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Donald Trump Visits Controversial Migrant Detention Site In Florida; Ukraine: Missile Factory Struck Deep Inside Russia; U.S. House To Take Up Senate-Revised Tax And Spending Bill; 18 Countries Issue Heat Warning For Wednesday; Warmer Mediterranean Driving High Temperatures in Europe, 18 Countries Issue Heat Warnings for Wednesday; Jury Reaches Verdict in Four of Five Federal Criminal Charges on the Sean "Diddy" Combs Trial, Yet to Reach Verdict on the Racketeering Conspiracy Count; Buddhists Gather in India for Dalai Lama's 90th Birthday. Aired 2-2:45a ET
Aired July 02, 2025 - 02:00 ET
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ROSEMARY CHURCH, CNN ANCHOR: Hello and welcome to our viewers joining us from all around the world and everyone streaming us on CNN Max. I'm Rosemary Church.
Just ahead, Donald Trump's massive domestic agenda bill clears one hurdle in the Senate, but will it have the votes in the House to get it to his desk by July 4th?
Meantime, the U.S. president is offering advice on how undocumented immigrants can avoid the controversial new detention center in the Florida Everglades, self-deport.
And wildfires turn deadly in Spain as heat warnings are in place across Europe.
ANNOUNCER: Live from Atlanta. This is CNN NEWSROOM with Rosemary Church.
CHURCH: Appreciate you joining us, and we begin this hour in Washington, where President Donald Trump's domestic agenda bill is one step closer to becoming law. The House Rules Committee voted to advance the legislation just a short time ago, but it's got a big hurdle to clear in the full House, members of the President's Republican Party are expressing doubts about revisions made by the Senate.
House Speaker Mike Johnson says a vote could come no later than Thursday.
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REP. MIKE JOHNSON (R-LA): 85 to 90 percent of this bill is the House generated product. The Senate made some modifications to it. They made it more conservative in some places and moderated it a little bit in others.
But I tell you what, as the president said so well today, this is no longer just a House bill. It's not a Senate bill. It's a bill of the people, of the hard working American people, and we are going to deliver it, as you said, Sean, by July 4th.
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CHURCH: The Senate narrowly passed the measure, 51 to 50 on Tuesday, after a marathon voting session lasting more than 24 hours, the longest ever.
Vice President J.D. Vance had to cast the tie breaking vote. Senators made changes in the legislation to Medicaid requirements, adding additional money to help fund rural hospitals, and they got rid of a last minute tax on future wind and solar energy projects. President Trump called the bill's passage, "Music to my ears"
Well, U.S. President Donald Trump toured a new controversial migrant detention facility in Florida on Tuesday. His administration calls it alligator Alcatraz and says it can hold thousands of people awaiting deportation.
The White House publicly touts its location in the Everglades as dangerous, too dangerous for anyone to try to escape, and they say that's a selling point. CNN's Brian Abel has more details.
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BRIAN ABEL, CNN CORRESPONDENT: As President Trump's big, beautiful domestic policy bill heads back to the House after narrow passage by the Senate today, the president is getting out of dodge temporarily at least, the president is highlighting his immigration enforcement efforts with a visit to the newly built alligator Alcatraz detention facility in the Florida Everglades. The prison meant to House migrant detainees before deportation. Greeting the president in Florida protesters, some displeased with the facility's resurrection in an area adjacent to lands belonging to an indigenous tribe. Others disgruntled over potential environmental impacts, while some dissatisfied with what they call inhumane conditions for the people who will be kept there.
However, Trump, alongside Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem saying the facility could act as a motivator for self-deportation.
DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: These people come in here. They want to go home, and they want to go home, so we immediately send them home. You know, where it's appropriate. If somebody is a real killer, killer, we don't send them anywhere. We put them in maximum security.
KRISTI NOEM, HOMELAND SECURITY SECRETARY: Don't have to -- they don't have to come here. If they self-deport and go home, they can come back legally. We will let them come back in.
TRUMP: And there is a lot of self-deportation.
NOEM: Yes, but if you wait and wait, we bring you to this facility, you don't ever get to come back to America. You don't get the chance to come back and be an American again.
ABEL: It's estimated to cost about $450 million a year to operate, and the first inmates could be inside as early as Wednesday morning.
At the White House, Brian Abel reporting.
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CHURCH: Joining me now from Miami is Tessa Petit, Executive Director of the Florida Immigration Coalition. Appreciate you talking with us.
TESSA PETIT, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, FLORIDA IMMIGRATION COALITION: Thank you for having me.
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CHURCH: So, President Donald Trump opened this new, controversial immigrant detention center in the Florida, Everglades Tuesday, dubbed alligator Alcatraz because of the predators surrounding the facility.
Now, he praised Governor Ron DeSantis for getting this detention center up and running in just eight days, boosting the governor's strained relationship with the president. What's your reaction to this type of facility and who will likely be detained in it do you think?
PETIT: Just another disgusting political stunt, a shameless attack on immigrant communities. It is the dehumanization of immigrants by saying that, you know, they will have nowhere else to go but to be eaten by alligators and pythons.
And contrary to what they're saying, that these are criminals who are going to get there, these are not criminal criminals who are going to get there. The people who are going to get there are going to be family members. It's going to be people who had who've been in limbo in our broken immigration system, and it's also going to be the hundreds of thousands of people who had legal status in this country that are -- that have been stripped or are currently being stripped of their legal status.
CHURCH: And what does an immigration detention center like this reveal about the Trump administration's immigration policies, as well as its massive ICE deportations across the country?
PETIT: It just shows that they are -- it shows pure racism. It shows that they are relentless against immigrants. It also shows the lack of humanity, because regardless of many people have come to the United States under different circumstances, and the thousands that they are arresting now, they are lying about them, and it just shows that they have absolutely, absolutely no regard for their lives.
CHURCH: And President Trump, on Tuesday, said he approves of Governor DeSantis a proposal for the Florida National Guard to be deputized as immigration judges. What's your response to this, and what are the ramifications of a move like this?
PETIT: Immigration judges get a training. Immigration Law is very complex. It just shows that they're pushing -- they're really pushing the envelope on eliminating due process for immigrants. They are really, really testing our system to see how far they can go in bending the rule of law in their own interest.
There is no way I am an immigrant in this country. I came here 24 years ago, and I ended up in front of an immigration judge. It is a complicated, complicated system, and it is just -- it would just be one way to kick anybody who doesn't look the way they want -- who doesn't look the way they want them to look, anybody who doesn't fit their checklist to kick these people out, even if they are eligible to remain in this country.
CHURCH: And how do you think the Democrats should be responding to this Florida detention facility and to the extensive ICE deportations being carried out?
PETIT: I think that both the Democrats and the Republicans, because both Democrats and Republicans are also human beings, they should both be right now standing up and saying enough.
I understand that people have political aspirations, that people want to hold on to their political career. I also understand that a lot of people have -- people have their beliefs, right, but I refuse to believe that there are so many members of Congress and so many senators running this country who have become so heartless and who have completely forgotten that politics was meant to be at the service of the people, and who have -- who are giving up on their integrity and their honor and the very reason why they were put in office, whether they're Democrats or Republican, they're forgetting that they were the reason why they were put in office, just to say -- just to agree to one person and to please one person or one party.
CHURCH: Tessa Petit in Miami, many thanks for joining us. Appreciate it.
PETIT: You're welcome.
CHURCH: Still to come, Ukraine again strikes deep inside Russian territory, this time targeting a key weapons facility for Russia's military. New details after a short break. Stay with us.
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CHURCH: After 633 days of War in Gaza, Israel and Hamas could be closer to reaching a cease fire agreement. U.S. President Donald Trump announced Tuesday that Israel had agreed to the necessary conditions to finalize a 60-day truce with Hamas, but it's still unclear if Hamas will agree to the terms.
President Trump warned the group to accept the deal. Otherwise, "It will only get worse." The president is due to meet with the Israeli prime minister at the White House on Monday. Here's what he told reporters about the upcoming meeting.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: How firm are you going to be with Netanyahu about ending the war?
TRUMP: Very firm and very firm. But he wants it too. He's coming here next week. He wants to end it too.
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CHURCH: Sources tell CNN, Benjamin Netanyahu has held a number of high level meetings on whether to pursue a cease fire or intensify attacks on Gaza.
Ukraine has again proven it can strike targets deep inside Russia, this time hitting a factory believed to be making missiles and drones more than 1300 kilometers from the Ukrainian border.
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CNN's Nick Paton Walsh has our report.
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NICK PATON WALSH, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice over): These are indeed extraordinary images of panic around a Russian arms plant. You can hear, in fact, the gunfire of what is likely to be security personnel shooting up and what they think are drones about to hit the area around them.
But also, it's extraordinary because of how deep inside Russia this was, 800 miles in sight, hitting what a Ukraine security official tells CNN was a target they were aiming at the Kupol electromagnetic plant, which Ukraine says is responsible for the construction of Tor missiles, Osa anti-missile systems, and indeed, the Garpiya attack drone used frequently across the front lines by Russia.
Russian officials, though, say that three people were killed in this attack and 35 injured. Unclear if they were civilians or people working at the factory plant itself.
But Izhesk where this attack occurred, so key to Russia's arm industry. But it comes at a time of bad news for Ukraine across the front lines, and indeed suggestions today from some Ukrainian military bloggers that in fact, they've lost the largest amount of territory on the front lines in June for a number of months as Russia continues its slow incremental advances, not quite the vast summer push that many had expected yet, but suggestions Russia is amassing over 100,000 troops near the strategic eastern town of Pokrovsk can possibly 50,000 near the northern Ukrainian city of Sumy.
Many deep concerns about what Russia's intentions may be in the weeks ahead, even if Ukraine is increasingly showing how deep inside Russian territory it can penetrate with some accuracy.
Nick Paton Walsh, CNN, London.
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CHURCH: Donald Trump and Elon Musk are going at it again. Just ahead, what the tech billionaire said that caused the U.S. president to raise the idea of deporting Musk. Back with that in just a moment.
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CHURCH: Welcome back, everyone. The U.S. House of Representatives is set to take up Donald Trump's domestic agenda bill in the day ahead. It was approved by the Rules Committee in just the past hour, passage of the measure is still uncertain after a number of revisions by the Senate.
CNN's Washington Correspondent Sunlen Serfaty reports.
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SUNLEN SERFATY, CNN CORRESPONDENT: This will be a critical moment for this bill. The House intends to move to final passage at some point on Wednesday. But how they get there? When they get there, and if they get there, is still an open question at this hour.
The first thing though to look for is a procedural vote. This is in essence a chamber vote on a rule on the bill. That is in essence a vote to advance the bill. And that's where we'll get an early indication how House conservatives who are frustrated with this process, worried about the contents of the bill, if they will get behind it.
Now, many of them, at this hour, have indicated that they potentially could stand in the way of the bill going forward. They are frustrated and concerned about the deep cuts that the Senate amended bill made to Medicaid. They want to go ahead and amend it again. That is something that House Republican leadership wants to avoid. They want to avoid this legislative ping pong where the bill goes back and forth between the House and Senate. House Republican leaders want to get this over with. They want to see this passed on Wednesday in the House, but how they get there again is still an open question.
The House speaker can only afford to lose three Republican defectors at this point if there is full attendance in the House on Wednesday. And that also is an open question, because weather is further complicating the plans of House Republican leadership. There are severe storms in the East Coast, and many members are facing flight delays, so they need each and every member back here in attendance to potentially vote on this bill.
House Republican leaders projecting confidence, also acknowledging that they need to deal with the hand that they are dealt, acknowledging that they meet. Need to potentially work with some members in the morning. So this potentially could set off a scramble. A lot to happen before this bill gets over the finish line here in the House.
Sunlen Serfaty, CNN, Washington.
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CHURCH: Elon Musk and Donald Trump are feuding again over Musk's opposition to the president's domestic agenda bill. The richest man in the world says he's concerned about adding trillions of dollars to the Uaa deficit. And President Trump is hitting back. CNN's Jeremy Roth reports.
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TRUMP: We might have to put DOGE on Elon. You know, you know, DOGE is. DOGE is a monster that has -- that might have to go back and eat Elon. Wouldn't that be terrible? He gets a lot of subsidies.
I think what's going to happen is DOGE is going to look at Musk. I don't think he should be playing that game with me.
JEREMY ROTH, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice over): Elon Musk and President Donald Trump are fighting again, this time over Trump's signature spending bill, which supporters call the big, beautiful bill.
In a post on his platform X, Musk wrote that every member of Congress who campaigned on reducing government spending and supports the bill, "Will lose their primary next year if it is the last thing I do on this earth."
Musk who says he is concerned about the bill's dramatic increase to U.S. debt, threatened to start a new political party called the America Party if the bill is passed. Trump, who says the bill will be an economic boost for the country fired back with a post on his platform Truth Social, writing that Musk may, "Have to close up shop and head back home to South Africa" if Trump turns the Department of Government Efficiency on Musk, who recently led the government's DOGE initiative.
Meanwhile, Democrats, who are typically at odds with Musk find themselves agreeing with him on the Trump policy bill.
SEN. ELIZABETH WARREN (D-MA): Hell has frozen over a second time. Elon Musk is right about this. He's got it exactly right, the idea of borrowing $3.5 trillion on the nation's credit card in order to be able to give tax breaks to the likes of Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg is financially nuts.
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CHURCH: Much of Europe remains in the midst of an early extreme heat wave, with both England and Spain coming off their warmest June ever.
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In France, meteorologists believe Tuesday will go down as one of the 10 hottest days the country has ever recorded. The hot dry conditions are fuelling wildfires across the region. Two people were killed in wildfires in North Eastern Spain, and fires have also been burning in France, Italy and parts of Turkey in recent days.
While cooler weather is coming for North Western Europe, at least 18 countries in the central and southern parts of the continent remain under heat warnings.
What makes this heat wave remarkable is how early it's come in the year, and that's due to a dangerous combination of atmospheric conditions.
CNN Meteorologist Derek Van Dam explains.
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DEREK VAN DAM, CNN METEOROLOGIST: Blistering heat wave continues across Europe. It was so hot on Tuesday that they closed the observation deck on top of the Eiffel Tower. Schools were moved to outdoor learning. This is impacting residents and tourists on the ground, and this heat is just downright dangerous. Temperatures across parts of France on Tuesday topped 40 degrees.
And get this, there were over 30 July monthly record set across the entire country. So, once they crunch all the numbers, they look back at the data. Media of France believes that Tuesday will end up being one of the top 10 hottest days ever recorded in France history. That puts this all into context just how hot it actually has been.
But it's not just France. It's much of Western Europe, including England, that had its hottest June on record. Sort did Spain, in fact, they had their hottest June day ever recorded in Barcelona, just shy of 38 degrees.
So, as we start the new month of July, we're coming off of these back to back heat waves that are impacting many of the same locations. And of course, the overnight lows are not giving much relief to people. So that's what makes this so incredibly dangerous, especially considering so many people don't have air condition or the ability to cool themselves off.
So, what is causing this? What's amplifying the heat? It has a lot to do with this marine heat wave over the western Mediterranean. We're picking up on some of these ocean temperatures. These are sea surface temperatures that are five degrees Celsius or more above average for this time of year. So that really retains the humidity levels. It doesn't allow for overnight lows to drop that much, especially across the coastal areas here, throughout France and into the Iberian Peninsula.
So, we still have had several countries with heat alerts, some reaching their highest criteria level, including Paris for the day on Tuesday. That will extend right into Wednesday, but I want you to see how these heat alerts start to advance a little bit to the east, so Germany and Poland for the day on Wednesday. This is where we're expecting the peak of the heat wave to impact your region for the middle of the week. So, we drop our temperatures off in Paris after Wednesday, 28 degrees
on Thursday, but notice how they climb right back to around 30 degrees for the weekend. We do have a cold front that's going to blunt the temperatures across the northern portions of Europe, but really contain the heat southward across the Mediterranean. We talked about how the abnormally warm ocean waters here across the Mediterranean to help amplifying these temperatures.
So, we want to keep a close eye on that. And this is dangerous heat in Wimbledon, we had the hottest start to the two week tournament ever. Of course, we've cooled things down with that cold front, but notice the temperatures rebounding from Thursday to Friday. Not quite dangerous, but certainly want to take into consideration if you're a spectator or an athlete.
Here's a look at Amsterdam's forecast. We'll cool off considerably, though, as we head into Thursday and Friday. Back to you.
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CHURCH: So, let's get more now from CNN's Senior International Correspondent Melissa Bell, who joins us live from Paris. Good to see you, Melissa.
So, record temperatures in Paris Tuesday. What are weather conditions like right now in the French capital as extreme heat sweeps across the continent?
MELISSA BELL, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, look, we're just heading in, it's nearly 8:30 a.m. here in Paris, but already a sweltering day, and as you heard there, some respite in view, at least for what is Northwestern Europe over the next few days.
But the point is that, as you mentioned, Rosemary, these are heat waves that are not just happening with an alarming frequency summer after summer. They're actually happening earlier in the season.
In fact, Germany, with this heat wave, is already on its second heat wave of the summer. And of course, the danger with that is not just, of course, the unbearable heat that we've all had to deal with, the tourists, the people who live here, and again, cities that are not designed for this kind of heat in terms of air conditioning and what you need to try and keep cool. It's also that we're going to have heat waves earlier on, as we're having this year, drier conditions. And of course, that has implications for the wildfires that we've already seen start earlier this week from Turkey through Greece to here in France.
It also has implications, of course, for human life. There are -- have been several deaths noted in France, Spain and Italy, and authorities looking into how closely related they are to the heat wave.
But certainly, when you look at the last figures we have in 2023, it was nearly 50,000 people across the continent who lost their lives because of the extreme heat.
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So, this has a real impact on people's lives. And of course, this, the fastest warming continent in the world, simply not designed so far for this kind of heat.
The changes climatically are happening faster than European cities can cope with, and of course, that means a great deal of discomfort. In the meantime, in parks like this one in Paris, already people are out here trying to get a little bit of fresh air before they have to retreat indoors. So unbearably hot, is it likely to become once again, Rosemary.
CHURCH: All right. And we'll let you retreat indoors. Melissa Bell, thank you so much for your live report from Paris. Appreciate it.
Still to come, jurors are set to begin a third day of deliberations in the trial of Sean "Diddy" Combs after reaching a partial verdict. We will have more details from outside the courtroom.
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CHURCH: Welcome back, everyone. A jury has reached a partial verdict in the trial of entertainment mogul Sean "Diddy" Combs and will pick up deliberations in the hours ahead. Jurors reached a verdict on the counts of sex trafficking and transportation to engage in prostitution, but were unable to reach a verdict on the racketeering conspiracy count. CNN's Kara Scannell has more details now from New York.
KARA SCANNELL, CNN CORRESPONDENT: The jury in the Sean Combs sex trafficking trial reached a partial verdict on Tuesday. The jury said they could not reach unanimous decision on count one. That's a racketeering conspiracy charge, but they did reach unanimous decisions on the sex trafficking counts and on the transportation to engage in prostitution. The scene inside the courtroom as this was unfolding, Combs was huddled around his attorneys.
At one point, one of his lawyers walked over, took a copy of the handwritten note and brought it over to Holmes with his lawyers circled around him tightly as they discussed what their next steps were. The judge asked them what they wanted to do and both the prosecution and Combs' lawyers wanted the jurors to continue to deliberate. The judge brought them back in, instructed them that they should continue to deliberate, follow their duties and obligations.
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And the jurors said that they would be back at 9:00 a.m. on Wednesday to resume deliberations. If they're unable to make a decision on this, the judge could issue an Allen charge. That's a more serious instruction, urging them to try to bridge the gap and reach unanimity on this remaining count. But as for now, the jury will be back inside the courtroom on Wednesday morning to continue their deliberations.
Kara Scannell, CNN, New York. CHURCH: Joining me now is Areva Martin, a civil rights attorney and legal affairs commentator, and she joins me from Los Angeles. Appreciate you being with us.
AREVA MARTIN, ATTORNEY AND LEGAL AFFAIRS COMMENTATOR: Hi, Rosemary.
CHURCH: So, jurors are just hours away from a third day of deliberations in the Sean "Diddy" Combs trial after reaching that partial verdict Tuesday. What's your reading of where this might go from here, and which side would you prefer to be on, the prosecution or defense?
MARTIN: Well, I'm sure, Rosemary, that Sean Combs' team was disappointed to learn that there's a possibility of a mistrial on that RICO charge. Now, it is the more serious charge. So they may be elated that at least at this point, there's not a conviction on that charge. But if there is a mistrial, meaning the jurors cannot come to a unanimous decision with regards to that RICO charge, even after the judge has instructed them to continue to deliberate, doesn't mean that he gets to walk free.
If there is a mistrial, that gives the prosecution an opportunity to retry the case. And we know that Sean Combs has been detained. He's actually been in jail awaiting the trial after the indictment was issued. So, I'm certain that his side is not celebrating, although it isn't a fatal ending at this point. So, there's still a lot of information we have to learn from this jury, particularly, how they've decided on those four other charges where apparently they have been able to reach an agreement.
CHURCH: Right. And how likely is a mistrial then, do you think, if the jury remains deadlocked and can't reach a verdict on that racketeering conspiracy count?
MARTIN: Well, what we're hearing is that the jurors have pretty much staked out positions and that they're unshakeable, unmovable, that was the word coming out of the jury deliberation room today. Now, it doesn't mean that when they start back at 9:00 a.m. fresh minds, if they've been able to get some rest, that some jurors may be able to point out evidence in the deliberation room that would cause some of the other jurors to change their mind.
But it does tell us that some jurors obviously thought the prosecution met its burden on that RICO charge and others believe that it had not. And again, as we're hearing, the jurors are pretty strident in the positions that they've taken with respect to that RICO charge. Not uncommon, it's a very complicated charge, probably one of the most difficult of the five that were presented during the trial. So, not at all surprised that we're seeing this impasse at this moment.
CHURCH: So, what guidance or instructions should the judge be offering the jurors Wednesday to help them reach a verdict?
MARTIN: At this point, the judge sent the jurors home, told them to come back Wednesday morning at 9:00 a.m. to continue to deliberate. He did not issue that more serious Allen charge. Allen charge is where a judge gives the jurors more direction, really admonishes them about the importance of following the evidence, following the jury instructions, and to really, really try hard to come up with a unanimous decision. It's my guess that the judge may issue an Allen charge, if after a couple of hours tomorrow, we get another note from the jurors saying that they still are at an impasse.
But at some point, the judge will have to accept that the jurors just may not be able to reach agreement, unanimous agreement on the very serious RICO charges. And at that point, the judge is likely to declare a mistrial, at least as it relates to that one charge. Now, we're going to hear at some point, maybe Wednesday, maybe Thursday, because each side, prosecution and defense said that they were willing for the jurors to deliberate on Thursday if necessary.
So, we're going to hear something about the sex trafficking and the transportation to engage in prostitution charges. And my guess is we will probably hear about those charges on Wednesday.
CHURCH: So, take us through what would happen if the judge declared this a mistrial? What happens then?
MARTIN: Well, again, the -- from what we know at this point, the mistrial would only be with respect to the RICO charge. We're going to hear whether there is a conviction or acquittal on those four other charges, the two sex trafficking and the two transportation to engage in prostitution. And if there's a conviction on any one of those other four, again, Sean Combs will be facing very serious jail time.
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The sex trafficking charges carry up to 20 years of prison. The transportation charges carry up to 10 years. So, there is still very much a possibility that he could be convicted on one of those, or there's a possibility that he could be acquitted on those four charges, a mistrial on that Rico, and the prosecution would have to decide if they want to retry him solely on that RICO charge. Not likely that the prosecution would throw their hands up and say, OK, Mr. Combs, you're a free man given all the time, given all the effort, given the evidence that they have presented in this trial.
So, if there is a mistrial on that RICO indictment, very well could see another trial brought against Sean Combs, evidence presented, and the prosecution moving forward on this RICO charge.
CHURCH: We shall see what happens. Areva Martin, many thanks for joining us and sharing your legal analysis. Appreciate it.
MARTIN: Thank you.
CHURCH: Celebrations are underway in Northern India for the Dalai Lama's 90th birthday this weekend. Just a short time ago, he announced his intention to reincarnate, continuing a centuries old spiritual tradition. He declared that his office is the only authority with the power to recognize the future reincarnation. That distinction likely sets up a showdown with China's atheist Communist Party, which insists that it alone holds the authority to choose the Dalai Lama successor. But he has made it clear that anyone appointed by Beijing will not be seen as legitimate in the eyes of Tibetan Buddhists.
I want to thank you so much for watching. I'm Rosemary Church. "World Sport" is coming up next. Then, I will have more "CNN Newsroom" at the top of the hour. Do stay with us.
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