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Investigative service served warrants on truth aquatics. the salvage is to investigate the boat in the coming days. five crew members survived. a top m.i.t. official resigning following explosive allegations he tried to disguise the source of solicitations made by epstein. ito was a professor of the media lab. he stepped down a day after "the new yorker" he tried to conceal the relationship with epstein. internal communications show that epstein was key in solicitations by donors. it includes ...

Addiction and drug dependency is a health problem. >> is that why are jails are so full? >> yes. >> but things have been changing. you may have heard of the first step act signed into law late last year by president trump, which is projected to reduce the sentences of thousands of nonviolent offenders in federal prisons. but that doesnt affect more than 90% of the u.s. prison population, which is locked up in state and local facilities. some states had already been relaxing sentencing guidelines...

And we didnt have to say that. we could have said their drug addiction and drug dependency is a health problem. >> is that why are jails are so full? >> yes. >> but things have been changing. you may have heard of the first step act signed into law late last year by president trump, which is projected to reduce the sentences of thousands of nonviolent offenders in federal prisons. but that doesnt affect more than 90% of the u.s. prison population, which is locked up in state and local facilities...

>> what else do we know, tom, about this anonymous john doe? >> so there is a lot of interest in who this person is, why they have entered this case. and their interest in keeping their name either redacted in these filings or any documents pertaining to them sealed? heres what we know. this has to be somebody that knows that theyre mentioned in this litigation, in this civil proceeding that was settled a couple of years ago. we know that it has to be somebody who thinks they have exposure to an...

You. or it could have been a more intensive recruiting. the prosecutors have to parse out who they consider to be a victim and who they consider ultimately to be a recruiter and a possible co-conspirator of epstein. >> if epstein were still alive today, would epsteins former employees, associates who were complicit be in danger of being charged right now? would all of the charges just fall on epsteins shoulder? is it just because hes no longer here that this next step is possible? >> epsteins de...

>> he knows what he has done. >> joining me now is msnbcs legal analyst. this case has concluded. there are investigations into other allegations. how do you see this case playing out given what we just heard here? >> the attorney general in a statement, a press conference said anyone else who was involved with epstein should be very concerned because the investigation is going to continue. one of the challenges with an investigation like this is something that the government, the prosecutors al...

Federal authorities are considering charges that includes sex trafficking and sex trafficking conspiracy. this suit against his estate, susan, having heard these women and their incredibly painful testimony this week in court, can the suit against the estate bring them any kind of justice, do you think? >> i dont think theyll see justice. i think theyre trying to get some kind of recognition for what they have gone through and the suffering this caused. just one other thing id like to talk about...

Today a federal judge formally closed the criminal case against accused sex trafficker jeffrey epstein less than three weeks after his apparent suicide in federal prison. but the whole thing is far from over. reuters reporting today two different cameras malfunctioned outside the jail cell where epstein was found dead while awaiting trial. those cameras have reportedly been sent to an fbi crime lab for an examination, part of the investigation into his death. in the wake of nearly two dozen vict...

Between ghislaine maxwell who does seem to be at the top, and many victims mentioned in the same breath as epstein and in the case of the farmer sisters was actually accused of assault herself. and someone who is maybe a victim of epstein before they became a victimizer. what does the law do with those people in that latter category? >> what we know is two of the home with are under scrutiny from federal prosecutors were potentially victims themselves. one of them is nadia marcinkova, who was on...

Ended the case against the accused sex trafficker. following this weeks hearing when two dozen alleged victims testified about what epstein did to them, the end of the criminal case however does not affect any civil claims that are brought by victims against his estate. or the federal grand jury into his circumstances of his death earlier this month. according to "the new york times" epstein is accused in civil suits of relying on the organized network of underlings, those who trained girls how ...