of his crimes and not just because of his huge fortune but because of the powerful and high profile figures he surrounded himself with, both at the time of his alleged crimes and also when it came to putting together a defense team to get him off the hook. he s associated with some of the highest profile lawyers in the country, people like ken starr and alan dershowitz and jay left wits. he counted among his friends president donald trump, a member of the royal family, prince andrew. but in 2005, palm beach police opened an investigation into him because a 15-year-old girl told her parents that she had been sexually assaulted by him in his home in palm beach. this is a guy in his 50s. she s 15. the parents brought the case to the attention of the local police and the local police opened a police investigation. ultimately, the local police ended up handing over what they
higher office, in higher office, sometimes the explosions are bigger and worse and more traumatic than if they had been weeded out by a real vetting process that was supposed to pick qualified people who had the important character and background for an important job like federal prosecutor. during alex acosta s tenure after he was appointed by george w. bush, he became famous in that job for his absolutely scandalous role in one very high profile, very horrific case. the most high profile child rape case in modern american history. it involves a very, very, very rich man named jeffrey epstein. epstein ended up being a very special kind of defendant in this case. not just because of the nature of his crimes and not just because of his huge fortune but because of the powerful and high profile figures he surrounded himself with, both at the time of his alleged crimes and also when it came to putting together a defense team to get him off the hook. he s associated with some of the highest
all of the counties in florida have to have the unofficial results into the secretary of state office. they will tabulate the votes. if it is within a half percent margin, that will trigger automatic recount. that will be a machinery count. and from there, each county will machine recount and from there, they will recount. there s an influx of high profile lawyers on both sides that descended here in florida. there have been lawsuits filed by both parties, by both candidates in the state of florida. one against broward county supervisor of elections, but what s important to note is that department of law enforcement within the state of florida has detected no criminal activity. they have not been asked to investigate any criminal activity now. what we ve got to get to is this 12:00 deadline. that s when the ball moves
president does from news story to news story. it s always reactive. it s never proactive and hostilely defensive. to you john, if you look at lanny davis, he has been battling back, is there way to gauge who is winning this war of words or is this such a back and forth and rapid change turn around that you just can understand get footing on it. you have to understand the law and about how lawyers operate inside the courtroom and outside the courtroom. you have two high profile lawyers who know as much about kbleed as they do about the courts. they know how to communicate. as kelly said in the opening this is all getting very confusing. there s all sorts of information flying in all sorts of information. that s a strategy.
let s bring if our cnn white house correspondent pamela brown is working the story for us. two more lawyers apparently now have turned down requests to join this legal team. are you getting any indication why the list of nos keeps on growing? yeah, look, the list you re talking about at least five big lawmakers who have now turned down offers to represent the president. here are a list of some of those high profile lawyers including ted olson, emmet flood and this latest case they turned it down because of quote, business conflicts. that has been cited in other situations particularly at ted olson s firm where they represent gps and facebook, so that has been a consistent theme but sources tell us, wolf, that there are other factors at play here including the fact that some lawyers are concerned how it would impact their reputation. it could be a politically unpopular. the concern that the president wouldn t listen to legal advice and just watching how john dowd left last week abrupt