signed by jeffrey epstein. before. that is correct. and so i m looking at this. i m looking at, you know, according to this, what appears to be a violation of federal statute. and i m still trying to wonder exactly what happened here in light of the statement by accosta. and was an identified minor at the time. correct. one of the things alex acosta said several times is prosecutors will often take a deal over the roll of the dice of the trial. but what james patterson wrote about in a book and what julie reported on, are pieces of evidence that unless you had as a prosecutor reason to believe that the witnesses were unreliable and the victims were unreliable, which may have been the case, it may have been what motivated alex acosta. why not pursue a case that would result in a more serious sentence than what ended up happening? yeah. and he used the term roll the dice. and that is a term that trial
quote. after combing through a trove of information in court documents, the miami herald reported that email after email, acosta and the lead federal prosecutor acquiesced to epstein s legal team s demands which often focused on ways to limit the scandal by shutting out his victims and the media, including suggesting that the charges be filed in miami instead of palm beach where epstein s victims lived. we ve reached out to the palm beach county prosecutor s office to hear what they ve got to say about what acosta said about them. we ve got no comment on that from them, but we have our team covering all angles of the story. joining me now from the department of labor, peter alexander who was at that press conference that we just finished listening to, and he asked a question or two there. and nbc s investigations correspondent tim winter who has been focusing on this very closely over the last few days. peter, let s start with you. what was your big takeaway from