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Good morning. Welcome to cnn this morning. Always a pleasure to be with you on a sunday morning. We are started with the historic United Auto Workers strike. Union members say they had reasonably productive talks with ford saturday, but the union and the three Major Companies are still far apart on wages and benefits. Ford and General Motors responded by threatening layoffs for nonstriking workers due to the lack of parts from striking plants. General motors says they will lay off up to 2,000 workers this week if the strike continues. The workers walking the picket lines say they will stick it out until they get a deal that suits them. Gabe cohen is in ohio with more. Reporter saturday we saw the first small signs of any progress in these negotiations between the union and any of the big three automakers. This afte ....
But instead accosta rambled on how different the world is today, as if we re talking about 1948 instead of 2008. today s world treats victims very, very differently. today s world does not allow some of the victim shaming that could have taken place at trial 12 years ago. these victims say you failed them. i understand what the victims say. and i m not here to try to say that i can stand in their shoes or that i can address their concerns. i m here to say we did what we did because we wanted to see epstein go to jail. you heard him right there. accosta says he understands what the victims say. well, a new victim came out today. jennifer arose told nbc nbc news and told a woman she was a recruiter, talked to her outside her school and eventually convinced her to visit epstein. ....
After go a year, she says this happened. did jeffrey epstein rape you? yeah, he raped me. forcefully raped me. he knew exactly what he was doing. and i don t think cared. what hurts even more so is that if i wasn t afraid to come forward sooner, then maybe he wouldn t have done it to other girls. that s just one alleged victim out of dozens. i ve seen pleaded not guilty to federal charges and his attorney has not returned calls from cnn today about the latest allegations. but this is a man who got that sweetheart deal from alex accosta. now the house oversight committee wants accosta to testify about that deal. i m going to talk to a member of the committee later on in this show. but speaker nancy pelosi s mind made up. ....
Coconspirators. but the bigger issue is we don t do anything about this problem and they re our kids and they re disappearing at a rate we don t understand. we re going to talk more about all this right now. thank you, chris. i ll see you tomorrow. this is cnn tonight. i am don lemon and what a performance we saw today from alex accosta, president trump s labor secretary. another page from the trump administration play book. what seems to be the inevitable scandal heats up, you try to talk your way out of it. president makes supportive noises. says he feels very badly for you. but when things get too hot, you take questions to bring the temperature down. take some questions to bring the temperature down. and hope you won t end up fired by tweet. so it s no surprise that accosta stood in front of reporters today, offered one excuse after another for his handling more than a decade ago of a sweetheart deal for a multi-millionaire jeffrey epstein who now faces new charges in new york ....
World of rich and powerful. the average age a child first becomes a victim of sex trafficking, 12 to 14. these girls have sex with ten men a night. six nights a week. 240 sexual partners a month. how many kids? they don t know. they can only estimate. so many are afraid to come forward. so many are lost in the system of kids that are just gone in our society. american kids. so why should mr. accosta be judged now for then? that s a fair question. there are two reasons we must consider. because it was kept quiet and the deal didn t get scrutinized at the time, why didn t it? second, secretary accosta is in charge of human trafficking for us as the secretary of labor. he gave the most lenient deal ....