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Donald trumps labor secretary former prosecutor alex acosta broke his silence today addressing the firestorm over the 2008 plea deal that he cut with accused sex trafficker jeffrey epstein. >> would you make this same agreement today? >> we now have 12 years of knowledge and behind sight and we live in a very different word. todays world treats victims very, very differently. >> critics have unloaded on many aspects of this case including why the accusers and according to the law, the victims we...

Beautiful women as much as i know. >> i knew him like everybody in palm beach. i had a falling out with him a long time ago. i dont think ive spoken to him for 15 years. i wasnt a fan. >> reporter: and he was a visitor at the mar-a-lago resort but the attorney for the trump administration said trump banned him from the property, although he doesnt remember when or why. as for epstein, who is facing new charges in a new york case, another accuser went public today. describing being raped by him a...

Assaulted her when she was just 15. >> very forcefully, brought me to the table, and i just did what he told me to do. i was just scared. i didnt necessarily think he was going to rape me. >> harris: kristin fisher outside the white house with the latest. >> harris, president trump is standing by secretary acosta for now, but that could change depending on how the secretary defends himself this afternoon over his role in that secret 2008 plea deal that led jeffrey epstein avoid federal prosecuti...

Virgin islands. >> and theres more about that to come out. but a new accuser has come forward with her account of alleged sexual assault by jeffrey epstein. jennifer arose was 15 years old when he said epstein forcibly raped her in his new york city townhouse. she spoke exclusively to my colleague. and i want to ask my guests to stay with me, but a warning here. these allegations are disturbing and grachdget. >> when you first met him, whank you think, what did he say? >> very nice. basically sa...

Most comp to counsel for his career. >> absolutely. i think there are several factors at play at this point. first of all, as kristin pointed out, this news conference. word apparently came from the white house to the secretary, you have to go out there and you have to defend yourself and you can be sure that this will be playing to an audience of one that the president is going to be watching this, either live or on tape, and coming to his own decision how effectively acosta has dealt with all ...

>> strata strategic. >> are you suggesting being the leader of the democratic caucus involves a lot of the annoying stuff you have to deal with? >> i was the chief and i nothing person. >> former congressman steve israel who is now slowly endeavoring to be less of a politician and keep it more real. >> thank you. >> we appreciate it. were going to fit in a break and get to a very important story. this trump official just broke his silence over the controversial handing of convicted sex offender ...

Somebody was paying them. somebody was cleaning up after these encounters. there was a host of witnesses who should have been in the grand jury. this case was provable in 2005, and alex acosta needs to explain to us what really was the reason? was it just rich white men hanging out at kirkland and ellis? was there some other nefarious thing. if he had any shame, he would resign. even if he resigns, he needs to answer these questions. cynthia aksne and claire mccaskill, thank you. sitting down ...

Categorically kept us in the dark. they failed to inform any of my clients what deal that they were attempting to cut. >> reporter: his clients, he said, felt they were taken advantage of twice. by a predator and a broken system. >> so, stephanie, this deal has been widely criticized by democrats as well as epsteins accusers. is anybody else speaking about? >> yeah, there is. we spoke to the former police chief in palm beach. he helped lead the initial investigation into epstein all those years ...

Ambassadors cable coming true. he said the president was thin-skinned and the minute these cables were leaked the president was on twitter trashing not only kim derek but theresa may and her handling of brexit. so it seems like he was -- some of these cables read like tamer paragraphs in stories about the white house and "the new york times." it seemed like he was doing his job. its sort of situational awareness to what was happening in the white house. because on the flip side if hed been phoni...

Case like that, dozens? they could have done that. and like julie brown said, somebody was driving them. somebody was paying them. somebody was cleaning up after these encounters. there was a host of witnesses who should have been in the grand jury. this case was provable in 2005, and alex acosta needs to explain to us what really was the reason? was it just rich white men hanging out at kirkland and ell ellis? was there some other nefarious thing. if he had any shame, he would resign. even if h...