optics. lawrence: warrant for sexual assault of a minor. carley: this guy is as bad as it gets. if you think about the groups of people that were most affected, this is just breaks my heart. is that you have older women dancing in a parade and then young little girls. joe: 8-year-old little boy. carley: a priest and parishioners. he targeted everything good in this world. lawrence: he would not stop. if you are looking at the screen right now, this is the criminal history. joe: still rolling. lawrence the whole point of criminal justice reform are for people who retheir lives. it started in 1999 and did not stop. eric adams talks about the bail decision and what he wants to see going forward in new york. take a look. you can t have someone arrested with a gun on monday and then out on the street on tuesday. as the mayor i appoint criminal court judges. and i m going to be extremely
months ago. that was the last time the southern district of new york had contact with the trump organization. that coincides with the swearing in of bill barr as u.s. attorney general. did he put his thumb on the scale, did he put the kibosh on the investigation? these are things that maybe congress needs to investigate. this is something that we said a long time ago that what we were concerned about bill barr lying about mischaracterizing robert mueller s letter, the more frightening aspect of his new position and it seems as a defense lawyer for donald trump and not actually an acting attorney general for the united states of america, would be all the prosecutions he decided not to pursue or all the politically charged prosecutions he decided to pursue for the benefit of the president. yeah. that s right. look, i find it suspicious that the justice department won t answer this question about who made the decision. look earlier this week, doj decided they weren t going to
bring charges against the police officer who was responsible of the death of eric garner in new york and the department made it quite clear that was the attorney general s decision, his decision not to bring charges in this case they re refusing to answer questions. you look at all of the doj reporters who are writing stories about this, none of them have been able to figure out if it was the southern district of new york s decision or barr s decision. if the answer is a good one, usually you but it out to reporters so i have to be a little suspicious that the attorney general had some role in this. and doj doesn t want to tell the public what that was. and just really quickly now jerry nadler wants more information from hope hicks who i mean, you look at the new information, it appears she did not disclose or did not answer questions correctly to congress, joe. what is what are the ramifications of that if true? well, it depends. obviously they re going to call her back or
remind people that michael cohen is going on to the third month in jail and very importantly, there were meetings that were about to be set up about the investigation of the trump organization and exactly when barr showed up those meets were called off so i think that needs to be looked at very, very hard. i agree. well, we have more to cover here this morning. accused sex trafficker jeffrey epstein has been denied bail after a federal judge rejected his request to await trial under home detention in his manhattan place. the judge expressed concern if epstein were released he would be free to abuse teen aged girls. in the bail decision, judge berman writes mr. epstein s alleged excessive attraction sexual conduct in the presence of minor girls which is said to
with women. with girls i should say. he seemed to be intimidating some of the witnesses at times. he s been recently paying people off, after they were contacted by reporters. then you look at the flight risk he posed. you know, the southern district of new york fbi agents found in his safe piles of cash. diamonds and an a fake passport from another country. i think the only thing that would have been worse would have been evidence that he had a jet, you know, gassed up and waiting on the tarmac and waiting to fly him to another country. it was i suspect an open and shut decision for the judge. you know, gene robinson, i have long suspected based on what i have heard around the set on morning joe when people would tell me stories about this guy, epstein, i have long suspected that he stayed out of trouble for the most part because he had powerful friends on both sides. powerful democratic friends. powerful republican friends. i just i can t help but think because of the unit th