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one that this administration allowed someone with this on their record to become secretary of the department of labor. and how this first came to my attention was when as secretary of labor, he proposed an 80% cut to the division of the department of labor that is in charge of child exploitation, that is in charge of combatting human trafficking. the very priorities that we saw in this case 12 years ago in florida were very much playing out in his tenure as secretary of labor. and now, of course, we are seeing the president distancing himself from jeffrey epstein, someone that he has known in the past. when we heard from the president earlier day he said that epstein had been thrown out of his club near palm beach, mar-a-lago. this is what he said about that. jeffrey epstein was not
to say the least. we ve had three white house chiefs of staff. two secretaries of defense. two secretaries of state. three homeland security secretaries. two attorneys general. we ve had two cabinet secretaries at hhs at interior resign under a cloud of scandal and now this scandal could sweep in two more cabinet secretaries. secretary of labor and the attorney general. so when the president promises that he surrounds himself with the best people, you got to ask your question. ask the question was acosta vetted? were these decisions undertaken in the southern district of florida reviewed by the incoming administration and if they were, why did they conclude that acosta was fit to serve as one of the law enforcement professionals in our nation as labor secretary who is responsible for combatting human trafficking? something doesn t add up. jeremy, what do you make of the clumsiness of the president s effort to distance himself from epstein, the folks were who were around during th
three friends in jail. i know i don t. i don t imagine you do. that s rather unique. and it s another distraction. it s another personnel problem to say the least. we ve had three white house chiefs of staff. two secretaries of defense. two secretaries of state. three homeland security secretaries. two attorneys general. we ve had two cabinet secretaries at hhs at interior resign under a cloud of scandal and now this scandal could sweep in two more cabinet secretaries. secretary of labor and the attorney general. so when the president promises that he surrounds himself with the best people, you got to ask your question. ask the question was acosta vetted? were these decisions undertaken in the southern district of florida reviewed by the incoming administration and if they were, why did they conclude that acosta was fit to serve as one of the law enforcement professionals in our nation as labor secretary who is responsible for combatting human
that has. i hope when they get everyone into a big, beautiful room and do a new treaty, that would be much better. certainly i would like to see that. but you have to have everybody adhere to it, and you have a certain side that almost pretends it doesn t exist, pretty much pretends it doesn t exist. so unless we re going to have something we can all agree to, we can t be put at the disadvantage of going by a treaty, limiting what we do, when somebody else doesn t go by that treaty. okay? you re looking at president trump there at the white house just moments ago where he s having a meeting there with homeland security officials and citizens who are combatting human trafficking. i want to bring in cnn political director david challen at ab stoddard with us. pretty interesting take here,