appropriately. but these victims say you failed them. we did what we did because we wanted to see epstein go to jail. what is the message to victims who say they don t trust you anymore? the message is glen kirschner, also a former federal prosecutor. thanks for joining me on this case. did you think that mr. acosta made any points today that were fair or valid? and did you think he made any mistakes or was wrong today? you know, what i heard from labor secretary acosta was a pretty transparent attempt to weasel out of responsibility for drafting what is a nonprosecution agreement unlike anything i ve ever seen as a federal prosecutor. what he tried to do in different ways was not blame the victims so much as saying that he was sparing the victims because these young girls were
yasmin. it s the bottom of the hour. let s start with top stories. more and more democrat are calling for removal of labor secretary alex acosta for his role in the nonprosecution agreement with sex offender jeff epstein. president trump is taking a wait and see approach and he even expressed sympathy for his cabinet official acosta in comments to reporters yesterday. take a look. you know, if you go back and look at everybody else s decisions, whether it s the-u attorney or assistant u.s. attorney or a judge, you go back 12 or 15 years ago, 20 years ago, and look at their past decisions, i would think you d probably find they would wish they maybe did it a different way. i do hear that there were a lot of people involved in that decision, not just him. i can only say this from what i know and what i do know he s been a great, really great secretary of labor. the rest of it we ll have to look at. we ll have to look at it very carefully.
incredible letter that s written by jay lefkowitz, one of epstein s attorneys, saying thank you, u.s. attorney acosta for agreeing to keep this under wraps and not notifying the victims. that letter might well have said thank you, u.s. attorney acosta for violating the law, because that s what a federal judge found that they did. and it again goes to some of the way he is recasting it today oh, for or that reason. you can believe it or not. your point some of the evidence shows how much it was done at the behest of this convicted sex offender billionaire. glen kirschner, thank you of the your reporting and your analysis. thank you, ari. another update to a story we ve reported on a lot here. a federal appeals court has just thrown out, tossed a lawsuit alleging that president trump was illegally profiting off the presidency. this came from maryland and d.c. attorneys general. it was all about something you may have heard of, this constitutional emoluments clause, the idea he was
approached her in new york city when she was 14. you re 14. yeah. you know very well my age. you know exactly who he was hanging out with, you know. i don t think he cared. did jeffrey epstein rape you? yeah, he raped me. forcefully raped me, knew exactly what he was doing. and i don t think cared. epstein pleaded guilty excuse me not guilty to sex trafficking charges that were brought against him. new in new york this week by the trump doj. those charges ignited questions how this other trump official acosta originally dealt with the epstein and got promoted in the trump administration back when he was the u.s. attorney in florida. they didn t hear back from you till it was too late. do you owe them an apology? the agreement that had been negotiated had an unusual provision. you have no regrets. we believe that we proceeded