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Absolutely right thing to do and i am happy to take questions. >> how would you describe your relationship with the president, the news cycle here that epstein is changing that? >> my relationship with the president is outstanding. he has very publicly made it clear that i have got his support. he spoke yesterday in the oval office. he and i have spoken. let me add that i keep reading about articles about my relationship with me and mr. mullaney. he called me this morning to say that our relatio...

The law. now, let me also point out since then a few years ago, congress amended the cvra, and congress amended it explicitly to say that non-prosecution agreements would be, in fact, covered, and that is a good thing. as i said as my confirmation hearing, we expect a lot more transparency. if we had had more transparency, perhaps this case would have gone differently. ive laid out the reasons why there were concerns about providing all the details to the victims before epstein pled. but the dep...

Agreement was signed, epsteins counsel said that epsteins counsel may not comply with the agreement. it was she did those in this affidavit become an affidavit that is also corroborated by the fbi case agent, how she and he and the office was concerned that epstein might not comply, that we would have to go to trial. and we had to weigh the issue of how much to disclose of if we have to go to trial, we want to win. we want to put epstein away. and talking about this would allow him to take the a...

Claimed he still has the support of the president even though mr. trump hasnt always stood by cabinet secretaries facing intense scrutiny in the past. under fire over a plea deal he once cut for multi-millionaire sex offender jeffrey epstein, alex acosta defended the handling of the case as a prosecutor. >> no regrets is a hard question. you look back and say what if. >> reporter: with you in victims coming forward questioning whether acosta was too lenient in the case, the secretary was asked w...

She told savannah guthrie that epstein raped her when she was 15 years old. >> i was terrified i was telling him to please stop. he did not stop. he had no intentions of stopping. thats what he wanted and thats when he got. forcefully raped me and knew exactly what he was doing. i dont think cared. >> shepard: nbc news reports that jennifers mother, former boyfriend and two close friends corroborated her account. no comment from epstein or his lawyers. lets turn to a criminal defense attorney. s...

Had already been locked in place. so the agreement wasnt going to change. before that agreement, i was very careful to not negotiate this. our career attorneys negotiated the agreement. secondly, id point out we live in a city where people have breakfast meetings all the time. we dont open an office at 7:00 in the morning just to have a meeting. you have it over breakfast. >> secretary acosta, its not standard for a nonprosecution agreement to include a -- >> let me answer this. ill come back to...

Case, the victims would have the opportunity to receive restitution. epstein would be requested to pay for them to hire a lawyer, to bring a case against him. a case in which he would have to plead no contest, and provide them with restitution. and the concern -- these are the words of the career prosecutopr she did not want to share with the victims that the office was attempting to secure for them the ability to obtain monetary compensation, because she is aware that if she disclosed that, and...

Different had you followed the law and consulted the victims. >> so first, let me point out, we followed department policy. department policy at the time made very clear and this is in a written statement that was subsequently issued by what is called the office of legal counsel, which is the chief policy making, the chief legal arm of the department of justice that these situations with nonprosecution agreements are not covered by the cvra at the time. because the cbra, according to department ...

Apeep to the department of justice in washington and reached out to the criminal division and the child exploitation division and the deputy attorney general and in one claim they said the prosecution of epstein was politically motivated because of his, quote, close personal association with former president bill clinton. now the deputy attorney general office, one of the assistants there had responded saying that the prosecution was, quote, appropriate. now remember, this prosecution wasnt even...

Push right now is because hes a trump cabinet member and not because of the case. my focus would be lets focus on the -- on him as an attorney and u.s. attorney and find out what mistakes were made and how do we never do this again and make sure there arent other individuals in other places that we had a prosecution not fully fulfilled. >> you make an important point. these were 14 and 15, 16-year-old girls who were abused in awful ways. -- would you like to see secretary acosta come before cong...