epstein's name kept coming up. the more that i read about it, the more i thought, you know, this is somethinghat i don't understand and i'm s surea lot of people don't understand how in a state that has a high rate of sex trafficking, how does someone who has trafficked all ofofhese g girls -- these we young high school, middle school girls -- over quite a long period of time, how do someone like that get away with it? at the time that this happened, alex acosta, the us attorney in miami, was going headstrong inio prosecuting people who were purveyors of child pornography, sending them to prison for decades. and here is a man who had trafficked a number, some estimates as many as hundreds of girls, and he gets away with just serving 13 month jail term, really, in a very cozy area of the county jail where he was allowed to leave most of the day on work release? amy: explain who jeffrey epstein is. and about his rise to power who his associates are, leading right up to the president --two president of the united stat

is with san francisco's republican partysot howard epstein/s.f. republican party :56i think once she gets on the natonal stage she will be too liberal for the majority of the countrybut harris's record speaks for itself says brownsotkamala harris has a platform b uilt on humans rights equal justice advocacy for peopel in need, all of those things resonate well with people across the nation, and just the fact you came from left wing liberal califrnia , if what you are talking about represents what people care about hte left wing location wont hurt you. standup dan kerman/sf 1:45 harris' formal campaign kickoff scheduled for sunday at noon outside oakland city hall. in san francisco, dan kerman kron 4 news. ( robin ) our coverage of senator kamala harris' bid for the presidency continues at kron-4 dot com. there you can find out about her campaign theme. her record as a prosecutor and attorney general... and her path to public office. it's all at kron-4 dot com ( robin ) harris' announcement came on the same day as thousands of people across the nat

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a deal was sealed so no one could know the full scope of epstein's crimes. the fact that they crafted this for a child rapist enrages moms and dads everywhere. on this particular case, will you commit to making sure that there's a full and thorough investigation into the way doj handled the epstein case? >> senator, i have to recuse myself from kirkland and ellis matters. i think kirkland and ellis was maybe involved in that case. i need to sort out what my role can be. i will say that if i'm confirmed, i will make sure your questions are answered on this case. >> thank you. the deputy attorney general -- there have been media reports about the timing of his potential departure post your confirmation and the dag as you know from your prior history has a key responsibility in deconflicting different parts of the department. those of us pressing have found in different parts of the department anxiety about the way it was handled and yet a hot potato of people thinking they are not responsible. rod rosenstein has been helping trying to deconflict some of that.

is with san francisco's republican partysot howard epstein/s.f.epublican party :56i think once she gets on the natonal stage she will be too liberal for the majority of the countrybut harris's record speaks for itself says brownsotkamala harris has a platform b uilt on humans rights equal justice advocacy for peopel in need, all of those things resonate well with people across the nation, and just the fact you came from left wing liberal califrnia , if what you are talking about represents what people care about hte left wing location wont hurt you. standup dan kerman/sf 1:45 harris' formal campaign kickoff scheduled for sunday at noon outside oakland city hall. in san francisco, dan kerman kron 4 news. ( james ) in southern california .... a couple died when a tree fell on their vacation home in san diego. the two- story home was crushed by the tree. the san diego fire department says the man and woman were on the second floor of the home when the tree fell. a third person on the first floor was not injured. neighbors described the impact of the

according to extensive reporting by the "miami herald," billionaire jeffrey epstein recruited, manipulatedlured at least 80 under age girls to his palm beach mansion and sexually abused them. the report also found epstein was giving a shockingly lenient plea deal by the southern district of florida which was headed by alex accosta at the time. all this now leading to calls for accosta to resign from his kw cabinet position. it's a complicated story. joining me is former prosecutor for the southern district of new york, mimi. this is the inspector general for the attorney general, because at the time that this was happening, accosta was an employee of the department of justice. >> exactly. i mean, you have here sort of a perfect storm. the concern is that this is really going to fall through the cracks. accosta now is department of labor, not department of justice. the inspector general of the department of justice is saying, okay, i hear you. this needs to be looked at. and, in fact, he said in his letter -- he used the phrase important considerations, i think is what he said about this pl

ira epstein joining us. thank you. vonnie: let's look at the u.s.tioned oil and we saw some paring in major losses today. 4/10 of a down at percent. the s&p 500 down for tens of 1% and general electric is rallying the laste performance few days. it's up 6.3%. by 2/10 of 1%.ff we will continue to keep an eye on the volatility. this is bloomberg. ♪ berg. ♪ there are 35 minutes left in the european trading day. close onuropean bloomberg markets. >> let's talk about the markets and figure out what is going on. crude has been rallying over the past hour. a 6% swing in wti. equities, degraff points upward at this point. we are getting more traction as we approach the close. we are also seeing money moving out of bonds. time we checked, the german ten-year was at nine basis points. only seven.mber is we are also seeing a slight

is with san francisco's republican partysot howard epstein/s.f. republican party :56i think once she gets on the natonal stage she will be too liberal for the majority of the countrybut harris's record speaks for itself says brownsotkamala harris has a platform b uilt on humans rights equal justice advocacy for peopel in need, all of those things resonate well with people across the nation, and just the fact you came from left wing liberal califrnia , if what you are talking about represents what people care about hte left wing location wont hurt you. standup dan kerman/sf 1:45 harris' formal campaign kickoff scheduled for sunday at noon outside oakland city hall. in san francisco, dan kerman kron 4 news. (pam) our coverage of senator kamala harris' bid for the presidency continues at kron-4 dot com. there you can find out about her campaign theme. her record as a prosecutor and attorney general... and her path to public office. it's all at kron-4 dot com (pam) thousands of people honored rev. of people thousands (pam) comkron-4 dot it's all at of

and they thought she had epstein-barr virus.came to the house, sat down and i said, well, you look pretty. how are you feeling? and she said i just found out i don't have epstein-barr virus. i said great. she says, i have cancer. she said i have ovarian kacance and i need you to help me get through this part of my life. i said what can i do? she said make me laugh. we would send her a show every week and try to make her mind off. i don't know what she returned to when we hung up the phone. i do know she just wanted to be reminded of the future and positive things. we'd go over to her house with her husband gene wilder. on the refrigerator were pictures of me and my wife and his kids. martin short, his wife and his kids, just positive things, the future. and she became a symbol that you can lead a full and productive life even when you have this disease. you know, when she came to us, when we discussed her coming on the garry shandling show, which you see in the documentary, we were walking on the beach and she wanted to be on th

is with francisco's republican partysot howard epstein/s.f. republican party :56i think once she gets on the natonal stage she will be too liberal for the majority of the country record speaks for itself says brownsotkamala harris has a platform b uilt on humans rights equal justice advocacy for peopel in need, all of those things resonate well with people across the nation, and just the fact you came from left wing liberal califrnia , if what you are talking about represents what people care about hte left wing location wont hurt you. standup dan kerman/sf 1:45 harris' formal campaign kickoff scheduled for sunday at noon outside oakland city hall. in san francisco, dan kerman kron 4 news. (ken) our coverage of senator kamala harris' bid for the presidency continues at kron-4 dot com. there you can find out about her campaign theme. her record as a prosecutor and attorney general... and her path to public office. it's all at kron-4 dot com (pam) president trump marked dr. martin luther king junior day with a brief, unannounced visit to the civ

well, you know, the top of the name was jeffrey epstein. and it was -- the case was about ten years old. and then it became -- then right at that moment, acosta, who had handled that case, was actually nominated to be the -- be in president trump's cabinet. and we did a fairly quick turn-around story that highlighted how this story was mis -- you know, this case was mishandled from the beginning. but julie really felt there was more to do there. and i have to say, when julie first came to talk to me about the story, you know, this has been mine so deeply, i wasn't really sure. i said, julie, what more can we really do here, because so much has been written about this over -- you know, the last ten years? and julie said, very emphatically, nobody has ever talked to the victims. nobody has talked to them. nobody has heard from them. we have -- you know, they were shut out of this process, and we've never gone back. and the work that she did to find out who those now women but really young -- you know, teenagers -- some still wearing braces, w

barry epstein is here. barry is a president of one of the ifpt locals and he's from nasa headquarters. barry is a nasa engineer, and what barry does is some of that really complicated stuff. so barry works at nasa's human exploration efforts. so this is, i'm sure, keeping people alive, far more important, i think, than some of the stuff that this president happens to be doing today. barry? mr. epstein: thank you thank you , very much. thank you. i am a proud nasa engineer working to advance human exploration in space to the moon and mars. but let me correct that, i am a proud nasa engineer furloughed from working at nasa headquarters. i speak as a private citizen and as the president of nasa headquarters professional association ifpt local 9, this administration and those who support the shutdown are hurting our democratic institutions and the critical services we provide to citizens and the nation. for example, this shutdown could wind up impacting crew from the international space station. projects that w

. ♪ i should be sleeping >> brian epstein said, if the beatles were going to go, they were going to gon't have $25,000. and so, i borrowed $25,000 on the house. there were no computers, but we sold it out in 3 1/2 hours. >> 17,000 screaming youngsters have jammed their way into the huge amphitheater. but they're the lucky ones. outside, thousands of others were not so fortunate. >> here they are, the beatles! ♪ ♪ let you down, let you down ♪ and leave you flat ♪ i'm going to let you down and leave you flat ♪ ♪ because i told you before ♪ oh, you can't do that >> the beatles' output was phenomenal. they seemed to always be either touring, making a movie or making a record. ♪ no, you can't do that ♪ >> hello. see these little fellows? they're the beatles. inflatable beatles. they're yours for just $2. ♪ the best things in life are free ♪ >> they had posters and magazines and stickers and dolls and cartoons. like this is the start of where the teenager becomes the most desirable target for the dollar. >> i lived in the projects in brooklyn, you know, in a black community, and the beatles

. >> former counsel julian epstein, white house correspondent and deputy assistant secretary over there at the department of homeland security, good to see you tonight. seems like marco rubio made a fair point, you were working for kirstjen neilsen, the president could get what he wants on the wall but it could open a can of worms. >> the president has to be very specific in order to declare a state of national emergency. generally this provision is used for things like over 30, things like sanctions countering foreign powers, most recently his administration did one around foreign actors were securing our election systems. they are more broad, foreign policy, national defense oriented. this would be a unique use for this provision and i agree with marco rubio. i'm concerned it may not be the best president and not sure which statute he will use to make the case that he should have this power. >> there is a political objective, he promised he was going to build the wall, he's facing a recalcitrance congress. does he have to get it done one way or the other? >> the white house looks at t

let's bring in chief counsel of the house judiciary julian epstein and former chief nominations counsel judiciary committee, great to have you both with us tonight. i want to read something from a democrat on the senate judiciary committee, he says the headline is here are the commitments to be attorney general, i will be looking for unequivocal commitments he will respect the independence of the investigation and receive all the resources, not to overrule mueller's decisions about indictment and prosecutions and little on -- not allow anyone including the president did interfere with or curtail the investigation. any issues with that? >> it depends what he means by unequivocal commitments. will not hear the attorney general commit to specific decisions but he will layout broad principles. he said in his prepared testimony, he is -- mueller is a friend of his, someone he respects and supports his work, to come to completion and -- >> and mueller have been friends for 30 years. i want to read his testimony. he's trying to preempt some of the fire he will take tomorrow but he says i belie

. >> plus ufc starting a new deal with a sports powerhouse we'll talk to ufc coo lawrence epstein. >>irst let's check in on the markets. stocks jumping on potential progress in trade negotiations you can see the moves there up over 1% for the dow and the s&p. we're pretty near the session highs, but it's been a solid session throughout and week to date, we're currently up over 2.5% for the s&p and the dow. >> it's the fourth week in a row that stocks are higher they've jumped about 12% from that christmas eve low still off around 9%, 10% from their recent highs the report that's moving the markets today, it has to do with u.s./china trade progress potentially. kayla tausche is back. >> welcome back, kayla >> and she's got more from washington >> thank you so much, guys it's great to be back. it's great to see both of you. i want to put the emphasis here on the word potential. china is proposing more u.s. imports as a potential olive branch for trade talks it's something the white house has mentioned before as a way to mitigate trade issues. this time it comes with a twist. china at th

those on the opposite side of the political spectrum see little chance of harris winning.sot howard epstein/s.f. republican party :44i think he strengths are she's knowledgable, but i think she's too left wing for the vast majority of the people sot willie brown/former s.f. mayor :56never udnerestimate kamala harris she has been a winner each and every time she has sought office.but former san francisco mayor willie brown puts harris at the top of the pack of those democrats already declared, and says california's decision to move it's primary from june to super tuesday in march will also help harris.sotany person who can start with california as their foundation you are ahead of the curve and to do so now that the rules have changed that when you are eligible, califronia is going to be a art of a group of states that will prepsensnt almost the majority of nomination delegates, thats important.standup dan kerman/sf 1:48harris' formal campaign kickoff scheduled for sunday at noon outside oakland city hall. in san francisco, dan kerman kron 4 news. (grant) our coverage of senator kamala harri

. >> but are you going to talk about jeffrey epstein? >> no!e limelight? the donor they had two people die in his house in the last year. >> yes! whatever his name is. >> new rugs are very fancy. you can sweep anything under them. >> brought to you by the new york times! >> i guarantee they'll be nothing where the server in the basement. >> no! that was my great idea! i told hilary we would hide everything! >> you want to make money from home? we all do! >> primaries are coming up, general election coming up. big ones, right? are they going to be part of it? i think this might be a step to try. i do not think it will work. >> no, he setting the stage for his vice presidency. he don't care. >> they become like the kids that were in college was to go to the high school party. you know what i mean? they're not getting laughed at. >> and julie swetnick -- >> she went through a lot of those parties. >> when i was in high school i was not going to high school parties. then again i was 40! >> there is that. >> you guys are too fantastic. we will keep

robert epstein has spent a lot of time looking into this question, senior research psychologist at theral research and technology andit he joins us tonight. thank you very much for coming on. you were the first person i thought of when i read the story because you have done i think the cutting edge research in the effect of search, google search, and other digital platforms on human behavior. political behavior. what kind of effect could this sort of distortion have on an election? >> it would have a devastating effect. as you know, i am not a conservative. >> tucker: i do. >> i love america, i love democracy and i think we should all be rising above our politics here and recognize the extreme danger that we are facing when a company like google can basically censor anything wants to censor. this new set of leaks is extraordinary because it confirms things that i and others have been saying in writing for years. it confirms number one thatrs individual employees at google have the power to manually removeve material, remove contet that we see and they do so often with political ends. n

to air certain commentaries, they have ordered local stations to air interviews conducted by boris epstein former surrogate of the president. >> the president's speech was not persuasive, it was not effective, he is bad at those formats, the polls show it didn't work, by work we mean move public opinion. this is an interesting debate, we are in this era where he lies to us daily so should we broadcast his lies? mark, he also calls networks like nbc enemies. i wonder, you know, does that change the obligation of a network like nbc to cover him differently? >> i don't think news rooms are going to take that much into consideration. journalists are used to being called names a lot and just in the last 48 hours in his tweets and in presidential statements we have heard words like sleaze and hack and that's the new language of washington. i don't think that's going to be so much a factor. i think the standard has to be is there something new here? is there a justification as indira pointed out like when we're going to war, like when the challenger exploded where the country really wants to hear

time for tonight's panel to begin chief counsel for the house judiciary julie epstein and "the wall street journal" fox news contributor jason wiley and hill, sexton, thank you for being with us tonight. thank you, shannon, thank you for having us. >> shannon: you know before the show the allegations broke and we get this very rare public response from the special counsel's office saying that characterization is not accurate but buzzfeed standing by it so where do we go from here? this is a correction of the buzzfeed story. this is an annihilation of it but the reason the buzzfeed story seem to maybe have some key based on what it was reporting was that there were those -- there was supposed to be actual evidence, documents text the special counts had to cooperate these two anonymous sources. special counsel coming out to say, no, that is not actually true is essentially a complete and utter destruction of the basics of the peace. beyond that special counsel to come out and do this, we know that it's very rare. i don't think it has ever happened before. certainly, something that raises a l

let's bring in former chief counsel to the house judiciary democrats, julian epstein and the former chiefate judiciary committee, greg. great to have you both with us tonight. >> thanks for having us. >> shannon: i want to read something from senator chris, democrat who sits on the judiciary committee. an opinion piece today, the headline is here are the commitments he needs to make to be an attorney general. he says i will be looking for unequivocal commitment that he will respect the independence of mueller's investigation, that he will ensure that it receives all of the resources it needs, that he will not overrule mueller's decisions about indictments and prosecutions that he will not allow anyone, including the president, to interfere with or curtail the investigation. if you think you will have any issues with that? he has spoken quite a bit of those issues so far. >> i think it depends on what he means by unequivocal commitment. i don't think you will hear the attorney general past and future attorney general commit to specific decisions that he will make but he will lay out some b

. >> that was when they were saying it was epstein barr or it was just psychological. >> i've gone to, the phone rang. it was my internist. he checked me into the hospital immediately for tests. he said very calmly, we've discovered there is a malignancy. i had been diagnosed with ovarian cancer. >> after she was diagnosed, she responded like i think a lot of people respond and was absolutely convinced that this was the end of her life, and she didn't take calls from me, and she didn't take calls from judy. it was a pretty tough, difficult time. >> last night i had the huge, angry, violent breakdown. why me? why me? i thought i was supposed to be the jester. i end up somehow being the beggar. i feel like some fighter who keeps getting knocked down to the floor. well, this time i'm having a little bit of trouble getting up. i don't know. getting a little beaten up, the old body. trying to find the confidence to stand up and fight some more. but it seems like the gimme, gimme, grabby, grabby gilda doesn't want as much as it used to. used to be i wanted everything, career, husband, baby,

. >> hi, i'm barry epstein from silver spring. from the standpoint of the speaker, what do you think her timing will be as to when she allows him to give the state of the union? >> it's a great question. i'll just say one thing about sort of why it's not happening on tuesday and then i'll let others share their thoughts. at this point there would have been both major logistical challenges to pulling it off between now and tuesday. the underappreciated part of the state of the union is the fact that all the members of congress and cabinet come and is it -- sit on the floor of the house, members of congress bring guests in the gallery. it's a perk that they like to distribute. if the speech is going to happen that's what they want to work too. i don't know what thoughts folks have on when we might see it. >> if it were up to me if i were in pelosi's situation, let's get this government open, let's get this deal. i'm not sure she can wait that long. i don't know what kind of pressures there are. but i think a logical thing would be l

that and every time she would google sex trafficking in florida, the top of the name was jeffrey epstein. the case is 10 years old and then, at that moment, the person who handled the case was nominated to be in trump's cabinet. we did a fairly quick turnaround story that highlighted how the story and case was mishandled from the beginning. there was more to do there and i have to say, when julie first came to talk to me about the story, this is been mine so deeply, i said julie what more can we do because so much has been written about this over the last 10 years and julie said, very emphatically, no one ever talked to the victims. no one has talked to them or heard from them. they were shut out of the process and we've never gone back. the work that she did, to find out who those now women but really young, teenagers, some still in braces were and to compile 60 women, was extraordinary. she was able to reach out to about 60 to 80 victims that identified and we got half a dozen to talk to us. then, she was doing all this work and then the me too movement broke out with this reporting an

if professional misconduct was involved in the handling of epstein's plea deal, potentially dozens of his victims have a right to know. acosta's seemingly unethical decision to drastically reduce the criminal penalties against this vile sexual predator and shield his other co-conspirators is unacceptable. the american people and the victim these horrific crimes deserve to know why justice was not served in this case and the lack of transparency still cloaking it is deeply disturbing. giving the d.o.j.'s inspector general nor explicit and indement power to pull back the cloak of secrecy on acosta's sweetheart deal goes to the heart of transparency and accountable that this office stands for and that this bill would insist upon. thank you, and i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from maryland reserves. mr. cummings: i reserve. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady from north carolina is recognized. ms. foxx: madam speaker, i have no further speakers so i'll continue -- i'll continue to reserve. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from marylan