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The president of D4vd's touring company was grilled Monday by a deputy district attorney in front of a grand jury ... on why he didn't call the cops.

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00:00There is a very interesting development in the case involving singer David and Celeste Rivas,

00:08the woman who was found dead in his car. There is a grand jury that has been hearing evidence

00:14in this case, and it is clear to us, based on what we know with the LAPD and now what we know

00:21with the L.A. County D.A., that David is in the crosshairs as a suspect. Something happened

00:28outside the grand jury room, in the hallway, that seems to rope in music executives who may or may

00:40not know something connected to all of this. In fact, the person who spent most of the day on

00:45Monday testifying before the grand jury is one of David, is a guy who is the head of David's record

00:52label and the tour company that operates his most recent tour. His name is Robert Morgan Roth Jr.,

01:00and he, like I said, spent most of the day on Monday before the grand jury. When he walked out of the

01:08grand jury, and this is what you're referring to, there was a conversation he had with his lawyer

01:13in a hallway. Now let's explain this. This is a kind of wide hallway outside of the criminal courts

01:19building, and the hallway echoes, and there were about a half dozen people around, and he was

01:27talking loud enough that people heard it. Right. And what was said is really, really interesting.

01:33Because he said that, uh, said to his attorney, they were grilling me. This is the prosecutor. Her name

01:40is Beth Silverman. Um, she is a very seasoned prosecutor, very aggressive prosecutor. And what

01:47he said to his lawyer in this hallway, um, again, loud enough for other people to hear, he said,

01:54she was grilling me about why I didn't call cops. Why I didn't call cops. That is really,

02:01really interesting. Um, now his response is also interesting. Right. He, he said, I said,

02:07I feel like I didn't have the responsibility to do that, and just wanted to continue with the tour.

02:14So, let's kind of unpack this. Number one, we can't say what he was supposed to call cops about,

02:21according to the DA. Um, this could have to do with anything except for one thing. It seems

02:29that the DA believed that there was some criminal conduct for which cops should be called. Right.

02:34That seems obvious. Why else would the DA be asking that? And what the case is about is, um, the

02:41LAPD and apparently the DA believe that David may have been the culprit here in the death of Celeste

02:48We know that they are operating as, calling him a suspect, uh, in her death. That's right. And his answer,

02:53to me, sounds like someone who was either told some information or knew some information, formed a

02:59judgment that he wanted to continue with the tour rather than call police. It doesn't sound as if he

03:04was maybe sort of not in the know. It sounds as if he knew something. Well, that's why the DA was

03:09pushing on the other thing we don't know here is exactly what tour he's referring to. But we do know

03:15that when the body was found in David's car, he was on tour in the middle of a tour that even after

03:21the news of the body being found in his car, continued that tour for another week or so. Now, to be, to be

03:30fair, um, uh, this gentleman, um, was with David since 2022 and there have been three tours. So it could be a

03:38prior tour, except the prior tour doesn't really make sense because Celeste wasn't an issue until this tour.

03:44What criminal activity was going on. So what criminal activity was going on. You know, you connect the dots here.

03:49And this dovetails with our understanding that he is considered a suspect. David is considered a

03:53suspect. And this now dovetails with the prosecutor grilling. You're in front of a grand jury and you're

03:58asking his tour manager about, obviously. And it's a big no-no to be overheard. I'm not sure it was

04:04intentional or whatever. That hallway does echo. We've been in it many, many times, but it is, it is

04:08taken very seriously when the grand jury proceedings are publicly available in this way. And, and, and it just

04:14is interesting. It's like, why didn't you tell police? It means he said something or acknowledged

04:21something that triggered the DA to say that, that if you knew what you just said, why didn't you call

04:29the police? And he's saying, not my responsibility. My job is to make sure the tour goes on. That's

04:35really interesting. Hi, I'm Jasmine Webb, New York attorney. And my take on this is that it's really

04:41out of context and hard to say what exactly he saw or might've known, but it definitely calls into

04:47question what happened on that tour and whether other people were, had some knowledge of what was

04:53going on and maybe would also be implicated after this grand jury hearing. Well, I don't know that

04:58they're implicating. I can just say that he said something that the DA believed should require him

05:06to call the cops. I'm not saying he had a legal obligation, but that's clearly how this all unfolded.

05:12It feels like who knew what and when did they know it? Right.

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