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Position but retain what china sees as the natural historic place. >> looking forward to seeing the whole thing. thank you for joining me you can watch richards full report on sunday 10:00 p.m eastern. tonight haunting images of the president staring at caged men being held by the united states reporters describing the sight, the smell, the it migrant stories of being denied basic hygiene while sleeping on concrete also the president loses another cabinet secretary. alex acosta is out the la...

An effort to have dale denied. epstein awaits it trial for sex trafficking charges in new york. prosecutors say epstein made the payments to two people shortly after an investigation was published in the "miami herald" in november of last year. the trump administration will allow a pediatrician to conduct an independent investigation of conditions for migrant children at u.s. border facilities. dr. paul wise of stanford university was critical of conditions for children after touring the center ...

File escape serious prison time. >> and what about the presidents case with epstein? does it hold water when he says he was never a fan >> well, you know, the president has people -- he hires people and ohes fans of them and then the next day or a month later hes not a fan off theirs. so its hard to say. maybe he wasnt a fan at one point and he wasnt at another point. i dont think we know the full story of his relationship with epstein. >> and when epstein asks to be confined to his manhattan ma...

The epstein case on wednesday, blaming state prosecutors and insisting he cut the best deal possible, but it wasnt enough to save his job. sources tell nbc news that trump spent yesterday asking friends and allies about whether acosta should be fired and was assured that acosta would leave on his own which must have been a relief >> i just want to let you know, this is him not me, because im with him he was a -- he is a tremendous talent he is a hispanic man he went to harvard, a great student. ...

Yesterday, the president and people close to him did not ask for the resignation, they certainly did not fight it. it seemed that the writing was probably on the wall anyway. as we know, this president is attuned to media coverage like none of his predecessors ever were. and that he -- as this story continues to dominate headlines, there is a sense among the presidents allies that he would eventually tire of the distraction and want the secretary to go. >> scott, what is the temperature on the h...

And really doesnt -- he doesnt apologize, doesnt really show much humanity and only seems to make it worse and add to it. >> at a thats right. and, you know, i talked to this administration official who said, anderson, that it appeared that acosta had stabilized things a little bit but when you would talk to officials across the west wing what you would here was sort of muted praise for alex acosta. he stopped the bleeding. that he gave some information to defenders to counterhis critics and so ...

So what is it were trying to achieve? and it didnt start with mr. trump? when obama came and deported -- and the president mentioned congress in numerous remarks, numerous interviews. what efforts are underway at a remedy >> so congress just passed $4.6 billion for the southwest border. speaker pelosi says she plans to bring a couple of pieces of legislation dealing with with stricter oversight and humanitarian migrants to the floor. whether or not that makes it to the senate remains to be see...

Being sad to leave. >> as i look forward, i do not think it is right and fair for this administrations labor department to have epstein as the focus, rather than the incredible economy that we have today. it would be selfish for me to stay in this position and continue talking about a case thats 12 years old. >> first of all, there is no way that you could credit alex acosta with the economy, how good the economy is or isnt. >> most americans have never heard of him. >> its immaterial. hes in ch...

Prosecutors in the u.s. attorneys office admitted that reinhart did have confident information about this case. so you have a prosecutor in acostas office who had information go to work for epstein representing some of the epstein co-conspirators or alleged co-conspirators that he represented one of the accomplices, he represented the pilot. so that, to me, its always been curious how that could have happened. >> julie, thank you so much for calling in on this breaking news. and just thank you f...

Jeffrey epstein more than a decade ago while he served as u.s. attorney in florida. those agreements allowed epstein to avoid federal sex crimes charges in exchange for an 18-month jail sentence and registering as a sex offender. ultimately, he served 13 months of that sentence. and during it he was allowed to go to his office for 12 hours a day, six days a week. earlier this week, following new charges against epstein and new questions about that deal, acosta defended it saying it was either th...