the u.s. women's national soccer team honored in the canyon of heroes right here in new york city later this morning. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i'm christine romans. >> i'm excited to be there. the first parade since the women's team did it again in 2015. i'm dave briggs, 5:00 a.m. in the east. we start in the nation's capital. a reprove for labor secretary alex acosta for now. he is under scrutiny for a sweetheart plea deal he made with jeffrey epstein when the well-connected financeer faced sex abuse charges in 2008. sources tell us president trump is saying privately he has confidence in acosta. publicly the president is downplaying acosta's role in the plea deal which as a u.s. attorney he oversaw. >> for 2.5 years he's been just an excellent secretary of labor. he's done a fantastic job. you're talking about a long time ago. again, it was a decision made i think not by him but by a lot of