00:00This is so interesting because we're about to show you a witness, somebody who maybe should have been a prosecution witness to prove right here.
00:08Certainly could have been, and his name did come up during testimony, and that is Suge Knight, the former head of Death Row Records.
00:17And he came up, you'll remember, when one of Diddy's ex-assistants talked about a moment where security for Diddy ran in the room and said, Suge Knight is down the road.
00:28Yeah, the assistant went to this place called Mel's Diner's, which is on the Sunset Strip, saw Suge Knight there, and then came home with the food.
00:36Well, the security came home.
00:38The security came home with the food.
00:39And said, Suge Knight's down at Mel's Diner, and the way the assistant described it is that Diddy and security guards grab guns, and they all go down to Mel's Diner to confront Suge Knight.
00:53So we've heard that side of the story.
00:55Suge Knight's side of the story is more about what would have happened.
01:01And again, he was not called as a witness.
01:03But let me just say, here's why it's important, that racketeering is a charge.
01:07And there are some people, and I'll say myself included, on the racketeering charge...
01:11I'm glad you owned that.
01:12I'm just having problems looking at a lot of this as racketeering, classic racketeering.
01:18Here, you have this war between bad boy and death row records, and you know these guys are mortal enemies.
01:30And then all of a sudden, you see Diddy loading up a car with guns.
01:36So you see this as the classic racketeering because it's organization versus organization.
01:40Kind of, and then somebody willing to take these guns and confront him.
01:45So I guess then the question is, what would have happened?
01:48Well, you asked Suge that very question.
01:51Did a brief interview with him from his jail cell.
01:54He is doing time at California State Prison for involuntary manslaughter.
01:58This was the conversation about Diddy and that potential confrontation.
02:05The prosecution made it appear that Diddy was going to confront you in a very ominous way
02:13with three guns in the car when he went back to Mel's Diner.
02:19Did you guys have serious beef to the point where he might have used those guns, do you think?
02:27If he had confronted me and he had a gun, you best believe he was going to have to use it
02:32or something was going to happen.
02:33If he had three guns, it really was going to say something was going to happen.
02:37Had the disputes between the two of you escalated to the point where there could have been violence?
02:42When you're dealing with drugs, alcohol, and even fear.
02:48Some people fear if they're scared enough, they fear they've got to do something.
02:51They can't do it with their hands, so they've got to make sure they bring guns.
02:54Do people bring guns to use them or to protect themselves in a situation like this?
03:01If you've got the serial number, if the serial number is changed off, you best believe they both need to use them.
03:08Sure, can I ask, when you were at Mel's Diner that night, were you armed?
03:14Harvey, you know I will always tell you, I'm in prison, I probably was armed with my Bible.
03:21In other words, you know I ain't going to answer that question, Harvey.
03:30Fair. That's fair.
03:32Harvey, I'm with you.
03:33I think it's pretty crazy that the prosecution did not want to call Suge as a witness
03:38to kind of tie this racketeering case together with Diddy.
03:41And if you're going to call the Punisher, why can't you call Suge?
03:44You know, I disagree with what Austin's saying.
03:47You don't really need Suge.
03:48You need to show that Diddy ordered his minions to assemble the guns.
03:54He put them on his lap.
03:55He was looking for an armed confrontation.
03:56Suge didn't know anything.
03:57Suge was at Mel's having a burger.
03:59What Suge?
04:00Suge wasn't even there by the time they got there.
04:02So all you need is to say, Diddy wanted an armed confrontation.
04:05And it's clear he did.
04:05This wasn't self-defense.
04:06He said, let's get some guns and go confront Suge.
04:09You don't think Suge Knight on the stand, because it's not going to go a minute 30.
04:16Are you suggesting that they would do something just for theatrics?
04:18I don't even think it's theatrics.
04:19I think it's underscoring that there was this feud between two big businesses.
04:27And because what you didn't hear is, Suge actually got into Tupac in this thing.
04:32So, yeah.
04:33There's a danger in having Suge on the stand.
04:35Suge is a little bit of a loose cannon.
04:37If you're the prosecutors, you don't want them getting up there saying, Diddy did this.
04:40He was on drugs, not in his right state of mind.
04:41That kind of helps Diddy when you say things like that.
04:43So it's complicated to have Suge on the stand.
04:45I don't think the prosecution's shy about drugs in this case.
04:48I don't think they've been shy about drugs.
04:50Hi, it's Emiliana from Pennsylvania.
04:52I'm actually shocked that the prosecution left Suge Knight out of the witness list.
04:57I'm sure that there's a lot of information that he has, even outside of this burger joint situation,
05:03about Diddy that could really help their case.
