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
further and gave them a little tutorial about which buttons to push once they actually get into the phone system. craig, do you know what i saw that as, i saw that as a direct rebuke of how then u.s. attorney acosta handled the victims in this case because we came to learn that he violated the victims rights, actually violated the law, the crime victims rights act, by keeping them in the dark and not giving them their voice, not letting them have their say as victims. so i think u.s. attorney berman was sending a pretty powerful message that, no, no, no, when the southern district of new york handles this case, victims will be heard, unlike what then u.s. attorney now labor secretary acosta did back in 2008 in florida. wendy murphy is also a former federal prosecutor, you are also a child advocate. i know you have worked with cases like this.
explain to people how something like this could happen because here is a man of great means who was according to the government able to operate this vast network, he was operating a child sex ring for several years. how would someone be able to go about doing this and how common how common is this, wendy? yeah, i wish i could say that it s not common and that this is a rare case and this is extraordinarily unusual behavior, but that s not true. it happens every day in this country in every state and all walks of life are affected. the thing that i think we heard that s important, though, in terms of understanding how it can happen at this level is to know that jeffrey epstein, like a lot of child sex traffickers, they know how to target kids who are vulnerable. and what do i mean by vulnerable ? maybe their parents are
the word staffing. don t pay attention to staffing issues as if the doj is a bunch of temps that you move around to different spots to do typing. it s not the way it works. you use a team with a purpose in mind. they re specialized. this is what they do. so, yes, we will choose to read into the staffing as he calls it of the corruption folks as opposed to any other folks in the doj because it is significant. got it. danny cevallos, ann marie thank you for being here, glen, always good to have you there and thank you wendy murphy in massachusetts. inept, insecure and incompetent, those are just some of the words used to describe president trump by the british ambassador to the united states in leaked memos. what the british government is now saying about all of it. also turning the page after weeks of criticism for comments that he made about working with segregationists, joe biden says, i m sorry. will that be enough to blunt the
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 presidents 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. i m 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