multimillionaire jeffrey epstein when acosta was the u.s. attorney for florida s southern district a decade ago. a newly unsealed indictment charges the hedge fund manager with operating a sex trafficking ring where he is accused of sexually abusing dozens of underage girls in his new york city home. epstein pleaded not guilty to all charges monday. as alleged, epstein was well aware that many of his victims were minors. and not surprisingly, many of the underaged girls that epstein allegedly victimized were particularly vulnerable to exploitation. according to the new york indictment, epstein ran a trafficking enterprise between 2002 and 2005. the 66-year-old allegedly paid hundreds of dollars in cash to girls as young as 14 years old to have sex with him at his homes in new york and palm beach, florida. prosecutors say a search warrant executed on his manhattan townhouse uncovered a vast trove of lewd photographs of young looking women or girls.
stuff should come out. on the clinton matter, i stay in touch with the foundation, and i know, you know, to clear up the trips versus the flights, i think the number was 26 or 27. each of these trips, and i have been on many of these trips where you go to asia or africa, and each flight is counted. each trip will be six or seven different flights. i know most of the clinton circle. jeffrey epstein s not part of it. i have never met the guy. i have met most of the president s friends but all of this should come out. the new york da, he should answer questions about why he wasn t registered as what they call a level 3 sexual offender. the really striking thing for me, though, with this administration is there s no discussion at all about the underlying behavior. no one questions alex acosta s
president trump as well. the quotes we have seen president trump give about jeffrey epstein, supporting him, and being a friend and saying that he is attracted to women. this is from 2002, an interview that donald trump obviously before he was president gave to new york magazine. he says, i have known jeff for 15 years, terrific guy. he s a lot of fun to be with. it s even said he likes beautiful women as much as i do, and many of them are on the younger side, no doubt about it, jeffrey enjoys his social life. who says that. i m just thinking back to a quote the president gave alongside his daughter ivanka where she jokingly said the one rule i had with my father is he couldn t date my friends who were younger than me, not wanting to compar any of the presidents girlfriends with what jeffrey epstein is being accused of but just to even say comments like that, it shows there s a huge cultural shift of what was acceptable a few years ago to where we are in the post me too
washington, a potential commander in chief, that is knowing a president differently. it clarifies the mind a little bit, and again, not being prepared to defend the record was something that i think was just a real gap. david, joe, bianna, thank you all very much. jeffrey epstein now faces charges in new york but after his plea deal a decade ago, is there a threat of double jeopardy. how do prosecutors avoid that? we discuss the legal implications next. super emma just about sleeps in her cape. but when we realized she was battling sensitive skin, we switched to tide pods free & gentle. it s gentle on her skin, and dermatologist recommended. tide free and gentle. safe for skin with psoriasis, and eczema.
the conscience. they deserve their day in court. we are proud to be standing up for them by bringing this indictment. now, we re still awaiting word from the white house but a senior administration official told cnn there was an internal review of acosta s involvement in epstein s case but stopped short of commenting on his standing in the administration. the u.s. attorney s office says it s received calls from more potential victims in this case. john and alisyn. brynn gingras, thank you very much. we have yet to hear from secretary acosta this morning on the new calls for him to resign. we have yet to really hear from the white house about all of this. there are no public briefings. that does play into it. joining us is joe lockheart, and bianna golodryga, a cnn contributor. secretary acosta, the new calls for him to resign, the white house hasn t said much about this. there s reporting in the washington post and politico which say really the next 72