Headquarters in New York City. We start with that breaking news. We are awaiting a News Conference here in New York City on Sex Trafficking charges against billionaire financier Jeffrey Epstein, a man politically connected to two president s and a host ever other wealthy and powerful people. You can see folks assembling there for that News Conference set to start any moment now. We will bring it to you when it starts. Officials telling nbc news that epstein was arrested saturday after a joint investigation by the fbi and new york police stemming from incidents spanning from 2002 to 2005. Epstein is charged with two counts of Sex Trafficking for allegedly sexually abusing three minors. Im joined now by nbc news investigations correspondent tom winter, msnbc legal analyst former federal prosecutor Glenn Kirschner also with me. Wendy murphy is in massachusetts and here with me in the studio former federal prosecutor ann
marie mca voi and msnbc legal analyst danny cevallos. Tom, let me sta
so the question is what are we going to do about it? what are they going to do about it. i think the speech was a good speech overall, and i understand why some people might have a mixed reaction to it. bear in mind, the justice department has certain norms and traditions that are tested from time to time, but you don t, you know, go in front of the public and give detailed updates about what s going on behind the scenes, and who you re investigating and who the targets are, and who you ve interviewed and everything else. they re in a great disadvantage in that regard as compared to the january 6th select committee who whenever they want they can release texts between sean hannity and other folks, they can release excerpts of testimony, they can talk about who s come in, they can talk about who s cooperating and who s not. people have a very very good sense of what aggressive tactics and approaches are being taken by the 1/6 committee. the justice department doesn t have that. what i
york. this is day three for the new new york city mayor eric adams. his message seems to be pretty clear. hi, jake. it is clear. exactly what you just said. school is the safest place for children. he s been pointing out the many draw backs of not having schools open. for instance, children being exposed for criminal environment. children who have trouble with remote learning which leaves behind a lot of kids, especially those in poorer communities, housing insecure. also the challenges parents face when they don t have child care and schools for meals. but this is also part of a larger idea we re hearing from him which is learning to live with covid while we modify our behavior. listen to some of what he thathad to say during a visit to a school in the bronx this morning. when a mayor has swagger, the city has swagger. we have allowed people to beat us down so much that all we did was wallow in covid.
reset. but my colleagues here at the nbc white house team are now reporting, based on our conversations with senior administration officials, that the sort of one-year mark for the biden presidency, that they ll be honoring on thursday, obviously, that s a natural time to sort of assess what s working and what isn t. and one of the things there s been real frustration about here, is they feel like the president has been bogged down and too focused on what s going on behind the scenes. the legislating here in washington and not doing enough to speak directly to the american people. so that s going to be a renewed focus for this administration, they tell us, going forward. mindful that the president doesn t want to appear so much as the legislature in chief, not the president of the senate, but the president of the united states. and in many ways, that s a desire also to sort of demonstrate that it s republicans who are united in opposition here. and to take the story line away from the
substance of his deposition, but he is a perfect example of firsthand testimony. he s also an interesting witness, jake, because as you know, he s considered a trump loyalist. but he s also a retired general who i m told takes his testimony seriously. again, he was in the room with trump. jamie, when speaker pelosi rejected two of kevin mccarthy s original picks for the committee, one of whom jim jordan may be a witness for the committee, mccarthy pulled all of his picks. he refused to have republicans officially cooperate. i can t imagine that republicans today see that as a smart idea. it s much, much wiser to have allies in the room. do you think the fact that they don t have anybody gumming up the works, any jim jordans or even, you know, some other