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Judge Denies Bail For Sean "Diddy" Combs As He Awaits Sentencing; Sanitation Workers On Strike, Trash Piling Up In Philadelphia; Kohberger Pleads Guilty To Idaho Student Murders. Aired 7:30-8a ET

Aired July 03, 2025 - 07:30   ET

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REP. RALPH NORMAN (R-SC): What the Senate did is unconscionable. I'll vote against it here and I'll vote against it on the floor until we get it right.

REP. ANDY HARRIS (D-MD): I'll tell you, the last-minute changes in the Senate -- like, literally, the very last amendment probably added another $100 billion to that deficit by adding in some of the green new subsidies. The bottom line is this is not ready for primetime.

REP. CHIP ROY (R-TX): And we believe it falls short. We believe that it will create too much spending and that is too much in the way of deficits over the next four or five years, in particular, with backloaded savings and more deficits up front.

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JOHN BERMAN, CNN ANCHOR: And at the time they said they were not supportive of it. They all went on to vote for the rule. Those three guys all voted for the rule as did every other Republican, save one, who had been critical of it and said ah, they weren't going to vote for it.

So what does that tell you, Meghan?

MEGHAN HAYS, DEMOCRATIC STRATEGIST, FORMER BIDEN WHITE HOUSE DIRECTOR OF MESSAGE PLANNING, DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION CONSULTANT: It tell me that the Republicans have no backbone and they're just here to do what Donald Trump tells them to do.

But I think it's incredible that Jeffries is out there speaking so that this is being voted on in the daylight time when America is awake and not when they're asleep, like the Republicans wanted to do. I think it's unconscionable that we are debating major legislation and having 17 million people lose access to health care and they want to vote for this in the middle of the night.

I think that this is really going to come home to roost in the 2026 elections and I think Republicans -- where they are a lot of talk on TV those are going to be great in ads when they turned around and voted for it just because they're puppets to Donald Trump.

BERMAN: Meghan was saying, Neil, that this will be -- have an impact on the 2026 elections. The fact is though that a lot of the tax cuts happen immediately. People will see a reduction -- or a lot of people will on their taxes. But many of the spending cuts won't go into effect until after the 2026 elections, so people may not feel those Medicaid cuts or otherwise when they go to vote.

What impact do you think that will have?

NEIL CHATTERJEE, REPUBLICAN STRATEGIST, FORMER FEDERAL ENERGY REGULATORY COMMISSION CHAIRMAN, FORMER POLICY ADVISER TO SEN. MITCH MCCONNELL: Yeah. Look, this is a big, sprawling piece of legislation that encompasses the entire Trump domestic agenda and is a monumental achievement for Majority Leader Thune and for Speaker Johnson to get this across the line with a narrowly divided Senate and House Republican Conference. It's a big deal.

And this is pretty smart policy. I've got to say it. My background is in energy. If you look at the clean energy provisions in this bill, from where we started where there was thought of complete repeal of the Inflation Reduction Act tax -- energy tax incentives the Democrats passed, Republicans just did the program smarter and more efficiently, and more effectively.

I think this bill is going to be a huge hit with the American people. I don't think it will have any negative impact on the midterms in 2026.

BERMAN: Meghan, Donald Trump, for better of worse now, will own this economy one would think, between the tariffs that he's put in place and then taken off, and then put in and then taken off. But between that and this bill it is now fully on the Trump economy.

What's the risk-reward for Democrats in that?

HAYES: Well, unfortunately, Donald Trump isn't able to run -- or fortunately for Democrats, Donald Trump isn't able to run for office again, so he is -- you know, he is now a lame duck president, which is great. But it's also -- that means that Congress and people running for the '28 cycle when they are running for president are going to own this economy too. For better or worse, they will own this. So Donald Trump will have no political repercussions here, but these House members and these Senators will have repercussions.

And let's be clear here. We're not getting tax cuts. These are extending tax cuts, so people actually are not going to see additional savings in their taxes. Those are -- we are just extending tax cuts that already exist.

BERMAN: There are some, right? The reduction in overtime taxes, and seniors will see an increase in their standard deduction, and tips, whatnot. Those are temporary but they go into effect pretty quickly on that front.

Neil, you know, again, on Trump owning this economy recessions do happen, right, and they tend to happen in cycles that would put one sometime in the next couple of years. Again, one would think that could be problematic for President Trump.

CHATTERJEE: What recession are you seeing? I was told that everything was going to collapse after liberation day with the tariffs. The stock market closed at historic highs. Inflation is coming down. The economy is booming. People are investing in the economy. People are bullish on energy and electricity and winning the AI race.

I think if the Democrats are basing their 2026 efforts on running a campaign on the economy, that's great for the incumbent party and for Republicans in Congress.

BERMAN: Well, I don't think we'll hear much about the debt, at least not from Republicans -- not after what's happened here with the $3 trillion increase to the debt over the next 10 years. And that used to be something we did hear a lot about.

I do want to put up another number that just came out overnight. The New York Times was the first to report it. But this was put out by the Department of Homeland Security that in June of 2025 at the southwest border just 6,000 border apprehensions in the entire month of June. That was last month -- 6,000. I think we have a graph for this. Six thousand border apprehensions in the first two days. The first two days of 2024, there were 7,000.

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And Meghan, we've seen other statistics like this that border crossings are just -- have just plummeted since the beginning of the Trump administration.

To what extent does this prove that what he is doing is working?

HAYES: I don't think that any Democrat will disagree with you that there needed to be comprehensive border reform here and immigration reform. And I think that they tried to do that last year as a bipartisan effort, and it failed. So I don't that anyone will disagree that there needed to be some control here.

I do think we need to take a look at immigration and how we do that, and there needs to be some efforts here of how people who have been living in the United States are able to stay here and achieve their citizenship or the ability to stay without retribution or fear that they're going to be deported.

So I don't think Democrats are going to be fighting on immigration. I don't think that is a winning issue for Democrats moving forward. And I do think that most people do believe that there needed to be some -- we need to get our arms wrapped around that.

BERMAN: Meghan Hayes, Neil Chatterjee, great to see you both this morning. Have a wonderful holiday weekend -- Sara.

SARA SIDNER, CNN ANCHOR: All right. This morning Sean Combs is waking up in jail as he awaits sentencing on prostitution charges. Combs was denied bail after a New York City jury found him guilty of two counts of transportation to engage in prostitution, but he was acquitted of the most serious charges of sex trafficking and racketeering.

The judge set a tentative sentencing date for October 3, but his attorneys want this sentencing to happen much sooner, and the judge said that -- the judge is open to that. Combs faces a maximum of 20 years behind bars.

Joining me now Alyse Adamson, former federal prosecutor, and Michael Bachner, criminal defense attorney and former Manhattan assistant district attorney.

All right. First to you, Alyse. I'm curious if you were surprised by the jury verdict or did you, like the jury, think that prosecutors simply overreached here in this case?

ALYSE ADAMSON, FORMER FEDERAL PROSECUTOR (via Webex by Cisco): Yeah -- thanks, Sara.

I was not surprised by the ultimate outcome in this case and here is why. The charges in this case, especially with respect to RICO -- it was a novel use of this statute.

Now, I understand what prosecutors were attempting to achieve and that was to bring Mr. Combs to justice and hold him accountable for a pattern of criminal conduct where most of those underlying crimes could no longer be prosecuted because of the statute of limitations. And it was his powering influence that allowed him to evade prosecution for so long. So I understand the overarching rationale for bringing the charges.

But this was a technically complicated case, and we saw prosecutors struggling to elicit the testimony to weave this narrative together -- to stitch the RICO together. And ultimately, even though they had a powerful and streamlined closing argument, the jury just was not able to see this structured, corrupt enterprise.

And so I was not surprised but I think for prosecutors it is a very disappointing outcome because of the objective they were hoping to achieve.

SIDNER: Michael, to you now. You do have a unique perspective here. You represented Sean Combs' defendant -- co-defendant in the 2001 acquittal of gun possession and bribery charges.

What did you make of the judge's decision to keep Combs in custody, denying him bail until sentencing?

MICHAEL BACHNER, CRIMINAL DEFENSE ATTORNEY, FORMER MANHATTAN ASSISTANT DISTRICT ATTORNEY (via Webex by Cisco): I was candidly somewhat surprised by the decision.

What the -- there are many defendants who are looking at this type of jail sentence and really, under the guidelines he's probably looking to get somewhere in the two-year range if you buy the defense argument and maybe the five-year range if you buy the prosecution argument. There are many defendants who are out on bail who are facing that type of jail time.

So -- but what the court did is the court concluded that the Mann Act violation -- that is the prostitution charge -- was a crime of violence and therefore bail was mandatory -- the denial of bail was mandatory unless the defense could prove certain things, like an exceptional circumstance or that the defendant was not dangerous. And what the court concluded was based upon the defense's own arguments about domestic violence that he could not be certain that if Combs was released that he would not engage in other acts of violence.

Frankly, I think there were ways that the court could have concluded otherwise by confining Mr. Combs to his home. By monitoring the visitors he got and that the visitors could only be brought in with the consent of the probation department.

There are things the court could have done but I think the court was just sending a message here that he intends to impose a jail sentence on Combs and that he just wasn't going to release him until that date.

SIDNER: Alyse, when you look at what happened with the judge saying that no, we're not going to give you bail, what does that tell you about the sentencing? What are the judge's choices when it comes to the sentencing and the scenarios that Combs faces right now?

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ADAMSON: Yeah. So Combs is going to be facing some sort of jail time. He's ineligible for probation given this conviction, at least in my back-of-the-envelope sentencing guideline calculations yesterday. And just for viewers to know, when we talk about the 20-year max, that's the statutory max.

SIDNER: Right.

ADAMSON: What defendants in federal court proceedings are actually facing is time that's calculated based on these voluntary sentencing guidelines and different factors.

So for Sean Combs, for instance, he doesn't have any criminal history.

BACHNER: Yes.

ADAMSON: His criminal history is zero. So that's actually going to bring his potential jail time down to one of the lower ends. That being said, he's not looking at a probation sentence. He's going to do some time.

So I think you have one scenario where the judge sentences him to the max that he is eligible for under his guideline calculations. That's also going to include aggravating factors, which I think you're going to see in this case closer to five years. I think that may happen. I think the judge has now signaled that he does see this as both a crime of violence and very violent conduct in this case, so he could be serving additional time. Now, he has served already nine months, so you are going to see credit for time served. So it's not that Combs would serve an additional five years. He is going to get credit. You could see him be sentenced to the lower end of those guidelines. Combs has very good attorneys and I bet you Marc Agnifilo is already working on that sentencing recommendation.

So if he's sentenced to only two years and his time is running concurrently, meaning everything he's sentenced to on those two charges running together -- two years -- he's going to get credit for that time served. He could walk out in a year. And, I mean, think about that. He was facing a potential life sentence and to think that he could be out in under two years is really an astonishing outcome when you think about where he started.

SIDNER: Yeah.

Michael, I know you know his attorneys well and I know you know how much they are proud of the work that they have done in this case, as is Combs himself.

Michael Bachner, Alyse Adamson, thank you both so much for your expertise on this -- Kate.

KATE BOLDUAN, CNN ANCHOR: Also new this morning AI, as we know, is becoming a bigger and bigger part of everyday life, even for children. Some kids are even using chatbots to talk to their favorite cartoon characters.

But a string of recent incidents, including one parent blaming AI chatbots for their child's suicide -- these incidents are now having one company, Character.AI, rushing to address fears around kids' use of this technology.

CNN's Clare Duffy has new reporting on this and she's here with us now. And you spoke to the company's new CEO. What did they tell you?

CLARE DUFFY, CNN BUSINESS WRITER: Yeah. So the company's new CEO Karandeep Anand -- I mean, any new CEO is going to face high stakes, but I think that this especially the case for him as the new CEO of Character.AI.

Of course, the AI chatbot space is just getting really crowded and competitive.

BOLDUAN: Um-hum.

DUFFY: And then on top of that you have these lawsuits that have been filed against the company, including that one you mentioned from a Florida mom who claims that the chatbot created an inappropriate relationship with her 14-year-old son and he later died by suicide after it failed to respond to his talk of self-harm.

And Character.AI is different from a lot of other mainstream chatbots because people can talk to these different chatbots with a range of different personas. Yesterday, I found everything from Disney characters to a therapist bot, to one called "Friends Hot Mom."

And so there having to deal with this sort of different landscape --

BOLDUAN: Yeah.

DUFFY: -- than a ChatGPT.

But Karandeep Anand actually says he thinks that is a benefit and that ultimately, this is going to be the future of interactive AI entertainment. So rather than scrolling on social media, which he calls brain rot, you can co-create an experience or a story with these AI chatbots.

He says he does feel confident with the work that the company has done up until this point to make it safer for children. He talks about there's a new pop-up that will direct people to the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline if they mention self-harm. There are new parental oversight tools. But he does say the company has to continue investing and working on safety, especially for kids.

BOLDUAN: Yeah.

DUFFY: He said, "The tech and industry and the user base is constantly evolving so that we can never let the guard off. We have to constantly stay head of the curve."

And that includes continuing to test new features. There's a new feature that --

BOLDUAN: And it's also the problem with all of it, right?

DUFFY: Of course.

BOLDUAN: Staying ahead of the curve is not what we've seen with these protections for children when it comes to social media and, of course, you can say when it comes to these new emerging technologies.

DUFFY: Absolutely. And these chatbots continue to rollout new features. There's a new feature that will let animate the characters with video.

BOLDUAN: Um-hum.

DUFFY: And so it is just a more immersive experience.

But he says that he uses Character.AI with his 5-year-old. She talks to a librarian, Linda, after school. And so he said he really is invested in making this a product that he and his daughter can use together.

BOLDUAN: I think the key to that was he uses it with --

DUFFY: With.

BOLDUAN: -- his daughter. DUFFY: And that was his advice for parents was use these tools with your kids. Watch what they're doing there. But, of course, that is advice that not every parent can take because people have all kinds of different family situations.

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BOLDUAN: Yes. That just -- there needs to be protections in the technology for children --

DUFFY: Absolutely.

BOLDUAN: -- as we've seen when it comes to social media.

Great reporting on this as always, Clare.

DUFFY: Thank you.

BOLDUAN: Thank you so much -- John.

BERMAN: All right. If you're traveling for the Fourth of July get ready for some busy airports and roads. A record number of people expected to travel for this weekend.

So will the weather cooperate? Let's get right to CNN's Derek Van Dam to find out. What are you seeing, Derek?

DEREK VAN DAM, AMS METEOROLOGIST: All right, John. Did you know that this is the first Fourth of July that falls on a Friday in over a decade?

So if you're one of the 72 million people that are either hitting the skies or the roadways you will not be alone trying to get away for an extended weekend going to sights like this. This is, of course, last year. One of my non-biased opinions here but one of the better fireworks displays in America, that being New York City. A lot of people traveling to this destination.

But it looks like Mother Nature will be giving a little bit of preemptive fireworks on her own later day for the Big Apple. And I do believe that the big show Friday evening will actually stay dry and relatively clear for major East Coast cities, so that's good news. But we need to get over Mother Nature's natural fireworks first because that's where we have our potential here of severe storms, especially later this afternoon and evening.

So if you are one of the over six million people traveling in the skies today you have the potential for some trouble spots here, perhaps into Reagan National, LaGuardia, typical areas -- Boston.

But I want to note across Florida. This region we're paying close attention to -- Miami northward and perhaps into Charleston as well -- the potential for some tropical development. I'll go and highlight that in just one moment.

But let's time this out for. This evening, if you're traveling, I think it's really basically after dinnertime where these thunderstorms will roll through from New York to Boston. So heads up along that I-95 corridor. Perhaps a few thunderstorms forming throughout the afternoon and evening hours.

But your Fourth of July forecast dry for the East Coast. That's great news. Maybe a pop-up thunderstorm across the Midwest. D.C. looking fantastic with temperatures in the upper 70s.

But here's the weathermaker for the weekend, potentially ruining your beach extended Fourth of July plans. Right here along the coastline of Charleston and into Jacksonville. This is new information to CNN. The National Hurricane Center just increased the likelihood of some sort of tropical development, whether or not it's subtropical or a tropical storm. A 60 percent chance.

One thing is for sure. This will bring heavy rainfall to central Florida and the southeast coast through the weekend -- John.

BERMAN: All right. We will be watching and keeping our fingers crossed.

Derek Van Dam, thank you --

VAN DAM: Definitely.

BERMAN: -- very much for that.

So, seven people missing this morning after a fire and an explosion at a fireworks warehouse. What we're learning about the search.

And for the first time, the public heard from Bryan Kohberger in his murder case admitting to killing four Idaho college students.

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JUDGE STEVEN HIPPLER, JUDICIAL COURT, ADA COUNTY, IDAHO: Do you on or about that same date in Moscow, Idaho kill and murder Kaylee Goncalves, a human being?

BRYAN KOHBERGER, PLED GUILTY TO MURDERED FOUR IDAHO UNIVERSITY STUDENTS: Yes.

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BERMAN: And the CNN original series "BILLIONAIRE BOYS CLUB" goes inside the shocking story of 1980s greed and murder.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Why would rich kids get into the business of killing?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The Billionaire Boys Club was a combination investment group and social club.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It was money, greed -- it was success. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: It was a classic Ponzi scheme.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The story is more weird than you even think.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: They were a bunch of attractive, well-dressed, young men.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: A privileged group of rich, white boys.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Joe Hunt was their guru.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: He was the puppet master.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: He was chasing wealth and power at any cost, even murder.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Members of the BBC were in way over their heads.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: There was an us-versus-them mentality. If you know the person in charge is capable of murder you are going to stay in line.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: He always thought that he would get away with everything.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Do whatever you can to get the money. It doesn't matter how you get there, you just have to get there.

ANNOUNCER: Billionaire Boys Club premieres Sunday, July 13 on CNN.

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SIDNER: All right. We're standing by this morning to see if there is any resolution to the strike in Philadelphia involving sanitation workers. That's leaving trash piling up all over the streets. Nearly 10,000 state, county, and municipal employees went on strike Tuesday saying they're fighting for better pay and benefits. The city said it has put its "best offer on the table."

CNN correspondent Danny Freeman has more on what this stalemate is meaning for Philadelphia. And I see a huge dumpster there behind you. A lot of people frustrated with what they're seeing on the streets.

DANNY FREEMAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Yeah, that's right, Sara. Welcome to day three of the strike of Philadelphia's largest city workers union. Like you said, it's about 9,000 employees who walked off the job on July 1 and it's been a bit of a mess. We're talking about not just sanitation workers but also water department workers, 911 dispatchers. There are a lot of city workers that are impacted here. But again, trash has really become the symbol of this whole thing.

I'm going to cross the street with my photographer right here in a moment. You can see that basically in a bunch of residential neighborhoods there have been these enormous dumpsters that have been erected. People -- we've been watching all morning -- you can come on, Dan -- have been throwing their trash in places like this all over the city. You can see a lot of people just leaving the trash here on the side of the road as well. Again, this really has become, as I said, the symbol of this particular strike.

Now, Sara, let me run you through a little bit about what the union wants and about what the city says right now.

So according to the union, their -- this is District Council 33. They say they want eight percent pay raises each year for the next three years and additional health and various benefits as well. The city says they've been at the table, and they have been offering what they call a 13 percent raise over the course of four years, including this past year. So clearly, they are not yet at an agreement.

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But the good news is that they were at the negotiating table yesterday, so talks have resumed after they broke down overnight into July 1.

But again, Sara, I mean, the concern here is from so many folks in the city is there's a concern of rats, roaches, other problems as trash comes piling up. I mean, we've got TVs up here. We've seen people all morning come and make the decision whether they want to throw the trash into a dumpster like this or again just leave it here on the sidewalk. And this is pretty good. I mean, you can see there's debris, there's glass, there's trash everywhere right here.

And Sara, the Fourth of July here in Philadelphia -- big events coming up this weekend. The city certainly hoping to resolve this before then but again, no agreement on the horizon at this immediate moment just yet, Sara.

SIDNER: Yeah. These views from some of the residents that we're seeing of the trash just disgusting. And it's hot and you know it doesn't smell good. So there's a lot for them to work out.

FREEMAN: No. No it does not.

SIDNER: All right, Danny. Thank you so much.

FREEMAN: Yeah, I can confirm that, Sara.

SIDNER: You can confirm that. I figured you could.

BOLDUAN: I was going to say tell us, Danny, how does it smell?

SIDNER: Thank goodness, Kate, that this is not smell-o-vision because I know that is awful for the residents.

BOLDUAN: It would be so much.

All right, let's move to this. We've got other headlines we're watching this morning.

Multiple people were injured after a skydiving plane crash in New Jersey. Almost miraculously though the 15 people that we on board all survived the incident. The pilot reported engine trouble as the plane was taking off Wednesday evening. They then tried to circle back and land but crashed moments later into the nearby woods. There people were flown to local hospitals said to be in critical condition.

This morning officials in California now say seven people are missing after that massive explosion at a fireworks warehouse that we first told you about yesterday -- watch.

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The explosion caught on camera by a local news crew at multiple angles.

It happened in a small town west of Sacramento. The blast rattled nearby homes, it was so strong. You could even see fireworks continue to go off as the facility was engulfed in flames. The explosion also started several spot and brush fires nearby. The cause of the explosion remains under investigation. As we mentioned, they are still searching for the missing.

This morning an American teenager is being detained in Chile after authorities say that he broke multiple national and international regulations. The backstory here is the 19-year-old influence was attempting a solo flight to all seven continents to raise money for cancer research. The Chilean authorities detained him, saying that he changed his flight plan without permission, landing in a part of Antarctica where Chile maintains a territorial claim.

The boy's lawyer says he was conducting an exploratory flight for the route and that the young pilot experienced complications while flying. He will have to stay in Chile now for 90 days while authorities investigate -- John.

BERMAN: Flight delays always a problem.

BOLDUAN: Even in Antarctica.

BERMAN: All right. This morning Bryan Kohberger sits in prison where he will spend the rest of his life after he admitted to killing four Idaho college students in 2022. His guilty plea in a packed courtroom was a surprise twist in the case but it does not resolve key questions.

CNN's Jean Casarez was in the courtroom.

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JEAN CASAREZ, CNN REPORTER (voiceover): Bryan Kohberger now an admitted murderer.

HIPPLER: Are you pleading guilty because you are guilty?

KOHBERGER: Yes.

CASAREZ (voiceover): Pleading guilty to all counts on the 2022 murders of four Idaho college students -- Madison Mogen, Kaylee Goncalves, Xana Kernodle, and Ethan Chapin.

HIPPLER: Did you, November 13, 2022, enter the residence at 1122 King Road in Moscow, Idaho with the intent to commit the felony crime of murder?

KOHBERGER: Yes.

CASAREZ (voiceover): Kohberger agreed to spend the rest of his life in prison without the possibility of appeal.

HIPPLER: Do you understand that by entering the guilty plea in this case you would be giving up your right to appeal?

KOHBERGER: Yes.

CASAREZ (voiceover): But he will not face the death penalty, part of the agreement made in a packed courtroom.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You don't think four life sentences is justice?

STEVE GONCALVES, FATHER OF KAYLEE GONCALVES: No, of course, not. It's daycare. Prison is daycare now.

CASAREZ (voiceover): Families of the young victims were in court for the hearing.

GONCALVES: We're all destroyed. We're all let down.

CASAREZ (voiceover): Earlier, Goncalves' father expressed his outrage to the deal with CNN.

GONCALVES: You don't deal with terrorists and you don't deal with people who kill your kids in their sleep. So we'll never see this as justice.

CASAREZ (voiceover): Not all of the victims' families are in agreement.

LEANDER JAMES, ATTORNEY FOR FAMILY OF MADISON MOGEN: We support the plea agreement 100 percent. While we know there are some who do not support it, we ask that they respect our belief that this is the best outcome possible for the victims.

CASAREZ (voiceover): The prosecution outlined detailed evidence it was planning to present at trial.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Each victim suffered multiple wounds.