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Not those who would normally handle sex trafficking. are we doing the right thing and not reading too much into that? >> well, i think if the u.s. attorney says dont read too much into it, its important not to jump to conclusions. we never should. certainly what is in the indictment does not have any public corruption in it, right? from what we know so far, it is a sex trafficking case. there could be other reasons why the public integrity unit might be the lawyers themselves. it might be how th...

Monday. the trump administration tried and lost on this before the supreme court. none other than the chief justice found their reasoning contrived. the a.g. says they are going to work -- try to work out a way to get it in there but tell us why all the lawyers inside doj who were working on the case are no longer working on the case. >> first, a couple of things for context. its not unusual for attorneys that feel they personally do not want to work on a case, its not unusual for them to say i ...

Young looking women or girls including what are clearly labeled cds of photographs by various categories. todays charges have renewed focus on epsteins previous arrest in florida for sex crimes involving minors and the non-prosecution agreement he made with the feds back in 08. epsteins lawyers worked out a deal with the then u.s. attorney alex acosta. he would be the now labor secretary in the trump government. the deal acosta agreed to allow epstein to plead guilty to less serious state charge...

By the public integrity or public corruption department of the feds here in new york and not those who would normally handle sex trafficking. are we doing the right thing and not reading too much into that? >> well, i think if the u.s. attorney says dont read too much into it, its important not to jump to conclusions. we never should. certainly what is in the indictment does not have any public corruption in it, right? from what we know so far, it is a sex trafficking case. there could be other ...

Focus on epsteins previous arrest in florida for sex crimes involving minors and the non-prosecution agreement he made with the feds back in 08. epsteins lawyers worked out a deal with the thenacosta. he would be the now labor secretary in the trump government. the deal acosta agreed to allow epstein to plead guilty to less serious state charges, required that he register as a sex offender, serve about a year in jail most of it in a work release program with liberal rules of attendance at his no...

Work -- try to work out a way to get it in there but tell us why all the lawyers inside doj who were working on the case are no longer working on the case. >> first, a couple of things for context. its not unusual for attorneys that feel they personally do not want to work on a case, its not unusual for them to say i would have rather stepped back from this. it is highly unusual for every single lawyer in the fed programs branch, which is the branch of the justice department that defends the fed...

Agencies and someone like the fbi functions. i think he probably would have been a little more clever if he really wanted to -- >> if he wanted comey to do something. mindy, you worked inside doj at the beginning of the bush administration. and you know how that building works. and youve watched james comey. what do you think about the latest revelations about, the notes he was taking and about what we understand the president has asked him to do vis-a-vis the investigation? >> i think everybody...

To get through the senate. good to see you, sir. i just want to get straight to what you heard from the white house briefing where you have sarah huckabee sanders and i quote, the president lost confidence in comey. the department of justice lost confidence in comey, and the rank and file of of the fbi lost confidence in comey. >> yeah, brooke in regards to that, certainly i cant speak to what was going on inside doj or what was going inside the west wing. but it to say that the rank and file lo...