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DHS: More Than 70 Undocumented Migrants Detained At Omaha Plant; Defense Cross-Examines Combs' Ex-Girlfriend "Jane" For Second Day; Scientists Fear Collapse Of Atlantic Ocean Currents. Aired 3:30- 4p ET

Aired June 11, 2025 - 15:30   ET

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BORIS SANCHEZ, CNN HOST: The president of the Glenn Valley Foods plant told "The Associated Press" the company does everything by the book. He claims that when he told ICE agents that his company used the federal E-Verify system, an agent responded, quote, it's broken. The raid has now left the community rattled. Here's how one local leader found out about it in real time.

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ROGER GARCIA, CHAIR OF THE BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS FOR DOUGLAS COUNTY, NEBRASKA: Apologies for my distractions during your presentation. Apologies to the board and the public as well. I have to depart at this point. My community is being terrorized by immigration raids at this moment as we speak. There's word of at least two raids happening at this moment, so I have to go try and help. So I will hand it to Vice Chair Friend at this time. Thank you.

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SANCHEZ: Joining us now is Roger Garcia. He's the chair of the Board of Commissioners for Douglas County, Nebraska. Sir, thanks so much for being with us. ICE officials tell CNN that the raid was the result of an ongoing criminal investigation into the large-scale employment of immigrants without authorization. Do you have any insight into why this specific plant was targeted?

GARCIA: We have no insight as to why the city of Omaha was targeted or why this specific plant was targeted. We also would, at least I would disagree that these were high-level criminals of any kind. We know firsthand a lot of the individuals have been here for decades working and contributing to our local economy and are mothers of many people who we know have been detained.

And so we feel like they do not fit the profile that are supposed to be the priority for the national government.

SANCHEZ: What else can you tell us about them specifically? You mentioned that you're obviously aware of them. Some of them are moms?

GARCIA: Yes. I have a college friend who reached out. His mother was detained. I have a family member whose mother was detained as well. These are individuals who are in their 40s and 50s who have raised families here for decades. And so we have strong concern that these individuals are being held, and we don't know where they are, and we're really trying to work to get them some legal representation.

SANCHEZ: Now, we actually just obtained video of the raid itself. I believe this was surveillance video or body cam video that's been shot and edited by ICE, so we want to play some of that now to watch.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Did everybody here employees of the business?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: OK. Just have them stay there for now. We're getting everybody in a minute.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You got it.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: FBI in place.

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SANCHEZ: So as we're watching this video again provided by ICE, you hear one of the agents there asking whether everyone there is an employee. I mentioned a moment ago that the business owner stressed that they use E-Verify to check employment status, but that an ICE agent reportedly told them that E-Verify is broken. Do you have any concerns about its accuracy and whether that means that other plants in the area that use E-Verify may also be targeted?

GARCIA: Yes, E-Verify has been around for a while now. There's always been debate about how accurate it is and if people can be caught up in mistakes made by E-Verify, so it's a debatable software. We just have concerns that these large-scale raids separate families, traumatize communities, and they're really not contributing towards anything positive for our local community or our country overall.

If we're detaining mothers and people who have been raising families and just going to work, how is that supporting our community or helping our nation? So we just disagree with the effort overall.

SANCHEZ: What is your view of supporters of the immigration crackdown and your counter-argument to the idea they express that if folks are here without documentation, that that makes them criminals that need to be removed from the country?

GARCIA: Well, being in the country with undocumented status is a civil offense. It's not a crime per law of the federal government, and so that's one technicality there. But also in general, we have to decide as a nation that have seen these individuals living amongst us for many years, contributing back to our economy and raising families. How do we deal with this situation? We've had attempts to do comprehensive immigration reform.

They've almost passed. In the last few decades, we've almost been there, but it's never passed. So we really need to get back to that and find a humane way to deal with this situation.

SANCHEZ: Nebraska Congressman Don Bacon says that his office has full confidence and expectations that ICE will operate within their legal authority and treat people with respect. Do you share that confidence?

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GARCIA: I hope that's true. Just today, about an hour ago, we have information that many of the detainees have not been able to be in touch with their legal counsel and legal representation. So we're really fighting to make sure that that happens. It's important that they have that. And so there's been a strong disconnect. We still don't know who's all been detained, how many, where they're at and where they're going.

And so we really hope that our partners at the federal government can ensure that these individuals truly have legal counsel and are able to have contact with people in the community.

SANCHEZ: I also understand that there are reports of protests. We watched some folks jumping on top of the bumper of a car as these agents were trying to leave. I understand that others apparently threw rocks at officials' vehicles. What do you say to those folks who obviously feel impassioned about what they're watching, but then go beyond a demonstration on the side of the road and actually interact with some of these agents?

GARCIA: I understand where their heart is. They want to stand up for the families affected. They want to be in solidarity with the families affected. But we definitely encourage people to funnel that energy towards peaceful protests and also towards supporting and aiding the families that have been impacted with resources and good information on where they can get help. So we don't want to see anybody caught up in getting injured physically or maybe getting federal charges put on them because of maybe they're obstructing a vehicle or something like that.

So let's funnel that energy towards peaceful protests. There's still ways to come together in solidarity to support the local community.

SANCHEZ: Roger Garcia, thank you so much for joining us and sharing your point of view.

GARCIA: Thank you. Appreciate it.

SANCHEZ: Up next, the judge overseeing the trial of Sean "Diddy" Combs says he is considering dismissing a juror. Details ahead, next.

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BRIANNA KEILAR, CNN HOST: For a fourth day, the jury in the trial of Sean "Diddy" Combs, they are hearing this intensely private and sexual details of the, quote, hotel nights that the rap mogul had with his ex-girlfriend whom the jurors know with the pseudonym Jane. Jane described hotel nights to jurors as hours-long, drug-fueled encounters that Combs forced her to have with paid male quote entertainers as he watched. Today, defense attorneys asked her about one hotel night in August of 2022.

SANCHEZ: And specifically after it, when Jane sent him a long text message detailing how much she appreciated Combs, who is now on trial on sex trafficking and racketeering charges. She writes, quote, my love for you is unconditional and for life. Jane previously testified that she dreaded hotel nights and repeatedly pushed to stop doing them with Combs, who paid and still pays her $10,000 a month rent.

Joining us now is former prosecutor Dave Aronberg. Dave, thanks for being with us. Once again, jurors hearing this evidence from Jane and her affection for Combs, seeing that text in which she says that her love is unconditional. And yesterday on the stand, she said that her love for him is ongoing, that she still loves him. What do you make of all this testimony?

DAVID ARONBERG, FORMER PROSECUTOR: Boris, this is corroboration for Cassie's testimony. We saw the same problems with Cassie's testimony as we're seeing with Jane's testimony. We're talking about hotel nights instead of free calls, but essentially they're the same thing, where you have an individual in Jane who is claiming sexual abuse, being a victim of human trafficking, at the same time sending nice messages to her perpetrator.

We also saw the Harvey Weinstein case. And so this is not new for those of us who follow these types of cases. Is it new to jurors though? That's a big question. Will jurors come to expect that someone who is a victim of a crime will cut ties entirely with the perpetrator instead of remaining friends, remaining in love sometimes with them? That's going to be the big question for the jury because life is complicated and this case can be complicated because relationships are complicated.

KEILAR: I wonder, Dave, if you think it's damaging to the prosecution's case that you have the defense going into detail about how Jane herself planned a hotel night, in this case a hotel night with two entertainers, these men, that's what she calls them, paid for sexual encounters, and that she also said, she also testified she persuaded Combs to leave a trip with another woman by threatening to withhold that hotel night.

ARONBERG: We sort of saw this, Brianna, with Cassie. Cassie went out and got flowers and things to prepare for these freak-offs that she later said she hated and she was violated at these things. And same thing we're talking about now with Jane, with Jane perhaps did some planning and maybe encouraged it, but you can then revoke your consent.

You may want to engage in it because you want to please Diddy. He had this power over these women, but at some point when they say no, no is no and the jurors are going to have to understand that. But is it a problem as you asked about this case for prosecutors? Yes, because prosecutors are going to have to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that these individuals did this against their will and there was forced fraud or coercion.

But the key thing here is that you have Jane saying things that are very similar to Cassie, that's corroboration, and that's why Jane is so important for the prosecution.

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SANCHEZ: So how do you think the prosecution is going to handle redirect tomorrow?

ARONBERG: I think they're going to focus on the lack of consent, that consent can be given and then taken away. And they'll focus also on the forced fraud or coercion. Here it's really forced. I mean, this woman, Jane, alleged that Diddy savagely beat her and made her have unprotected sex with these sex workers, porn stars, escorts.

And I think the jury will not like that because the jurors are regular everyday people who are not used to this world. It is an unusual, weird world for this celebrity to make these women do these things. Will they cast blame on the victims here, the women, and say a plague on both your houses? We'll see. That's what the defense is hoping for and all it takes is one juror and it's a hung jury.

KEILAR: Dave, talk to us about this juror in question because before testimony today, the prosecution had asked the judge to dismiss juror number six for, quote, a lack of candor with the court. The defense is saying that this is just the prosecution trying to have a thinly veiled effort to dismiss a black juror. But talk to us a little bit about what that would mean, a lack of candor with the court.

ARONBERG: During voir dire, which is jury selection, the jurors are asked a lot of questions and they have to be honest with the court about their feelings. You can have knowledge about a case. You can even have feelings about the parties, but you have to be able to put that aside and just follow the evidence and the law. Well, if you show that one of the jurors was lying during jury selection, was not forthcoming with the information, that's a no-no and you can get that juror bounced.

It is telling that it's the defense who wants that juror to remain saying the only reason why you want this juror off the jury is because this juror is black, thinking that the jury would be more sympathetic to Combs. Perhaps it's a black male juror, but the judge is going to decide based on what that juror said during jury selection and whether that juror lied to the court.

KEILAR: All right, we'll have to see. The judge says he'll weigh this issue tomorrow, so we'll be tracking that very closely. Dave, great to have you. Thank you so much.

ARONBERG: Thanks for having me.

KEILAR: Next, leading scientists say a network of ocean currents that keep the climate stable are closer to collapse than initially believed, and the impact once it happens will be worse than expected.

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SANCHEZ: A really concerning environmental story to share with you now. There's a new warning from leading scientists who say a collapse of a major system of currents in the Atlantic Ocean, the forces that regulate our weather and our climate, could bring some devastating changes. And those changes could include deep freezes in Europe and more intense storms.

KEILAR: We have CNN chief climate correspondent Bill Weir with us on this. And Bill, scientists have known the current system could collapse, but now they're getting a better idea of what happens if it does.

BILL WEIR, CNN CHIEF CLIMATE CORRESPONDENT: Yes, this was the premise of that disaster movie with Dennis Quaid, "The Day After Tomorrow." Basically, the AMOC, it is called, this Atlantic system of currents, a conveyor belt that brings water from the tropics up past northern Europe there, could break down as a result of Greenland melting.

Basically, it's salt water and the density of the salinity that drives that engine. But as Greenland melts, it's changing, it's breaking down, it's slowing down. And so these scientists in the Netherlands said, what happens if that thing stops by about 80 percent and at the same time we hit two degrees of man-made global warming, which is kind of the trajectory we're on.

And they found that Europe would suffer mightily cold winters. Places like Norway would plunge 50 degrees below zero. It would become almost impossible to grow potatoes in England, for example. You'd see Arctic sea ice come all the way down into Scandinavia. In the meantime, North America, unlike that movie, would get hotter. And sea level rise would be the biggest sign of this disaster.

But this current system affects the growth in the Amazon. It affects, you know, storms over the Sierra. It is such a vital part of human life and human civilization that we don't really know about. So if it breaks down or slows in any way, that would be really, really bad for civilization. But they're conflicting science about when or how it could happen.

SANCHEZ: So that conflicting science about when, how close do scientists think we are?

WEIR: Well, another study recently out of the same university in Netherlands said it is very likely it could break down before 2050, maybe as soon as 2035. Others think it could happen at the end of the century as well. But what's interesting, this has only been studied really, Boris, since 20 -- 2004 or so, so there's not a whole lot of data there. And at the same time, of course, the Trump administration is absolutely taking a chainsaw to climate science.

And so at a time when we really need to understand these timelines and get a better understanding of what's happening in the Atlantic Ocean, these programs are being gutted. Climate.org -- Climate.gov, rather, the U.S. government's best science outreach is being shut down as we speak as a result of the Trump administration.

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SANCHEZ: Bill Weir, thank you so much for the reporting. Stay with CNN. We'll be right back.

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KEILAR: Now to some of the other headlines we're watching. The top TikToker in the world has left the U.S. after ICE detained him for allegedly overstaying his visa. Funny man Khaby Lame has more than 162 million followers. He was born in Senegal and is an Italian citizen. ICE officials say Lame was apprehended in Las Vegas on Friday after arriving in the U.S. on April 30th. Days later, there he was attending the Met Gala. ICE says the 25-year-old influencer was granted a voluntary departure. He has not publicly commented on his detainment.

And hundreds of masked rioters attacked police burned homes and cars in Ballymena, Northern Ireland in the second night of disorder after the alleged sexual assault of a teenage girl in that town. Two 14- year-old Romanian boys have been accused. A lawyer says they deny the charge. The local police chief is now decrying, quote, hate fueled acts and mob rule against others in the town, 32 officers were hurt during the two nights of violence.

SANCHEZ: Lastly, music legend Brian Wilson, the driving force behind the Beach Boys has sadly passed away. With tons of hits about surfing and the sun, the group became theme song for an entire state, California, and it does transcend generations.

KEILAR: Yes. Some of the hits could be identified by just the first few chords like this.

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KEILAR: "Surfin' U.S.A." of course also among the best hits, "Good Vibrations," "God Only Knows," "California Girls," and "Wouldn't It Be Nice" just to name a few. Brian Wilson was 82 years old.

SANCHEZ: He'll obviously be missed. His family thanking supporters at a sad time for them. Music that touch the country and the world.

KEILAR: Yeah, definitely. The Arena with Kasie Hunt starts right now.