June 3, 2025 • 17 mins
Today Loren gives a full recap right after court with what was said between Diddy ex assistant and the prosecutors, and they did not hold back one bit! check it out
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I'm a homegirl that knows a little bit about everything
and everybody. I don't know if you don't lie about that. Right. Hey, guys,
it's Lauren le Rose that we are here at the courthouse.
We just wrapped another day of testimony in the trial
of Shawn Combs, the Diddy trial of mea assistant Mia,
former personal assistant of Shawn Combs. Mia her testimony. Now,
(00:24):
I will say to you guys that in the beginning
of this cross testimony, I was I was a bit confused.
So I'm like, okay. Brian Steele obviously is like the
star of Diddy's defense team. I told you guys from
the very beginning that Diddy's defense team had a very
different approach depending on who was up. So you have
(00:45):
Brian Steele, who is like very sharp to the point
he's gonna get them punches in regardless. You have Mark Agnifilio,
who is I would say Mark Agnofilio's is a little
bit more. He's not as aggressive, he's not as straight
to the point it he fumbles around a bit. It
takes him a while to get to his point, and
sometimes he arrives there and when he does, it's like Oh, okay,
I understand, I get it. Other times it's like, okay, Mark,
(01:08):
it takes you a minute. It might take you a
witness or two after the witness that he first spoke
to that kind of confused you a bit for you
to fully understand the scope of his angling and what
he's doing. Then garre Goes, who just recently we just
found out that she's actually expecting a baby, thinks to
Mark Gargo's her father, who revealed that on the two
Ingraman podcasts on TMZ's podcast network. She is a beast
(01:30):
when it comes to evidence, like she can dissect evidence,
the way evidence was submitted, the way it was clocked
and logged, like she is the evidence girl. But back
to Brian Still and the reason why I broke that
down for you guys is it's important to understand that
to understand what I'm about to say and what I'll
be breaking down, you know, on the podcast The Latest
with Lauren Rosa, in breakfast Club, social media, all the
places where I do the things. Brian Still today did
(01:53):
something in court that he had Mia on the stand again.
Mia is the personal assistance who alleges that she was
raped by Diddy three times. And she also talks about,
you know, just working in a very, very harsh, toxic environment.
Her testimony has been quoted by several media outlets as
like very important when it comes to having the conversation
(02:13):
about proving the forced labor. Now, in the beginning of
the Cross Today, Bryan still took a lot of time
with reminding me of all of her post job conversations.
So I mean when I say, text message you after
text message after text message, he just kept them coming,
reminding me like, hey, at this point, you weren't even
(02:36):
working for Shawn Colmes. You had no tie to the
company professionally. Even as a friend, you would reach out
to him and he may or may not even respond
to you, right, And he was showing every single time
she's reaching out, Merry Christmas, love you. She reached out
when kim Porter, you know, after Kimporter passed away. She
reached out on Camporter's birthday. The following year, there was
(02:57):
a lot of continuous follow ups. Diddy was doing a
something in the water Festival that Pharrell brought to Virginia,
and this was like the first year of it. I
believe it was twenty nineteen. Mea the former assistant is
from Virginia. So when that was announced and Diddy was,
you know, allegedly a part of the lineup, she had
texted Diddy and say, Yo, look, I'm so happy that
you're a part of this. You know, you just being
(03:18):
involved has already brought a positive light to the festival
and to the area of Virginia Beach. And Brian Sales like, well,
why would you text a man who you alleged right
after all this time, right between the timeline of when
you alleged that he's sexually assaulted you. There's been so
much time that passed to now, why would you text
a man who you were alleging sexually assaulted you and
say to him your presence is going to make this positive.
(03:40):
Already you're thanking him for coming into your community and
doing these things, but you have no reason to text him.
You're no longer tied to him, you no longer work
for him. Not only that, but you weren't even required
to be there. You're letting him know that, Okay, you're
not gonna be there because your grandmother, you know, it's
currently a hospice and you gotta go say your goodbyes,
and she's like, you know, I just assumed that because
(04:01):
he was in you know, my hometown, that I may
be required to be there. And he's like, okay, whatever,
you let that go. And he was doing things like
that for a while where he would like open up
the thought of, like she just wouldn't let go of
you know, the relationship that she had with Diddy workwise
and the friendship and you know, the life that she
was living during the time when she was working with Diddy.
(04:21):
But he would ever like close it. He would never
just like directly say, which is what all these attorneys do,
Like that is a strategy, that is a game, that
is what they do, right, So he's doing a lot
of that. So he talks about the you know, the
festival in Virginia. He gets her to say on the stand,
why you know, I thought that I may be required
to be there, And then they talk about there was
another text message that they brought up when she me
(04:43):
a former personal assistant texts Diddy and said, you know,
she's remembering old times. And a lot of the text
messages were that were her remembering the old times. And
sometimes did he would engage and sometimes he wouldn't, and
mind you not only is this post her alleging you know,
the time period of her sexual assault, but this is all.
I also post her receiving a settlement because when she
was when she decided to separate from the company, she
(05:05):
got an attorney and they settled out. She took home
four hundred thousand dollars, but she personally took home two
hundred k after paying out her people. Right, So this
is post all of that she is free. She is not,
you know what I mean, Like, there is no there's
no legal obligation for her to be in conversation with Diddy,
nor is she working for him at this point. So
Brian still was making a point. He's like, okay, so
(05:27):
not only were we texting about Virginia and something in
the water festival when you were not required to be there, right,
but you text him about r Kelly. So then they
read a text. The text, you know, to summarize it,
Na Verbatim said that she had had a dream about
R Kelly, that she was in an elevator with R Kelly,
and that Diddy actually was the one that came and
saved her. He's like, wait, hold on, So after this
(05:52):
man sexually assaulted you allegedly, right, you then text him
about R Kelly and you make him your savior in
this dream that you had, and you were okay with
doing that. And he's asking her like, well, why would
you do that? And she's like, she's like, I don't know,
you know, like I don't know. She just kept saying
she didn't know. She couldn't explain it, you know, she
(06:13):
was saying that like she would. She did a lot
of when they were bringing up all these text messages
and her reaching back out, like she also reached out
when Andre Herrel passed away. Do you know, just just
various times, in various moments she reached out. She had
found like some no Chadwick Boseman. She reached out when
Chadwick Boseman passed away as well, because we found out
(06:33):
today in court that Diddy had actually auditioned to play
James Brown. Chadwick Boseman ended up getting the role, but
did he auditioned alongside Chadwick Boseman. So when Chadwick Bosman
passed away, assistant Mia reached out and was like, man, like,
you know, him passing away just brought back memories. Remember
you were, you know, auditioning to be James Brown, and
(06:53):
she talked about the suit, and she talked about they
had a bunch of you know, videotapes of the auditions
and all these things, and she had been taking around
like a camera before, you know, allegedly before did he
had like these content creators following him. So she had
a lot of these like videotapes of just old moments
and all memories. And she even put together like a
scrap book for his birthday of all these media moments
from like, you know, when they first started to like,
(07:15):
you know, the forty fourth birthday, and it was just
a lot of things that she held on to that,
you know, she would bring back up in conversation when
the moments made sense or when birthday celebrations and things
of that nature. So so when that was happening, and
she's like, Okay, look, I don't know, I can't answer
the question. It's a mental health thing. At the time,
(07:37):
she you know, she's like, I didn't have all the resources.
I didn't feel like I had the resources to really
understand what was happening to me. They asked her, you know,
you met with the government twenty seven times. You waited
until the last couple of times that you met with
the government to even mention the fact that you were
sexually assaulted allegedly and you waited until you did that
because you had an attorney, correct, And she's like no,
(07:57):
Like they made it a point to mention that her
attorneys were and pro Brono and she's like, no, it
wasn't that. I just didn't have the resources. I didn't
know how to go about things. They brought up the
fact that she had been speaking to Cassie during you know,
the time the Cassie settlement had come out allegedly, and
you know, she and Emia admitted like they did have
some conversations, but she said that they never talked about
(08:18):
the case and then preparing for the case. But this
whole time, I'm like, Okay, Brian, still I think you're
good at what you do. But at the same time, like,
what are we getting to here, because how do we
prove that, you know, her reaching back out and staying
connected wasn't something that has to do with her mental health, Like,
there's no way that you can properly prove that. We
put the expert on the stand and talk about that,
to talk about trauma and how it affects different people
(08:39):
and PTSD, which Mia said prior to that she had experienced,
you know, in going back to work for celebrities after
working for the Diddy allegedly like and defense was like, no,
we don't want this expert on the stand. We don't
want to talk about that. So this woman is leaning
into all of these things. How do you prove that
or disprove it? For the defense? Why are we having
this conversation? And then Brian still just start going in.
(09:04):
He gets to the point where he because because now
he's starting to say things more direct because you were
lying because this didn't happen, things like that, right, And
I'm like, oh, okay, the judge and it gets to
a point where the government is objecting everything everything. They're like,
you know, objection, objection, objection. They didn't have a sidebar.
(09:26):
They didn't have so many sidebars in today's cross examination.
It ain't funny. They didn't have a sidebar. And when
they come back from the sidebar, the judge is like, look,
he's talking to Brian still. He's like, listen, you keep
asking questions that are that we are like, it's objected.
And then once it's objected, you still continue to ask
the question. So I'm starting to think that you're doing
(09:47):
that just to get your question in, which is not
fair because the jury shouldn't hear the question if it's objected,
and if you are doing that just to get your
question in, like, that's not you can't do that. So
I already I'm like, okay, wait because now at first
I'm I'm like, yo, Brian, what are you doing? You
messing this up? And then as that's happening, and then
when a judge comes and says that, I'm like, oh,
(10:07):
because a lot of this testimony, I've been feeling like okay,
and when I made the video saying that, I feel
like the government has like presented everything that they can
at this point, everything else is just redundant and or
just like you know, adding and piling on which I
get it. It's without a shadow of a doubt. The
proof is without a shodow of a doubt. So I
get it right. But at this point a lot of
what we're having conversation about is about how people felt
(10:29):
and what they experienced. And you may have text messages
and emails and you know, photos, but it's different because
like when a Cassie was on the stand, right, and
she talked about, you know, she was scared and she
was being forced to do these things allegedly because she
thought she'd be physically abused. You then had the photos
and these different things to point to. And I'm not
saying that Miya was not you know, Nia Kinte leisure
(10:50):
she was sexually assaulted, because we don't have physical proof
that had happened. But my point is is even when
you remove her sexual assault allegations, right, when you just
talk about the forced labor part of this, the you know,
the the whole uh, the conspiracy of you know, she's
working within this whole group and unit of people allegedly
who she can't tell, she's physically afraid to, she can't
(11:14):
push back about certain things to allegedly. Right, these are
all things that they're setting up to prove their case.
But there's nothing fully there. Even in the text messages
and the emails that she did say when she was
trying to hurt people at certain things, it's like she's saying, yo,
I couldn't do that because people were fired, people were this,
people were that. So we're seeing bits and pieces of
these solid concrete tangible evidence, but everything else is uped
up to testimony, various testimonies, which change as you go
(11:37):
to people to people. So I'm like, if I'm Brian Steele,
and I know that right now this witness is here
alleging things that neither side, neither one of us may
actually be able to, like one hundred percent prove with
a tangible piece of evidence. The only thing you can
do is playing a thought in a jurora's mind. Boom.
That's what Brian still did the whole rest of the time.
The judge specifically told him, you are harassing the witness
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and that cannot happen. The way that you are talking
to her and the way that you know she's being
handled on the on the stand. You know, they wanted
to have a conversation about if this will make other
women not want to come out about these alleged things.
But then I promise y'all he was so called her
a liar, told her things did not happen. Even when
(12:25):
they went into the conversation about Cassie and Cassie being
her best friend. It's like, look, this is your best friend,
but you had you had to tell her certain things
when it came to Ditty that were not true, correct,
And she's like, yes, Mia said yes, but only because
that was her job. She worked for Ditty, she had
to do and say certain things. And they're like, so
(12:46):
you lie to your sister, Like there were certain buzzwords
that he was planting. He even called her and I
highlighted this one. He started talking about money, right, because
he's like, is it true that you're here because you
think you're gonna some money from this and she's like no, absolutely,
Like what no, absolutely not type vibes, right, And then
(13:06):
they bring up the settlement that she received when she
left working for Diddy and the fact that she had
actually asked for ten million but only received that four
hundred k two hundred k take home. And then and
then they brought back in the fact that her lawyers
working pro bono, you know, trying to shape this whole
like this is just a cash grab allegedly, right, he
called her a me too money grabber. While she was
(13:28):
on the stand in front of the jury. I'm like,
oh my god, because in granted she brought up me too.
She mentioned in her previous testimony on direct with the
government that she didn't say anything about certain things because
at that time, you know, it wasn't it wasn't as
normal for women to get on social media and claim things,
and the Me too movement hadn't happened, and Diddy was
such a big star and all these things. But Brian
(13:50):
still made it a point, a big point today to
hammer in, like, you know, at these points where you're
still you know, reaching out to Diddy and saying Merry Christmas,
I love you, wishing you guys, pieces like all these
things right at this point now, the Me too movement
is years in social media, has millions of users. You
(14:12):
could have had a voice if you wanted one. Why
didn't you? And then he called her a me too
money grabber. It was a very aggressive way to go
about across the examination, almost hostile in my opinion. It
was given like he didn't care if he was even
found in a contempt of court. The thought process in
the imagery that he wanted the jewelry to have was
(14:34):
this woman because also she's been very like mild tempered
and like doesn't even look up during the whole testimony.
Brian still is very direct, he's sharp, he's saying what
he needs to say, and he is not holding back
objection after objection after objection, He's just going. She didn't
break down and crash it in any of that. And
I thought she would, to be honest with you, because
of some of the things that he was saying and
just how he was just going and going and going.
(14:56):
But I'm like, man, I mean, if you're trying to
make a thought turn, this is how you do it.
You give the jury the thought to have instead of
just inferning it, because every youtorney up until this point
has just laid things out there and invert it. Now
the prosecution came back on they did try to clear
things up. They're like, you know, because they brought up
like birthday posts that she had posted for Diddy and
(15:18):
you know, some rock posts and things of that nature.
And you know, the prosecution tried to clear it up
by saying that was your job, correct, Like everybody that
worked for Diddy posted for his birthday and things of that,
and she's like yeah. And then they brought up the
fact that she didn't like a public speaking and the
fact that like she looks down so much because she's
terrified of public speaking, and you know that like, for her,
it's not about money. She kept saying that she was
(15:39):
there because she felt like it was something that she
morally had to do. And she ended on you know
her her readdirect with the government, saying she can't look
her niece and her God good in their eyes and
guide them throughout life without standing up there and doing
the right thing. So that's why she was here. Brian
still wasn't trying to hear none of that, none of it,
none of it like I've never seen anything like it,
(15:59):
and I'm trying to say it confused me at first,
and then I was like, oh, and I wasn't in
the actual courtroom where you could see the drawers. I
was in an overflow room today. But I just talked
to a friend who was in the courtroom where you
could see the actual drawers, and I asked him. That
was my first question. I'm like, what were the George
reactions today? Because Brian said was straight at her, like
(16:19):
straight at her, no, miss it straight at her, and
he said like, no, they were reacting a lot to
you know her, because she couldn't remember, she didn't remember
majority of everything today and literally her response was, I
don't know, I don't remember, I don't know, I don't remember,
or she would say, can you repeat the question? I
don't I don't really understand the question. Because Brian still
(16:40):
was getting in trouble a lot for the way he
was framing the questions, because the way he was framing
the questions again, it wasn't even about getting answer from her.
He knew she wasn't going to be able to answer
the question. He was just trying to. He wanted certain
words in certain scenarios and certain things to be put
out there, like me too, money grab her liar, you
lied to your best friend, Cassie, but that's supposed to
(17:02):
be your best friend. He brought up the fact of,
like you keep talking about, you decided to take lead
from you and your job separated, right like basically we
decided to go our separate ways. He said, no, weren't
you fired allegedly because you were drinking on the job,
And then they objected to that. He just went right
(17:22):
around it. He just acted like it didn't happen. There
were certain ideas and things he was trying to plant
in the juror's minds even if he got in trouble today,
and he was successful at it. He was very successful
at that all right, guys, so we'll be back another
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be anywhere with anybody else listening to all these things,
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I'm a homegirl that knows a little bit about everything
and everybody. I don't know if you don't lie about that. Right. Hey, guys,
it's Lauren le Rose that we are here at the courthouse.
We just wrapped another day of testimony in the trial
of Shawn Combs, the Diddy trial of mea assistant Mia,
former personal assistant of Shawn Combs. Mia her testimony. Now,
(00:24):
I will say to you guys that in the beginning
of this cross testimony, I was I was a bit confused.
So I'm like, okay. Brian Steele obviously is like the
star of Diddy's defense team. I told you guys from
the very beginning that Diddy's defense team had a very
different approach depending on who was up. So you have
(00:45):
Brian Steele, who is like very sharp to the point
he's gonna get them punches in regardless. You have Mark Agnifilio,
who is I would say Mark Agnofilio's is a little
bit more. He's not as aggressive, he's not as straight
to the point it he fumbles around a bit. It
takes him a while to get to his point, and
sometimes he arrives there and when he does, it's like Oh, okay,
I understand, I get it. Other times it's like, okay, Mark,
(01:08):
it takes you a minute. It might take you a
witness or two after the witness that he first spoke
to that kind of confused you a bit for you
to fully understand the scope of his angling and what
he's doing. Then garre Goes, who just recently we just
found out that she's actually expecting a baby, thinks to
Mark Gargo's her father, who revealed that on the two
Ingraman podcasts on TMZ's podcast network. She is a beast
(01:30):
when it comes to evidence, like she can dissect evidence,
the way evidence was submitted, the way it was clocked
and logged, like she is the evidence girl. But back
to Brian Still and the reason why I broke that
down for you guys is it's important to understand that
to understand what I'm about to say and what I'll
be breaking down, you know, on the podcast The Latest
with Lauren Rosa, in breakfast Club, social media, all the
places where I do the things. Brian Still today did
(01:53):
something in court that he had Mia on the stand again.
Mia is the personal assistance who alleges that she was
raped by Diddy three times. And she also talks about,
you know, just working in a very, very harsh, toxic environment.
Her testimony has been quoted by several media outlets as
like very important when it comes to having the conversation
(02:13):
about proving the forced labor. Now, in the beginning of
the Cross Today, Bryan still took a lot of time
with reminding me of all of her post job conversations.
So I mean when I say, text message you after
text message after text message, he just kept them coming,
reminding me like, hey, at this point, you weren't even
(02:36):
working for Shawn Colmes. You had no tie to the
company professionally. Even as a friend, you would reach out
to him and he may or may not even respond
to you, right, And he was showing every single time
she's reaching out, Merry Christmas, love you. She reached out
when kim Porter, you know, after Kimporter passed away. She
reached out on Camporter's birthday. The following year, there was
(02:57):
a lot of continuous follow ups. Diddy was doing a
something in the water Festival that Pharrell brought to Virginia,
and this was like the first year of it. I
believe it was twenty nineteen. Mea the former assistant is
from Virginia. So when that was announced and Diddy was,
you know, allegedly a part of the lineup, she had
texted Diddy and say, Yo, look, I'm so happy that
you're a part of this. You know, you just being
(03:18):
involved has already brought a positive light to the festival
and to the area of Virginia Beach. And Brian Sales like, well,
why would you text a man who you alleged right
after all this time, right between the timeline of when
you alleged that he's sexually assaulted you. There's been so
much time that passed to now, why would you text
a man who you were alleging sexually assaulted you and
say to him your presence is going to make this positive.
(03:40):
Already you're thanking him for coming into your community and
doing these things, but you have no reason to text him.
You're no longer tied to him, you no longer work
for him. Not only that, but you weren't even required
to be there. You're letting him know that, Okay, you're
not gonna be there because your grandmother, you know, it's
currently a hospice and you gotta go say your goodbyes,
and she's like, you know, I just assumed that because
(04:01):
he was in you know, my hometown, that I may
be required to be there. And he's like, okay, whatever,
you let that go. And he was doing things like
that for a while where he would like open up
the thought of, like she just wouldn't let go of
you know, the relationship that she had with Diddy workwise
and the friendship and you know, the life that she
was living during the time when she was working with Diddy.
(04:21):
But he would ever like close it. He would never
just like directly say, which is what all these attorneys do,
Like that is a strategy, that is a game, that
is what they do, right, So he's doing a lot
of that. So he talks about the you know, the
festival in Virginia. He gets her to say on the stand,
why you know, I thought that I may be required
to be there, And then they talk about there was
another text message that they brought up when she me
(04:43):
a former personal assistant texts Diddy and said, you know,
she's remembering old times. And a lot of the text
messages were that were her remembering the old times. And
sometimes did he would engage and sometimes he wouldn't, and
mind you not only is this post her alleging you know,
the time period of her sexual assault, but this is all.
I also post her receiving a settlement because when she
was when she decided to separate from the company, she
(05:05):
got an attorney and they settled out. She took home
four hundred thousand dollars, but she personally took home two
hundred k after paying out her people. Right, So this
is post all of that she is free. She is not,
you know what I mean, Like, there is no there's
no legal obligation for her to be in conversation with Diddy,
nor is she working for him at this point. So
Brian still was making a point. He's like, okay, so
(05:27):
not only were we texting about Virginia and something in
the water festival when you were not required to be there, right,
but you text him about r Kelly. So then they
read a text. The text, you know, to summarize it,
Na Verbatim said that she had had a dream about
R Kelly, that she was in an elevator with R Kelly,
and that Diddy actually was the one that came and
saved her. He's like, wait, hold on, So after this
(05:52):
man sexually assaulted you allegedly, right, you then text him
about R Kelly and you make him your savior in
this dream that you had, and you were okay with
doing that. And he's asking her like, well, why would
you do that? And she's like, she's like, I don't know,
you know, like I don't know. She just kept saying
she didn't know. She couldn't explain it, you know, she
(06:13):
was saying that like she would. She did a lot
of when they were bringing up all these text messages
and her reaching back out, like she also reached out
when Andre Herrel passed away. Do you know, just just
various times, in various moments she reached out. She had
found like some no Chadwick Boseman. She reached out when
Chadwick Boseman passed away as well, because we found out
(06:33):
today in court that Diddy had actually auditioned to play
James Brown. Chadwick Boseman ended up getting the role, but
did he auditioned alongside Chadwick Boseman. So when Chadwick Bosman
passed away, assistant Mia reached out and was like, man, like,
you know, him passing away just brought back memories. Remember
you were, you know, auditioning to be James Brown, and
(06:53):
she talked about the suit, and she talked about they
had a bunch of you know, videotapes of the auditions
and all these things, and she had been taking around
like a camera before, you know, allegedly before did he
had like these content creators following him. So she had
a lot of these like videotapes of just old moments
and all memories. And she even put together like a
scrap book for his birthday of all these media moments
from like, you know, when they first started to like,
(07:15):
you know, the forty fourth birthday, and it was just
a lot of things that she held on to that,
you know, she would bring back up in conversation when
the moments made sense or when birthday celebrations and things
of that nature. So so when that was happening, and
she's like, Okay, look, I don't know, I can't answer
the question. It's a mental health thing. At the time,
(07:37):
she you know, she's like, I didn't have all the resources.
I didn't feel like I had the resources to really
understand what was happening to me. They asked her, you know,
you met with the government twenty seven times. You waited
until the last couple of times that you met with
the government to even mention the fact that you were
sexually assaulted allegedly and you waited until you did that
because you had an attorney, correct, And she's like no,
(07:57):
Like they made it a point to mention that her
attorneys were and pro Brono and she's like, no, it
wasn't that. I just didn't have the resources. I didn't
know how to go about things. They brought up the
fact that she had been speaking to Cassie during you know,
the time the Cassie settlement had come out allegedly, and
you know, she and Emia admitted like they did have
some conversations, but she said that they never talked about
(08:18):
the case and then preparing for the case. But this
whole time, I'm like, Okay, Brian, still I think you're
good at what you do. But at the same time, like,
what are we getting to here, because how do we
prove that, you know, her reaching back out and staying
connected wasn't something that has to do with her mental health, Like,
there's no way that you can properly prove that. We
put the expert on the stand and talk about that,
to talk about trauma and how it affects different people
(08:39):
and PTSD, which Mia said prior to that she had experienced,
you know, in going back to work for celebrities after
working for the Diddy allegedly like and defense was like, no,
we don't want this expert on the stand. We don't
want to talk about that. So this woman is leaning
into all of these things. How do you prove that
or disprove it? For the defense? Why are we having
this conversation? And then Brian still just start going in.
(09:04):
He gets to the point where he because because now
he's starting to say things more direct because you were
lying because this didn't happen, things like that, right, And
I'm like, oh, okay, the judge and it gets to
a point where the government is objecting everything everything. They're like,
you know, objection, objection, objection. They didn't have a sidebar.
(09:26):
They didn't have so many sidebars in today's cross examination.
It ain't funny. They didn't have a sidebar. And when
they come back from the sidebar, the judge is like, look,
he's talking to Brian still. He's like, listen, you keep
asking questions that are that we are like, it's objected.
And then once it's objected, you still continue to ask
the question. So I'm starting to think that you're doing
(09:47):
that just to get your question in, which is not
fair because the jury shouldn't hear the question if it's objected,
and if you are doing that just to get your
question in, like, that's not you can't do that. So
I already I'm like, okay, wait because now at first
I'm I'm like, yo, Brian, what are you doing? You
messing this up? And then as that's happening, and then
when a judge comes and says that, I'm like, oh,
(10:07):
because a lot of this testimony, I've been feeling like okay,
and when I made the video saying that, I feel
like the government has like presented everything that they can
at this point, everything else is just redundant and or
just like you know, adding and piling on which I
get it. It's without a shadow of a doubt. The
proof is without a shodow of a doubt. So I
get it right. But at this point a lot of
what we're having conversation about is about how people felt
(10:29):
and what they experienced. And you may have text messages
and emails and you know, photos, but it's different because
like when a Cassie was on the stand, right, and
she talked about, you know, she was scared and she
was being forced to do these things allegedly because she
thought she'd be physically abused. You then had the photos
and these different things to point to. And I'm not
saying that Miya was not you know, Nia Kinte leisure
(10:50):
she was sexually assaulted, because we don't have physical proof
that had happened. But my point is is even when
you remove her sexual assault allegations, right, when you just
talk about the forced labor part of this, the you know,
the the whole uh, the conspiracy of you know, she's
working within this whole group and unit of people allegedly
who she can't tell, she's physically afraid to, she can't
(11:14):
push back about certain things to allegedly. Right, these are
all things that they're setting up to prove their case.
But there's nothing fully there. Even in the text messages
and the emails that she did say when she was
trying to hurt people at certain things, it's like she's saying, yo,
I couldn't do that because people were fired, people were this,
people were that. So we're seeing bits and pieces of
these solid concrete tangible evidence, but everything else is uped
up to testimony, various testimonies, which change as you go
(11:37):
to people to people. So I'm like, if I'm Brian Steele,
and I know that right now this witness is here
alleging things that neither side, neither one of us may
actually be able to, like one hundred percent prove with
a tangible piece of evidence. The only thing you can
do is playing a thought in a jurora's mind. Boom.
That's what Brian still did the whole rest of the time.
The judge specifically told him, you are harassing the witness
(12:01):
and that cannot happen. The way that you are talking
to her and the way that you know she's being
handled on the on the stand. You know, they wanted
to have a conversation about if this will make other
women not want to come out about these alleged things.
But then I promise y'all he was so called her
a liar, told her things did not happen. Even when
(12:25):
they went into the conversation about Cassie and Cassie being
her best friend. It's like, look, this is your best friend,
but you had you had to tell her certain things
when it came to Ditty that were not true, correct,
And she's like, yes, Mia said yes, but only because
that was her job. She worked for Ditty, she had
to do and say certain things. And they're like, so
(12:46):
you lie to your sister, Like there were certain buzzwords
that he was planting. He even called her and I
highlighted this one. He started talking about money, right, because
he's like, is it true that you're here because you
think you're gonna some money from this and she's like no, absolutely,
Like what no, absolutely not type vibes, right, And then
(13:06):
they bring up the settlement that she received when she
left working for Diddy and the fact that she had
actually asked for ten million but only received that four
hundred k two hundred k take home. And then and
then they brought back in the fact that her lawyers
working pro bono, you know, trying to shape this whole
like this is just a cash grab allegedly, right, he
called her a me too money grabber. While she was
(13:28):
on the stand in front of the jury. I'm like,
oh my god, because in granted she brought up me too.
She mentioned in her previous testimony on direct with the
government that she didn't say anything about certain things because
at that time, you know, it wasn't it wasn't as
normal for women to get on social media and claim things,
and the Me too movement hadn't happened, and Diddy was
such a big star and all these things. But Brian
(13:50):
still made it a point, a big point today to
hammer in, like, you know, at these points where you're
still you know, reaching out to Diddy and saying Merry Christmas,
I love you, wishing you guys, pieces like all these
things right at this point now, the Me too movement
is years in social media, has millions of users. You
(14:12):
could have had a voice if you wanted one. Why
didn't you? And then he called her a me too
money grabber. It was a very aggressive way to go
about across the examination, almost hostile in my opinion. It
was given like he didn't care if he was even
found in a contempt of court. The thought process in
the imagery that he wanted the jewelry to have was
(14:34):
this woman because also she's been very like mild tempered
and like doesn't even look up during the whole testimony.
Brian still is very direct, he's sharp, he's saying what
he needs to say, and he is not holding back
objection after objection after objection, He's just going. She didn't
break down and crash it in any of that. And
I thought she would, to be honest with you, because
of some of the things that he was saying and
just how he was just going and going and going.
(14:56):
But I'm like, man, I mean, if you're trying to
make a thought turn, this is how you do it.
You give the jury the thought to have instead of
just inferning it, because every youtorney up until this point
has just laid things out there and invert it. Now
the prosecution came back on they did try to clear
things up. They're like, you know, because they brought up
like birthday posts that she had posted for Diddy and
(15:18):
you know, some rock posts and things of that nature.
And you know, the prosecution tried to clear it up
by saying that was your job, correct, Like everybody that
worked for Diddy posted for his birthday and things of that,
and she's like yeah. And then they brought up the
fact that she didn't like a public speaking and the
fact that like she looks down so much because she's
terrified of public speaking, and you know that like, for her,
it's not about money. She kept saying that she was
(15:39):
there because she felt like it was something that she
morally had to do. And she ended on you know
her her readdirect with the government, saying she can't look
her niece and her God good in their eyes and
guide them throughout life without standing up there and doing
the right thing. So that's why she was here. Brian
still wasn't trying to hear none of that, none of it,
none of it like I've never seen anything like it,
(15:59):
and I'm trying to say it confused me at first,
and then I was like, oh, and I wasn't in
the actual courtroom where you could see the drawers. I
was in an overflow room today. But I just talked
to a friend who was in the courtroom where you
could see the actual drawers, and I asked him. That
was my first question. I'm like, what were the George
reactions today? Because Brian said was straight at her, like
(16:19):
straight at her, no, miss it straight at her, and
he said like, no, they were reacting a lot to
you know her, because she couldn't remember, she didn't remember
majority of everything today and literally her response was, I
don't know, I don't remember, I don't know, I don't remember,
or she would say, can you repeat the question? I
don't I don't really understand the question. Because Brian still
(16:40):
was getting in trouble a lot for the way he
was framing the questions, because the way he was framing
the questions again, it wasn't even about getting answer from her.
He knew she wasn't going to be able to answer
the question. He was just trying to. He wanted certain
words in certain scenarios and certain things to be put
out there, like me too, money grab her liar, you
lied to your best friend, Cassie, but that's supposed to
(17:02):
be your best friend. He brought up the fact of,
like you keep talking about, you decided to take lead
from you and your job separated, right like basically we
decided to go our separate ways. He said, no, weren't
you fired allegedly because you were drinking on the job,
And then they objected to that. He just went right
(17:22):
around it. He just acted like it didn't happen. There
were certain ideas and things he was trying to plant
in the juror's minds even if he got in trouble today,
and he was successful at it. He was very successful
at that all right, guys, so we'll be back another
day this week and just you know, following what's going on,
and it's going to rose at. This is the latest
with Lauren Rosa. As always, I tell y'all, y'all could
(17:43):
be anywhere with anybody else listening to all these things,
because at the end of the day, there is always
a lot going on, but y'all are right here with me.
I appreciate you guys so much. I'll see you in
my next upload.
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