com coming up sean stoll delves into the world of human trafficking and a new twist of the geoffrey epstein saga with conchita sarma executive director of alliance to rescue victims of the states to watch. kids are. running teams. does saddam hussein don't tell you that means i can do it on jellyfish dealing with this thing i'm done was wrong in that are equal distances wasn't what he calls a stale snake going on in jindo moistening because i don't he doesn't sit on him to . deal with that to those off putting in a society as a pseudo so to us it all took the sitting on. what politicians to do something to. put themselves on the line. to get accepted or rejected. so when one of the first injury. or something wanted to preach. that you'd like to be first to see what the before report can't be a good fit i'm interested always in the laws and. there should be. when a loved one is murder it's natural to seek the death penalty for the murder i would prefer it be in the death penalty just because i think that's the fair think the right thing research shows that for every nine executions one convi

mr epstein such a lenient deal given the number of crimes that he committed against underage girls in palm beach and elsewhere and at that time back in two thousand and eleven. mr acosta who was at the time the dean of the florida. law school university law school of florida university in miami florida stated that he was quote assaulted by mr epstein. defense team and as you know mr epstein hired a barrage of superstar attorneys including alan dershowitz roy bloch kenneth starr gerald lefcourt and many others several others and the team of attorneys negotiated his plea deal here in washington d.c. they negotiated at the time we're talking two thousand and seven. with the department of justice and so according to mr acosta our labor secretary acosta. the penalties that the prosecution that the united states attorney's office wanted to hand mr epstein . were in fact disallowed by the department of justice in washington now it has been it has recently resurfaced and the f.b.i. have released files eight i believe in total containing hundreds of documents many of them of course redacted mo

the penalties that the prosecution that the united states attorney's office wanted to hand mr epstein . were in fact disallowed by the department of justice in washington now it has been it has recently resurfaced and the f.b.i. have released files eight i believe in total containing hundreds of documents many of them of course redacted most of them redacted. and many of them containing clippings stating how this case developed well i think you know in order to have a pictorial view an image of this case statutory rape as you know carries a sentence a minimum sentence of six to seven years in the state of florida there was a law that was passed even though it was inactive in two thousand and five that is the year mr epstein is arrested for the crime sexual crimes with minors and it's called jessica's law under this law the penalty for rape with a minor is ten years mr epstein only served thirteen months in a palm beach county jail. and then eighteen months of house arrest while he was in the palm beach county jail he was on a work release program which means that he left his private c

republican leader howard epstein believes it is needed. >> we have to stop the tide of people coming in illegally. if they know that is going to happen, less people will be coming. >> reporter: president trump continues to blame lawmakers on the other side of the aisle. >> the united states will not be a migrant camp and a refugee holding facility. >> he does appear to use this issue as a bargaining chip in trying to get his wall which is not going to play well. >> i think it is one of the negotiating tools, certainly. >> well, epstein believes the trip to the detention facility is nothing more than a photo op. in the news room, carolyn tyler, abc7 news. >>> all senate democrats are signed on to cosponsor senator dianne feinstein's bill. to halt separation. it prohibits children from being separated from their parents within 100 miles of their border. the bill has no support from senate republicans. >> you can find more details about the family separation controversy on our website abc7news.com. >>> a man suffered from hypothermia after being rescued from the water while sailing. res

let's bring in bloomberg news' jennifer epstein from the border.order help in any way in ending this crisis? what is happening? notrter: so far we have gotten any sense of a significant number of families that have been reunited just since the order last wednesday. so far, all of the data that has come from the department of homeland security and department of health and human services has to do with the beginning half of last week. we really just have no idea. they said that 500 children who were in the custody of border patrol, which means they had been picked up pretty early on, were reunited with their parents. there is nothing about all these kids in the various shelters, like the one in the former walmart. we have no idea if any of those reunited.as been the administration has not been answering questions. they had a facility they are texasng to use in east near south padre island called port isabel. they think that is going to be a central point for organizing the reunification of families, but they really have not said what is going to happ

the consumers of it are not assuming that boris epstein is connected to the trump campaign and in many ways that could be their first exposure to scott pruitt or their most significant exposure to his long history of scandals. that's why it's so insidious and damaging. >> dan as a former person who worked in this space in the obama administration what, goes through your mind when you read about pruitt. >> i wish i could say it was prizing when the $1500 fountain pens but it's par for the course. a.p. reporters were kicked out of a safe drinking water summit while the pay raises mentioned in the story were given to employees who were supposed to be experts in the field positions given to the epa as part of the safe water drinking act and instead used to give $30,000, $40,000 raises for his folks from oklahoma because he wants to the reward his political people to help him advance his career. it's troubling when flint drinking water is still not safe now. >> to the dan's point, there's another foy yao request that unearthed 12 silver fountain pens that came in at the low low price of $1,

but san francisco republican leader howard epstein says it's a price that needs to be paid. >> it's unfortunate, but it's necessary to -- we have to stop the tide of people coming in illegally. if they know that's going to happen, less people will be coming. >> reporter: he disagrees. he says people will find a way to come to the u.s. if it means safety for their children and families. >> there are people who are fleeing who were witnesses of murders. there are people who are fleeing who were victims of extreme domestic violence. >> reporter: and outrage is only continuing to grow. bishop mcgraw's letter is just the most recent of dozens from religious leaders and religious groups asking the trump administration to change its policy. i'm live in san jose tonight, amanda del castillo, abc7 news. >> amanda, thank you. you can find more detail on the our website on abc7news.com. we have an in-depth explanation of the policy. >> in recent news, police made arrests in attacks. they recognized the suspect from this surveillance. he kicks a homeless man in the tenderloin. he has been charged with aggr

former first lady laura bush calls it cruel, but san francisco republican leader howard epstein believes the forced separation is a necessary evil. >> i really wish there was another way to do this, but it's necessary. you can't keep having people come into the country illegally. >> reporter: president trump continues to blame lawmakers on the other side of the aisle, tweeting, "it is the democrats' fall for being weak and ineffective with border security and crime." >> he does appear to use this issue as a bargaining chip in trying to get his wall, which is not going to play well. >> reporter: spear hopes the congressional trip to the border will shine a spotlight, compelling the president to revoke the policy. >> i think it's a great anti-trump border wall for them. and nothing's going to come of it. >> reporter: spears' trip is scheduled for friday. in the newsroom, carolyn tyler, abc7 news. >>> carolyn, thank so much. >>> we are asking if you agree with the family separation policy. weigh in on abc7news.com/vote. watch your vote count live on the bottom of your screen. they are comin

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lena epstein is a business woman and a trump supporter.he 11th congressional district in michigan. she was scheduled to hold her fundraiser this week at her country club. the franklin hills country club. the venue suddenly cancelled her event on friday citing her political beliefs and saying they will no longer hold political events. epstein says that previously the club hosted a fundraiser for the democrat that is vying for the same seat. they just wouldn't let her, the republican do it. joining us now to tell us the story is congressional candidate lena epstein. lena, thank you for joining us. >> good morning, ainsley. ainsley: tell us what happened. >> we have had a fundraiser planned at franklin hills for two months, at least i'm a fourth generation member. the country club has a history of hosting fundraisers for republicans and democrats. they hosted a fundraiser a month ago for the candidate in the same race. i was called and told the board of directors was canceling the fundraiser. i was president trump's statewide co-chair in 2016

. >> there is this one interview where this guy said he voted for that guy epstein pretty didn't even know his name. he knew he was jewish but he didn't know his name. they talked about some of the rallies how he would be up there speaking to the crowd and people in the crowd would be yelling you tell him and things like that. it was pretty obvious what was going on. >> that continued for a while. they were called council wars. >> it was really the leader trying to make the whole split of the city's counsel as a result of the integral speech that harold was essentially going to put them on the shelf as democrat. it was just r an excuse. was really the fact that this was a black mayor and they do notot want to follow him and they started this and put together the 29 white members of the city council. there were several white that stuck with him as part of the 21, but for the most part the ethnic were in opposition to him until we won a court case and the redistricting that was icracially biased and that gave us additional special elections and we were able to get to 2525 and he had the

team's outcome coming up sean stoll in the world of human trafficking and a new twist in the jeffrey epstein saga with conchita sarnoff executive director of alliance to rescue victims of trafficking will stay to the bottom of.

you have rows epstein, a man who is trying to -- under oath, trying to tell it like it is.become politicized and a lightning rod for reasons he did not desire. on the other side congressmen being bullies and hypotheticals. trey gowdy has done good things and difficult things. but saying get the damn thing over with when benghazi took two and a half years. it is situational ethics. it shows that is not what this is about. >> it seems that it is systematically debunked, a lot of the charges you heard. or at least tried to debunk them. this has gone on too long. rod rosenstein basically said it will go on as long as it has to. the idea that perhaps he has a conflict of interest, rod rosenstein said, believe me, if i could, i would. i would like nothing more than to not be doing this. and the idea that he is hiding something from congressional investigators. he said i'm not the one redacting here. we have given you thousands and thousands of documents. this is the way it works. >> rod rosenstein did take the gloves off and calmly kept shooting down each of these points. they ar

henry epstein still found against me, and found the driver did nothing wrong. he was not going to let me make a statement until i had to specifically request it and during that statement, even after agreeing not to interrupt me, he did interrupt me during the statement and was speaking over me multiple times. i have to recorded an would love to show this to mod staff, to talk about the incident in more detail. lastly, there was a union representative there, both the driver and the union representative were much nicer to me than the neutral hearing officer. and i've been askingta if ther is a way to have a disability representative. because i think having a disability representative that is not affiliated with sfmta is an important part of disability people having a voice and help in the meetings. even with my cognitive ability, it was still difficult, so i worry about people making ada complaints that do not have the abilito speak as clearly or have cognitive of mental health disabilities, because that was very, very difficult for me. thank you for your time. >

some, there was this one interview where this guy, white chicagoan, says he's voting for that guy epstein. [laughter] he didn't even know his name. he knew he was jewish, he didn't know his name, but he knew he was voting for the white guy. >> the talked about epton would be speaking to the controlled, and people in the would be yelling, " you tell 'em, jew boy." it was pretty obvious what was going on. >> and that continued for a while, i mean, into what was called council wars, right? want to talk about sort of what that time was like. it was really -- >> well, you know, it was really the racism that existed, but the leader tried to make it the whole split of the city council into 29-21 as a result of harold's inaugural speech, that harold was going to essentially put them on the shelf as democrats. and he called it the cabal -- >> right. >> -- of -- [inaudible] >> right. >> but, you know, it was just an excuse. it was really the fact that, you know, this was a black mayor. they did not want to follow him, and, you know, they started this council war. ed verdoliak put together the 29 wh

with a napkin over his head after he mentioned reporters he thinks special counsel robert mueller epsteinying to frame the president. he stopped by for a dance party anytime at fox news at night. time for where in the world, to do more americans evacuated from the us consulate as mystery builds over american workers developing ailments after hearing strange sounds in at least two apartment complexes. state differences workers developed symptoms consistent with american personnel in cuba have experienced. in a statement, heather howard said this was as a result of the screening process the department has sent a number of individuals for further evaluation and encumbrance of assessment of their symptoms in the us. protests continue for a seventh straight day in jordan is workers from several of the country's trade unions took part in a strike to protest a plant tax increase. they have seen many protest with thousands calling the government to strap a tax plan, restore subsidies for bread, lower fuel prices and combat corruption. queen elizabeth joined the top honors on campanile, a former s

that is jennifer epstein.aking news now, canada is said to prepare steel quotas and tariffs on china and other countries. it is a knock on effect from the aluminum and steel tariffs imposed by the united states, -- they are concerned e.u. is considering similar measures as far as tariffs and quotas as a direct result of the u.s. steel tariffs. lisa: the steel tariffs are set to kick in on july 1. david: that explains the timing. lisa: from new york, this is bloomberg. ♪ ♪ this is "bloomberg markets: balance of power." i am david westin. lisa: i am lisa abramowicz. a felon the first to take a chance on a then president donald trump. here with more on what we are to expect, we are joined by jeanne zaino. thank you so much for being here. let's start with how much these primaries matter with respect to what we can glean from the midterm elections, and whether the republicans or democrats have the upper hand. jeanne: one of the big questions is of course, will the democrats take the house? they need to pick up 24

. >> reporter: in a "washington post" op-ed georgetown law professor deborah epstein said she was thrilled> the most disappointing thing was that every idea that i brought to the nfl players association, they talked about embracing but ultimately let die. >> reporter: her experience quickly turned deeply frustrating. as recommendations were met with radio silence. the commission she says meeting just three times in the last two years. authorizing a single study and then burying it. >> if we can start to hold football players who are the gladiators of american society, american heroes, if we can start holding them accountable for the violence they perpetrate against women, we will really be effecting change that will trickle down and affect women all over this country. >> reporter: epstein also pointing out teams continue to draft players despite allegations of assault like cincinnati bengals running back joe mixon. >> do you have any regrets at all to anything, joe? >> no. >> reporter: drafted in 2017, three years after this video was released of him punching a coed breaking four bones in

. >> jean epstein. institute contributor. what is your assessment of the literature about sea level rise and the economics of it and the potential ris potential risks? >> it's interesting because it's one of the areas where we have the best data where we know something the happening an the worst projections of what that will look like. the evidence that sea level has risen and continues to rise is very good. what that will look like in se 2100, the gold standard u.n. report, their best estimate is about two feet of sea level rise. in the years since then, 2013, 2014, since then, several states have come out and said that's on the low side because we think we might see more activity in a place like antarctica. then you here people say four, five feet of rise over theory. is estimating thing about the cost is that it doesn't tend to show up much in study. some look at sea level rise and the reason it didn't show up is because it's a one-time cost. if it's hotter, you get this number. you say that happens every year forever. wit

joining us now is julian epstein, former chief counsel, democrat and house judiciary committee.that not spying? >> i agree with everything byron just said. you couldn't g caught up in us a magical thing -- >> tucker: i'm not afraid >>th the debate is. a spy, would people think of a spy, a plant inside a campaign that is getting all kinds of information about the campaign operations. that is not what is happening here. by everyone's admission.at by everybody's admission, what happened here was the use of an fbi confidential informant, which is standard operation procedure in the fbi, once the fbi has evidence that a foreign government is trying to co-opt certain individuals who were part of a campaign, in this case, papadopoulos and carter page. the fbi informant was simply trying to get, once carter page had flown to russia, had bragged in emails -- >> tucker: i'm aware of all of this. he wasn't spying on the campaign. >> this was an effort, for the fbi, to investigate whether or not, based on information -- >> tucker: i understand some people have been compromised, i get it. i

julian epstein joins us tonight.have at least three of the central t figures in this report who are exhibiting political bias that's so flagrant and over the top that i think democrats are even shocked by it, who went on to work for the mueller probe. so you had strzok and have you page and you have this as yet unidentified fbi lawyer, the one who said, and we have the text right here, he wish he had done more to get hillary clinton elected. why should we not be concerned about that? >> we should. and that's outrageous and that's an abuse and that is a big deal and nobody should that.le you should never have, in the course of any criminal investigation, including to elected officials, somebody who has bias against any of the targets. i think it's outrageous and there should be protections put in place. that said, i don't think you should exaggerate the way many people do the significance of that. peter strzok was not the person that was going to be making a decision as to whether hillary clinton's use of email violat

joining us now is julian epstein. democrat on the house judiciary committee.y is that not spying? >> well, i agree with everything byron just said. i think you are getting caught up in a semantical thing. >> tucker: i'm not. >> the debate is getting caught up a spy, when people think of a spy, is a plant inside a campaign that's getting all kinds of information about the campaign operations. that's not what happened here. by everybody's admission. by everybody's admission, what happened here is the use of an fbi confidential informant, which is standard operating procedure in the fbi. once the fbi has evidence that a foreign government is trying to co-opt certain individuals who are -- who are part of a campaign. in this case papadopoulos and carter page. the fbi informant was simply trying to get, once carter page had flown to russia had bragged in emails. >> i'm aware of all of this. he was spying on the campaign. >> this was an effort to -- for the fbi to investigate whether or not based on information they had already gotten whether there is validity. >> t

and apparently brian epstein and cilla black put money into the original company to set it up. carnaby street in the late 1960s, early1970s, it was up. carnaby street in the late 1960s, early 1970s, it was a real change in design. i strongly believe in hell day iconography has a mainstream effect, this was a gay man talking about how they looked so goodin man talking about how they looked so good in the suits —— i strongly believe in how they iconography has a mainstream effect. bianca jagger and twiggy wore these suits, you said he would charge women extra because he could never get on with their breasts. i once got him to design a shirt for me. i wanted a copy of one of those incredibly iconic stripy shirts, he made me one of those shirts with a button down, which i wore to a show with brian wilson committee had asked where i got back shirt. tommy nutter! i must admit that i did not watch this, and i wish that i had... he is unbelievable in this comic you grant. incredibly brilliant. the following documentary that tom mangle did is also great, there's an incredible twist in t

jennifer epstein traveling there to get an idea of what is happening on the ground.he u.s. approach to development finance was passed by the senate foreign relations committee today. now it moves to the senate floor. senator chris coons of delaware is a cosponsor. he talked with bloombergs kevin cirilli on capitol hill. sen. coons: the united states has a development finance entity now. it is called opec. it is 40 years old. compared to our european partners and allies, compared to china, it is significantly undersized in very constrained. tonight, the foreign relations committee on a bipartisan basis with a strong vote moved to the floor of the bill act which will double opec and size, create a new development finance institution, and capabilities so we can compete with the chinese, work in partnership with our european allies to fight poverty and create opportunities for american business. kevin: when i talk to people on wall street and investors, they are trying to get into real markets but they don't know how. how does this help them do that? businesses, but also

i'd like to specifically thank jodi bennet and carolyn and john clark and john epstein and jerry feldman and john creighton green, osca, gary, kirk mcconnell, maggie, bill, john, and my staff director elizabeth king and also wish her a happy birthday. i'd like to thank the floor staff. they've been exceptionally helpful to us. thank them all on both sides for their insights, for their calmness in the face of difficulties. without this nothing would be possible. but finally, i would like to particularly recognize chairman john mccain after whom this bill is so aptly named. he provided this committee with leadership during difficult times and served as a moral compass when considering challenging issues. he has been a bulwark for the defense of our country and the men and women of our military, and i know he's proud of the passage of this bill. john mccain is probably the most demanding person that i've ever met, but the key to his greatness is that he demands more of himself than anyone else and he gives more of himself than anyone else. and that has made him not only one of our great sen

asked me and nobody bothered about records in those days so bought this from the beatles, from brian epsteinman. he left school at the age of 15. he said in his words he was always chasing the money and everything was a business opportunity. hugely successful in what he did. that business proves to be very difficult. clearly a lot of controversy about gentlemen ‘s clubs and the women that worked in them but he never shied away from dealing with that and he said, look, people still want to go out with friends and what i do is an option. he opened his famous club in london in 1980. as well as the beatles, which you heard. he was often described as outrageous but it was a name that he liked. king of clubs certainly summed up his life. theresa may will meet with senior ministers later in an attempt to resolve tensions over the government's brexit ‘backstop' plan. in the proposal, the uk would match eu tariffs temporarily in order to avoid a hard irish border post—brexit. number 10 had been expected to publish the plans today, but faced resistance from brexit secretary david davis. let's get more