The federal prosecutors who will be trying to secure a conviction against Diddy in his upcoming trial are all white women ... led by the daughter of former FBI director James Comey.
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00:00So the Diddy trial starts next week. It is here. They will do jury selection next week.
00:05The plan is for opening statements a week from Monday. So it is before us, folks.
00:13And there is something really interesting on the prosecution side.
00:17Yes, we've talked a little bit about theatrics from Diddy's side and what he would be doing.
00:24I wouldn't call it theatrics. I'd call it strategy. It's really legal strategy.
00:27It is strategy. But appearances make a difference.
00:30They do.
00:31In court. And obviously, the feds are aware of this as well, because we now know who all the prosecutors will be on Diddy's trial.
00:42They're all women. They have assembled a team of female prosecutors.
00:48And that is definitely not by accident. And some of them, at least one of them, is very famous.
00:56You know the name.
00:57Famous family. This is the daughter. Maureen Comey is the daughter of the former FBI director.
01:07And James Comey, I think, was a prosecutor in the Southern District of New York as well.
01:11He was indeed.
01:13In fact, he prosecuted Martha Stewart.
01:15Right.
01:16So, you know, it all kind of comes together here.
01:19And Maureen Comey, who we're told, from all accounts, she is a fierce prosecutor.
01:26She was involved in prosecuting Ghislaine Maxwell.
01:29Right.
01:30And also Jeffrey Epstein.
01:31So she has been involved in some very big cases.
01:35And then the other five lead prosecutors, Emily Ann Johnson, Madison Reddick-Smizer, Mary Christine Slavik, Meredith Foster, and Mitzi Steiner.
01:48Everything begins with an M there.
01:50Yeah, except for Emily.
01:51Well, but that sounds like M.
01:52And that sounds like M.
01:53Right.
01:53So it's the M&M and M&M and M&M gang.
01:55So like Charles said, you know, I suppose it could be coincidence.
01:58I don't think it's coincidence.
02:00And especially given the nature of the case.
02:02Yes.
02:03Because when you look at who is examining these various witnesses, you know, especially female alleged victims, of which there will be four,
02:17prosecutors often do look for a female attorney, a female prosecutor, for various reasons.
02:26There's a connection there.
02:28There's a comfort level there where they can open up and talk.
02:32And I don't think this is coincidental at all.
02:34But I think this is a double-edged sword in a way.
02:38Yeah, definitely not coincidental at all, Harvey.
02:40Just to talk about that point for a second.
02:42The U.S. attorney for the Southern District is going to have hand-selected these attorneys very particularly.
02:47It's a very important case for them, extremely high profile, and they want to win.
02:51And so they picked great lawyers, no doubt about it.
02:55So the fact they picked all of these women, they are clearly, to get to the second point you were making,
02:59this is an effort to try to curate their lawyers to appeal to this jury.
03:05I'm not sure how this works for them.
03:06I think maybe you can overthink these things a little bit.
03:09And I don't know that an all-female panel necessarily plays to a jury, regardless of the gender makeup of the jury,
03:17necessarily plays to that jury.
03:20I know all of the alleged victims in the criminal case are all women,
03:23and so they're trying to sort of stand united with them.
03:26But does it at that point become more about the cause of female empowerment, about women's rights, about women victims,
03:33and less about the actual conduct of this defendant?
03:35No, I think that's the double-edged sword, that it might work to that extent where people feel like we're even making a bigger statement
03:44than just about one man.
03:47We're making a statement about a cause.
03:49But on the other hand, there might be people who say we shouldn't be nailing a guy for a cause.
03:55We should be nailing a guy for the guy and what he did.
03:57And so that could work both ways.
04:00And remember, what the defense needs is one vote.
04:04What the prosecution needs is every vote.
04:08And that's the difference, that if this doesn't sit well with even one of the jurors and they start feeling that,
04:16that could create a problem.
04:17If you're the U.S. attorney, what you want are the best attorneys you can have in there.
04:23And it really, I know you want to, like we said, appearances matter, but you want to win this case.
04:31And you need, like you said, it's harder for them.
04:33They need every juror.
04:34The concept of the best attorneys.
04:37I mean, you know, the really good lawyers.
04:40The most experienced.
04:41But the really good lawyers are, you know, it's not this wide range.
04:46I mean, there are a lot of lawyers who operate at a really high level.
04:49So I'm sure all of these lawyers do.
04:52And so I don't even think it's so much, we pick the best five lawyers.
04:56I mean, there are, there's a group of lawyers that are all great.
04:58The best five lawyers for this case.
05:01The question is, did the fact that they're women factor in, knowing that all of them are great,
05:07but did they want this specifically?
05:09And I think the answer is yes.
05:11I mean, I think you can take top lawyers and say, look, there were 20 of them,
05:15but we, for various reasons, want all five to be women.
05:20And we will see if that works.
05:21Hi, my name's Juwan, and I'm from Detroit.
05:24I think this is like a little bit of karmic justice for the prosecution team to be all women,
05:28especially considering the crimes that he's alleged to have committed against women.
05:32Yeah, that's, I mean, that's what they hope the jury sees it as.
05:37But that would also assume that the jury thinks that Diddy is guilty.
05:41So that's why they have the trial, because we don't know yet.