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The guild with people who dont have money, legal representation, african-american, come from minority communities and they have committed crimes that are victimless. eng it is -- i think it is an indictment of the entire legal system that needs to be addressed. >> i agree with that. julie is too humble to take credit for this, but the prosecutors made a point of pointing to her investigative journalism on this case as part of the reason they were standing there today indicting jeffrey epstein. p...

Stephanie, hes set to appear in court in just a few hours. what exactly can we expect? >> reporter: pewell, were expecting a bail hearing and theres a big question whether hell be allowed out at all. will he be given bail? this guy has spent some time for sex crimes in prison before. he has the means and the money to potentially flee. so thats certainly going to couple. a big question. you already have u.s. senator ben sasse calling on the government to keep him in jail. be interesting to see wh...

Hardening, look at that alert system. we all, i think, have a unique role and responsibility to prepare individually to be prepared for the next earthquake of magnitude even greater than 7.1. >> reporter: and its worth pointing out that people in california may have gotten a little lackadaisical since its been a good 20 years since there was a big earthquake. so you have bona fide ang lee knows, bona fide california kids who grew up here, are adults now who have not felt strong shaking until thi...

Ability of cpb and ice and hhs to hold people. i think the politics of this and the extraordinary distrust between democrats and trump over immigration and the sort of blame game that each is pointing at each other over this does tend to obscure the fact that as jay was just alluding to, an enormous surge of people starting around february has come into this border. and the capacity is so overstrained that there is nowhere to put them. thats why were hearing stories and seeing these pictures. 15...

Remarks about segregationists. garrett tenney has more from washington. >> mike, the timing of this apology is interesting because just a few weeks ago, joe biden refused to apologize for pointing to his work with segregationist senators as an example of working with those who he disagrees with, but in the first democratic debate, senator harris had one of the debates most memorable moments when she went after biden for his remarks. after that debate, she got a boost in the polls and biden took ...

Tune just a bit, you remember last month he refused to apologize after he faced heat from pointing to his work with segregationist senators as example of working with those who he disagreed with, the comments came back to bite him from kamala harris criticizing biden for it and that became one of the debates most memorable moments, now after slipping in the polls, biden is apologizing for his comments, here he is at an event in south carolina saturday. [inaudible] >> yes, i was, i regret it and ...

We now know a couple of memes sent to our colleagues specifically making light of separating migrant families. and some of the comments are directed at representative alexandria ocasio-cortez. one meme shows her pointing to a drinking fountain with the caption, is this a toilet? of course, that refers to the comment last week in which she was told by one particular migrant that she were told to drink from toilets. it also contains demeaning comments talking about asian and african-americans. a c...

But youre seeing very widespread destruction. >> reporter: yeah, and its worth pointing out that considering how large this earthquake was, ana, the destruction could have been so much worse. its actually surprising to not see as much, honestly. if you look at the house behind me this fire started after the earthquake hit and caught on fire here. you would think that maybe more houses would see the same devastation and this is the one thats been hit by this and thats part of the problem with the...

Agents filled with racist and offensive posts about migrant -- migrant families and democratic lawmakers. lets go to the border town of el paso, texas, natasha chen is it outfront. natasha, the posts in the -- in the now second facebook group uncovered are just as offensive as the first. what are you learning about it tonight? >> yeah, well its supposedly called the real cbp. and they are very disturbing posting. we have seen a couple of images obtained by our colleague nick valencia one showing...

Thats no longer a normal dispute. thats constitutional crisis territory. thats where hes pointing. can you count on people at the justice department being the right people and the upstanding people to stop it from happening? i mean, you cant say you didnt see this coming, right? more ahead. stay with us.