Years. Acosta was floridas u. S. Attorney when he backed the plea deal, and now he serves as President Trumps labor secretary and he, secretary acosta tweeted this today. The crimes committed by epstein are horrific, i am pleased that new york prosecutors are moving forward with the case based on new evidence. Federal prosecutors insisted that epstein go to jail, register as a sex offender and put the world on notice that he was a sexual predator. The new york prosecution offers an important opportunity to more fully bring him to justice. Moments ago, the president praised acosta. Go back and look at past decisions, i wish they would have done it a different way. What i do know, hes been a great secretary of labor. I feel badly for secretary acosta. I know him as being someone that works so hard. I feel badly about that situation. President trumps comments came shortly after members of the Democratic Party here was chuck schumer. I am calling on secretary acosta to resign. Its impossib
Among all of these thousands of protesters are also a lot of stranded passengers wandering around wondering what they are supposed to do. They have no information on when their flights are going to go. There are no Airline Staff around. Strangely there are few people here who work at the airport to give them any information. The only counter ive seen working is the starbucks counter. So there is this sense of people not knowing what the next move is going to be. In particular, that is the case with beijings next move. This is the second day that these flights have been canceled. There is the sense that they are not going to tolerate this for much longer. Officials are now starting to use words like terrorism, which is a very broad word in china, which is used to justify a lot of policies. And the state media is now also ramping up its propaganda, calling the protesters rioters and showing videos of the Peoples Liberation army doing drills just across the border so there is this sense t
Happening simultaneously right now. Many of them outside Border Patrol and ice facilities. These protests and vigils are against the Trump Administrations treatment of immigrants, especially following the several weeks that we have had of raw and disturbing accounts of the conditions in which the Trump Administration is holding people, including little kid who is are being kept apart from their families. We expect one of these lights for liberty protests to get under way in the next hour in yuma, arizona outside this yuma Border Patrol station. We have been reporting on this station since nbc news obtained a bunch of significant incident reports describing abuse of kids being held apart from the Border Patrol stations. They announced an investigation had been opened into one claim that nbc obtained from a 15yearold girl, claiming she had been sexually assaulted by a uniformed officer at the Border Patrol station as far as we can from the paperwork that nbc obtained, that girls claim th
We begin with what the attorney general is calling the w failur at the federal jail where sex offender Jeffrey Epstein was able to hang himself inside of his jail cell. One officiale briefed on the ce tells nbc news that epstein was not checked every 30 minutes as required, though it is unclear how long heis went without bein monitored. Three prison officials with knowledge of the case told the New York Times that one of the two people guarding epstein the night he took his life was not an official corrections officer. Yesterday the attorney general technically theto chiefoli prisons pledged a thorough investigation. And now the case is shifting to anyone who may have helped epstein prey on young girls. Let me assure you that this case will continue on defense anyone whoue was complicit with epstein, any coconspirators should notrs rest easy. Victims deserve be justice and they will get it. Joining us here onset, danny cevallos. Lets talk about any potential conspirators. The plea deal
Contributor mike barnicle. White house reporter for the Associated Press jonathan lemire. Professor at princeton university, eddie glaude jr. Nbc news correspondent stephanie gosk. And washington anchor for bbc world news america, katty kay. One sign that anyone could see something coming is if i saw something coming and i saw something coming. Joes captain obvious. If he saw this coming, anybody should have seen this coming. So mike, why didnt the bureau of prisons see this coming . Why didnt the Justice Department see this coming . Why didnt the white house see this coming . How did this happen . Well, joe, if the official story right now is if the facility is understaffed we have known that its been understaffed for quite some time theres really no clear answer on electronic monitoring. I dont think there was electronic monitoring in his cell. He was alone in a cell which is against doj department of Justice Policy which is a key question that has to be answered. The bottom line, jo