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Why would you go out of your way to do that when making this deal with him, when you had younger victims who had come forward? joining us now is julie brown. investigative report at the "miami herald" who has done landmark reporting on the epstein case and everything that labor secretary alex acosta did for epstein in this case. ms. brown, thank you very much for joining us. its nice to have you here. >> thank you. >> let me ask you first about this new reporting that was just posted at "the her...

Now, and its all happening in the context of another brand-new revelation on this case from the "miami herald." unbeknownst to everybody at the time, when jeffrey epstein cut that deal with alex acosta so he could plead guilty to just two state charges, the youngest victim involved in the crimes they let epstein plead to was 16 years old, which is horrifying in itself, but they let him plead to a case involving a 16-year-old, despite the fact that other victims as young as 13 and 14 had come for...

Foreign agent of the government of turkey, and thats a serious charge in any context. its particularly serious in the case of bijan kian since he was apparently the number two guy on the landing team for the trump transition at the office of the director of national intelligence. the ap reports that his transition responsibilities included helping pick the next director of the cia. which is an important gig, and its the sort of thing you might not want a secret foreign agent taking part in. oh. ...

Could plead guilty to just two state charges, the youngest victim involved in the crimes they let epstein plead to was 16 years old, which is horrifying in itself, but they let him plead to a case involving a 16-year-old, despite the fact that other victims as young as 13 and 14 had come forward. and thats not only new information in terms of understanding the deal that alex acosta brokered for jeffrey epstein, it also sheds light on just how much of a sweetheart deal alex acosta gave jeffrey ep...

Before the deadline. quote, two mystery parties tried to restrict release of documents in jeffrey epsteins civil suit. this happened right at the deadline. one of the mystery people who came forward right at the deadline is reportedly an epstein victim who wants to keep information about herself out of any release documents. the other is an unidentified man calling himself john doe, and those two mystery parties at the very last minute are trying to block the unsealing of these court records abo...

Mueller report is coming out soon. this is a big distraction. people might notice this constitutional crisis more than they notice whats in the mueller report. but the other thing, rachel, that is different from the nixon period and also iran/contra where ronald reagan actually cooperated quite a lot with congress is in the case of reagan and nixon, they at that point had to fear the very real possibility that they might be impeached and convicted if it came to that. in trumps case, he may have ...

These court filings, all we were able to get for this story as of last night when we did this on the air last night was a no comment from mike flynns lawyers. well, weve still only got a no comment from mike flynns lawyers. but today weve also obtained a no comment from bijan kians lawyers, the ones who are making this assertion. that said, a spokesman at their law firm tells us that theyre not just no commenting us on this story. a spokesman for their law firm tells us theyre actually prohibite...

Instead of bringing charges as a result of that investigation, the u.s. attorney in that jurisdiction, again now our sitting labor secretary alex acosta, he gave jeffrey epstein a deal, which gave him immunity from all federal charges. instead, acosta let epstein plead guilty to just two state prostitution charges. since then, news organizations led by the "miami herald" have been battling in federal court trying to get records unsealed in a defamation case related to the case against epstein. t...

>> in terms of what happened here with these victims, i mean, its striking that you have found that this woman who was the described victim essentially in the secret plea deal didnt even know that hers was the case that he plead to. one of the things thats striking is it appears that in court, the judge asked about other victims, and the judge asked the prosecutors whether or not the victims were essentially okay with this deal or they were aware it had happened. prosecutors appear to have misre...

Polk award for this reporting. julia, thank you for this reporting. thank you for your time tonight. >> thanks. >> we have seen a lot of skedaddle and departures and scandal from the trump administration and even from the trump cabinet. it remains astonishing to me. that in this case, with alex acosta as labor secretary, literally a federal judge ruled that he broke the law when leading that prosecutors office into doing this deal with epstein. the law was broken by acosta in his last federal jo...