a full blown mueller mystery, will he or won t he and why on wednesday. is appearance by his deputies appeared to have been squashed with direct pressure by trump attorney general bill barr. also, details now coming out about infants ripped away from their parents at the border on under trump s administration s policies. and then the president caving for the second time in hours, bowing to the growing pressure to oust labor secretary acosta over the lenient deal for sex offender jeffrey epstein. we have a lot in a very busy friday night show. we begin with the mueller mystery. the hearing long scheduled for next wednesday but politico reported this had been pushed back at least a week, lawmakers negotiating for more time. then a spokesman for the judiciary committee says, at this moment, or more, the hearing is still currently in their view scheduled for next week. the 17th. it s also listed formally under
i think everyone understands that is their rational based on a bigoted sense of what has to be done in this country. the president said he feels badly for the labor secretary acosta and he s worked hard and did a good job. acosta is under fire for the plea agreement that he made with jeffrey epstein years ago in a case in florida. epstein was charged yesterday with having allegedly operated sex trafficking ring involving dozens of under raged girls. could acosta resign? he should. he should resign because he was part of a process which really exposes the two-tier criminal justice system in america. it s not just epstein. it s the crooks on wall street who destroy the economy who paid billions of dollars in fines to the federal government but not one of the people ended up in jail. look, the reality of american criminal justice is if you re poor, if you re a person of color you get treated in one way.
you re doing is calling for a national emergency but first of all, what is your reaction to this set back for the justice department and administration in the census case? why do you think they really want this question on the census about citizencitizenship? anderson, i don t think there is anybody or any doubts why they want that question. it s the under count latinos so that they can create congressional districts which will not be democratic and also make sure that federal funding does not go to those under served in often minority communities. i think everyone understands that is their rational based on a bigoted sense of what has to be done in this country. the president said he feels badly for the labor secretary acosta and he s worked hard and did a good job. acosta is under fire for the plea agreement that he made with jeffrey epstein years ago in a case in florida. epstein was charged yesterday
with having allegedly operated sex trafficking ring involving dozens of under raged girls. could acosta resign? he should. he should resign because he was part of a process which really exposes the two-tier criminal justice system in america. it s not just epstein. it s the crooks on wall street who destroy the economy who paid billions of dollars in fines to the federal government but not one of the people ended up in jail. look, the reality of american criminal justice is if you re poor, if you re a person of color you get treated in one way. if you are rich and if you can hire all kinds of lawyers and you have friends in high places, you get treated in another way. and our job is in fact to do, to create a criminal justice system, which theoretically the founders of this country wanted and that is equal justice for all, rich or poor. black or white. i was reading your tweets and
investigation, going on into how exactly he got the steel in the first place. you heard there, secretary acosta trying to make his case. what are your thoughts? kristen: when senator graham says, i want and i to know why that he was made in the first place, i share that question. i want to know why he was able to do what he did in the government was able to say, 18 months in jail, and reduce it ultimately down to 13 months. you have instances in this country of, say, a mom registering her child in the wrong school district and she does jail time? and yet someone can do what epstein didn t get a sweetheart deal from the government? it s unfortunate that this has become wrapped up in partisan politics, but it shouldn t be. we need answers about why someone who is a monster like epstein was able to get away with such melissa: i don t know how partisan it is. we hear people on both sides thing we need to take a closer look. leslie: right now on our own network, jason chaffetz,