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Ahead as it just continues to down on for those pictures out of Carolina Beach, North Carolina as we continue to monitor that. Thanks for joining us. The news continues now on Cnn Welcome to all our viewers watching Around The World. Im Anna Coren, ahead on Cnn Newsroom music mogul, Sean Diddy Combs is arrested in New York and an indictment against him will be unsealed today. Well take a closer look at the accusations. Hes being faced a day, off to another apparent attempt on his life, Donald Trump wasted no time pointing the finger at democrats over there, referring and well look at how rhetoric from the former president himself, he is causing all sorts of trouble for the city in ohio. Ohio coren first real developing story this hour, Sean Diddy Combs has been arrested in New York. A source tells cnn he was detained Monday Night today, new York City hotel, the manhattan us attorney said in a statement that the indictment against combs will be unsealed Tuesday Morning guys became the target of a federal Sex Trafficking Probe earlier this year, which led to the search of his homes in miami and los angeles. Hes also been hit with ten lawsuits nine directly accusing him of Sexual Assault a lawyer for three of his accusers wrote in a statement, the long awaited arrest of sean combs is the first step for our clients receiving justice well leave the criminal aspect of this case in the hands of the people and justice system. As for the civil cases, we await our time for the facts to reveal themselves. And seek the justice our clients deserve. We also anticipate more victims coming forward John Miller is cnns chief Law Enforcement and intelligence analyst, and he joins me now from New York, John Great to see you the indictment is sealed the charges have not yet been announced, but tell us what are you learning . Well p. Diddy was arrested tonight in New York at approximately a 50 pm at a midtown hotel. He had been in town since last week as his lawyer, Mark Agnifilo had negotiated with prosecutors in the federal us Attorneys Office for the southern district of New York. Trying to arrange a way to surrender at the time when an indictment might be unsealed and to face those charges in court. Instead for reasons that were only known to federal prosecutors and federal agents theyve decided to arrest p. Diddy at the hotel tonight, take him into custody they will bring him to court after being processed by the u. S. Marshall tomorrow. And they will, according to damian williams, the United States attorney, they will unseal this indictment. We are told by Law Enforcement and sources who have been following this case that this is a federal Racketeering Case involving multiple charges and multiple defendants, including charges that we expect to be sex trafficking. And related charges this, of course, is related to a number of those civil suits, including the one brought by Cassie Ventura who was in a relationship with combs for a number of years, who talked about a spiral of abuse, drugs, and forced sex john, sean combs, hes been fighting multiple Sexual Assault lawsuits and obviously this federal investigation what has been the response from his legal team well, his lawyer marketing their fellow said, and im quoting now, were disappointed with the decision to pursue what we believe is an unjust Prosecutor Fusion of mr. Combs by the u. S. Attorneys office. He talks about combss philanthropy, has leadership. What he has given back to New Yorks Black Community and a lot of what he has done for others. But he understands that we havent seen the charges in this case what we know is a couple of things though anna. One is Search Warrants were done months ago at combss homes, both in miami and california, where they looked for videotape from Security Cameras from what we were told were hidden cameras collecting thumb drives, hard drives, anything with data on it. Basically, pursuant to that search warrant, where they were seeking to find out what images could be recovered, how they would match up to allegations made by various witnesses who have testified in the grand Jury And Match up with events that they said occurred in certain places in those residents on certain dates so were expecting to see one of the things that would be the product of that investigation which took so long because investigators had so much material to go through. I thought it was interesting in that statement from his legal team. They also said hes an imperfect person, but he is not a criminal. And tell me john, how much of a role does his Celebrity Play in all of this . Well, the main role has Celebrity Plays is if there is jury appeal, depending on the demographics and the age of a federal jury, if it goes to trial and of course, the fact that he has an awful lot of money to have the best defense lawyers, the best defense experts, the best defense investigators, which of course will always even the playing field, even against experienced federal prosecutors. And expert federal agents and investigators who have been working on this for probably a year at this point. John, if he is charged with Racketeering And Sex trafficking, and this does go to trial. What could he be facing . Well, lets lets go by the example that probably is the legal architecture in terms of prosecutions that this investigation and now this upcoming indictment is likely based on and thats the prosecution of Wrap Our r. Kelly for events that occurred in New York, but also chicago who was prosecuted by the u. S. Attorneys office in brooklyn in a similar Racketeering Charge with multiple instances of alleged for Sex Drugs in his case, alleged under age he was sentenced after being convicted to 20 years in prison these can be very serious charges with very serious penalties Joel Miller joining us from New York. We really appreciate your insight. Thank you. Thanks we are now hearing from former us president Donald Trump about the apparent Assassination Attempt at his Golf Club in florida. A suspect is under arrest after a secret Service Agent spotted a man with a Rifle Hiding in the bushes and fired shots where he is trumps account of what happened i was playing golf with some of my friends who was on a Sunday Morning and very peaceful, very beautiful weather. Everything was beautiful. It those nice place to be and all of a sudden we heard shots being fired in the air. And i guess probably four or five and it sounded like bullets, but what do i know about that . But Secret Service knew immediately it was bullets and they grabbed me the suspect, ryan wesley routh, a short time later, thanks to the help of a witness the moment of rouths the rest caught on Body Cam Video. You can see him with his hands up as officers quickly handcuff him and take him into custody. He appeared in Court Monday and was charged with two federal gunrelated crimes at visual say, additional charges are possible the Secret Service says the suspect did not have a line of sight on trump the Palm Beach County sheriff says the suspect quote, didnt even get close to getting around off cnns Randi Kaye is following all the developments from Palm Beach County, florida and has this report ryan wesley routh, may have been laying in wait from his spot in the bushes at trump international Golf Club for nearly 12 hours. Thats according to Court Documents, unsealed today, showing Rouths Phone was in the vicinity of the area starting as early as 2 00 a. M. Sunday morning prosecutors also revealed in Court Documents that the serial number on the rifle recovered from the area where routh was spotted, was unreadable to the Naked Eye just before 2 00 p. M. Secret service noticed the barrel of a Rifle Poking through a fence at trump international Golf Club. Trump was somewhere between the fifth then sixth hole at the time when you look at the map, you see a roadway very close to holes five and six which it would make sense that that would be a location if youre going to try to take a shot would be closer and would give you an opportunity to do so and also give you an escape route. The Secret Service fired on the man with the gun before he fled a quick Thinking Witness at the Scene Provided Authorities with a description of the suspect, as well as a picture of the Car And License Plate Martin County deputies detained routh a short time later cnn obtained this Body Cam Video of Rouths Arrest, the witness from the incident that at trump international i was flown to the scene by the Palm Beach County Sheriffs Office and he was able to make a positive id in the bushes at the Golf Club authorities recovered in Sks Style rifle with a scope, two backpacks equipped with ceramic tiles for a makeshift bulletproof vest, and a gopro. Since then, a complicated picture has emerged the ryan routh, a 58yearold small Business Owner from hawaii. Cnn has learned that rouths supported trump in 2000 2016, but later dismissed him as a buffoon and a fool. Routh also mentioned trump in his Book Titled Ukraines unwinnable War Routh traveled to ukraine in 2022 and encouraged others to sign up to fight. He did an interview with Afp News Agency from kyiv in april that year. Putin is a terrorist and he needs to be ended. Court documents also detail past runins with the law, including Felony Convictions in North Carolina in 2002, he pleaded guilty to Felony Felony Possession of a weapon of mass destruction, and carrying a concealed weapon. Other charges over the years included possession of stolen goods, driving without a registration, and failing to pay his taxes on time. Still unanswered questions remain, including how safe is trump and others, given the current political environment, every be where the foreign president goes and the current president and the other candidates go, theyre going to have to start thinking differently about the threat assessment. And a bit more information from that press briefing, we did learn that the fbi interviewed seven civilian witnesses at the scene, so theyre trying to gather more information. We also now know that they are processing this suspects items found at the scene that would include that Sks Rifle with the scope, also the two backpacks and the gopro, they collected dna from those items and have sent that to quantico. There also throw setting his vehicle, but questions do still remain so far, the fbi says there isnt any indication that he worked with anyone else on this. It does look like he acted alone, but couldnt say that for sure. And the fbi is still trying to figure out just how long he was at the state of florida before this. Randi kaye, cnn, Palm Beach County, florida for more on this. Im joined by cnn senior national security analyst, juliette kayyem. Shes also a former Assistant Secretary at the department of homeland security. And a harvard professor, Juliette Lovely to see you. We are just learning that the Secret Service did not search the Golf Course perimeter. Does that not appear to be a massive oversight it does if they had had enough notice that trump was going to play golf. And so this is where the complication arises, is that in most instances, the protectee either has a known schedule is not impromptu or is not as much of a of a potential risk as Donald Trump is look, most former president say they go to the ranchs, they go play golf, but their schedules are a pretty wellknown trump is not only a former president is, of course, the president ial nominee and so what we know now, to be careful is that this was a more, this was a spontaneous golf outing. Theyre not uncommon, and that therefore, what the Secret Service was able to do is at least secure the area around him and then have the kind of patrols around the open areas that i think ultimately result in stopping this potential assassination attack. Its, theres nothing good about this in particular, how long that it appears that the shooter was in the hedges of maybe plus ten hours and No One identified him or the or his car which was sitting there as well . Julie, we also heard from the Acting Director of the Secret Service who said its past time to review their protective Methyl Methodology in and look at how they move from a reactive model to a Readiness Model i mean, that is quite an extraordinary statement to make suggesting that The System needs to be fixed thats exactly right. Look, we used to the Secret Service would design their Vip Protectee Sort of resources around the Persons Relevance to the constitutional order. President of Vice President is bigger. Speaker of the house, or some legacy see that they were a former president Donald Trump, like most things in his Life Services in a different category. He is he is a former president. He may be a future president. That is very uncommon in us history and he is quite public. Hes out there, he likes crowds here the likes going out. He likes playing golf. All of that suggests that the Secret Service cant really put him into any of these normal categories and really does need to take a different posture about in particular about him. But of course, given the u. S. Threat environment right now, the increase in violence, increasing political threats of violence against everyone from judges to secretaries of state that the Secret Service is going to have to rethink the Threat Environment and also particular protectees and how much they provide them safety lets talk about this aspect. Run. Was Lee Ralph will we are learning about him, but also the fact that he he was never in i guess, range like he never had a line of sights of the former president and no. Did he he fired his weapon . Thats exactly right. So the charges that we have seen at least disclosed today are really quite limited and they really dont get too intent at this stage. Shes being charged for essentially gun violations. He is a former felon. He was in possession of a gun thats not allowable. So what they quickly did is they got the easy part out of the way in terms of the charges against him the other charges that we might suspect suspect including a federal statute that makes it enhanced crime to threaten violence or seek violence against a former president. Those will come later as they begin to understand his narrative. Now amazing very obvious to people, this is exactly what he wanted to do. He wanted to kill the president the truth is, is that they have to prove it if he wasnt in range, if theres disclosures that he said if he has some sort of defense, they want to make sure that what they indict him with and what they charge him with can stick. There would be nothing worse than charles urging him for something that they actually dont have. The evidence for. And thats why youre going to see the easy charges first, youll see other charges later. I have to say something about his history though whats interesting to me and people who studied political violence is, is hes, you know, hes got these felonies, these criminal charges, none of them are really related. It is to politics. He gets obsessed with ukraine in a way that at least on his Social Media, hes, hes much engaged in raged on. But he does really focus on trump as much as you would think. Given that he might have attempted to assassinate trump, that gap is something that prosecutors and investigators are going to have to figure out. How did you go from someone who was not a likely suspect to someone who spent a lot of time trying to get within range of Donald Trump juliette kayyem, always great to get your analysis. Thank you so much for joining us thank you well, Donald Trump and his running mates continued to repeat the baseless Conspiracy Theory about haitian immigrants eating Family Pets and Wreaking Havoc on the town of springfield, ohio. 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