folks my life would have been different if i never got to jeffrey epstein's house. as just a dark turning point in my life. looks on june 30, 28, jeffrey , hedge of palm beach fund manager, received what might have been the most lenient plea deal for a serial sex offender in u.s. history. the miami herald identified over 60 of his victims. just young girls at the time of the abuse. more than a decade later, several of them are talking for the first time about how they were molested by epstein and believed they were betrayed by the very prosecutors who were supposed to hold epstein accountable. >> they came from fairly different -- disadvantaged backgrounds. there was some dysfunction in their families. waslure of a lot of money more than they were able to resist. >> i went from an abusive situation to being a runaway to living in a foster home to just a hard life on the street. the other r rls that i i pepersonally know ththat went te ming from m trailer parks, hahaving gun shootings, drugs. >> my mother was on drugs at the time. she could not provide for me. i was s

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

. >> 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

look at 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

i would like to look at the november 28 series i know you volumed into the crimes of jeffrey epstein. i want to quote from that. epstein, a wealthy hedge fund manager assembled underage girls with the help of young female recruiters to coerce into having sex acts behind the walls of his waterfront mansion as often as three times a day. the report continues, he was suspected of trafficking minor girls from overseas for sex parties at his other homes. the series continues, in 2007, despite multiple witnesses corroborating the stories, they put together a remarkable deal for epstein. he agreed to plead guilty to two prostitution charges in state court and in exchange, he and his accomplices received immunity from federal sex trafficking charges. his co-conspirators were never prosecuted. 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?

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