photographs of what appear to be underage girls. jeffrey epstein pleaded not guilty today. a former federal prosecutor for the easton and southern districts of new york. a legal analyst. tim o brien is the executive editor of broom berg opinion and msnbc contributor. your reading of this indictment? this is a stunning indictment to say the least. it would be stunning in its own regard because here you have very serious charges being levelled against a powerful person. given the posture though of how this compares to the case that was prosecuted or walked away from in florida, it makes these changes more stunning. quite frankly this is what should have happened in florida. these are the charges that the florida u.s. attorney s office could have brought and probably should have brought. i think this leaves a lot of
decided to recuse himself and whether william barr would have saved president trump from the problem of having to deal with the labor secretary s decision to let jeffrey epstein off the hook for the same conduct that the u.s. attorney in the southern district of new york just indicted jeffrey epstein for. here s what donald trump said about his old friend, jeffrey epstein. i have known jeff for 15 years. terrific guy. he likes beautiful women as much as i do and many of r of them are on the younger side. no doubt about it, jeffrey enjoys his social life. on the younger side. donald trump knew about jeffrey epstein and what donald trump called the younger side. terrific guy. that s what jeffrey epstein was to donald trump. to this day donald trump has not said a negative word about jeffrey epstein. donald trump has attacked the leaders of countries that are
open questions about why the federal prosecutors in the southern district of florida walked away from these kinds of charges. why epstein was allowed to plead to a minor state charge in that case and why the victims were intentionally excluded from the process. they are stunning charges for a number of reasons and given the posture, they are more stunning. the attorney answered very few questions, but why is this case being brought by the public corruption unit. does that sound as strange to you as it does to us? the answer is it s hard to tell. jeffrey berman, the u.s. attorney for the southern district. who are is a donald trump appointee. correct. he came out firmly and said please don t read anything into
the strongest allies and attacked congressman justin amash this weekend for leaving the republican party. donald trump attacked elizabeth warren, chuck schumer, attacked me. he attacked hundreds and hundreds and thousands of people and never once said a single negative word about jeffrey epstein, not one word. jeffrey epstein does did not see it coming when his private plane took off from paris. epstein was arrested this past saturday evening at the airport aboard his private jet that had just landed from paris, france. contemporaneous with the arrest from epstein, agents executed a search warrant on his mansion in new york city. they recovered and seize and that was a search pursuant to a valid warrant and agent seized evidence including nude
he has not spoken to epstein in well over a decade and never has been to little st. james island, his ranch in new mexico, or residence in florida. that island is a reference to an island that epstein owns off of st. thomas where a lot of this activity is said to have considered. what could jeffrey epstein offer to the prosecutors that might be worth more than prosecuting jeffrey epstein? from where i sit, it would have to be something extraordinary. as a general matter, prosecutors don t like to give cooperation agreement to child sex traffickers. for good reason. it s the worst of the worst and would have to be really extraordinary information for them to take that kind of extraordinary step into trying to cooperate. that doesn t mean he won t try