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>> shannon: at floridas governors requesting state law-enforcement officials take over the criminal investigation of jeffrey epsteins case. he has ordered the florida department of law enforcement to review a work release program that allow the financial year to visit his office while staying at the county jail a decade ago. he is now in new york and jail awaiting charges on sex trafficking. former fbi agent peter strzok is suing the director and attorney general over his dismissal. he alleges t...

Assigned to monitor on these outings. allowed him to enter the estate on at least nine occasions and at least once unattended and for four hours. the paper says while it is a typical for inmates to be a copped. records show he was accompanied every time he was out. he paid over $130,000 for what one deputy wrote his job was to provide security for epstein. still ahead, a group of democrats are speaking out after visiting a detention center at the border. plus, what one senator is pledging to...

School degree? >> thats what his attorneys are saying. this passport is something he can give to kidnappers who say, im not from saudi arabia, im not the person youre looking for. >> how lame is that argument? i realize im just a normal person, but i dont have two pass ports and i dont spend my time worried and game planning escape plans. >> some people do have two pass ports, they have dual citizenship, but they dont have this kind of passport with a name thats not your own. in that sense, it i...

He was arrested last weekend. hundreds or even thousands of nude and semi-nude photos of young females were found at his manhattan hope. labor secretary alex acosta resigned friday, after facing scrutiny over a deck caddy-old plea deal when he was u.s. attorney for southern district of florida. jon meacham, there are a story about his essential self-rehabilitation, and essential got off with very little, a work release program where he worked from his office six days a year, and it sort of detai...

Epstein. his attorneys are now asking a federal judge to release the accused sexual predator from jail in exchange for a $77 million bail package. epsteins lawyers proposing his bond be secured by a mortgage on his manhattan mansion and his private jet as collateral. as you can imagine, federal prosecutors want the registered sex offender to replain behind bars without bond. epstein pleaded not guilty this week to charges of sex trafficking and conspiracy. the charges came more than a decade aft...

Prison. he was sentenced to just 13 months in a county jail and had to register as a sex offender. he was able to leave six days a week in a private chauffeur for a work release program to his private office. when reporters pressed secretary acosta yesterday, about why he agreed to such a deal, acosta placed blame squarely on local prosecutors in florida. >> the palm beach state attorneys office was ready to let epstein walk free, no jail time, nothing. the prosecutors in my former office found ...

He gave him basically 13 months in a work release program. and you were telling us youve never seen anything like this. >> i havent. and its showing who the president is willing to stand behind and who hes not. with the ambassador, the criticism is he was inept and impulsive, insecure. and look at the response. point proved. and then flip over to acosta, this guy who made an unconscionable deal, a secret de deal, a deal kept away from victims. a deal where they tried to -- ive done hundreds of t...

Guilty plea because letting him walk, leading with the state attorney was ready to do go forward would have been absolutely awful. >> secretary acosta is saying that he was essentially pleased with the deal that he got because he thought of the time that it was the best deal that he could get. it should be noted that he thought that epstein was going to be put in jail for 18 months and not be allowed to go in and go out of jail. as he ended up being allowed to do. a work release program where he...

Sounds like this happen in the 19th century. this was the most recent past. the most horrific kinds of stories. the fact that a wealthy man recruited teenage girls and abused them and was known for doing this, an open secret, and they couldnt more effectively prosecute him. he ends up going to jail for 13 months and is able to leave six days a week to do his job? that doesnt seem right. >> john: now acosta says he thought he was going to spend 18 months in jail and he said the work release progr...

>> weve seen him stick by roy moore. he is not afraid to use his political capital even in -- >> didnt go that well. >> thats true. >> he has pulled his support, but he has still maintained that he thinks hes an okay guy? we are in the opening stages of this story, obviously. acosta hasnt spoken much about this case, the few times he has done it included his confirmation hearing for labor secretary and there he said that he did not like some aspects of the deal, including the kind of work releas...