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Know about them. and she goes on to write that, quote, after the fact people allege that epstein would have been easily convicted. as the prosecutor who handled the investigation, she says in this affidavit, these contentions overlook the facts that existed at the time. her description of these facts are corroborated by the fbi case agent whose affidavit ive also shared today. thousands of prosecutors around the nation this week are weighing guilty pleas versus trials. these cases as i said are ...

Because i think its important for the united states to litigate cases with the department of justice. if former u.s. attorneys responded to media inquiries about pending cases, and this is a pending case. there still is a live civil matter. if former u.s. attorneys responded to media inquiries all the time, we would have havoc in our justice system. you cant have a department of justice of the litigating entity with u.s. attorneys giving press statements. your follow-up question may be why am i ...

Confident that the president is going to have two continue to have you serve. there are several advisors that he stands up for initially but you are about of the level where he is backed way before. what makes you so confident? >> im here to talk about this case. im doing my job. if at some point the president decides im not the best person to do this job, i respect that. its his choice. i serve at the pleasure of the president. i thought yesterday he was kind and he showed great support. but we...

Names were the same. or where the catheter was not clean and an embryo was left. there was a famous new york case where that happen where a woman gave birth to two different babies of different races, one was hers and one was -- >> dana: what happens in the issue of the baby have to be turned over to the biological parent. >> we dont know really what happened in this case because they are not saying that yet. the babies were turned over each do different biological parents. we dont know if the c...

Lenient plea deal when he was dealing with such serious crimes. why did he keep epsteins victims in the dark, and how could he not know or did he know about his similar criminal behavior in new york city which was taking place around the same time that the deal was struck. an elaborate apartment said yesterday that the secretary acosta is not resigning. so if something is changing between now and then, we are expecting to hear forceful defense from secretary acosta and we get a preview of what t...

Back in the day, they said that the deal that they wanted to put him behind bars and this is what they thought was appropriate to do. he said the state prosecutors have the possibility of letting him go free and what acosta wanted to do was put him behind bars. yet acosta says that him being out of work release which he was six days a week during this 13th month sentence, could have potentially been a lifetime, it was not what he expected and it was not what he wanted. but thats how the agreemen...

Coordinating a lenient plea agreement for the multimillionaire and registered sex offender. this deal is getting new scrutiny because of epsteins new arrest in new york, but again, acosta negotiated the deal a decade ago when he was a u.s. attorney in florida and acosta has faced questions about epstein before. take a look. >> in this case we deemed it necessary to become involved and we early on had discussions within the office and we decided that sentence or how should i future that mr. epste...

With. >> caitlin conversely and then. would you make the same agreement today? >> these questions are always very difficult. because we now have 12 years of knowledge and hindsight and we live in a very different world. todays world treats victims very differently. todays world does not allow some of the victims shaming they could take place at trial 12 years ago. todays world understands that when interviewing victims, when eliciting testimony, the testimony can be sometimes contradictory. memo...

Recommendations. >> you roll the dice with charges. its never a slam dunk. it seems like youre making this out to be a case in which you held a federal indictment over the head of epstein to plea to a lesser crime. that in itself is against -- >> i do not think the office violated the ava standards by negotiating strongly and forcef forcefully. >> standing here today, are you saying you got the best deal you could get and you have no regrets? >>. >> we believe we proceeded appropriately, not jus...

This. >> there have been embryo mixups before but there is never been a case where the embryo is implanted in the women who were from two different creators. for instance, these twins are biologically each from a different set of parents. so that makes up is way more egregious than just implanting one set of parents, which would be bad enough. >> dana: what type of precautions should i cant clinic take to make sure this does not happen? >> the fda gives out certain guidelines so i imagine the fd...