intentionally helping this rich white man over these young girls who didn t have the kind of representation that the department of justice is ethically responsible and morally responsible to advocate for. you know, part of the issue to me is that there is we still don t have the full story. julie brown did amazing reporting. absolutely. acosta should answer questions. yes. i m all for the state s attorney answering questions, but we don t have an answer on why he was meeting offsite, why did he lie to the girls? why did he give immunity to these other four women plus persons known and unknown? why didn t he get anything in return for this deal? why didn t he research up in new york? i could give you a list of 30 things that he should have to respond to right away. and this business about, well, i think justice was done is a complete a, not true and b, unacceptable response from him at this time. it strikes me that here is a guy. he is currently sitting in the
secretly with defense attorneys. when i was a prosecutor prosecuting sex crimes or police officers, i didn t defer to any defense counsel, and i don t know anybody who did. and these guys were deferential and would this be okay with you? it was a bizarre relationship that they had. but it s more than just sloppy. this is intentionally intentionally helping this rich white man over these young girls who didn t have the kind of representation that the department of justice is ethically responsible and morally responsible to advocate for. you know, part of the issue to me is that there is we still don t have the full story. julie brown did amazing reporting. absolutely. acosta should answer questions. yes. i m all for the state s attorney answering questions, but we don t have an answer on why he was meeting offsite, why did he lie to the girls? why did he give immunity to these other four women plus persons known and unknown? why didn t he get anything in return for this deal
our politicians in which our elected officials are supposed to fight about stuff and debate things and come to agreements and negotiate solutions to our collective problems. all that stuff is supposed to happen in this big building right here, the one with the pretty dome on top. but the floor of the united states senate, the floor of the house of representatives, even the committee rooms had they break into smaller groups to talk about specific issues, nobody expects anymore that those are the places where actually deals and debating and arguing and negotiating happen. that part s sort of all for show. where the real work gets done these days, where the real negotiating and fighting happens is at joe biden s office. or kent conrad s place. in washington, near always hiving off into these little gangs, meeting offsite, these little bipartisan groups to work out solutions to big policy problems. and that pattern in washington now, particularly in the senate, holds two enormous frustrati