker 2: get through by Trump's self imposed deadline? Do we think?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, It's hard to know, Ryan, because there's a lot
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  Speaker 1: of conservative conservative hardliners that are not happy with the
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  Speaker 1: figure that came out from the Congressional Budget Office that
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  Speaker 1: said it's going to add three point three trillion dollars
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  Speaker 1: to the national debt. Now, Mike Johnson, the Speaker of
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  Speaker 1: the House, is they could be a vote as soon
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  Speaker 1: as today, but it's remaining unlikely that it's going to
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  Speaker 1: pass the sooner it happens, so it may be a
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  Speaker 1: couple of days before that actually passes.
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  Speaker 2: Mitch, Thanks so much for your time. Mitch mccan o
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  Speaker 2: US correspondent. For more from Early Edition with Ryan Bridge,
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