the labor department is now defending acosta s actions saying the decisions, quote, were approved by department leadership and followed departmental procedures. three house democrats jackie speier debbie wasserman schultz and lois frankel on calling on president trump to demand acosta s resignation and today the president said. this watch. i really don t know too much about it i know he has done a great job as labor secretary. and that seems like a long time ago, but i know he has been a fantastic labor secretary. meantime many of jeffrey epstein s victims and alleged victims who felt shut out of the legal process have brought civil cases against him. martha? martha: trace, thank you very much. here now steve hilton host of the next levy lucien. there are a lot of people, steve, who do not want this story to see the light of day again. exactly right. very important we do those facts that trace laid out there so brilliantly.
53-page indictment and a life sentence in maximum security prison and, yet, ended up serving 13 months in a private wing of the palm beach county jail allowed to leave six days a week to go to work. how is that possible? well, that s where labor secretary alexander acosta comes in. in 2007 acosta was miami s top prosecutor and accepted a deal called a non-prosecution agreement, which allowed jeffrey epstein to plead guilty to prostitution charges in state court and get immunity from federal charges. the deal also protected epstein s accomplices meaning if ever well-known influential people were also having sex with minors they would not be prosecuted. and to top it all off, the alleged victims had no recourse. in fact, the victims attorneys say it s as if acosta allowed epstein to write up the agreement. but now a federal judge in florida says prosecutors led by acosta broke the law by signing the deal with epstein without notifying his sex abuse victims.
this is a really outrageous example of something that people have been complaining about the rigged system. i would ask people to think about it like this. everyone who thinks that hillary clinton, for example, and the clintons, the way that they have been treated by the justice system means that there is one rule for the rich and the powerful and the well-connected and one for everyone else, it s exactly the same here. for this monster. that s what he is. is he a pedophile monster this guy epstein. and it turns out because he has friends like alexander acosta in your pocket back then in florida you get away with a sentence that no one else who didn t have that wealth and those connections would do. and this is one rule for the clintons should be the same here. he should go. martha: pretty incredible. 13-month sentence and he was allowed to leave six days a week. yeah. martha: he pretty much had free reign to do what he wanted when he was supposedly incarcerated. this is a statem
martha: the white house watching this one they say they are quote looking into the role of alexander acosta in the case of jeffrey epstein. a judge ruling that the prosecution team acosta headed broke the law in their plea deal with the well-connected billionaire, who is accused of molesting dozens of underaged girls who were never permitted to tell their story. trace gallagher has the back story for us tonight from our west coast newsroom. martha, what s paramount in this case is that some 80 women came forward claiming that from 2001 to 2006 think were molested and abused by billionaire jeffrey epstein. fbi and court records also show that epstein put together a network of underaged girls and forced them to perform sex acts at his palm beach mansion and he was suspected of trafficking minors from overseas to various sex parties at his homes around the world. bottom line, he was facing a