Florida. His attorney back then reached a deal securing a non prosecution agreement with alex acosta whos now President Trumps labor executo secretary. Epstein pled guilty. He registered as a sex offender and serving 13 months. His time in jail was significantly different than most. This is unbelievable. He was allowed to leave the facility six days a week to conduct work at his office. Think about that. Who is this guy Jeffery Epstein . He began his professional life teaching math and physics. He moved onto become an option trader at bear stearns. In 1981 he left the firm and found his own business. He ultimatecultivated relationsh some of the most powerful people including our current President Trump and bill clinton and great brita britains prince andrews. Donald trump told this about epstein, i have known jeff for 15 years, terrific guy. Hes a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he liked beautiful women as much as i do and many of them are on the younger side. No doubt abou
Decade ago. It saved epstein years in prison despite the fbi identifying dozens of underage girls who say they were sexually abused by epstein. On monday, federal prosecutors unsealed two new sex trafficking charges against epstein. He has pleaded not guilty in court. Listen to the reaction from one of the women who says that she also was sexually abused by him. Just to hear that theyre standing up for the victims, you know what i mean, its just like so overwhelmingly un its past due. Tears obviously that she has from what she endured. Lauren fox is with me on capitol hill. How loud are the calls growing for acosta to resign, and particularly are they across party lines . Well, no. For democrats, this is a time where they are calling for labor secretary acosta to step aside. You saw nancy pelosi tweeting last night, quote, secretary acosta must step down. As u. S. Attorney he engaged in an agreement with Jeffrey Epstein and kept it secret from courageous young victims, preventing them
Trump incompetent. Ross perot is dead at 89. The texas businessman twice ran as a thirdparty candidate for president , warning that jobs being lost to mexico and the threat of ballooning federal red in ink. Im the only guy that talks numbers. Nobody else will talk about it. Its like a crazy aunt in the basement. Everybody knows shes there but nobody talks about her. Im talking about it. Back to that a bit later. The president meeting with the emir of qatar about rewarding the emir, a serial violator, with an oval office visit. Well keep an eye on that to see if reporters ask the president about the middle east and about his labor secretary, whose past life as a prosecutor is creating present questions about if he should keep his job. The top two democrats in congress, nancy pelosi and the Democratic Senate leader Chuck Schumer say alex acosta must resign. Schumer heading to the senate floor to make that demand this morning. I am calling on secretary acosta to resign. It is now impossib
Courage. And why never trump former republicans need to expect democrats to act like democrats. Raise your hand if your government plan would provide coverage for undocumented immigrants. When all in starts right now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. The most watched democratic debate in history happened last night. Nbc news announcing that 18. 1 million tv viewers watched the debate across msnbc, nbc and telemundo. An additional 9 million watched via live stream, setting a new democratic debate viewership record. That follows the first night debate that also generated tremendous interest, attracting more than 24 million combined viewers. Going into these debates, there were some concerns that it would be a circus, because there are so many candidates in the mix. We really didnt get a circus. For the most part, over two nights we saw 20 candidates having genuine, at times spirited disagreements over substantive issues without blatantly making things up or throwing out belitt