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Trump Deploys National Guard Over Protests in LA; Witness "Jane" Testifies Combs Pushed Her into Sex with Other Men; Israel Seizes Gaza Aid Ship, Detains Greta Thunberg, Others. Aired 1:30-2p ET

Aired June 09, 2025 - 13:30   ET

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ARNDREA WATERS KING, CIVIL RIGHTS ADVOCATE: -- that are afraid to go to work, to send their children to school, to even go to church. And people were coming up to stand up for a better way of all of us coming together and standing in community. And from there, it seems that there was an intentional sowing of division with overwhelmingly peaceful protesters.

BORIS SANCHEZ, CNN HOST: Mr. King, I wonder how you respond to the argument from the administration that these raids and this immigration crackdown is an effort to remove criminals from the United States and specifically the way that they frame criminals. They're talking about people who are in the country who don't have documentation, who are here essentially without permission. Do you view them as criminals?

What do you make of the broader approach from the Trump administration?

MARTIN LUTHER KING III, CIVIL RIGHTS ADVOCATE; GLOBAL HUMANITARIAN: Well, I think when you universally indict all people, that's a terrible assumption. That's a terrible way to go through life. Perhaps there is a criminal element for sure, but I think it really ends up stoking the fears of what people know.

The reality is we just don't have all the information. There are people who perhaps have broken the law, but I think you have to also create a balanced scenario. People who've been here for 10, 15 years paying taxes, just trying to raise their families, abiding by the law.

And I think that overwhelmingly is those who are working every day just trying to make a living. But when you universalize it and say, that's someone who's doing something wrong, who's hurt us. And that does not create the best society.

At the end of the day, my dad would say darkness will never put out darkness. Only light can do that. Violence will never stomp out violence. Only love and nonviolence will bring that energy to the table as opposed to the energy of going back and forth like we're going to, you know, just create confrontation.

SANCHEZ: Martin Luther King III, Arndrea Waters King, thank you both for being with us. M. KING: Thank you.

A. KING: Thank you.

SANCHEZ: Of course.

Still ahead, tanks and other military equipment arriving in the nation's capital ahead of the parade to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the U.S. Army. Coming up, what we're learning about the events and the controversy surrounding it.

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BRIANNA KEILAR, CNN HOST: For a second day, a former girlfriend of Sean Diddy Combs is testifying against the rap mogul as his federal sex trafficking trial enters its second month. And Jane, which is not her real name, continues to describe her resistance to what she calls hotel nights when she says Combs would watch her have sex with a male sex worker.

SANCHEZ: She testified that she sent Combs text messages saying she didn't want to play this role anymore, adding, quote, it's dark, sleazy, and makes me feel disgusted with myself. She also told Combs, who paid her rent, that she didn't want to, quote, feel obligated to perform these nights with you in fear of losing the roof over my head.

She later told him, I'm not a porn star. I'm not an animal, as she pushed Combs to take a break from hotel nights.

Joining us now is criminal defense attorney Mark O'Mara. Mark, great to see you, as always. Why is Jane's testimony detailing her resistance to these hotel nights important? Which charge do you think the prosecution is trying to prove here?

MARK O'MARA, CRIMINAL DEFENSE ATTORNEY AND FORMER PROSECUTOR: The sex trafficking charges, which suggest coercion or duress by Combs against other people. Now, Jane is one of them. I think it's very, very important.

And again, it has to be taken in context, almost like I used the example of putting together a puzzle. The individual pieces in and of themselves may not be all that instructive. But when they fit together with other testimony and other witnesses, then you start really seeing the picture.

And that's exactly what the prosecution is doing with this witness as the several before her.

KEILAR: We learned Friday that Combs is still paying for Jane's rent to this day as part of a, quote, love contract. It's $10,000 a month. What impact do you think that has on jurors?

O'MARA: Well, again, it's that type of control. We talk about initially control. You feel like someone grabbing you by the arms. But we really know that control is emotional control using love or feelings. It's also financial control using money. And I think they brought that out because that's exactly right.

Even today, as she testifies against him, he is still controlling her. At least that's going to be the argument from the prosecution when they say this is the way a man with money can control people.

SANCHEZ: And what do you imagine the defense on cross-examination is going to go after?

O'MARA: You know, she's there for the good times, and now she wants to complain, right? That's what the defense team is going to say. It was voluntary. You stayed. You could have left. You're certainly still willing to take his money.

But now you want to complain. And it's all duress and coercion and fear and fright. Yet you're there for the good times, just don't want to be there for the bad.

And I think that's, you know, the cross-examination she's going to go under. Again, like with Ms. Ventura, they need to be careful, a scalpel rather than an axe. But they're going to have to take apart the bias that she's obviously showing towards Combs when she's there for whatever she wants to be there for.

KEILAR: And, Mark, jurors also heard about a sobriety party in which Jane did not take drugs and then ended up having sex with three men. She said she felt, quote, absolutely terrible.

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There was a big argument that came afterwards where Combs, she said, threatened to not pay her rent after she'd asked for money. It speaks to what you said. They're showing this control, right, that he has with the money. The question is, what brick is this putting in the wall that hasn't already been put there by the prosecution?

O'MARA: Right. I think they're just trying to shore it up. I think they're trying to show that this is not one person, Ms. Ventura. This is not the male actors. This is everybody who he comes in control with. And yet here's another to show that this is a consistency.

Because don't forget, in order to convict Mr. Combs of anything, particularly sex trafficking, they have to convince those 12 people beyond a reasonable doubt that he was guilty of it. And just the idea of maybe the idea of what we call preponderance, a little bit more than half, is not going to cut it. If they want their conviction, they have to leave no doubt in each and every one of those 12 jurors' minds that this is what he was doing. And Jane adds to that.

SANCHEZ: Mark O'Mara, I appreciate the analysis. Thanks for being with us.

O'MARA: Thank you.

SANCHEZ: Still ahead, Israeli forces seizing an aid boat bound for Gaza, detaining several activists, including climate activist Greta Thunberg. So what happens to those detainees? We'll explain next on CNN NEWS CENTRAL.

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SANCHEZ: President Trump expects to speak with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu today amid growing tensions over the war in Gaza and the president's pursuit of a nuclear deal with Iran.

Meantime, overnight, the Israeli military intercepted a cargo ship carrying aid meant for Gaza and detaining Greta Thunberg and several other activists on board. The Freedom Flotilla Coalition, as it's known, was trying to deliver humanitarian supplies to desperate Palestinians amid Israel's ongoing blockade of the enclave.

CNN's Jeremy Diamond joins us now live. So, Jeremy, what do we know about the status of these detainees?

JEREMY DIAMOND, CNN JERUSALEM CORRESPONDENT: Well, Boris, the effort by these dozen pro-Palestinian activists to try and break Israel's naval blockade came to a screeching halt in the early hours of this morning. They first saw drones circling overhead. Those drones then dropped some kind of white paint-like substance on their ship.

And soon after that, they were boarded by a team of Israeli naval commandos. There were no deaths or injuries resulting from this incident. But we do know that, according to the Freedom Flotilla Coalition, this happened in international waters. They are saying that they were unlawfully boarded.

And Amnesty International, a human rights group, is also now saying that this was an illegal boarding and takeover of the ship by the Israeli military.

It certainly was not as grave an incident as happened back in 2010, when the Mavi Marmara ship, on a very similar mission to try and break Israel's naval blockade of Gaza, was boarded by a team of Israeli naval commandos, who, after they say they came under attack with sticks and metal rods, they then fired upon people on that ship, killing nine passengers aboard that ship.

Now, we understand that these activists, which include Greta Thunberg, as well as a member of the European Parliament, that they have all been detained by the Israeli military. We have been waiting for word on when they actually arrive on Israeli soil. And so far, no confirmation that that has actually happened.

Our understanding, though, is that Israel plans to quite swiftly deport these individuals back to their home countries. That's what the Israeli foreign ministry has said. And we know that several of these European countries, including France, which has several citizens on board, have already spoken to the Israeli government to ensure that that happens quite quickly. What is clear, though, is that while they didn't succeed in breaking this blockade, they certainly have drawn attention, once again, to the dire humanitarian situation inside of Gaza, at a time when we are seeing Israel allow a trickle of aid into the Gaza Strip, but simply not enough to stem the hunger that is still gripping Gaza, as well as the scenes of chaos and desperation surrounding so many of these aid distribution efforts inside of Gaza -- Boris.

SANCHEZ: Jeremy Diamond, live for us in Tel Aviv. Thank you so much -- Brianna.

KEILAR: The U.S. Army is getting in position for what is expected to be the most expensive military parade that has ever happened in this nation's history, the largest one that Washington has seen in decades. Officials say the parade on Saturday will feature dozens of N1A1 Abrams tanks and Bradley and Stryker fighting vehicles rolling through the streets of D.C., as well as howitzers and other pieces of artillery. It's estimated to cost as much as $45 million to put on this parade as part of the Army's 250th anniversary celebration, which also happens to be the president's birthday, President Trump's 79th, in fact, and would fulfill his long-held dream of a big military show.

The Army had been planning a more modest celebration. It was the White House that called for the big parade.

Still ahead, comeback Carlos. It was a French Open final for the history books. Much more from Roland Garros next on CNN NEWS CENTRAL.

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KEILAR: Carlos conquering the clay in dramatic fashion. Carlos Alcaraz rallying in the longest French Open final ever.

SANCHEZ: CNN's Don Riddell joins us now. A historic day at Roland Garros, Don.

DON RIDDELL, CNN SPORTS ANCHOR AND CORRESPONDENT: Oh, it was historic. It was epic. It was absolutely amazing.

And to put this into context, guys, remember when the big three, Djokovic, Federer, Nadal, were dominating over the last couple of decades? As the end of their careers approached, we wondered if we would ever see anything like it ever again. And here we are, the dawn of a new era with these two amazing young players, Spain's Alcaraz and Italy's Jannik Sinner. And they put on a show and a half yesterday.

Alcaraz had to come from two sets down in this final. He'd never won a five-set match from that position before. He saved three set points in the fourth set. That's how he won it in a fifth. This was the longest ever French Open final at 5 hours and 29 minutes. It was the second longest major final ever. And it really could have gone either way in the end.

[13:55:00] It was absolutely incredible. This is what Carlos Alcaraz said afterwards.

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CARLOS ALCARAZ, SPANISH PROFESSIONAL TENNIS PLAYER: Going point after point and putting my heart into it. And you know, giving my all energy into it as well. As I tried not to give up.

We were in a final of a Grand Slam. It wasn't time to be afraid. It wasn't time to give up. I just tried to fight until the last ball.

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RIDDELL: So Alcaraz has now played in five Grand Slam finals. He hasn't lost one yet. That was the first time Sinner had lost in a final.

These two are just completely dominating the sport at the moment. The last six major tournaments, the last seven out of eight, have been won by either Carlos Alcaraz or Jannik Sinner.

And just a little bit more about Alcaraz, who really is just so popular in the world of tennis and, frankly, the world of sport at the moment.

Ever since he burst onto the scene, he was being cast as the next Nadal or the new Nadal. Of course, they're both Spanish. Would you believe that they both won their fifth major at the same age? And I mean exactly the same age. 22 years, one month and three days. I guess it was just meant to be.

SANCHEZ: It was just meant to be. Fantastic weekend for tennis. Don Riddell, thank you so much.

Still ahead, it ends with us was only the beginning. A new twist in the legal battle between Justin Baldoni and Blake Lively. A judge dismissing Baldoni's $400 million defamation suit. We have the details when we come back.

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