first putting it in context. this man was facing a lifetime felony. so how do we go from a lifetime felony that s the sentence. that would be a federal sentence, a lifetime felony. how do we go from that to a state prosecution wherein you have a 13-month sentence and you re going to work every day? i ll tell you how. because you re rich, you re powerful, you have connections and buy your way out of it. wrap our head around that. furthermore, there was an accusation or representation made by accosta there was insufficient evidence. you have three dozen women, three dozen girls, excuse me. that s not evidence? that s insufficient? there are cases, i can tell you the federal government prosecutors, there are no witnesses. there is something called circumstantial evidence and that carries the day. so i don t buy that. furthermore, you talk about insufficiency. we can t move forward to prove our case. the federal government has over 95% conviction rate. so where do we get to the point whe
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with oscar mayer deli fresh. the white house official saying tonight alex accosta still has president trump s support while two others say the labor secretary did a good job today defending the secret plea deal he negotiated as a federal prosecutor with jeffrey epstein, the multi-millionaire charged with sex traffic. i want to talk about this now with shimon, kirsten, and joey all joining me on the set. i love it here in new york. good to see you. man, this is a disturbing case. let s talk about this. good evening. i want to start with you, kirsten. the president wanted accosta out there today. he refused to resign. no apologies, no regrets. it s revealing when he said epstein is a bad man, he needs to be put away. didn t he have the ability to do that? he really was talking like he was an outside observer of this whole thing. he didn t actually have any power at the time. he was this helpless observer
seeing this bad man. let s be clear, this is evil what jeffrey epstein has done. i mean i think we only know the tiny est, tineest bit of this story. this is somebody who lived all over the world with a private jet, with a private island. it s harrowing to think about how many children were harmed because of this man and because he wasn t put away. i didn t think about it. i thought about the aspects between here, you know, and the island, right? i didn t think about as you said, all over the world and what could come of it. very interesting. joey, let me get to you as a legal person here. anything he said today that would make you rethink this sweetheart deal made in 2008 where he got sort of a work release kind of thing? was there anything accosta said that makes you think that this was the right move? no. in fact, it reinforces it was the absolute wrong move. let s talk about some realities.
doorstep of the state and to say, well, they let him surrender himself, et cetera, i just think it was gross misrepresentations. and for people who don t know any better, they would buy it. i know better and i can tell you that i don t buy it. one last point. it was also stated it s uncommon for the federal government to get involved in state cases. that s a crock. and i ll tell you why it s a crock, because customarily, there is something called concurrent jurisdiction. for those of us in english, the federal government can prosecute and so can the state. the federal government swoops down and takes cases from the state they think they need to because the interest of justice demands they could. in one such case, i actually tried in the southern district two summers ago. state case, feds said, we re taking it, therefore they took it. to tell me, to tell the viewing audience, oh, this never haptz, that s just not true. okay. he said it s not what he bargained for. epstein entered a st