Dan Mitchinson: US Correspondent on the Supreme Court weighing in on birthright citizenship, latest in the Diddy trial and the price of Donald Trump’s military parade

The United States Supreme Court is hearing arguments in the appeal of three orders to end birthright citizenship for children born in the United States to someone in the country illegally.

Four federal judges have expressed why they believe President-Trump's birthright citizenship is unconstitutional.

US Correspondent Dan Mitchinson talks to Heather du Plessis-Allan about what was said in the court, the latest in hip-hop mogul ‘Diddy’s’ sex-trafficking trial and the price of Donald Trump’s military parade.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
And with US now is Dan Mitchinson, US correspondent Dan, Hello.

Speaker 2 (00:04):
And that shark is thinking, how sweet fresh meat.

Speaker 1 (00:08):
But then it's going to be like this is going
up against senses. So we'll see how that goes. Hey,
So the question of the boothright citizenship is going before
the Supreme Court.

Speaker 2 (00:18):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, So there they seem intent on maintaining
this block on the restrictions on birth right citizenship. That
being said, I think the court's also looking for a
way to kind of scale back a lot of these orders.
And none of the justices really spoke up in defense
of the order's legality. They had a hearing for about
two and a half hours today oral arguments, and several
were saying that they thought the order was almost unconstitutional. So,

(00:42):
I mean, this is just one of the big obviously
the big issues that President Trump has made part of
his agenda and related to immigration, and the administration is
asking the courts to address this on an emergency basis,
which is why they heard the argument today.

Speaker 1 (00:55):
If they're going to block Donald Trump, aren't they?

Speaker 2 (00:59):
I would think so. At this point, we're not expecting
a decision on this case until early in the summer,
so maybe another six weeks, maybe another couple of months.
But I think what they're looking to do is saying,
at least a couple of the judges were saying, you
know what, we need a broader remedy on this. Here's
what you need to do. You need to handle these
cases as a class action lawsuit. You don't need to
do a sort of this blanket injunction that will apply

(01:22):
everywhere in the country. So I think they're trying to Honestly,
I think they're trying to punt it off. I don't
think they're going to go ahead with this.

Speaker 1 (01:28):
Oh interesting, Okay, now the paid did he trials grim,
isn't it?

Speaker 2 (01:33):
Yeah? It is. They had his ex girlfriend, Cassie Ventura
on the stand today. I think this was day number
three in the trial. So they're going to continue the
cross examination tomorrow. The judge is saying, hey, you guys
got to wrap this up for her because she's expecting
to give birth anytime soon. And basically, the defense was
asking her about the relationship with Coins while they were dating,
and they had emails to the jury, they had messages

(01:55):
between them. There were some sexually graphic ones talking about
this freak off, which which seems to be all we're
hearing about on the news over here, which was sort
of drug and fueled, you know, whatever you want to
go down there. Anyway, Combs has said, I'm not guilty
to this. I don't belong in this racketeering conspiracy charge.
There's no sex trafficking. But what's interesting Heather's the jury

(02:16):
also saw messages from a few years back where she
told Combs that she loved their quote freak offs when
they both wanted it. So the defense I think is
trying to use these and other messages to form some
kind of relationship and characterize that she was a consulting
adult and she's not a victim on this.

Speaker 1 (02:31):
And how long how much long is this trial got
to run?

Speaker 2 (02:34):
That's a good question. I mean, they'd like to get
her off the stand by tomorrow so she can go
and like I said, she's expecting the baby, so me
maybe another week or so, and then after that, who's
to say how long before the jury will come back
with their decisions.

Speaker 1 (02:46):
And are you, I mean, are we expecting that they're
going to be a little celebrity revelations here?

Speaker 2 (02:51):
I don't know, there might be I mean, this could
be this could be a case where I could very
much see that he is sent to prison for I mean,
who knows. I mean, he could face life in prison.
They're saying at this point, I don't think it'll come
to that, but I could certainly see him spending a
significant amount of time right now the way this case
is going by Barsace.

Speaker 1 (03:09):
OK Now, this military, this big military parade for Trump,
how much is it going to cost?

Speaker 2 (03:14):
Well, it depends. Some people say on the low end
it's a bargain at twenty five million. Others say it's
going to go to forty five million dollars. And it's
kind of tied into the Army's two hundred and fiftieth anniversary.
So they're talking about tanks, dozens of tanks on the
ground and jets in the air. And the Army had
been planning to move troops and equipment to our National
Mall in DC next month. On the fourteenth as part

(03:34):
of the anniversary. You know, the President Trump said, hey,
you know what, it's my birthday, my seventy ninth birthday
right now, and he really likes parades. When he went
over I think it was last last no, and I'm kidding.
When he went to France last year. He saw the
parades and the trooping that was going on over there,
and he really came back with this thing, is like,
We've got to do something like this over here.

Speaker 1 (03:53):
He's going on in Peror complex. Look at him. I mean,
he's like houses a foot we had Emperor type decorations.

Speaker 2 (03:59):
He does, and honestlyhether. We haven't had a parade like
this since the early nineties when they had all these
troops and tanks going through Washington celebrating the ousting of
President Sodom Hussein and the Iraqi forces from Kuwait. That
was the last time we had anything remotely like this,
and it certainly didn't cost, you know, forty forty five
to fifty million dollars.

Speaker 1 (04:18):
Hey, did you decide to book your Christopher Cross and
Toto tickets because I was raving about it.

Speaker 2 (04:23):
I did. I just got them yesterday. I'm going to
see Toto, Christopher Cross and men at work in August.
I can't wait for that. And I decided to go
for it after your recommendation.

Speaker 1 (04:33):
Thank you. But we and we differ on where the
Toto of soulless I think the soulas but still wonderful
but you go and have a listen to them, and
then we'll talk about it in August.

Speaker 2 (04:41):
Okay, okay, sounds good.

Speaker 1 (04:43):
Thank you Dan. As always, Dan Mitchinson, US correspondent. For
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