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Non-prosecution agreement regardless of what the state did. acosta could have just let this investigation run. he affirmatively chose to enter into this non-prosecution agreement without any imperative to do so. >> thats right. first of all for context, we dont routinely or ever end cases with a non-prosecution agreement. if we dont have a case, we simply dont bring it. there was no reason, no need to enter into a non-prosecution agreement. putting that aside, there was absolutely no time limit ...

Palm beach police department in 2005. the palm beach police department asked the fbi to get involved. the fbi that investigated and basically had a 53-page indictment ready to go. now at this point in the span of, you know, i think -- in the span of about six months, this translates into a plea deal where he then -- epstein pleads to these lesser charges in state court. its important to remember -- >> one victim involved who was 17, you know, it was like the best-case scenario for him. and the m...

That communication was. >> julie: as a parent, you wonder, meeting somebody usually takes place at an earlier hour. they met sometime around 2:30 in the morning. it makes you wonder how they have prior communication to this? because it seems like an odd hour to meet somebody for the very first time. >> the scary thing is sometimes when you have a lot of communication online through texting or whatever it may be, you feel like you know the person even if you havent met, and i dont believe they ha...

>> right. >> they need to call people in and find out what exactly happened here and hear from these young women. what were they willing to testify to? because acosta keeps referring that they didnt have the evidence, that he wasnt going to get jail time under the federal law. well, the federal law that he was just indicted under, there is a significant amount of jail time and no statute of limitations. >> and to your point, cynthia, one of the remarkable things about the "miami herald" and juli...

Recent allegations of a rape that took place in a new york department store. so its hard to see how this impacts the president personally but there is an interesting legal hook, nicolle, which is the stat sheet epstein was indicted under is a statute that has an internal obstruction of justice position. and why that matters is normally the government only has five years to look back and prosecute people for obstruction of justice. but here theres no statute of limitations and that means that if ...

Willing to. it will be interesting to see how this develops if her claims could come into the criminal case against jeffrey epstein. sometimes a complicated question about staofp chute of limitations. it they are obviously going forward with the criminal case against epstein. perhaps she will become part of it. >> in new york. there was one in florida. it was negotiated, as you know, in part bisect of labor alex acosta, who was then a u.s. attorney. this standing of acosta inside the white house...

I dont care who it is. >> right. >> they need to call people in and find out what exactly happened here and hear from these young women. what were they willing to testify to? because acosta keeps referring that they didnt have the evidence, that he wasnt going to get jail time under the federal law. well, the federal law that he was just indicted under, there is a significant amount of jail time and no statute of limitations. >> and to your point, cynthia, one of the remarkable things about the ...

Michael steel. heidi, right under the box here. it felt like the longer acosta went on, probably the better it got for him personally. but does this shut the door for his problems? >> no, because as you monitored the wires as i did, members started to issue statements saying this doesnt change anything, they still want him to resign including senator bloom that. youve already had it from the highest levels of the democratic party. there were a lot of questions that remain unanswered. acosta almo...

Of the plea deal. what do you think we could learn from that review? there seems in particular to be some questions around how mr. acosta treated the victims of jeffrey epstein. >> well, i dont think theres any doubt about a ruling by a federal court holding that this plea agreement was inappropriate, in fact, it had violated federal law because of his failure to notify the victims here, but what there isnt much knowledge about yet publicly is exactly what information he had available to him as ...

Could double jeopardy defense be made here? how does the statute of limitations factor into all th this? >> okay. i just ready. sorry about that. he was their reality. this is based on the same types of accusations that he faced back in 2002 and 2005. in terms of double jeopardy, it is not a factor because when he signed his plea deal, it dealt specifically with state charges. not federal charges, so he is a lot right now to be charged federally for those same types of allegations. as far as the...