not that audience of one liked k 7nat he saw.e1 mimi rocah, your legal ñi assessment of this plea deal perhaps now in light of this w3 if anything, frankly, i have as much skepticism of that plea deal if not more.jf i think acosta tried to make two main arguments. the first one was that he was e1 this knight in shining armor wh] had to come in and rescue this case q revived it. yeah. from the state that was going to give epstein no jail time. well, i don t know if that s true. i don t know what the facts are1 in terms of what the state plea or the federal plea was. what i do know is this. every federal prosecutor including myself has done dozens of cases where the state has a p plea firstpl:
and if acosta was trying to perform to that audience of one, to trump, he was missing some of the ingredients that others have had in the past. remember brett kavanaugh under sexual assault allegations during his supreme court confirmation hearings showed so much passion and fire and kind of righteousness and indignation, and that really pleased the president. those characteristics were missing today from acosta. and ashley parker, we have to veer into politics here because amid all the talk about potential impeachment and investigations among the democrats, the democrats are shooting at each other. i speak of the feud between the speaker of the house and the freshman democrats. and in your newspaper tonight alexandria ocasio-cortez, aoc, congresswoman from new york, has chosen to fire back at nancy pelosi. she says, when these comments first started i kind of thought that she was keeping the progressive flank at more of an arm s distance in order to protect more moderate members, w
at the level where he has backeá away before. so what makes you so confident?( so look, i am here to talk w3 about this case.t( i m doing my job. if at some point the president decides that i am not the best person to do this job, i respect that. that is his choice.t( so the labor secretary there3 refusing to resign over his past role in the epstein sex offendeá case. nbc news today confirmed the president himself is the one whi ur mr. acosta s appearance before cameras was seen as a crucial test of whether he will keep his job with an audience of one as ( president trump watched and weighed a decision. w3 jeremy bash offered us a damage assessment on trump personnel on this broadcast just last night.i we ve had three white house chiefs of staff, two secretaries of defense, two secretaries of 1 state, three homeland security secretaries, two attorneys general.xd we ve had two cabinet w3fá secretaries at hhs and interior resign under a cloud of scandaló and now this scandal
victims who say they don t trust you anymore? the message is you need to come forward. you have nothing else to say to these victims beyond you should come forward? that places a lot of burden on children. what else do you have to say? i have seen these interviews and i can t i generally can t begin to fathom what these victims have been through. at the same time i think it s important to stand up for the prosecutors of my former office and make clear that what they were trying to do was help these victims. that last question to acosta, the one about the victims, was from katie rogers of the new york times who s standing by to join us in a moment. late today the former palm beach state attorney fired back with a statement that reads in part, i can emphatically state that mr. acosta s recollection of this matter is completely wrong. if mr. acosta was truly concerned with the state s case and felt he had to rescue the matter, forgive me, he would have moved forward with th
there s some back and forth over the weekend, where it seemed the white house was once again threatening acosta, saying that as soon as that temporary restraining order expires, you re going to be out of here again. cnn went back to court this morning, asked the judge for another hearing, but the change here, this backing down as of 3:00 p.m., is that the white house is saying in this letter, that the pass will be restored voluntarily by the administration. now, there is, of course, a caveat. and i think that the white house wants to straighten this along and makes this a threat that looms over the entire white house press corps. the letter to acosta says, if you refuse to follow our new rules in the future, we will take action in accordance with the rules set forth above. so the new rule is, one question per reporter at a press conference. you get to ask one question, and quote, by the discretion of the president or white house officials taking questions, a follow-up may be permitted.