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. and talking 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

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

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

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

a victim in the cases against epstein. and so, 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

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

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

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. 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 compl

jeffrey epstein at that time. we 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 nee

jeffrey epstein at that time. we 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 ba 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

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

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 shortly changed since that article. facts are important and facts are being overlooked. a stateter started as matter. he 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. the palm beach state attorney's office was ready to let epstein walk free, no jail time, nothing. officetors in my former found this to be completely unacceptable and they became involved. our office became in

epstein. over the 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 th

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 luiz inacio 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

donald trump and jeffrey epstein. over 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 f

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

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

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

donald trump and jeffrey epstein. over 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 wrong-doing. 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 f

that's a jeffrey epstein special. what's happening 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

. >> did jeffrey epstein rape you? ef> yeah, he raped me, forcully raped me, knew exactly what he was doing. andnk i don't thi cared. ewhat hurtsven more so is that if i would have come forward sooner, then maybe he wouldn't have done it to other girls. >> nbc news reachedou to epstein's lawyers several times but they have not responded. ss previous discuions with araoz's lawyers, epstein's lawyers challenged her credibility. >> what would you say hat say this is about getting money? >> he hurt me badly. i prefer not to go through that. so, this is one way for me to get justice. >> today lawyers for jennifer araoz told a new york intend to file a civil suit against epstein. >>> next another nbc news exclusi revealing shocking treatment of migrant children at a detention center in arizona including sexual assault and taliation by border patrol agents. e tonight we'rtting the first glimpse inside the government's newest holding center in texas. >> f t the firste since a record surge of migrants at the border, conditions

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

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 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 party 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 rewrit

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

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 $27.00 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 gir

epstein pleaded not guilty. epstein 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 te

she says she and epstein talked, drank wine and she was given $300 by his secretary. after a few weeks of visits, she says she went alone to the massage room where she pressured her into giving him a massage. >> at the same time, i was scared too, so i just followed i would have just my underwear on because that's how he liked it and i would just get massages back, and then he would potentially later on turn over and play with himself. then he would finish himself off, and that would be the end of it. and he would still give me the $300 >> how often do you think you were there >> like once, twice a week my freshman rear. >> reporter: after she turned 15, she says things took a turn. >> you know, just take your underwear off and get on top i said i didn't want to. and he, you know, very forcefully kind of brought me to the table. i just did what i was -- what he told me to do. i was really scared and told him to please stop >> did he? >> no, he did not stop >> reporter: she says she didn't tell anyone immediately about her interactions she says she was too scared to go

epstein's residence, they found photographs. we know that the charges so far are for sex trafficking of minors and conspiracy for a sex trafficking of minors crime. there also, though, as julie points out at the top of the show, they are looking for more victims. what is sdny doing? >> there's going to be various components of this. and you can see it in the shape that we have already seen in the sense that there's a public corruption aspect to this. there's going to be the general crimes against children aspect of this. you know who's going to play a huge role in this is the computer forensic examiners for fbi new york, they're going to come in, the fruits of that search warrant. we already know they found nude photos of apparent minors. by the way, that's huge from a legal perspective, why because when they have a detention hearing which may be scheduled for thursday, and they try to claim he's a flight risk, epstein should be detained pending trial, he may be an active offender. he's still in possession of child pornography.

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 compensation of these girls? >> that was back in april. a current representative of the department of justice u.s. attorney geoffrey berman said this yesterday. >> already on the radar when acosta, now the secretary of labor, brokered a plea deal. >> well -- >> what information did you have -- >> i'm not going in to any dealings with the main justice nor am i going into any aspects of how our investigation originated. i will say that we were assisted from some excellent investigative journalism. >> that's julie brown he is talking about. joining us is dave aronberg and a former prosecutor from new york, berit berger. berit, you worked in the state of new york in the southern district there. what did you make of what you heard yesterday in contrast with the deal that was

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,

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

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, there is all kinds of things you could go at him on. financial things, how did he make his money? you know when someone is engaged in activities like this, there is a money trail that is probably criminal. that needs to be looked at. i would hope someone could freeze his assets right now so all of these young girls who are victimized by him, who should not be blaming themselves, that broke my heart to see that girl blaming herself for not coming forward, that is something that these predators do to them. that is the secondary victimization. so none of these young girls should blame themselves. they need justice. i would like to see epstein financially bankrupted and then we need to do doj congressional investigations of how this case was handled on the state and federal level. i think there needs to be a lot -- there was a beginning of discussion today and a lot more that goes into it. but first and foremost, let's focus on the young girls and getting them justice. i'm confident there is a lot more victims out there and there is a lot m

epstein in well over a decade and he knows nothing about epstein's, quote, terrible crimes. >>> a plan to let you 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

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

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we also now know more about how epstein operated. among the many properties he owned was an island off the u.s. territory of st. thomas where the ap reports that security guards would intimidate scuba divers who got too close. everybody called it pedophile island, according to one local. it's our dark corner. epstein plead not guilty monday in new york on charges that include sex trafficking of underaged girls. prosecutors allege he abused dozens of girls, some as young as 14 and say he kept cds in a locked safe with labels including, quote, girl picks-nude." this morning a new accuse said she was recruit bade female associate of epstein when she was just 14 years old and a high school freshman here in new york city. >> did jeffrey epstein rape you? >> yeah. he raped me. forcefully raped me. knew exactly what he was doing, and i don't think cared. what hurts even more so if i wasn't afraid to come forward sooner, then maybe he wouldn't have done it to other girls. >> araoz, who is not part of any criminal case against epstein did not

this allowed epstein to create an ever-expanding web of new victims. >> shepard: jeffrey epstein made his fortune running a hedge fund for billionaires. he was well-known in celebrity circles and mingled with the rich, famous, and powerful, including both president trump and former president clinton. more on that later. this all comes years after jeff drew epstein a controversial deal for underage sex crimes in south florida. he was facing life in prison but instead spent a year in jail and was allowed to leave for 12 hours a day, six days a week, for work release. the prosecutor who oversaw the deal is alex acosta who is now president trump cabinet, as the labor secretary. acosta has defended the deal and the white house is not commenting on the new charges, at least not yet. during today's court hearings, investigators that they found hundreds and possibly thousands of photos of naked underage girls when they searched epstein's home. they also say that the massage room was set up exactly as the alleged victims described it. we have team fox coverage. phil keating working the story f

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

it seems to me they were kind of bludgeoned by epstein's lawyers -- >> and he some famous lawyers, epstein. some high-powered lawyers. >> he certainly did, one of them a former law partner of acosta. but acosta, as susan was saying, was blaming everybody else for this and saying that arrangement was b.s. and he shouldn't have been allowed to go to work while he was serving his jail time and who did that, and he didn't really say what new evidence there is that he was praising the southern district of new york for finding, what is there new about this? there were 36 victims at the time. wasn't that enough? and also in this question of immunizing potential co-conspirators, he didn't really explain why that occurred, did he? i'm not a lawyer. >> is he too much of a liability now for the president? >> that is a thing, we never know with the president. we've seen this over and over again with people who work for the president either in the cabinet or in the white house, there is a lot of scrutiny, a lot of damaging scrutiny and damning evidence against them in terms of wrongdoing or in this cas

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