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cabinet, he's the labor secretary alex ocosta and former president bill clinton and president trump whose palm beach mansion mar-a-lago is down the road from epstein's. the man with homes around the world and his private island is in a federal lockup. we're joined from outside federal court in lower manhattan. if true, these charges are beyond disturbing. what are prosecutors saying they found so far? >> reporter: yeah, they have found a lot, anderson. we learned today that this just makes everything much worse as despicable as a lot of this is, we learned today that prosecutors, investigators when they entered epstein's home on his upper east side mansion, they found a vast trove of lewd photos. thousands of nude photos depicting underaged girls they believe. they also found a safe and inside that safe what they say

is that they found a cd-rom and on them different labels, one of them saying young name and name. there was another one that said miscellaneous news and there was a third c.d. which said girl pick nude. so obviously, a lot of evidence that prosecutors here are continuing to gather. the other thing we learned is that before prosecutors went into the homes, mansion on the upper east side, one of the victims described the room, a room they would be brought to where they would have to perform sexual acts with epstein and say they the room looked exactly the same it did 15 years ago when some of the victims were brought there. anderson. >> have we heard from him or his attorneys? >> reporter: right. so his attorneys only spoke in court. he has not spoken. the only words he uttered today, he pleaded not guilty. out sigh de of that, it's been attorneys and they are saying

this case is essentially a doovdo over, this has been investigated in florida and that prosecutors here are violating a non-prosecution agreement that he, epstein made with his attorneys and with government officials back in 2008 and that bringing these charges all over again is essentially just a do over and then there was a couple of interesting moments in court where his attorney reid wine garden tried to argue because there was no force used here, that prosecutors can't charge statuto statutory, a sex trafficking charge here and then he and the judge kind of had an exchange and the judge said well, you're arguing there may not have been a rape here but there may have been statutory rape and his attorney said statutory rape and realizing what he said perhaps admitting that his client had committed these heinous crimes,

he said oh, i'm having a senior moment. i mean no rape occurred because there was no penetration. these are the organiarguments i we'll see going forward. >> a spokesperson for president clinton that knew epstein tweeted out a statement today. what did that say? >> reporter: that statement said and let me read that to you. it says quote president clinton knows nothing about the terrible crimes jeffrey epstein pleaded guilty to in florida some years ago or those with which he has been recently charged in new york. obviously, the fallout here is wide given epstein's connections to many politicians, many wealthy people. for now, we have only heard from the spokesperson for president clinton. obviously, there are other high-powered people who are connected to epstein. we have not heard from them. >> more on the cases then and

now against jeffrey epstein. more as well on powerful figures that shared company and face serious al gaulegations because it. here is randi kaye. >> all jeffrey cared about is find me more girls. >> reporter: jeffrey as in jeffrey epstein, the hedge fund manager investigated for child sexual abuse and trafficking underaged women. the multi millionaire worked on wall street for years at bare sterns before opening his own investment firm. in 2006 the fbi began investigating his alleged activities with young girls who today are in their 20s and 30s. some spoke to the "miami herald." >> i've seen hundreds and hundreds of girls go through jeffrey's swinging door, ever revolving door. >> reporter: dozens of them all with similar stories of sexual abuse. even down to the details of what epstein's genitals looked like. >> he would want us to stand next to him and he would masturbate while he stared at us, touched us. >> it ended with sexual abuse

and intercourse and then a pat on the back. you've done a really good job. like, you know, thank you very much and here is $200. >> reporter: epstein reportedly paid more if the girls engaged in oral sex or intercourse according to the police. and they all say epstein wanted them to recruit other young girls to bring to him. >> by the time i was 16, i brought him up to 75 girls all the ages of, you know, 14, 15, 16, all people from eighth grade to ninth grade at school parties is where i recruited from. >> reporter: here is where much aft alleged abuse took place. according to court documents, as far back as 2001, it's believed epstein began luring girls here with the help of those who worked for him, most of the girls ranged in age from 13 to 16 and came from disadvantaged homes. they never before seen the exclusive palm beach island.

>> the training started immediately. everything down to how to be quiet, give jeffrey what he wants. and, you know, before you know it, i'm being lent out to po politicians and academics. >> reporter: years later in a 2014 court document, one of the women claimed she had been an underaged sex slave to epstein claiming he forced her to have sex with some of his powerful friends including prince andrew, the duke of york. once at an orgy on his island. she would have been 17 at the time. buckingham palace has denied the accusations. court documents say epstein often ran with the rich and powerful, donald trump, bill clinton, and his two high-profile defense attorneys ken starr and alan. he quoted trump saying this, he's a lot of fun to be with. it is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as i do

and many of them are on the younger side. that same woman who accused prince andrew also claimed in that court filing from 2014 that epstein required her to have sexual relations with allen while a himinor in florida. >> she said i had sex with her on jeffrey epstein's airplanes. the flight manifest will prove i was never on an airplane with her. i never met this woman. i never touched her. i was never massaged by her. >> reporter: federal investigators identified 36 girls and still building their case when in 2008, epstein made a sweet heart deal. this non-prosecution agreement allowed him to plead guilty to a lesser charge, just two prostitution charges in a state court and register as a sex offender. he would serve 13 months in county jail. the deal granted immunity to any

potential co-conspirators. none of them were identified leaving many to wonder if other powerful people were having sex with underaged girls at epstein's homes. the deal shut down the fbi's investigation into additional victims and accomplices and any chance of epstein going to prison for life based on the fbi's indictment that would have charged him with sex crimes. >> i read the indictment. there was multiple allegations of sex trafficking, trafficking girls across lines, using his airplane to traffic girls, witness intimidation and all of a sudden, it disappeared. >> reporter: the deal was negotiated in part by epstein's friend and defense lawyer alan and president donald trump's secretary of labor. >> he's supposed to be protecting the victims and he was protecting jeffrey epstein,

a pedophile. >> reporter: alexander ocosta tried to explain his decision. >> professionals within a prosecutor's office decide that a plea that guarantees that someone goes to jail, that guarantees that someone register generally is a good thing. >> reporter: despite a federal law which says victims must be notified of this type of deal, epstein's victims were kept in the dark until after it was signed and approved by the judge. but he did have to pay restitution to the identified victims. meanwhile, in february, 11 years after epstein was sentenced, a federal judge here in florida rule that acosta and other officials violated the crime victims' rights act but not k w knowfying the alleged victims of the plea deal until after it was signed. the judge noted prosecutors mislead the verdicts by allowing them to believe a federal

prosecution was still a possibility. president trump was asked in february about the allegations levelled at his labor secretary. >> i know he's done a great job as labor secretary and that seems like a long time ago. >> scary because this is our government that's supposed to protect us but has done everything to protect a pedophile. >> reporter: randi kaye, cnn, palm beach, florida. >> joining us, two federal prosecutors and cnn legal analyst laura coats. can you explain why this isn't a case of double jeopardy because essentially his attorneys are saying look, they are just kind of trying to take another shot at, you know, at the same crimes. >> i mean, it's not taking a second bite at the apple when it involves new victims and new allegations and by the way, it's a new jurisdiction talking about crossing over state lines to florida to new york. new victims, new under aged people and information and a new fbi investigation.

if there is not an exact over lap that involves new things, no double jeopardy. >> have you ever seen a deal like epstein originally received back in 2008? i mean, being able to keep any co-conspirators, they get immunity, their names aren't mentioned, you know, and he registers as a sex offender ask does a little time. >> this is a sweet heart deal made of fiction. i've prols cusecuted sex crimes the idea of having a sweet heart deal, i'm not going to notify the victims. i'm not going to give them a voice in court and allow somebody to leave 12 hours a day to go to a nice office and have a private wing and still be a pedophile? that doesn't happen as does not happen the idea of saying anyone that potentially helped to facilitate underaged people being sexually abused gets immunity, that's shocking in and of itself since the labor secretary oversees human trafficking now. >> the same deal as we were just

saying included any potential co-conspirato co-conspirators, that sames unusual or not. >> that seems unusual because they didn't get any bang for the buck. if they gave people immunity, they want you to get more evidence to build a bigger case and they didn't. they built a tiny mickey mouse case after that and the reaeeal horror is all of the allegations indicate that victims, dozens of them could have been spared these assaults had the prosecution and secretary acosta done their job in 2008 and these are children, let's remember, they are the real heroes. they faced enormous cinjustice that cannot be righted with further prosecutions that all these things happen to these children when it could have been prevented. >> laura, you had the one woman

saying that she personally, you know, recruited i think she said more than 70, you know, young people to go through his place. what does it say to you that this case is being handled by the sdny's public corruption unit? does it significauggest public s could be under the microscope? >> first, the idea maybe a minor recruited other victims is treated differently in the law than an employee or associate. they will treat that differently. the abuse is still the same but treated differently. the idea of the publish corruption unit is part of the question. you say that unit is devoted to people who are elected officials, not billionaire hedge funds. it says to me there are some reason they have them there, either an official is implicate in someway, high level or low level and maybe that money laundering or tax crimes or things like that are corruption, maybe part of the investigation or it may be the associates when once were known to be immunized in florida no longer have that

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>> breaking news, a source tells cnn the ambassador to the united states is disinvited to dainner with president trump. the president has tweeted his administration will not deal with the ambassador after a series of leaked cables to downing street from the ambassador which in blistering language described the trump

administration is quote inept and clumsy and said the president's career again quoting could end in disgrace and described conflicts within the white house as knife fights. a spokesman for the british prime minister says she has faith in the am basketball toba doesn't agree with the comments. chris murphy, director of the foreign relations committee. what's your reaction to the president saying he won't deal with the british ambassador? is that the appropriate response because it seems like this is the kind of thing, you know, probably the state department ambassador is sending cables all the time describing to other folks. >> yeah, i mean, the news here is that some pretty sensitive cables got leaked. the news is not that an ambassador to the united states is making an assessment that there is dysfunction at the white house. if the president refused to deal with everyone in washington who privately assessed his white house as dysfunctional, he would have no one to deal with because

republicans and democrats alike of course share that assessment. so yeah, maybe he's going to disinvite the ambassador from a few public meetings but of course, we still have an important relationship with britain that has been as dysfunctional as every other by lateral relationship under trump. this really isn't news. the ambassador was doing his job assessing a white house that is spiraling out of control and he needs to tell that to his bosses back in london. >> does it impact u.s. british relations long term? >> well, i mean, our relations with europe are pretty miserable right now and the president is in the process of attempting to blow up the european union, cheerleading britain out of that economic association. he has been critical of nato threatening to walk the united states out of that alliance. he has withdrawn from the iranian nuclear agreement. britain was a party to that and begged us to stay in. this is a relationship that has

been in big trouble for the last two years. i don't necessarily think that this is going to inject any more instability into a relationship that the president has made pretty darn unstable. >> you mentioned iran. how concerned are you that iran breached the ukraienrichment? >> it's predictable when the president pulled out of this agreement, there was really no reason for the iranians to stay in it. now, it's important to note that what the iranians said is if they move from 3% enrichment to 5%, not the 20% level that would get them to a nuclear weapon and telegraphs they want to re-engage. not just for the united states but with the world community. they want to find a way to have an economic partnership with the united states and once again force a nuclear agreement but the president sends mixed

signals to them, some days he says he'll blow them off the face of the earth, other days he says he wants to engage and talk to them. so i think the iranians are making it clear that they are going to take steps to restart this program but also sending a message that they would rather be in an agreement than outside of an agreement. >> it's interesting to imagine what iran is thinking, watching the president embrace kim jong-un in the way that he has and, you know, quote, you know, talk about lavioletove letters kim jong-un to the president and how great these letters are and floating the idea of accepting a nuclear north korea at the level they are at now. >> yeah, part of the reason that the ambassador assesses the white house is completely dysfunctional when it comes to foreign policy is because there is no consistency about anything we do in the world. we're wrapping our arms around

one and spurning and refusing to talk to another would be nuclear power in iran. iran looks at this cozy relationship between kim and trump and says i guess the only way you get the love of the president of the united states is to get a nuclear weapon outside of the international non-proliferation regime. if i'm iran, i certainly think to myself maybe i'm better off outside the agreement. i think it's remarkable that the iranians are still telegraphing community they would rather be - without nuclear weapons even given the signs that trump is sending with his co-see relationship with north cow rko >> appreciate your time. the unspeakable conditions at one notorious migrant detention center and the president's attack on the messenger and kexplanation of te program as he sees it. we're keeping them honest. beep goes off ]

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homeland of security inspector general how awful those condition haves been. now in the face of new reporting by "the new york times" in "el paso times" he's tweeting again and i'm quotes the fake news media in particular, the failing at "new york times" is writing phony and exaggerated accounts of border detention centers. people shouldn't enter illegally for us to care for them. we should focus on the united states citizens first. they have been doing a great job. in a moment, you'll hear from a top administration official who says conditions have improved in the last few weeks but keeping them honest, the president, he's knot s not saying that. he says the accounts are exaggerated. it's hard to see how that can be so. the reporting is based on accounts of current and former border agents and supervisors and includes sworn statements by those who spent time at client,

outbreaks of sky vees and chickenpox were spreading among children held in cramped cells. the stench of them spread to the agent's own clothing. people in town would scrunch their noses when the agents left work. the children cried all the time and one child sameemed likely enough she would kill herself and the agents made her sleep on a cot next to them so they could watch her. they knew for months that some children had no beds to sleep on and no way to clean themselves and sometimes went hungry. if clint was the only to fa s l facility, to the inspector general it's not and i'm quoting from the report, most single adults had not had a shower in c cbp custody despite several being held for as long as a month and at some facilities, border patrol was giving wet p

wipes to maintain high genygieh. the president saying this is fake news. they aren't saying that without confirming the accounts and saying that there were problems, challenges they call them but they are now in the past. here is the acting dhs secretary over the weekend. >> on june 1st we had 2500 children in our custody. 1200 had been with us. hhs has additional beds, we only have 350 as of yesterday and only 20 of those children have been with us more than three days. >> for starters, it should be pointed out these facilities were never intended for children in the first place in any number for any length of time. for the numbers themselves, we can only take the acting secretary on fifth and given the reporting from so many different sources including the government itself. it's a heavy lift given that nick valencia was allowed into the facility late last month it was a sham, a cbp official with

firsthand knowledge telling cnn the agency prepped for you guys adding quote it's a never ending cat and mouse game. given all that, the burden of proof would seem to be on administration but so far they have chosen to make it as difficult as possible to get a look at what is really happening inside these facilities. the new acting director of u.s. citizen and immigration services, i spoke to him earlier this evening. acting director, i want to talk about these facilities we've been hearing so much about. did operators at the clint facility as "the new york times" reported know for months that these migrant kids had no beds, no ability to clean themselves and went hungry? because that allegation, you know, was based not only on inspection reports but also sworn statements from people who were at the facility. >> right. of course, folks in that position have their own incentives. i would say in these facilities, there has been overcrowding, which has been warned of since

2018 at the severe devil by dhs and secretary nielsen when she was the secretary spoke about it in 2018 and it took all the way until june to get some help particularly focused on the children with the recent small appropriations bill. that helped clear out a lot of the children taken down from about 2500 in these facilities. once they got in the case of the children the facilities that were appropriate for the numbers we're seeing, the problem was alleviat alleviated. before that, there was overcrowding and with security and care for the individuals because that's eating up a lot of manpower on the boarder. >> it seems like agents at the clint facility were raising red flags about it. you have the inspector general report about the client facint and another had the same issue

going on. >> well, but there is very little that can be done about the raw numbers on our side except to process them as quickly as we can and the border patrol became -- has gotten a lot of attention in this regard but realized why those people stay in border patrol facilities that are not designed for as many people as they have seen during 2019 and that is the next stage in the pipeline which is i.c.e., their beds are over subscribed already and in the case of children hhs didn't have enough beds for unaccompanied children for instance. so as the children's situation was alleviated, the numbers were brought back within the parameters that we aimed for under 72-hour time with children for instance and if i.c.e. got the same support hhs got in the recent appropriation bill, we would see the same kind of change and shift with respect to adults. >> you know, you're butting tpu

blame on people coming across and critics could point to the trump administration policies of families separation which was meant to be a deterrent to stop people from coming across and i guess it clearly wasn't because the numbers seem to continue. but it also complicated the matter of how where these kids were put and how they were kept, no? >> well, certainly all these things are related, anderson. all of them. and my agency handles asylum. the reality is there are people in this population who are legitimately seeking asylum in this country, and that pipeline is being swamped by fraudulent claims by people who have no chance of getting asylum but we give massive due process that takes time, effort, manpower and facilities to accomplish. and it's very hard to manage at the design levels that we have right now. >> acting director, appreciate

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president trump saying his administration wants quote the cleanest air and crystal clean water. the united states has withdrawn from the agreement and environmentalists say his speech was an effort to appeal to voter whose site worries about clean air and water as one of the biggest concerns. among those in attendance, the new interior secretary david bern heart was an oil industry lobbyist. drew griffin has been keeping an eye for months reporting on among other things, allegations he's given preference to former clients for drilling permits. a new report from drew you'll only see on 360 deals with the controversial development in water parks arizona owned by another person connected to secretary burnheart. here is drew's report. >> reporter: the village is a massive housing development being planned in this arizona desert east of tucson but like all development in arizona, water is an issue especially for

wildlife and u.s. fish and wildlife supervisor steve spangled thought before putting in all those homes, golf courses and potentially 70,000 people, government scientists should look carefully how it would impact the nearby san pedro river. >> we wanted them to assess how much water was going to be withdrawn from the aquaphor. >> reporter: the army corps of engineers approved a permit on the site. spangled decided before the new villages could move forward a full scale by logical assessment was needed. that was october 2016 that shows a developer with the trump administration trace wwas able the project forward.

it was seven months into the new administration steve spangled received an unusual phone call. >> it was a solicitor, attorney from washington and she told me that she had gotten a call from a high-level political appointee within the department of the interior who informed her that our position out here in arizona was knot the positito not the p administration. >> the lawyer from the interior department said he needed to reverse his decision on that environmental assessment for the project. >> i felt i had a duty. i have to do what i'm told so i did. i felt pressured to reverse my decision and in the simplest terms, i was rolled. >> he followed orders, reversed the decision and four months later retired. environmentalists are livid. >> we're supposed to work under the laws and science and science was over ridden here. >> this is the developer. mike ingram is part owner of the

arizona diamondbacks. he donated more than $50,000 to donald trump's political committees. co-chaired a cancelled inauguration fundraiser that promised half million dollar donors a hunting trip with donald trump junior and eric trump and private reception with the president. he's connected to interior secretary david burnheart too and club foundation, a group he once represented and since donald trump became president ingram enjoyed easy access to trump administration decision makers who oversee his interest. scheduled obtained by cnn show at least 11 meetings, phone calls or emails with top administration officials including scott pruit who was secretary of the interior. and cnn has learned that in august of 2017 mike ingram met up with his old lobbyist friend and then deputy interior

secretary david burnheart, the first of at least five meetings with him. this secret meeting not on any public calendar was a private breakfast held at his hunting lodge in montana. just weeks later he got the unusual call from washington and the villages was on track again. a lawsuit by environmentalist filed this year has the project on hold. ingram will not talk to cnn. he has hired one of washington's most powerful lawyers to speak on his behalf lanny davis. >> he's close to trump, there must be political unfle wednesday. -- >> this guy has unprecedented access to david burnheart on august 18th, 2017 he invites him

for breakbreakfast, isn't that ? >> yes, that's right. >> at his hunting lodge. >> yes. >> shortly after that the phone call is made telling him we want you to change your decision. >> and you now have done an incomplete narrative of the facts so let's do the rest of the victims, plea facts so let. >> fish and wildlife service looked into it and found no evidence his reversal was unjustified. it's all in a new official letter handed to cnn by lanny davis just days after cnn first reached out to ingram for comment on this story. >> cnn calls and suddenly there is a brand new letter that comes out and reaffirms that everything is okay and by the way, in that letter, nobody from washington had anything to do with this. i mean, mr. davis, with all due respect, that sounds like a slick move. >> so if you're discussing it

and fog i agree. if you focus on facts, the facts are the army corps of engineer made a decision on the facts under the law. >> did you have anything to do with that letter? >> no. >> did mr. ingram? >> no, i would say on camera sometimes bad luck happens to me when i'm working for a client. in this case it was pure luck that i read this letter just before the cnn interview and i said there is a god in heaven. >> drew, this just seems like another long line of possible favors being granted by the interior department to david burnheart's clients or friends. >> we sent a list of questions to this to the department of interior and secretary david burnheart. he snubbed us before for this story. we got a one-sentence reply saying the fish and wild service looked at this. that may be okay to blow us off but congress is demanding answers and the house committee

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going to be trying to raise money from huge donorins at thi stage, she's doing town hall after town hall. >> and that's fair. bernie sanders makes a similar case. i think his average donor was $18. that's good. it changes the influence of pacs and superpacs. but at the end of the day it's still money and they find, you know -- it's so true that the problem is legal money, not illegal money. and as long as that's in there, that's what the game is going to be about. i don't mean to be a cynic, but it's a reality. >> the time that they spend fund-raising, is everything. >> one of the things with biden now, we're going to take a look at them tonight and get into jeffrey epstein as well. >> chris, thanks very much. see you in a few minutes. what did president reagan really think of citizen trump.

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time now for the ridiculist. president trump, a fake quote and someone more popular than him. happy monday, america. the president was up this morning getting into some quality executive time, watching the shows and as any thoughtful leader, focused on the big

picture. i was kidding about that last part. he was retweeting compliments about himself. what that caught his eye was something posted by the reagan battalion. it doesn't appear to be associated with the reagan foundation or the library. it shows citizen trump shaking president reagan's hand which did happen, but it has a quote that's attributed to ronald reagan. for the life of me, and i'll never know how to explain it, i felt like i was the one shaking hands with the president. again, president reagan never said that. the man stood up to the soviet union. anyway, don't take my word for it. the pulitzer prize winning website has raided the alleged quote as pants on fire. and they don't mean it in a good

way, those are some hot, hot pants. no, they mean it like, oh, wow, that is a big 400-pound lie rotting in someone's basement. they cite a top officer saying president reagan did not ever say that about donald trump. so the sitting president is spreading fake content on line. like i said, it's monday. the part i don't understand is the one word, the president added to his retweet. cute. that's the best the president could do. we all know the extent and pof his vocabulary. >> i have the best words. >> yeah, the best words. cute? cute is how an great aunt replies to an email that's part read. it's like wolf blitzer in daisy

dukes on roller blades. cute is not a phony quote from t reagan. all i can say, is that is cute, very cute, on the ridiculist. and the news continues with chris. chris? >> thank you for that image of wolf which i will never get out of my head. i'm chris cuomo. welcome to "prime time." joe biden got a wakeup call in the first debate. how will the former vp respond? you're about to see as we show you new parts from our exclusive sit-down. and the multimillionaire with connections to princes and presidents. that man is jeffrey epstein and he had quietly beaten the case against him until now. he's back behind