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Diddy is accusing federal prosecutors of dirty pool ... claiming they showed the judge an edited version of the Cassie beating video to make him look more dangerous than he is.

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00:00I was at one of P. Diddy's freak-offs.

00:03Freak-offs.

00:04You saw celebrities there that you recognized.

00:07Mm-hmm.

00:08It was a rapper that we all know.

00:11Straight-up porn directed by Diddy.

00:13I'm just grateful to have made it out.

00:15Diddy is getting ready for his third bail hearing,

00:18scheduled to go down tomorrow, on Friday,

00:20that he will be in court trying to be released on bail.

00:24And ahead of that hearing, he has filed some documents

00:27that show us what their argument is going to be

00:31in front of the judge.

00:33Get ready.

00:34This one is a doozy.

00:36He is accusing the federal prosecutors

00:39of making edits to the Cassie video,

00:41which we've all seen, the CNN Cassie video,

00:44making edits that, in his words,

00:46make him look more dangerous than he is.

00:50And what he's alleging is that the prosecutors are doing this

00:53so the judge will deny him bail,

00:55as the judge has done twice already.

00:57So let's stop for just a second.

00:59This video that CNN somehow got,

01:02we don't know if this is the version

01:04that was submitted to the judge.

01:06What Diddy is saying in these documents,

01:08this version that we're looking at right now,

01:10that we've all seen,

01:11that is not what was submitted to the judge.

01:13What they are alleging is that the version

01:15that prosecutors submitted to the judge

01:17put things in a different sequence.

01:19Now, they don't say in the documents

01:21what sequence or how it changed.

01:24And honestly, when you look at the video,

01:26you go like, I don't care what sequence it's in.

01:28It all looks bad, doesn't it?

01:30And that's why I don't understand

01:32the argument completely.

01:33And not just that.

01:34There is this maxim in the law

01:36called judicial notice,

01:38that sometimes judges are allowed

01:41to take notice of things

01:43that are out in the public.

01:45And even if it's not necessarily

01:48presented right in the courtroom.

01:50So it means that you don't necessarily

01:52only have to look at the evidence

01:53presented in court.

01:54And the judge certainly has seen...

01:56The judge has certainly seen that video.

01:58And if anything,

02:00the judge can look at that video

02:02and say, wait a minute,

02:03this isn't exactly what I had seen

02:05when I watched it on TV or online.

02:08And so, I'm not sure where this gets them.

02:12Yeah, there are two big points here.

02:14The first one is the one you're touching on,

02:15which is, regardless of how this video

02:17might have been edited,

02:18they acknowledge that the public

02:19has seen the true sequence of events.

02:21And it's pretty horrific.

02:23The other argument that his attorneys make

02:25is that this was just what happened

02:27in the hallway with Cassie,

02:28a domestic dispute in which he ran

02:30down the hall of the hotel

02:31to recover his clothes and cell phone.

02:34What a crock.

02:35I mean, we all saw.

02:36He'd go after her and drag her

02:38by the hair back down the hall.

02:40But this is the argument.

02:42And they also say that Diddy

02:44did not drag her down the hallway

02:48Just a portion of the hallway.

02:50Just a portion of the hallway.

02:51And say that she was able to leave.

02:54As for him throwing the flower vase at her,

02:58they say, if you look at the video,

03:00he actually only threw the contents of the vase.

03:03He did not actually throw the vase.

03:05I mean, it seems like such a splitting of hairs.

03:08I'm not sure where it's going to get them.

03:10They have good lawyers.

03:11He has good lawyers.

03:12But Jason, I got to tell you,

03:14sometimes you can make an argument

03:16but if the argument just makes you look worse

03:20because you're grasping at straws,

03:22sometimes you just don't make it at all.

03:24And when you see him kicking her

03:27and doing everything else to her,

03:29what does the other stuff really matter?

03:31This is really bad.

03:32I mean, I am firmly in the camp

03:34that a lawyer can say anything truthful

03:36to a judge, absolutely anything,

03:38in order to get your client out.

03:39That is your job, to get your client off, period.

03:42But when you take this tactic,

03:45and it just seems so facially ridiculous,

03:48it doesn't get you anywhere.

03:49But to that point, Jason,

03:50if you're Diddy's attorneys

03:51and you are trying to make this argument,

03:53their point is,

03:54the government has presented this

03:56as if it was a coerced situation,

03:58a freak-off,

03:59and they're saying this was not at all a freak-off.

04:02This was a domestic dispute.

04:05They were in the hotel room.

04:07The way they painted the picture

04:09is that she saw his phone.

04:11He was communicating with some other woman.

04:13They got into an argument about it,

04:15and she runs out with his clothing,

04:18and he goes after her just to get his clothing,

04:20and goes back to the room,

04:21and she's able to leave.

04:22Okay, I will be the judge,

04:24and you be the defense lawyer.

04:26And therefore,

04:29and therefore,

04:31what they're not showing you in this video

04:34is the fact that I got my clothing,

04:36and I went back to my client,

04:38sorry, my client got his clothing,

04:40and went back to the room.

04:41After kicking the crap out of her.

04:42After kicking the crap out of her.

04:44Yes, there was a domestic dispute.

04:46Well, that's not a domestic dispute.

04:47Yes, there was a domestic dispute.

04:48That's a beating.

04:49That's a beating.

04:50That's not what I'm,

04:52what my client is charged with, Your Honor.

04:54But this has nothing to do necessarily

04:57with the charge.

04:58This has to do with,

04:59do you let the guy out on bail?

05:01So this is not convicting him.

05:03This is just looking at this,

05:06saying, wait a minute.

05:08This guy is a threat

05:10to some of the people who might be witnesses

05:13because he would resort to violence.

05:15End of story.

05:16I'm a horrible defense attorney.

05:17No, you're not.

05:18I don't know how to make that,

05:19I don't know how to make the argument.

05:20And I don't want on this case.

05:21I don't want on this case.

05:22I don't know how to make the argument.

05:23And by the way,

05:24I interviewed for one of our Diddy Docs,

05:26The Downfall of Diddy, which is on Tubi.

05:28I interviewed his lawyer,

05:30and even asked him,

05:31do you think this video is going to get in?

05:33And he kind of shrugged, and he said,

05:35look, I think it's going to get in.

05:37I just don't think the judge is going to exclude it.

05:41So even he conceded that

05:43the jury's probably going to see it.

05:45Hi, I'm Alana Mercedes from Norfolk, Virginia.

05:48And Diddy can say what he wants to,

05:50but this is not mischaracterization.

05:52I don't care how they try to make it seem

05:54edited or not edited.

05:55This is incredulous to watch.

05:57Seeing it a second time is like

05:58making me feel crazy all over again.

06:01There's no way he's getting out of this.

06:02Like you said, he's grasping for straws,

06:04hoping something sticks.

06:05This isn't going to be it.

06:06No, this is not going to be it.

06:07Doesn't feel like it.

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