Mcdougals story would have been National Enquirer gold, and his decision not to run it was purely to help donald trump. Joining me now, nbcs Vaughn Hillyard outside the courthouse, former federal prosecutor paul butler is back with me. Former assistant new York Attorney general Tristan Snell is in studio, and Jeremy Soland, criminal Defense Attorney and former manhattan prosecutor. Im going to start with you because youre a Defense Attorney and youre new to this table. Its a challenge, right, no matter how many times the defense keeps going back and back and back to david pecker, trying to show this wasnt about the campaign, which is what you did, this is standard operating procedure, they said that over and over and over again yesterday. Let me give you one of the later pieces of back and forth, and this is steinglass trying to, again, disprove that bove had just done, the Defense Attorney. How many, meaning of these stories, did you coordinate with a president ial candidate for the b
huge, but there are so money women out there with the same story supporting themselves. the build-up to this trial for supporting themselves. the build-up to this trial for them supporting themselves. the build-up to this trial for them would supporting themselves. the build-up to this trial for them would have - to this trial for them would have been a pivotal moment, especially what we have seen in the last hour or so, that verdict of the jury coming through of guilty on five of the six counts, ijust wonder what happens to those women now, because there must be a sense of, there has been so much build up to this, it is a moment when they have long awaited for it. how do they move forward from here? what do they do from now on to try and put this behind them and rebuild their lives? i on to try and put this behind them and rebuild their lives? and rebuild their lives? i think they have and rebuild their lives? i think they have been and rebuild their lives? i think they hav
then a few years ago, congress amended the cvra to say nonprosecution agreements would be covered and that s a good thing. as i said at my confirmation hearing, we expect a lot more transparency. if we had had more transparency, perhaps this case would have gone differently. i ve laid out the reasons why there were concerns about providing all the details to the victims before epstein pled. the department of justice has been very weird throughout multiple presidential administrations, throughout multiple attorneys general that the department s position is that there was no violation of the law. reporter: would you make this your name and who you re
there are folks in former law enforcement that looked at that initial deal that he got in the southern district of florida and you thought what? we scratched our heads and we said, i ve seen good plea deals and good nonprosecution agreements. i ve seen some that i would say, boy, they re a little suspect. and then i ve seen the jeffrey epstein deal. it is just it s incomprehensible to me how when you sign a nonprocess agreement, you re agreeing to pay restitution, cooperate, admit certain material facts. but the fact that they allowed, as areva pointed out, state charges so minimal, solicitation of a prosecute when he was looking at charges that could have put him in jail for decades. served 13 months. areva, we ve got to talk about alex acosta. part of alex acosta s duties as labor secretary are to fight trafficking. a senior administration official tells cnn that the latest developments with epstein are, quote, a significant event. can he keep his job? no, i think we shou