shimon prokupecz. how on earth did jeffery epstein gets a sweetheart deal. 13 months in jail, he can leave six days a week. how did this happen? >> we don't know. we hopefully are going to find out in a couple of ways. one is the inspector general is investigating this right now. how did this he get this from alex acosta's office years ago. ultimately, a sweetheart deal in the state is not at all unheard of. states pushed down their charges all the time. the question is how did he get a complete pass from the fed at the time. that's what everybody is wondering about. i think we'll get answers from the inspector general. >> alexander acosta who's now the secretary of labor for the trump administration.

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shimon prokupecz, chris cillizza, juliette kayyem. before i get to them, first i want to bring in john pistole. john pistole worked directly under robert mueller at the fbi as his deputy director. john, it's always a pleasure and really important to have you on tonight and get your perspective. so, good evening to you. let me get your take on the most significant moments from the hearing today. what do you think? >> well, thank you, don. i think it was really a tale of two testimonies. in the morning, after his opening statement and initial colloquy there with chairman nadler, i think he was not as focused or precise or, frankly, even in command of the facts as i think those of us who worked closely with him were used to seeing in his prior dozens of testimonies while he was the fbi director. i think he was more focused, more precise and more in command of the facts in the afternoon session, and perhaps because that was an area of more comfort and familiarity to him than the morning session. and the whole idea of was there obstruction

shimon prokupecz, chris cillizza, juliette kayyem. before i get to them, first i want to bring in john pistole. john pistole worked directly under robert mueller at the fbi as his deputy director. john, it's always a pleasure and really important to have you on tonight and get your perspective. so good evening to you. let me get your take on the most significant moments from the hearing today. what do you think? >> well, thank you, don. i think it was really a tale of two testimonies. in the morning, after his opening statement and initial colloquy there with chairman nadler, i think he was not as focused or precise or, frankly, even in command of the facts as i think those of us who worked closely with him were used to seeing in his prior dozens of testimonies while he was the fbi director. i think he was more focused, more precise and more in command of the facts in the afternoon session, and perhaps because that was an area of more comfort and familiarity to him than the morning session. and the whole idea of was there obstruction

shimon prokupecz live for us. what happened inside the courtroom? >> reporter: well, court ended on a dramatic note. two of the victims, two women who say they have been victimized by jeffrey epstein addressed the judge. both obviously saying that they want him kept in jail during the -- while this case gets under way and they do not want him released pending trial. one of them, she choked up, annie farmer, and the other, courtney wild, she told the judge that he's a scary person to have walking the streets. obviously a big decision here for the judge. he said he's going to wait until thursday to make that final decision. the defense attorneys for jeffrey epstein arguing that essentially they want to create a jail for him at his upper east side $77 million mansion. they're willing to hire security. they're even willing to put up more money, more cash if the judge asks for it. anything to get him released, they're willing to do is what they told a judge. prosecutors quickly, john, worry that he's going to flee. they found a passport, an expired passp

shimon prokupecz joins us now. what do we know about the extent of these injuries? >> they don't appear to be that serious. a mystery as to what exactly happen to him. was he beaten up, did he try to take his own life? or did he do this in a way to get some kind of sympathy, so he could be removed from the jail he's at. those are the questions that investigators are asking and are trying to figure out. the thing is, as you said, they are these markings on his neck. we've actually spoken to a source who has seen jeffrey epstein today. said he seems normal. doesn't appear to be seriously injured there does not appear to be any bruising on him, the source couldn't see his neck. everything seemed to be fine with him. he was meeting with his lawyers there at the jail. this is something he does routinely on a daily basis, where he meets with his lawyers. they come to the jail, they sit with him. for investigators at the bureau of prisons now, they're trying to sort out what happened. and as you said, jeffrey epstein told some of the prison officials, the jail officials th

shimon prokupecz has been covering this. >> this is a very unforeseen development and troubling development certainly for investigators. they don't want anything happening to him. the investigation is still very much ongoing. there's still a lot of work to do. you know, for them they certainly don't want him escaping justice because either he's beaten up and dies in jail or kills himself. now he's on suicide watch. they're taking other precautions to protect him. what we're hearing is, i think the leading theory right now, is this was an attempted suicide but they're not 100% certain yesterday. he has said that -- he's made a claim that he was beaten up. there's another theory that maybe he did this to try to get some sympathy so they can move him from the jail that he's at in lower manhattan. the conditions there as we expect are pretty rough. i think he's unhappy about being there. he fought like hell to get out of jail and to try to go stay at a $66 million mansion. that didn't work. so there's concern that he may be doing this to try to get -- to try and be moved. but we don't know for

here to discuss with us, my shim shim shimon prokupecz. how on earth did jeffery epstein gets a sweetheart deal. 13 months in jail, he can leave six days a week. how did this happen? >> we don't know. we hopefully are going to find out in a couple of ways. one is the inspector general is investigating this right now. how did this he get this from alex acosta's office years ago. ultimately, a sweetheart deal in the state is not at all unheard of. states pushed down their charges all the time. the question is how did he get a complete pass from the fed at the time. that's what everybody is wondering about. i think we'll get answers from the inspector general. >> alexander acosta who's now the secretary of labor for the trump administration. what's the potential legal outcome for acosta right now? >> it is highly unlikely. if he were bribed, he got something from epstein in order to give him the non prosecution agreement then we would have a charge. more likely he did not bring this charge because of some sort of political pressure. he descri

cnn's shimon prokupecz live at the courthouse in lower manhattan. >> reporter: it is a big day here for both the government and for his defense team. jeffrey epstein has been in jail since his arrest almost two weeks ago and he's been begging essentially the judge to let him out, let him go spend time at his upper east side manhattan mansion that the government estimated is worth about $77 million. and what the defense team has been asking the judge to do here is release him, let him go spend the time while this case works itself out, he's asking the judge allow him to spend time at his mansion under home confinement. they want to create a jail-like atmosphere. they're going to higher private guards, have electronic monitoring. of course this is all what the defense team is asking. they say in total they're willing to put up about $100 million to secure his release. now the prosecutors have been arguing that he's a flight risk, that jeffrey epstein with all his wealth, with his access to private jets, with his access to people outside the united states, they are concerned he could flee

. >> cnn crime and justice reporter shimon prokupecz is live outside the u.s. attorneys office in new york. we know epstein has had a couple appearances before a judge. what was discussed, and what's the story with bail? >> so he is still in jail. he's not getting bail. he won't know that decision until july 15, when he's going to be back here in court. and ultimately, that is when the judge is going to decide whether or not he should be released on bail. the judge has given his attorneys some time to file some documents if they want, arguing why he should get bail. obviously, prosecutors here objecting to any kind of bail. they say his wealth, his connections, he has private planes, he has many cars. if he wanted to flee, it would be pretty easy for him to flee. what we saw inside court is a very different jeffrey epstein. he was dressed in a blue -- navy blue jail uniform. he walked in, he pleaded not guilty. and then he just sat there and he listened. prosecutors revealed that more potential victims have come forward since his arrest. that is significant and

. >> our crime and justice report shimon prokupecz joins us right now in lower manhattan. there was that settlement with the city with the family in 2014. this was new, at a federal level and still nothing. >> reporter: right, and tease are the federal civil rights investigation, is whether or not the department of justice was going to bring charges, that this officer violated the civil rights of eric garner and now we have a decision from the department of justice from multiple sources who say they are not. the department of justice is not going to bring any charges against the officer who has been under investigation. his name is daniel, and he's been on death duty since this happened. as you said, poppy, he was investigated by the state. a grand jury in staten island which was convened by the incident in 2014. they decided not to bring charges and now the department of juls s has decided not to bring charges against the officer as well. so important context here this has been kind of a hot potato for the last five years. tomorrow would have been the deadline for the dep

shim shimon prokupecz, our justice reporter. let's go back a couple of chapters to the explanation he gave as to what didn't happen when he was a u.s. attorney in florida a decade ago. it sounded like he was saying the state wanted to let jeffrey epstein walk. it wasn't a slam dunk case, roll the dice. >> and we came in as the heroes, right, he was going to walk unless we came in and started threatening to bring charges. you heard a lot about him talk about rolling the dice. lots of excuses here. you never hear him apologize. you never hear him have any kind of regrets. it's all of these excuses, blaming career prosecutors. he never said i made this decision, it was my decision, career prosecutors made the decision. some of the prosecutors are still working in that office. and that's what you kept hearing from him. and the whole point here he keeps saying is we wanted to get him in jail. that is what we want. we wanted him to serve time, and we wanted him to register. in the end, what he's saying is this was a very difficult cas

here to discuss with us, jennifer rogers and shimon prokupecz. thank you both for joining us. jennifer, when you see this evidence, literally, dozens of victims many underage identified by federal how on earth did jeffrey epstein get such a sweetheart deal in the first place? he served 13 months in jail. basically he could leave for six days a week, correct? how did this happen? >> well, we don't know and we are hopefully going to find out in a couple of ways. one is the department of justice inspector general is investigating this right now. how did he get this prosecution agreement from alex acosta's office years ago. states pushed down their charges all the time. the question is how did he get a complete pass from the feds at the time. that's what everybody is wondering about. i think we'll get answers from the inspector general. >> so you mentioned that they opened this -- the doj opened the investigation into jeffrey epstein's decade-old plea brokered by alexander acosta who is now the secretary of labor in the trump administration. what is the potential legal outcome for

i want to bring in our cnn legal analyst laura coates and shimon prokupecz and evan perez. first of all, what do you think what we heard from the president? >> i think the president said that mueller didn't have anything to work with and i think that is not correct. i think it is clear, as you read this -- the two volumes of the mueller report, there is a lot here and mueller today chose essentially not to use all of that. i think -- i understand that mueller wants to sort of abide by this idea of staying within the four corners of what is the work product, but there is a lot of room there and he chose not to do it. and i think obviously he was an unwilling witness and warned the democrats essentially that he didn't want to be there. and he made that abundantly clear. but on a couple of occasions, especially at the beginning, he made it clear this is not an exoneration of the president. he also in answer to a series of questions said that once the president leaves office it is possible that he could be indicted for some of his conduct. again those were some of the moments t

also with us, cnn crime and justice reporter shimon prokupecz. thank you both. i know you're working sources on this story. paul, first to you. what do we know about what happened? do we have information about whether this shooter has been apprehended? >> no information of that nature yet, natalie. this is a still developing story. but we do know that witnesses have told cnn that they heard multiple shots fired here at the garlic festival. some of you may be asking where is gilroy, california? it's about 80 miles south of san francisco. as you illuded to earlier, this is an extremely popular event. garlic is big business in the gilroy area so this is well-attended. we've seen numerous reports that suggest many victims have been taken to local hospitals and people have reported that they have seen people on the ground at this festival. but right now the information is just trickling in, and as you showed earlier, the gilroy police department saying active shooter. so, it is not known whether or not, natalie, to your question, that shooter has been app remend hend

let's bring in our crime and justice report shimon prokupecz. shimon, we just heard that apparently police have recovered a firearm and rifle ammunition from the scene. what could that indicate? >> well, first, it could indicate obviously that the suspect, the shooter here may have left that behind. you know, we've gotten reports that the shooter was still at large and that police were still searching for him, which is why they're still calling it an active shooter situation, an active scene. we know the police are all over this police looking for evidence and also potentially looking for this shooter. so we don't have word yet, and i think that's important, that the shooter's in custody or that they have him in any way. so that's the big question here, obviously. there's been other reports indicating that there may have been more than one shooter. sometimes you hear that a lot in these situations during the chaos. i think some of what we're heard from witnesses is very important here. this shooting seems to have happened next to a stage where a

shimon prokupecz is with us. i know you've been in touch with officials from nypd and the fire department here, what are you learning? >> the most important is for people to know that everything is under control. the nypd, the fire department, obviously responding to different calls, people needing rescue, are stuck in elevatoele they may not be able to get to everyone. unfortunately, we're over 2 hours into this, and there are many people stuck in elevators. that's just going to happen. one of the biggest issues, i think, is actually crowd control. a lot of people on the streets of manhattan in times square. tourists, people who can't get back into their homes, and others are just walking around and noticing, and watching what's going on. the biggest issue for them right now is trying to control the crowds, the people, that have gathered all around these areas, specifically in times square. on the west side of manhattan. that's what they're dealing with, and the cars, because a lot of the traffic lights are out.

cnn crime and justice reporter simone prokupecz is back with us today. shimon, 77 million. >> stunning -- >> holy moly. >> basically, he's driving us everything he has to try to get out of jail. it's more than $77 million. when you look at everything. >> whaels? >> it's just the home, right? >> today we're talking about electronic monitoring. you're saying, we'll put security guards in your home. we'll get telephone, he'll call to report every time something's going on. offering his jet, worth at least 10, 20 million dollars, his brother is offering his home in palm beach as collateral as well. if the court says, i want you to put up another $20 million, they're willing to do that. you don't see this every day, obviously, we're dealing with a different kind of defendant. they're saying, hey, wen watt him out and we'll do whatever we need to do to secure, that he comes back to court. you know, when he has to come back. >> what does it say to you as the legal mind that his lawyers are trying this hard and offering up this much to make sure he doesn't stay