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Out those 15 days, now 14 days to see what could potentially be the remedy here, so far alex acosta is still serving as the u.s. secretary of labor. the white house asked repeatedly about this matter said finally today they are, quote, looking into it, but that as far as anybody knows, the president has not lost confidence in his labor secretary. when alex acosta was picked to be in the presidents cabinet, he was asked about his handling of the jeffrey epstein case at his confirmation hearings. ...

Yesterday a federal judge agreed with those victims. a federal judge in southern florida ruled that the current secretary of labor alex acosta in fact broke the law when he negotiated that sweet deal for this serial sex offender and then agreed to keep it secret from epsteins victims. and that is an astonishing turn, right? after 11 years. 11 years this has been pending. astonishing turn in this astonishing and repulsive and incredible case. but now heres the thing, and this is something where i...

Attracted scrutiny after investigative reporting by the folks at "miami herald." president trump was asked for his take on the situation. >> mr. president, do you have concerns about the allabor secretary? >> hes done a great job as labor secretary and that seems like a long time ago but hes been a fantastic labor secretary. thats all i can tell you about it and thats all i know about it. >> seems like a long time ago, all the child sex abuse. thanks to "the "miami herald"" this is what we knows...

Here is how president trump answered questioned about the handling of jeffrey epsteins case. >> do you have any concerns about the epstein case. >> i dont know too much about it, it seems like a long time ago, but i know he has been a fantastic labor secretary, thats all i really know about it. >> when we come back, what is next for donald trumps labor secretary and jeffrey epstein. only verizon was ranked number one by rootmetrics, number one in three opensignal mobile experience awards, number...

Manafort wither state crimes. pardons only reply to federal charges. what do we know e? >> we know the manhattan d.a. has a grand jury looking into the actions of paul manafort. bank fraud, possible tax violations and others at the state level and that process is moving forward. we know witnesses are being called and we know that there are plans, perhaps in the coming weeks to file state-related charges here in new york. it is unclear to us at this wlohour whether theyre going to move forward or...

Agreement without ever notifying his victims. now a judge has sided with those victims for the first time that they have -- for the first time in more than the decade that they have been pursuing this matter. julie brown, thank you very much for joining us tonight. congratulations on your coverage of this story thus far. >> thank you. >> i wanted to ask you what you think will be the impact of this judges ruling yesterday. i was struck by the fact that hes told the two sides in this case to go t...

Get his sentence handed down in that case in virginia. so thats everything thats happened thus far and what were expecting in virginia. what we are waiting on tonight has nothing to do with the virginia case. tonight we are waiting on prosecutors recommendation for what sentence paul manafort should get in the other case. with the case that was brought against him in washington, d.c. and that will, again, start this whole, you know, recourse of process where we will get the submission from prose...

Front? >> well, i actually think that the vatican meeting going on right now shows you that the church itself has not made much progress. they are still talking about false claims. they are worried about the reputations of the ones accused but this decision in the epstein case is a big deal because it basically says hey, victims, you get to be part of the process and when youre not. >> right. >> something is going to happen. if in fact, we see a trial of epstein, which we could. we could see thi...

Orientation bringing an obstruction of justice case for the use of a legitimate power of the president done for corrupt purposes. so that would include firing james comey. it would include firing sally yates. it would include any pardon that he gives. and i think the very fact that his first pardon was to a person who was sheriff joe arpaio was a potential message dont worry. you dont have to cooperate with the court. i will take care of you. and i think that is part of him sending a message, pa...

Underage girls. jeffrey epistone was in his 50s. many of his victims were kids, girls as young as 13. the fbi was able to identify dozens of girls who had been epsteins victims. they prepared a 53-page document laying out federal charges would could have easily sent epstein to prison for the rest of his life. but that, of course, is not what happened to jeffrey epstein because the u.s. attorney in that case, the man who is currently president trumps secretary of labor, he made a deal that saved ...