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But then they closed the case without ever bringing charges against that individual. it is one thing to think that individual one, president trump, was safe from indictment himself there because he was president at the time and the justice department wont indict a sitting president, but hes no longer president. nevertheless, that sdny case was closed. in addition to individual one, though, there was also executive one, described by prosecutors. executive one, a top executive at the top of the tr...

Commission of those felonies who actually benefitted from the commission of those felonies. but then they closed the case without ever bringing charges against that individual. it is one thing to think that individual-1, president trump, was safe from indictment himself there because he was president at the time and the justice department wont indict a sitting president. but hes no longer president. nevertheless, that sdny case was closed. in addition to individual-1, though, there was also exec...

Discussed in the materials are now a matter of national importance. it is time every american has an opportunity to scrutinize the materials. and that is where we start today with some of our favorite reporters and friends. jeremy bash is the former chief of staff at the cia and defense department. frank figliuzzi, former assistant director for counterintelligence at the fbi, plus former federal prosecutor glenn kirschner is here. "the washington post" national political reporter roftia costa is...

The labor secretary to continue to serve in the trump administration, no one utterst word victim. no one says a word about a mischarge of justice. all they say is read the james patterson fictionalized version of the sex scandal. i never liked him and i and did the make acosta go. what is happening, joyce? >> trump just doesnt seem to understand that justice isnt just another deal. and this is so lard i think to watch as a prosecutor knowing that when you enter into a plea agreement in a case, y...

>> so much of what acosta said in his weak defense simply doesnt ring true. for one of the most disturbing portions of my fbi career, i supervised a crimes against children squad in northern california. and i have to tell you, it still impacts me today. and i can tell you this, no u.s. attorney, no assistant u.s. attorney ever said to me, im feeling a lot of pressure from this defense team. i really think the money theyre throwing around on this is going to hurt us. weve got to cut a deal. it do...

Years later for him to stand up and defend that decision is unexplicable. on the same timeline i had a case in my office, i was an appellate chief about making pornography with young victims. the sentence received was not the maximum sentence but it was long enough to keep that defendant in jail functionally for the rest of his life and she was outraged. she wanted to appeal to the judge. she wanted every last minute, every last day she was entitled to of this sentence. thats how strongly prosec...

Picture. i continue to say thats why we see public corruption prosecutors involved in this sdny case. >> you know also to what frank was saying about how the pressures are only going to step up on acosta in florida, theres another piece of this in new york with i think the other shoe to drop, which is what kind of records did jeffrey he steep have in his vaults? are there films or photographs? >> yeah, ashleys paper had reported in an address book he had 12 entries for the trumps. >> that was or...

>> hopefully he will now. >> hopefully he will. but the thing i found, obviously, you can tell by the tone of my perspective, the thing that i found so troubling, disheartening and really unbelievable was the way that acosta has described the challenge he had, because its like saying its really difficult to make an omelet. well, get out of the kitchen if you dont know how to cook. >> ashley, this is something ive heard from the right and the left in the legal community this week. any thoughts on...

53-page indictment. why dont we reference that lest we let the facts get too far. facing a 53-page federal indictment, epstein could have ended up in federal prison for the rest of his life. but a deal was struck, an extraordinary plea agreement, that would conceal the full extent of epsteins crimes and the number of people involved. that one sentence or one paragraph, two sentences seems at the moment to be the sum total of alex acostas legacy. >> at the time that acosta made this decision, doj...

Florida that handled the case, the police officers who interacted with those agents and prosecutors. and theyre going to figure out what was the phone activity, who was dangled money, cash, jobs by epstein and/or his cutouts, and where are these people today? who objected to the deal in the u.s. attorneys office? and was that documented or not? >> your colleague bob costas said something on this program wednesday that sort of sent a chill up my spine. he said that what every journalist in the co...