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Individuals to come out. eric: and finally, can anything else come out, paperwork and this sort of thing? weve heard reports that he was running an alleged blackmail operation, trying to blackmail, perhaps, some of these powerful people and maybe brought them down to st. james island in the caribbean for, perhaps, sexual favors? do you think theres proof, evidence that he was running this type of ring with others, and that could all come out with his death? >> i think that could. i think that th...

This morning. what are we learning? >> were outside the metropolitan correctional center where jeffrey epstein is being held without bail. it is not clear what happened here. multiple agencies are reporting it in different ways. he was found injured or blue in the face in a fee tall position with marks on his neck suggesting he may have tried to hang himself or attacked by another inmate. injuries described as not serious but he was reportedly carried away for medical treatment. the u.s. attorne...

Member gave a serial sex abuser the deal of a lifetime. >> starting with you, obviously, acosta did not survive the white house. legally speaking. what might this mean for him? >> i think acostas biggest concern is the investigation that the department of justice is doing internally, to look at the process of that plea agreement. to me, hes got two big problems. the bottom line in that plea deal is beyond anything you could explain as a prosecutor. 13 months, and just for comparison, i looked at...

Miami heralds julie k. brown prompting ben sasse to prod the justice department to open a probe into all of these decisions. epsteins lawyer did not return a call from the herald yesterday and speaking for acosta, a labor department spokesperson said the decisions were approved by the justice department and followed procedures. joining us on set msnbc legal analy analyst. so many laws were broken here with regards to prosecuting epstein. what are the next steps here for prosecutors, and could he...

A lot of them are sealed so you wouldnt know not only the names of the victims but exactly what mr. epstein and his accomplices actually did. so it was a challenge. and in some ways, it was also -- i was -- i had to try to get people to trust me to talk to me, and many of those people hadnt talked before buzz they were afraid that quite frankly the newspaper wouldnt print the story. they felt that after all these years, mr. epstein and others had quieted the story, you know, had successfully kep...

U.s. attorney here in miami, and it was under his watch, so to speak, that this case was handled. it was initially a case handled by the state prosecutor in palm beach county, who decided that he basically was going to let mr. epstein off with very, very light misdemeanor. he really did not want the police to pursue it, so the police chief went over his head, essentially, and asked the fbi to investigate. and thats when it fell into mr. acosta -- eventually fell under his purview. >> and your he...