There was already a "Countdown" to Beyoncé and Blue Ivy's appearance at the "Mufasa" premiere before Jay-Z was hit with a sexual assault allegation ... so, all eyes were on the red carpet to see if the mother-daughter duo actually showed up Monday night. Not only did they show up but Jay-Z accompanied them.
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00:00It is a good thing I am not a betting man.
00:02Actually, I am a betting man, but it's a good thing I did not take the bet yesterday because
00:07we were talking about the fact that the Mufasa premiere was happening on Monday night.
00:11Beyonce and Blue Ivy are in the movie, so everyone was wondering if they would show
00:16up.
00:17And I said, no way.
00:18Right.
00:19There's no way the day after these allegations against Jay-Z in the lawsuit, where according
00:25to this accuser, she says that when she was just 13 years old, Jay-Z and Diddy drugged
00:31and raped her at a VMA afterparty back in 2000.
00:35Right.
00:36It's like the celebrity playbook, Charles, right?
00:37You lay low when something like this is happening.
00:40Well, I think the defiant response that Jay-Z had to that lawsuit is exactly why you got
00:46this image on Monday night in Hollywood, which was the Carter family all standing there in
00:52unison, smiling for the cameras, taking photos at the premiere.
00:57They showed up in a big way.
01:00You also could have thought that maybe Beyonce and Blue Ivy would go.
01:03Right.
01:04No way, Jay-Z, though.
01:05But Jay-Z was there.
01:06Right.
01:07If you don't think that's sending a message in a loud and a crystal clear message, you're
01:11wrong.
01:12Yeah.
01:13I guess it is in line with what he said in that very strong response on Sunday evening
01:19that he's denied it.
01:21He says he's going to fight this, and he is accusing Tony Busby, the attorney for the
01:26accuser of extortion.
01:29I think if you thought these were just empty words, Charles, that that makes it clear on
01:33that red carpet last night that it's not, and they are going to fight this.
01:36They're not going to shy away.
01:37Yeah.
01:38I don't think it really leads us to know whether or not the allegations are true.
01:41It's independent of that.
01:42What you're seeing here is a very specific response by Jay-Z.
01:46There's no right way to respond to allegations like this.
01:48You do the best you can.
01:50He's showing a united front with his family, showing up for his daughter.
01:53It's a very important day for her, obviously.
01:55He's doing all these right things.
01:56Again, it doesn't mean that the allegations are true or not true.
01:59It just means that there's a specific way that he is responding to them.
02:02Yeah.
02:03By the way, the war between himself and Tony Busby, as Jay-Z promised he was going to fight
02:09against this guy, called him all sorts of names, it is going back and forth now.
02:14Tony Busby is now saying, you remember in Jay-Z's response, he said, if this had happened,
02:19and he's denying it did, he said, if it did, you should get criminal charges filed.
02:25You should want someone who did this to your client to actually be in prison.
02:30And Tony Busby is at least thinking about calling Jay-Z on his bluff, telling us that
02:37it is up to his client, but the next move could be for her to actually file a criminal
02:43complaint in New York City.
02:44Right.
02:46And that would be something entirely different with a whole bunch more ramifications, not
02:51just money, if they did go to court.
02:53And mindful that this, the alleged crime happened in 2000, but in New York state, there is no
02:59statute of limitations on first degree rape, which it seems like from what they've described
03:05in the lawsuit is what the criminal charge would be.
03:08So yeah, it seems like we're a long way away from criminal charges here.
03:11I mean, we have, I mean, just to even suggest that, that's what Tony Busby is doing.
03:15He's suggesting it, but we're a long way away from that even being a remote possibility,
03:20I think.
03:21Right.
03:22He would, one, she'd have to file the complaint and then, you know, the police have to look,
03:26try to investigate.
03:27And the problem is it's been 24 years.
03:29Right.
03:30Finding witnesses, evidence, it becomes very difficult.
03:34But at least Tony Busby is saying that's on the table.
03:38By the way, there was another filing this morning.
03:41I think as evidence that they are not going to let up off of Tony Busby.
03:46They filed a declaration.
03:49His attorney's firm, Quinn Emanuel, filed a declaration saying that they had spoken
03:55to a woman on Monday night, just last night, who claims that Tony Busby's firm forced her
04:02or tried to force her to make false allegations against Diddy.
04:06Wow.
04:07She said she had contacted them because she did have a case that she felt she had of sex
04:14trafficking, not involving Diddy at all.
04:17But according to her and according to this declaration, which Jay-Z's attorneys have
04:20now filed in federal court, she told them that Tony Busby's associates tried to get
04:27her to say that it was Diddy and tried to get her to say that you were drugged and that
04:32you were raped.
04:33Wow.
04:34They tried to shoehorn it into a Diddy case.
04:36And she denied that and she says once they, she wouldn't change her story, they dropped
04:39her as a client.
04:40Well, I wonder with Busby if he's just becoming too much of a distraction here.
04:44Well, just we should say Tony Busby responded to that filing and told us that he called
04:50it ridiculous.
04:51He doesn't know who this person is that they're talking to.
04:55But he said, we get, he said, yes, we get a lot of prank calls, but we do not pressure
05:00anyone.
05:01We do not pursue cases.
05:03He said, we have plenty of cases as it is.
05:06My name is Kai and I am from Florida.
05:09As far as the allegations, I do think that Jay-Z should still be able to show up.
05:14I mean, his wife was there.
05:16I mean, Beyonce's mom was there.
05:18It just kind of makes sense.