quote. after combing through a trove of information in court documents, the "miami herald" reported that email after email, acosta and the lead federal prosecutor acquiesced to epstein's legal team's demands which often focused on ways to limit the scandal by shutting out his victims and the media, including suggesting that the charges be filed in miami instead of palm beach where epstein's victims lived. we've reached out to the palm beach county prosecutor's office to hear what they've got to say about what acosta said about them. we've got no comment on that from them, but we have our team covering all angles of the story. joining me now from the department of labor, peter alexander who was at that press conference that we just finished listening to, and he asked a question or two there. and nbc's investigations correspondent tim winter who has been focusing on this very closely over the last few days. peter, let's start with you. what was your big takeaway from