R. Kelly and Diddy have something in common ... both men have been accused of racketeering and sex trafficking -- and even though the two aren't exactly friends, Kelly says he feels for Diddy, who's currently on trial, and says Black entertainers as a whole are under siege by the feds.
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00:00I think Diddy's situation is speculative. I don't know everything that went into the pursuit of him.
00:08I do think that these kinds of prosecutions, using the RICO Act to prosecute entertainers for their sexual preferences and things,
00:18I think that's an abuse of the statute. I think it's going too far.
00:23I think it's been used as a mechanism to attack public figures because it's become culturally popular to do that.
00:30And I think it's happening particularly to the black figures. So I think all of that's troubling.
00:35But the bottom line for us is we have the proof of corruption.
00:39And we believe that if we can simply get a conversation with the president, that we can end this nightmare for R. Kelly.
00:46And that's what we want to do. He's aware of it. He feels sympathy for what Diddy's going through.
00:52They were not friends. I don't mean to suggest that. They were not in the world.
00:57Far from it, I think, in fact. But in reality, he sympathizes with anybody that's being put through this because he knows what happened to him.
01:05And while he doesn't know the ins and outs of what was done to Diddy, if it's anything like what was done to him, he feels for him.
01:13And he definitely expressed that.