position, as the feds prosecute epstein, what do you think should happen in the meantime to acosta? well, first and foremost, the president should fire him. if the president doesn t fire him, he certainly should resign. this is a person, again, who is responsible for the human trafficking laws, responsible for enforcing child labor laws and protecting the vulnerable from being abused. and when he was the u.s. attorney in my community, he allowed jeffrey epstein to get off nearly scott-free. he sexually abused dozens of girls and is accused once again of that, and this is the last person on god s green earth that should be responsible for protecting the vulnerable in this country. just to know for people who don t know all the back story, it wasn t just cutting the sweetheart deal, it was moving part of this to miami to keep it out of the hands of the press,
well, i tell you terrific guys don t give sweetheart deals to sex offenders because they re a billionaire and that s what happened here, and, unfortunately, this is a continuation of a pattern in this administration. this isn t just a onoff offense. this administration is of billionaires, by billionaires and for billionaires. this is just another incident of demonstrating that. this roegue s cabinegallery of members. he needs to go. so you re joining the other democratic candidates? you bet. you want him to resign. he should resign. if he doesn t resign, you want the president to fire him? yes. what if the president doesn t fire him and he doesn t resign? there s other means. i don t know if impeachment is appropriate or not, but one way or not, this guy should go. the president said he s going to bring us the best people, he s brought us the worst.
the case that acosta handled more than a decade ago. every senator where was the vetting on the part of the u.s. senate? obviously it wasn t good enough. obviously there are senators who will have to answer that question. as a member of the house of representatives it is not for me to answer it, it is for those senators to answer, democrat and republican alike. bdush by i want to be precis, if the president doesn t fire him or he didn t resign you want impeachment proceedings against acosta? i think there is grounds for that. so yes. so the answer is yes. we ll move on and talk about another growing rift between the president and the united kingdom over the leaked diplomatic cables sent by the british ambassador to the united states. the president says in those cables that the ambassador says the trump administration was clumsy and inept and the president this morning responding that the ambassador is a very stupid guy, a pompous fool. and he went called him
fortune 500 company as an attorney, he would have been fired yesterday. no questions. he would have been walked out the door. instead, we have a president that not only doesn t fire him, but now come also out this morning and issues a statement, gives a statement of support. this is outrageous. every woman every woman in america, right, center, left, it doesn t matter, should stand up and be angry about this. you don t just have to be a woman. you have to be a huge. this is about common decency. so yesterday when you and i spoke, you were still sort of reeling and reacting to what rudy said. and many of us thought, well, this is just rudy completely going off on his own. that s not the case if the president is backing him. for you, where do you go from here? well, i think we re going to try to continue to deliver the message that we re not going to tolerate people making these outrageous comments about my client. i agree with you. it s not just about women. every man should also
i feel like we re watching sort of this like, white male entitlement with people who just haven t gotten the memo yet. this isn t how it works anymore. i think there was a time unfortunately where he could have said that and gotten away with it. people would have said, oh, yeah, who are you? or people used to say you can t rape a porn actress or prostitute. that s not the world, thankfully we live in anymore. let s hear from what michael avenatti said earlier on cnn. mr. gilani is an absolute pig for making those comments. he s stating that women engage in the adult film industry or other form of pornography don t have reputations and isn t entitled to respect. i hope we re not going to reap a place where giuliani is going to decide which women deserve respect or not. his comments are piggish, outrage in today s day and age and should be fired immediately by the president. if the president doesn t fire