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Crunching those numbers. thank you so much. all right, john. it is a case of carv versus cactus and the cactus won. >> always. >> thats a good rule in life. >> cactus always wins. >> the sheriffs office says a man in a sports car crossed the median wednesday morning and slammed into a cactus. the cactus wound up impaling the passenger side of the car window there. the driver, were happy to report, was the only one in the car. can you imagine if there was a passenger? this would be a completely...

He took care of some of them when they were homeless. but there were 36 victims. and there were quite a few of them who wanted to go to trial. and were calling the justice department and calling his office and calling his prosecutors and saying whats going on with the case? i gave your fbi agents all this information. i want to go forward. you dont need every single woman to cooperate in this case. you know, you really only need one. and then mention the fact, by the way, we have all these state...

That includes eight democrats, by the way. we knew about the decisions he made and that through a snake case. but it all changed without mine and "miami herald" report back in november. the report that showed the degree to which the law was bent a little bit. everything was done legally, but at the influence of -- >> melissa: but the sticking point was the victims. >> harris: thats what everybody comes back. >> david: thats with a "miami herald" focused on. more than any other piece of reporting...

I thought yesterday he was kind and showed great support. >> the white house seemed ple e pleased with acostas performance saying acosta did very well. acosta received praise from mike pence who dodged a question about acosta not apologizing to epsteins victims. >> acosta had a press conference. he basically defended his actions in the jeffrey epstein plea, which has the world watching. he refused to apologize to the victims. do you have concerns of how he handled that case? should he be serving...

Determine as well as the findina federal court that you violated the crime victims right act by keeping this nonprosecution agreement secret from the victims of mr. epsteins crime." the former top prosecutor palm beach county in office during the plea deal a decade ago is firing back at acosta. he told local media, "mr. acostas recollection of this matter is completely wrong. federal prosecutors do not take a backseat to state prosecutors. thats not how the system works in the real world. if mr....

Democratic gas yesterday, hank sean copps, who said you just drop the name of another person that you would be watching for in all this because of the -- so the one thing you said that really struck me was the only people we should feel bad for are the victims. real quickly, you think acosta didnt do the job he could have done? >> melissa: i hated his performance yesterday. i think he should go immediately. the things that offended me the most -- and there were a lot of them -- when he said he h...

Conference on the census and citizenship. now, we dont know at this point. were trying to find out and do reporting at the white house as we speak. is this going to be an executive order to try to get a citizenship question on the census? how would that work legally? might he just back off and say hes not going to try to get the question on the census right now? were not sure. but bianna, one thing we are sure about is talking about this at all again seems to be a base play. >> i dont think him ...

In this case and why his defense may not be enough for democrats. >> i am here to talk about this case. i am doing my job. if at some point the president decides that i am not the best person to do this job, i respect that. ♪ ok everyone! our mission is to provide complete, balanced nutrition for strength and energy! whoo-hoo! great-tasting ensure. with nine grams of protein and twenty-six vitamins and minerals. ensure, for strength and energy. and twenty-six vitamins and minerals. what do all...

Good morning, its thursday, july 11th. yasmin has the week off. labor secretary alex acosta has no apologies for his actions in the 2008 non-prosecution agreement with jeffrey epstein. a deal that let him avoid the possibility of a a lengthy jill sentence and violated a law to notify victims. while critics say the offer shielded other who is may have been implicated in the misconduct, a person familiar with the matter tells nbc news that president trump spoke to acosta by phone tuesday afternoon...

>> when it was finally clear that epstein would comply with the agreement, she talks about how she made efforts to notify the victims. how that was at friday afternoon at 4:15 and that she learned that the state had scheduled the plea for 8:30 the following monday. and she talks about how she made ever effort to notify the victims at that time. >> is it true the federal prosecutor, the she in this case, couldnt connect with any of the 36 victims to let them know about this in that 72-hour period...