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Shocking new claim from Diddy and his legal team ... they believe the federal government "orchestrated" the leak of the Cassie beating video to the media.

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00:00This is the type of indictment you would expect from someone in the mafia.

00:03I don't know that I could keep him off the stand.

00:05He is very eager to tell his story.

00:08They're going to show that video over and over and over

00:11about what happens to women that won't change their stories.

00:15His reputation is over.

00:17The United States government, they start making this case

00:20as a takedown of a successful black man.

00:24TMZ presents The Downfall of Diddy, The Indictment, now streaming on Tubi.

00:30Well, it is now Diddy making the allegations against the feds,

00:34and a pretty serious one involving that Cassie beating,

00:38the hotel beating video, and how it ended up at CNN

00:43and then out for the public to see.

00:46Diddy and his team believe that the feds played a big role in it coming out,

00:51and they are alleging in new documents they filed,

00:55they are alleging that the reason the feds were involved in this

00:59was to ensure that, was basically to dirty him up so the grand jury would,

01:04is basically to soften up the grand jury so he would be indicted.

01:07So what they're arguing is that Homeland Security,

01:10according to Diddy's lawyers,

01:12that Homeland Security, they believe, leaked this video.

01:16And as Charles said, it is to poison,

01:20that at least they claim that it was to poison the grand jury.

01:26It is an interesting argument.

01:28I don't know how they're going to prove that,

01:30but it's kind of an interesting argument,

01:32because the Cassie video, as horrific as it is,

01:37is not part of the criminal indictment that Diddy is now facing.

01:43She is mentioned, but mentioned in connection with...

01:47I disagree.

01:48Well, no, I mean, legally, it's not part of it.

01:51I know he's not being prosecuted for the beating itself,

01:54but there is a mention of him holding her against her will,

01:57and it is very clearly referring to that morning at that hotel.

02:01It doesn't align with the charges, and I think it underscores...

02:04No, no, holding her against her will,

02:06people against their will is one of the charges, is in the indictment.

02:08But it's not about that video.

02:10They're not arguing that video.

02:12No, they're not.

02:13So then the question is, look, I mean,

02:16they put it in there because obviously it is just incendiary to watch,

02:20but what they're saying...

02:20I guess my point is that video would have been shown to the grand jury anyway.

02:24Well, it may not have been shown to the grand jury

02:27because it's not really relevant to the sex trafficking charges

02:32and the other charges.

02:33There is a charge holding people against their will.

02:35But they're not charging...

02:37Kidnapping.

02:37They're not charging based on this.

02:40That's the...

02:41Do you know what the kidnapping charge is based on?

02:43I know it's not this,

02:43because we've checked with the people involved in this.

02:47I think what's happening here,

02:48it's an effort by Diddy's counsel in doing his job

02:51to seize the narrative, the public narrative,

02:54and to make it seem like the federal prosecutors

02:57are overzealous in the prosecution of Diddy

02:59and being unfair to him.

03:00Because it does appear that the...

03:02Assuming they released it,

03:03which is something that they have not acknowledged,

03:05and other people probably had access to this,

03:07but assuming they released it,

03:08it does appear that it was an effort to, at the very least,

03:12turn public sentiment against him

03:13and maybe even taint the grand jury.

03:15I do think, to Charles' point,

03:16the prosecution is going to try and get this video in regardless...

03:20It's going to be part of the trial,

03:22but it's going to be part of the trial

03:24to show his MO and his character.

03:27We did a documentary,

03:29The Downfall of Diddy, The Indictment,

03:30where we actually talk with Diddy's lawyer about this,

03:34and his lawyer acknowledges,

03:36we may try to fight to get this thing kept out,

03:39but we're going to lose it.

03:40I mean, he essentially said it.

03:41So the jury is actually going to see this video,

03:44but they're going to see it not to prove the charges

03:48as much as to show the man,

03:50and that's why, and even the defense says,

03:53we're not going to be able to keep that out.

03:55Yeah, so I think Charles' point has some merit,

03:58that the grand jury is likely to see this,

04:00but it doesn't change the fact, I suppose,

04:02that the reason that the prosecutors,

04:05the U.S. Attorney's Office put this out early

04:07was to try and sort of poison the well,

04:10both of the grand jury and the public against Diddy.

04:12We don't know, though.

04:13Again, we don't know if they did.

04:15We don't know.

04:16Let's be honest, if they did,

04:18they're never going to acknowledge it,

04:19and I don't know how Diddy proves that they did.

04:23I don't either. I don't either.

04:25By the way, as we speak right now,

04:27there's a hearing going on in this case,

04:29and the prosecutor said that there may well be

04:33a superseding indictment with more charges.

04:36The U.S. Attorney talked about this

04:39when they announced the indictment

04:40and even said there might be other people indicted as well,

04:44and that's a big buzz in Hollywood right now,

04:47which is, you know, who might be involved,

04:50and are there going to be more charges against Diddy?

04:52Hey, Harvey. Hey, Charles.

04:53It's Daniel from Brooklyn,

04:55and I just want to say, like, sorry, Harvey,

04:58but lawyers, you know, like,

04:59they're going to do anything to make their clients

05:03seem like it's the law enforcement against them,

05:08you know, but we know that there is so much more

05:10to this case than that tape.

05:12This man is a monster, clearly,

05:14and yeah, it's possible the feds could have leaked it,

05:16but like you said, that's not the entirety of the charges,

05:22so there's a lot more things Diddy has to deal with.

05:25I think this is more to rebuild his fan base.

05:27Well, I'm not sure that fan base exists at this point.

05:30Yeah.

05:31It's going to be rough to get it back.

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