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acosta s decision to resign. what is your opinion on what seems to be a change of heart from the president himself? so the president was the one who had the idea for alexander acosta to come out to defend himself, something he felt that he needed to do on his own from the labor department. and initially he was pretty receptive to how that has gone. he had a calm demeanor and took a lot of questions. it didn t go as poorly as a lot of people thought it could have gone. but then there started to be a shift in the president s tone essentially based on what our sources are telling us. the president started having doubts about it. he started talking about victim notification. that was a big part of the plea deal and why acosta was facing scrutiny because the victims were not notified by the plea deal that he spoke about during the press conference. that was what led people to start to believe that potentially acosta did not have that much time left in the white house. the president has sa
case. and the press conference that he had the other day was there were so many untruths there. i was preparing a fact check story where i was going to be able to show with documents that a lot of what he said was not true. so i just don t think that there was any way at this point he s going to be able to get ahead. you should still put that out. i think everyone will want to read that and pay perhaps even more attention to it now. what do you make of our katilan collins reporting that the president s turn on acosta was because of the lack of victim notification? and can you remind our viewers, to the extent that acosta went right along side epstein s attorneys to make sure that victims never knew about this deal? yeah. and that is really what is key in this whole mess with acosta. not only did he not notify the