epstein. the charges allllege that e epsn sexuxually abused d young girlsy enticing them to engage in sex acts for money. amy: billionaire hedge fund manager jeffrey epstein has been charged in a manhattan federal court with sex trafficking and conspiracy. after the billionaire received a lenient plea deal from alexander acosta, who is now the nation's labor secretary. calls are mounting for acosta across this resignation. plus, we go to brazil to speak w who stillreenwald, under investigation himself and facing death threats for exposing a a massive political scandal involving brazil's justice minister, the f former judge who jailed luiziznacio lula da silva, paving the way for jair bolsonaro's election. commander ofthe the prosecutorial team and walking into court as though he were sitting judging lula's case and others as a neutral arbiter. everything may be a merely denied to the public they were doing, in fact they were doing for yearss as these documents show. amy: we look at the ongogoi

epstein? >> from where i sit, it would have to be something extraordinary. as a general matter, prosecutors don't like to give cooperation agreement to child sex traffickers. for good reason. it's the worst of the worst and would have to be really extraordinary information for them to take that kind of extraordinary step into trying to cooperate. that doesn't mean he won't try or there won't be a discussion, but i would be absolutely shocked in they offered somebody charged with not just a one off case, but the pattern of doing this over years with as they say in the indictment and in the detention memo, dozens of victims in both florida and new york. i would be shock if they offered him a cooperation agreement. >> tim, very thorough statement by bill clinton tonight. if any piece of that proves to be untrue, that would be a big problem, but he's never been to the private island and some accused him of being. donald trump, i can't imagine donald trump issuing a statement with that kind of prec

we want to put epstein away.king about this would allow him to take the argument at trial that their testimony was compromised. when she was finally clear that epstein would comply with the agreement, she talked about how she made efforts to notify the victims. how that was a friday afternoon at 4:15, and that she learned that the state had scheduled the plea for 8:30 the following monday. she talked about how over the weekend she made every effort to notify the victims at that time. >> earlier you described the approach of renegotiating i wanted to draw your attention that did you believe that the evidence against epstein would have been insufficient to make a conviction beyond reasonable doubt? if so, why was a knot in the interest of justice to charge him with these crimes? >> again, i would refer you to the documents i provided. there is a big gulf between sufficient evidence to go to trial and sufficient evidence to be confident in the outcome of that trial. and so if i could come and i will give you a follo

privately with epstein's lawyers. for some reason out of that meeting came an npa, a nonprosecution agreement that basically allowed a guilty plea on lesser state charges. epstein was to serve 13 months in jail and required him to register as a sex offender at acosta's confirmation hearing to be secretary of labor senator tim kaine of virginia pressed him on this nonprosecution agreement. >> there is an allegation that i just read that you did not pursue a federal indictment even though your staff had advocated that you do so, is that accurate? >> that is not accurate. >> federal prosecutors detailed their findings in an 82-page prosecution memo and a 53-page indictment, but epstein was never indicted. then there is a quote, quote, this agreement, the agreement you describe, will not be made part of any public record. >> it is pretty typical in a prosecution for an indictment, a draft indictment, to be written. that doesn't necessarily mean that that draft indictment is filed because that draft indictment does not con

epstein got an ultimatum. plead guilty to a charge is that would require jail time and registration or face federal charges. and that was the week more than ten years ago that epstein went to jail. times have changed and coverage of this case has certainly changed since that article. facts are important and facts are being overlooked. this matter started as a state matter. it was prosecuted initially by the state of florida and not by the u.s. attorney's office. in 2006, a grand jury convened by the state attorney, the district attorney of palm beach count canit county, reviewed the evidence and recommended a single charge that would have resulted in no jail time at all. no registration as a sexual offender. and no restitution to the victim. further, the state attorney's office allowed epstein to self surrender and arraigned him the following morning. simply put, the palm beach state attorney's office was ready to let epstein walk free, no jail time, nothing. prosecutors in my former office found this to be co

epstein got an ultimatum. plead guilty to a charge that would require jail time and registration or face federal charges. that was the week, more than 10 years ago, that epstein went to jail. times have changed and coverage of this case has really changed since that article. facts are important and facts are being overlooked. this matter started as a state matter. it was prosecuted initially by the state of florida and not by the u.s. attorney's office. in 2006, a grand jury convened by the state attorney of palm beach county reviewed the evidence and recommended a single charge. that charge would have resulted in no jail time at all. no registration as a sexual offender. no restitution for the victim. further, the state attorney's office allowed epstein to self surrender and arraigned him the following morning. simply put, the palm beach state attorney's office was ready to let epstein walk free, no jail time, nothing. prosecutors in my former office found this to be completely unacceptable and they became in

or by one of epstein's employees. the underaged girls were initially recruited to provide epstein with massages and often did so nude or partially nude. these massages became increasingly sexual in nature and would typically include one or more sex acts as specified in the indictment. as alleged, epstein also paid certain victims to recruit additional girls to be similarly abused. this allowed epstein to create an ever expanding web of new victims. this conduct as alleged went on for years and it involved dozens of young girls, some as young as 14 years old at the time that they were allegedly abused. as alleged, epstein was well aware that many of his victims were minors and not surprisingly, many of the underaged girls that epstein allegedly victimized were particularly vulnerable to exploitation. the alleged behavior shocks the conscience and while the charged conduct is from a number of years ago, it is still profoundly important to the many alleged victims now young women. they deserve their day in court and we a

a victim in the cases against epstein. yes, i met with opposing counsel. it was a breakfast meeting because i was staying at the hotel. it was after -- after, not before and not part of the negotiations, but it was aft after the agreement had been negotiated and that can be confirmed simply by looking at the date on the agreement and the date on the meeting. >> do you think it was a good idea to do that. >> so the agreement wasn't going to be locked in place, before that agreement, you know, i was very careful to not negotiate this. our career attorneys negotiated the agreement. secondly, i'd point out, we live in a city where people have breakfast meetings all the time. you don't open an office at 7:00 in the morning just to have a meeting. you have it over breakfast. >> it's not standard for a non-prosecution agreement to include a senior -- >> let me do this. don't the young girls -- >> i wanted to give ian an opportunity, i'll come back to you in a minute. >> thank you, sir. >> you mentioned several times that you and

jeffrey epstein at that time.don't know. >> we don't know. >> but he does -- he's not recusing himself because of that. >> well, the thing that's so weird to me is not in isolation that he hired him without, you know, the requisite experience, it's that, you know, sexual predation of this type, it's not something that starts when you're 35 or 45, right? if, you know, that's consistent and holds here and obviously the prosecution yesterday made an eloquent presentation sort of explaining some of this. he probably had some of these behaviors that folks were aware of at the time. the fact you're hiring someone who has no experience and this predation towards teenage girls and is trafficking girls, according to the paperwork filed yesterday. that's what bothers me. it's not hiring an inexperienced person. maybe he had great relationships. people get jobs all the time. it's the fact that he's a predator and you're placing him with potential victims and nobody's stepping in to say, wait, hold up, this person, we need to

epstein went to jail. epstein was incarcerated, he registered as a sex offender. >> reporter: the "miami-herald" in an investigative report helping prompt today's charges found that acosta signed off on a deal essentially shutting down an fbi investigation giving immunity to any potential co-conspirators allowing the multi-millionaire to pay restitution to his victims, register as a sex offender and plead guilty to two state charges. he spent 13 months in palm beach county jail where he was allowed to leave, six days a week, 12 hours at a time. >> the world was put on notice

epstein went to jail. epstein was incarcerated, he registered as a sex offender. >> reporter: the "miami-herald" in an investigative report helping prompt today's charges found that acosta signed off on

epstein had been facing life in prison. no comment from republican senator ben sass but he did say this about epstein. >> this guy victimized dozens, probably scores of little girls and the sentence he got was pathetic and every mom and dad in america, frankly not just moms and dads, but anybody with a heart should be heart broken by what happened to the girls. government ought to be doing a lot more of this, going after bastards like this guy. as a republican or a democrat going to be implicated? every person should stand on the side of the little girls. >> the indictment contains troubling details. more from miguel marquez. >> reporter: there are more sexual allegations again against jeffrey epstein who's been charged with sex trafficking and conspira conspiracy. new york prosecutors, they're looking for more. >> if you are a victim of this man, jeffrey epstein, we want to hear from you. >> reporter: prosecutors allege jeffrey epstein lured 14-year-old girls to his home to massage him. he's pleaded not guilty. in addition

epstein is accused of raping younger girls. the president sending alex acosta before cameras for an hour to defend himself. and acosta performed a audience everyone. he was unapologyist fiercely defending his role in securing the sweetheart deal in 2008 for epstein. >> a state grand jury brought that single, completely unacceptable charge. a state official allowed epstein to self-surrender. i wanted to help him. that is why we intervened. we did what we did because we wanted to see epstein go to jail. he needed to go to jail. there was value to getting a guilty plea. you can always look at a play after the fact and say should it have been the safe play or gone for the big score? >> well acosta certainly went for the safe play. despite authorities having evidence that epstein skauly abused dozens of teenage girls. the deal hammered out resulted in epstein serving 13 months in a county jail. allowed to leave every day six day as week for 12 hours a day. if epstein had been convicted he could have served life behind bars. that was

epstein.past week you've probably seen his name everywhere, newspaper headlines, your twitter feed and obviously the sex offender registry. if you don't know jeffrey epstein, think r. kelly without the melanin or the talent and a lot more organized. >> jeffrey epstein was indicted on charges of sex trafficking involving underranged girls. >> prosecutors say jeffrey epstein created a network of dozens of victims, some as young as 14 whom he sexually abused at his estate in palm beach florida and mangsz in new york city. >> the raid uncovered a sex toy, a life sized female doll hanging from a chandelier and hundreds of lewd photos. bill cosby used to live in a townhouse directly opposite the mansion. ( audience reacts ) >> trevor: i don't know who's writing real life now but the store is insane. first of all, that this hedge fund billionaire got away with running an underage sex ring for years and, secondly, that he lived right across the road from bill cosby. like, i don't know who the neighbor

that's a jeffrey epstein special.g within the trump administration is that we have an alarmingly large number of men who either have been accused credibly or rape, accused of sexual assault, accused of domestic violence, who have found their way into the white house, into the administration where they find protection by the president who has been accused by some 17 women of his own just three weeks ago, we had a credible accusation of rape against our president. i think at this point, we can see the pattern. we understand that these men are not engaged in helping women. they don't care when it's young girls. we saw the republican party stand by roy moore in alabama after it came out he booabused y young girls. i think that told women what we needed to know whether republicans are going to take this seriously. >> acosta isn't accused of this, he's accused of handling the case badly. >> jeffrey epstein basically operated in open sight for a very long time because of men like acosta who were able to help him cover it. >>

donald trump and jeffrey epstein.r the past few weeks, pictures emerged of donald trump and jeffrey epstein hanging out at mar-a-lago. here's them in 1997. here's them in the year 2000. in this later photo, donald trump is alongside melania, who was his girlfriend at the time and would become his wife and a british socialize who stands accused of having recruited the underage girls who were groomed to have sex with epstein. she denied wrongdoing. then the profile from jeffrey epstein in 2002 in which donald trump talks about what great pals they are and how great jeffrey epstein is as a buddy. i have known jeff for 15 years. terrific guy. a lot of fun to be with. he likes beautiful women as much as i do and many are on the younger side. no doubt about it, jeffrey enjoys his social life. golf magazine recounted the time that epstein showed up late for a ride on his plane. a rolodex of his contacts shows no fewer than 15 ways to get in contact with donald trump. 15 different numbers for trump and people who worked for t

epstein got an ultimatum.uilty to a charge that would require jail time and registration, or, face federal charges. and that was the week more than 10 years ago that epstein went to jail. times have changed and coverage of this case has certainly changed since that article. facts are important and facts are being overlooked. this matter started as a state matter. it was prosecuted initially by the state of florida and not by the u.s. attorney's office. in 2006 a grand jury convened by the state attorney, the district attorney of palm beach county, reviewed the evidence, and recommended a single charge. and that charge would have resulted in no jail time at all, no registration as a sexual offender and no restitution to the victim. further, the state attorney's office allowed epstein to self-surrender and arraigned him the following morning. simply put, the palm beach state attorney's office was ready to let epstein walk free, no jail time, nothing. prosecutors in my former office found this to be completely un

jeffrey epstein stayed free. jeffrey epstein could not be held accountable for his alleged crimes toward courtney wild and those dozens of other women like her with that non-prosecution agreement still on the books in florida. in florida. over the weekend, federal prosecutors in new york city busted down the door of jeffrey epstein's manhattan mansion and arrested him at the airport after he landed in his private jet fresh off a vacation in france. this morning, jeffrey epstein was arraigned in federal court on federal sex trafficking charges in the state of new york. in this new indictment, prosecutors allege that between the years of 2002 and 2005, epstein abused dozens of underage girls at his homes in manhattan and in palm beach. the allegations are practically a mirror image of the allegations written up against epstein more than a decade ago in florida, the ones that were shelved by alex acosta. they cover the same period, the same crimes -- kinds of lurid sex crimes against children, but they are new charg

of jeffrey epstein. and she was able to track that down through dogged reporting, following breadcrumbs and eventually getting four to talk on the record to us. and, you know, who knows what has transpired in the ten years where basically after this sweetheart deal took place and now. >> the m.o. that's described in the four on the record conversations that happened, julie brown and folks can look at that at "miami herald," fit squarely with the pattern that is established here. what does it say to you that doj is now doing -- taking another run at this? >> well, what's happened here is doj and all the attention that this case has gotten in the past few years, and credit definitely goes to the press, credit goes to the victims, credit goes to the victims' lawyers for keeping this alive. i think when judge mara came down with that decision in february and said the miami u.s. attorney's office violated the law and did not give the victims the sufficient notice that they are required by law to give them abo

epstein would like to see you. she became familiar with the eccentricities inside his home. >> he had a lot of artwork with nudity and women. very suggestive. we had like a bathtub that was kind of like opened and there were prosthetic breasts that he could play with while he was taking a bath, i guess. it was very odd. >> and the painting that was literally, like, the massage table would be here, and this painting would be right here. and it was like a very pretty naked woman. he used to always say that i looked like her. >> she said after a few weeks of visits she was escorted to what epstein called his favorite room in the house, the massage room, and things turned physical. >> at that moment, but at the same time i was scared, too, because i didn't know if he would get angry. so i kind of just followed. i would have just my underwear on. because that's how he liked it. and i would just give massages back. and then he would, um, potentially later on turn over and play with you knew you did not want that to happe

epstein in well over a decade and he knows nothing about epstein's, quote, terrible crimes. >>> a plan see drug prices on tv ads nixed by a federal judge was set to take effect today. they vacated the health and human services measure. the judge says the responsibility of tracking down drug prices lies with congress putting the prices in ads was the center piece of a white house effort to bring down drug prices. experts say it could be misleading since most people with insurance pay far less. >>> joe biden says he opposes the medicare for all plan being promoted by many of the democratic rivals. the former democratic vice president is the only one of the four top polling dems who does not support some form of it. it could not co exist. >> i think they think they have the right answer. starting over would be i think a sin. they are saying if you are satisfied with your employer-based hell care, you've got to give it up. look, we provide a medicare option. that's exactly what barack and i talked about in the beginning. >> couldn't get it through though? >> no, we couldn't, but now things

he helped lead the initial investigation into epstein all those years ago. he's critical of that 2008 deal and says that the victims and their families deserve an apology from someone in authority. lester >> stephanie gosk, thank you. as stephanie reported, there are growing calls for alex accosta to resign as labor secretary and tonight president trump is weighing in. nbc's peter alexander has that part of the story from the white house. >> reporter: despite those calls for alex accosta's resignation, tonight president trump is praising him >> i can tell you that for 2 1/2 years he's been just an excellent secretary of labor. he's done a fantastic job. >> reporter: the president says he first met accosta when he nominated him in 2017, years after accosta worked on that controversial plea deal for billionaire jeffrey epstein. now president trump says his administration will examine accosta's handling of that case. >> i feel very badly, actually, for secretary accosta. i know him as somebody who has worked hard and done a good job i feel badly about that situ

did jeffrey epstein rape you? >> yeah, he raped me, forcefully raped me. >> reporter: today acosta was asked if he owed the victims an apology. >> these victims were traumatized. we can't begin to understand what they went through. and they look at this and they say but what? so you always look back and you say what if. >> reporter: acosta's answers did not satisfy those calling for him to step down. >> nothing in secretary acosta's attempt to justify his misconduct changes the verdict. he must go. he must resign. >>> great britain's ambassador to the united states is stepping down. leaked email show him blasting president trump and his administration as clumsy and inept, and that sparked outrage in the white house, as you can imagine. what does this mean for the special relationship between the u.s. and the uk? margaret brennan explains. >> reporter: darroch's resignation came after days of unrelenting criticism by president trump, who said he would no longer work with the british ambassador. in a statement, darr

when epstein didn't go to jail, it was part-time, six days a week epstein was allowed out of jail to go to work, 12 hours a . he slept in the county jail but had days out and about. acosta said to date it was not when he bargained for and that's not what he expected. but it is what happened. in addition, the agreement kept secret the details of the allegation that epstein abused dozens of girls in his palm beach mansion and alleged victims never got their say. prosecutors did not even notify them of the plea agreement. this week prosecutors in new york charged epstein with running a sex trafficking ring, a vast network, said the indictment, accusing him of sexually abusing dozens of teenage victims and paying them to recruit other children. among the evidence, a stash of photos of nude underage girls. epstein pleaded not guilty and stay a new accuser came forward, a woman not named in the indictment. her name is jennifer. she told savannah guthrie that epstein raped her when she was 15 years old. >> i was terrified i was telling him to please stop. he did not stop. he had no intentio

his name is jeffrey epstein. he's right now sitting behind bars in new york as he was picked up over the weekend when he landed back in the states on his private jet. federal prosecutors are any moment expected to lay out the case they say they have against him. but the indictment that's been released already gives us an idea. victims as young as 14 years old, abused for years and even paid to recruit earth underage victims. the indictment detailing, quote, that epstein created a vast network of underage victims for him to sexually exploit in locations including new york and palm beach. that is from the indictment. epstein evaded similar charges a decade ago that focused only in florida. he avoided serious jail time, thanks to a secret plea deal then that he secured with federal prosecutors. here is the kicker on that one. the lead federal prosecutor who negotiated that deal, president trump's current labor secretary, alexander acosta. cnn is in the room where this press conference is about to begin. national cor

epstein & company. he takes about half a million dollars from a pinball ceo and the guy asked for it back years later and epstein gives him a $10,000 check and says that was for a horse i sold him and he sued over it. from there, epstein gets involved in a ponzi scheme called towers financial corporation. epstein is very intelligent. he -- they took over an insurance company in illinois. they turned them into brokerage accounts to manipulate the price of pan am, the airline stock. and then the lockerbie, scotland, thing happened, the bombing. so that deal went through and epstein was bouncing around trying to get money from people. he was recovering money for wealthy people who had, like, lawyers steal money from them. and then he meets wexner -- >> the founder of victoria's secret. >> the founder of victoria's secret. and he mays a management role a little bit in victoria's secret. some people have surmised that maybe he's responsible for influencing the company to make provocative clothing for young c

and epstein becomes a marcor for trump here. and trump's inability to fire acosta in the face of the way he conducted this investigation is something that i think looked very personal to trump. it's impossible to separate the two. >> go ahead. >> i think we should be clear one of them is an industrial scale pedophile and sex trafficker, just a distinction. but with acosta, the thing that really a lot of people will be horrified about today is sort of like the world has changed almost as if it was like trying to align this with the me too movement. this was sex trafficking and pedophilia at an industrial scale. i just feel like this is sort of being glossed over. the next step for this reporting, "the miami herald" did god's work here bringing this back, because there was a mischarge of justice under acosta, and the next step for reporters is to carefully and methodically and meticulously unmask every last person who covered for him, who enabled epstein, who allowed this to happen, who knew about it and there should be a lot of p

revelation comes a day after epstein's lawyers argue that epstein was entitled to bail and request that he be released into home detention. for more i am joined by nbc correspondent tom winter. tom, i know you have been working the phones and trying to figure out exactly what is going on here. take us through here. two possible coconspirators within days of the "miami herald" writing this story that kicked all of this back into the news in the last year or so. they're saying prosecutors that epstein swung into action and cut some big checks. >> yeah, what's important about this, how do we know they're possible co-conspirators? they're identified in the filing tonight, and they'veee bnt that jeffrey epstein was able to get as a result of alex acosta. he authorized that nonprosecution agreement. the two possible co-conspirators were identified within in there. and between the two of them, within five days of the "miami herald" articles coming out, they received $350,000. one received a $100,000 payment. the other got a $250,000 payment. what's interesting to me, within the filing tonight,

she says epstein raped her when she was in high school. if you have young children in the room, some of the descriptionsre a graphic. >> reporter: in 2001, je nnifer arose was 14 years old, a freshman at this new york high school when she says a woman approached her outside. the first time she brought up the nameje rey epstein, how did she describe him to you? >> he was just a great guy. she was saying he helped me, i struggled. she was similar to >> reporter: when you think of her now, you use thephrase, he said the recruiter. you felt like she was looking for someone. >> for sure. >> she says weeks later the recruiter brought her to epstein's townhouse. she said she and epstein talked, drank wine. she was given $300 the secretary. after a few weeks of visits, arose says she went alone to his m massage roo where he pressured her into giving him a massage. >> at the same time i wascared. i kind of just followed. i would have just my underwear on because that's how he liked it. and i would just give massages and then he would potentially la

or by one of epstein's employees. the alleged behavior shocks the conscience and while the charge conduct is from a number of years ago, it is still profoundly important to the many alleged victims now young women. they deserve their day in court. >> epstein is now behind bars. he has a bail hearing on monday. if it's up to the feds, he will not see the light of day. he was arrested when his private jet landed here saturday night after a flight from paris. his home was raided by the feds at the same time. he's had ties to several powerful figures as you can see here and once counted donald trump among his friends. here is how new york magazine quoted trump for its profile of epstein back in 2002. quote, i've known jeff for 15 years, terrific guy trump booms from a speaker phone. he's a lot of fun to be with, it is even said he likes beautiful women as much as i do and many of them are on the younger side. no doubt about it, jeffrey enjoys his social life. epstein owns a $56 million give or take mansion on the upper ea

epstein got an ultimatum. plead guilty to a charge that would require jail time and registration or face federal charges. and that was the week more than 10 years ago that epstein went to jail. >> after alex acosta's press conference in which he blamed the very forgiving deal he made with jeffrey epstein on the local palm beach prosecutor, barry krisher who gave this statement. i can emphatically state that his recollection of this matter is completely wrong. the u.s. attorney's office produced a 53-page indictment that was abandoned after secret negotiations between mr. epstein's lawyers and mr. acosta. the state attorney's office was not a part to those meetings and negotiations and definitely had no part in the federal non-prosecution agreement and the unusual confidentiality arrangement that kept everything hidden from the victims no matter how my office resolved the state charges. the u.s. attorney's office always had the ability to file its own federal charges. mr. acosta should not be allowed to rewrite

epstein pleaded guilty to. in 2002, 2003, president clinton took four trips on jeffrey epstein's airplane, one to europe, asian, two to africa, which included stops in connection with with the wothe clinton foundation. the wording of the statement in question, he took four trips but people say there were many more flights involved within those trips, and this is just the tip of it in terms of who epstein was running around with. >> i think the core of this is that he ran in circles of powerful people regardless of their party affiliation. ig it w i thought it was interesting to see the u.s. attorney and how florida handled the case years ago as well. secretary acosta thus far has been very defensive, with regards to how he handled the case, then said that he dealt with it, in thhis view, appropriately. it is interesting to see the connections not only to bill clinton, but obviously to president trump as well. the quotes we have seen president trump give about jeffrey epstein, supporting him, and being a friend

the crimes committed by epstein are horrific. with the evidence available more than a decade ago, federal prosecutors insisted that epstein go to jail, register as a sex offender. now that new evidence and additional testimony is available, the new york prosecution offers an important opportunity to more fully bring him to justice. >>> but an attorney who says he struck financial settlements with epstein for three alleged victims holds accosta personally responsible for what he calls an awful deal. >> mr.saccosta' office categorically kept us in the dark. they failed to inform any of my clients what deal that they werg attemp to cut. >> reporter: his clients, he said, felt they were taken advantage of twice. by a predator and a broken system. >> so, stephanie, this deal has been widely criticized by democratss as wellstein's accusers. is anybody else speaking about? >> yeah, there is. we spoke to the former police chief inal pbeach. he helped lead the initial investigation into epstein all those years ago. he's critical of that 2

you saw what he said about epstein. back in 2002, when he was talking about epstein to "new york magazine" in a profile, the president said that epstein was a terrific guy and "like me," the president, "he likes beautiful women, some of them on the younger side." we don't know if back then president trump knew just how much on the underside. but now the president is stepping forward to at least defend in the near term is labor secretary. though we don't know how long that is going to last. listen to with the president said about acosta. >> i feel very badly for secretary acosta because i know him as somebody who works so hard and has done such a good job. i feel very badly about that whole situation. but we will be looking at that and looking at it very closely. >> that is the key part of that phrase. clearly the president is standing by his labor secretary for the moment, but he says, "we are going to look at all of this very closely." in the past, on several occasions when the president has looked at something very cl

epstein. listen to how he described their dispute without actually going into the details of it. >> andy have a falling out a long time ago. the reason doesn't make any difference, frankly, but i haven't spoken to him in frob y probably 15 years or more. i wasn't a big fan of jeffrey epstein, that i can tell you. and now if you look the remnants hurt this man and i hate to see it happen. he was very well known in palm beach the his island, whatever his island is, wherever it is, i was never there. find out the people that went to the island. but, jeffrey epstein was not somebody that i respected. i threw him out. >> so, craig, acosta will lose his position at the end of next week. he said he'd stay on for another seven days. they have a develop that they are saying is going to be the acting director. that makes three acting direct towards. and the president ges on oes on talk about the economy, ohio, wisconsin. a wide-ranging discussion. take shots at paul ryan, weighing in on iran, trying to

epstein."he magazine's editor at the time, graydon carter, cut out the testimonies of two young women epstein allegedly molested who had spoken to ward on the record. ward wrote about what happened with her epstein reporting for the daily beast in an article headlined, "i tried to warn you about sleazy billionaire jeffrey epstein in 2003." welcome back to democracy now! great to have you with us. for people who do not understand who this man is, he is referred to as billionaire hedge fund manager jeffrey epstein. who is he and what do you believe he is being charged with right now, with the indictment about to be open? is a hedgethink he fund manager. he is certainly very wealthy.. there is great mystery as to how he actually made his money. advises people that he -- he takes a percentage and advises billionaires only. you won't take anywhere poor than a billionaire. he takes a cut, which adds up to a lot of money. when i investigated him in 2002, really turned out to be untrue -- what was inte

and trump indeed does have some skeletons in his closet when it comes to the epstein case epstein visited mara largo however according to the attorney who represents one of epstein's victims trump threw him out after he started making passes at underage girls on the property furthermore trump seems to be the only prominent individual actually cooperated with the investigation into epstein's crimes trump is the only person who picked up the phone and said let's just to give you as much time as you want we will need to know it was very helpful so that does not put trump in the clear he certainly was familiar with the sexual predator however so was bill clinton the former president actually took 27 different flights on jeffrey epstein's private airplanes some of them without being accompanied by secret service and there are rumors circulating that there were underage girls on the plane clinton had his secret service with him and many times he did not almost every time that clinton's name is on the pilot logs there are underage girls there are initials and there are names of many many girls o

epstein pleaded not guilty.pstein and a friend were running a vas network of urgedage girl for sex some a -s- under age girls for sex under 18. they knew they were under 18. i'm so glad we hav two attorneys and phil rucker. president trump was watching the. what did take away and why did epstein end up resigning? excuse me, whyid acosta resign? >> the performance was not the kind of performance we' use to from people when they're trying to please the president. he lacked he lacked indignation. you'll remember when brett i kavanaug his confirmation hearings for the supreme court defended himself, he did so with a lot of vigor and passion and indignation and anger and trump really liked that.ru i think wasn't sure what to make of acosta's performance. started askingt around and f forward to friday and acosta's out. robert: he alsoid not apologize to the victims, jerry? >> i think the way t victi were treated may have been the biggest part of it, at least the public relations problem even the legal problem not tell

epstein went to jail. epstein was incarcerated. he registered as a sex offender, the world was put on notice that he was a sex offender, and the victims received restitution. >> 13 months in county jail, 12 hours a day, work release, you consider that justice for the desecration of these girls. >> all right. now, a current representative of the didn't jeffrey berman had this to say yesterday. >> it alleges that he was on the justice department's radar in 2008 when costa, now secretary of labor broke a state plea bargain. why is there no accounting for -- at the time and new information -- >> i'm not going into any dealings with the main justice, nor am i going to go into any aspects of how our investigation originated. i will say we were assisted from excellent journalism. >> joining us, danny sell valle valleva cevallos. >> that complete nonanswer. hey, what do you have to say about the doj beforehand. the indictment alleges two counts, one for sex trafficking and one for conspiracy . this was a subject of a nonprosecution says th