Its not something i can do with 25 candidates in the race indefinitely. I will keep trying. They keep you up because you are going back and saying i should have and then i should have. Woulda coulda shoulda. If i should have followed up that way and that way. You know how it is. The sleepless life of the perfectionist. I know. Im 14 and look like this. Thank you, rachel. Katie porter will join us. Many of you remember how a single mother could possibly survive financially on the entry level wage that Jpmorgan Chase pays single mothers and others in katie porters california district. Jamie diamond had no answer at all, but congresswoman porter just got a very interesting letter from Jpmorgan Chase that she will share with us later in this hour. Also later in the hour, we will see Savannah Guthries very sad interview with a new accuser of Jeffrey Epstein who says that he began sexually abusing her when she was 14 years old and that he forcibly raped her at 15 years old. Did Jeffrey Epstein rape you . He raped me. Forcefully raped me and knew exactly what he was doing. I dont think cared. What hurts even more so is if i was not afraid to come forward sooner, maybe he wouldnt have done it to other girls. I feel guilty to this day. We will listen to more of that deeply disturbing interview later in the hour. First, the most important thing to remember when reviewing todays news is something that is not part of todays news. Something that wasnt mentioned in the labor secretarys press conference about why he decided not to prosecute for sex crimes and the labor secretary was the u. S. Attorney in florida. The most important thing to remember about all of the news today involving the sex crimes of Donald Trumps old friend, Jeffrey Epstein and the refusal to prosecute those alleged crimes by alex acosta when he was a federal prosecutor is that donald trump is himself an accused sexual assaulter. An accused sex criminal. He stands accused by dozens of women. Donald trump does himself. Most recently he was accused of deliberate forcible violent rain. And even more important than that than the accusations, the president of the United States is a confessed sexual assaulter. I moved on her actually. She was there and moved on her and i failed. I admit it. I did try to [ bleep ] her. She was married. Thats the president of the United States. And only that president of the United States would ever have considered appointing alex acosta to anything years after alex acosta was exposed as the federal prosecutor who according to a florida federal judge violated the law and the way he handled the Jeffrey Epstein case. I moved on her like a [ bleep ]. I couldnt get there and she was married. She now has the big phony [ bleep ]. Only that president acosta. Any other president would have seen a day of reckoning was going to come eventually for alex acosta as it has now finally come. Only donald trump would not care about that day of reckoning and how alex acosta handled a major sex crimes case against a rich old friend of Donald Trumps in palm beach. I have to use tictacs in case i start kissing her. Im automatically a tracked to beautiful i just start kissing them. When youre a star, you can do anything. Grab them by the [ bleep ]. You can do anything. Thats Donald Trumps confession to sexual assault. You can do anything. Thats Donald Trumps description of the first sexually assaultive moves he likes to make on women. You can do anything. For donald trump, you can get away with anything. It means his friends and his people should be able to get away with anything. The white house staff can violate the hatch act whenever they want. You can do anything. Thats the motto of the trump white house. It certainly means that Donald Trumps labor secretary could make a deal not to prosecute an old friend of Donald Trumps for sex crimes and the labor secretary should be able to get away with that and donald trump should be able to get away with choosing alex acosta as his labor secretary because you can do anything. How about a little hug for donald. He just got off the bus. Melania said this was okay. Melania said this was okay. He appointed alex acosta and held a press conference in which he tried to explain his decision not to prosecute Jeffrey Epstein on federal charges. In 2008, a major newspaper described the epstein prosecution like this. A florida grand jury that is a grand jury convened by the District Attorney of Palm Beach County had charged epstein with the lesser offense. At that time the epstein legal team was elated. He would have avoided prison all together. Then the United StatesAttorneys Office in miami became involved. Epstein got an ultimatum. Plead guilty to a charge that would require jail time and registration or face federal charges. And that was the week more than 10 years ago that epstein went to jail. After alex acostas press conference in which he blamed the very forgiving deal he made with Jeffrey Epstein on the local palm beach prosecutor, Barry Krisher who gave this statement. I can emphatically state that his recollection of this matter is completely wrong. The u. S. Attorneys office produced a 53page indictment that was abandoned after secret negotiations between mr. Epsteins lawyers and mr. Acosta. The state Attorneys Office was not a part to those meetings and negotiations and definitely had no part in the federal nonprosecution agreement and the unusual confidentiality arrangement that kept everything hidden from the victims no matter how my office resolved the state charges. The u. S. Attorneys office always had the ability to file its own federal charges. Mr. Acosta should not be allowed to rewrite history. Barry krishers statement makes the central element of alex acostas defense today untrue. The state Attorneys Office was not a party to those meetings or negotiations and definitely had no part in the federal nonprosecution agreement. If that is true, that demolishes everything that alex acosta said today. He was asked about a private meeting with one of Jeffrey Epsteins defense lawyers that many legal observers are calling improper and unethical. The meeting that was alleged was a breakfast meeting that took place after the agreement was negotiated, not before. The agreement was signed in september. After the agreement was negotiated, one of epsteins attorneys asked for a meeting. A hearing. I was giving a speech. I was staying at a hotel. I agreed to have a brief meeting at 7 00 a. M. Rather than open the office, i spoke with that attorney. The miami Herald Reporter who exposed that meeting, julie brown, said this after this press conference today. Here talked about the meeting and how the deal had been signed by the meeting, time of the meeting, that october meeting. There was a piece of paper signed and they were still really in the thick of negotiations and it was certainly still talking about there was a followup letter from one of epsteins lawyers that went to mr. Acosta that said thank you very much for your agreement to keep this all secret. It was clear that that part of the agreement was discussed at that meeting that he had called some kind of false facts or fake news kind of thing about that meeting. The reality was their negotiations were going all the way through until june when he finally pled. He appealed to the justice department. There were all kinds of talk still goinga o on after the initial signing of that agreement. We asked if he was confident that the president would continue to support him. Im doing my job. If at some point the president decides i am not the best person to do this job, i respect that. That is his choice. I serve at the pleasure of the president. He serves at the pleasure of a president who is an admitted sexual assaulter. Donald trump is the only president in history who could find pleasure in having alex acosta in his cabinet. Leading off our discussion are carol lam from the Southern District of california and San Diego Superior Court judge. A former attorney from the Eastern District of michigan and legal contributor and ron is with us, a former senior aide to joe biden and president obama and a former chief counsel to the Senate Judiciary committee. Barbara mcquaid, i want to start with you with your experience as a federal prosecutor. Were you listening to the attorney explaining his decision not to prosecute someone in a major sex crimes case. What was your reaction to the totality of what you heard . Im ordinarily reluctant to criticize decisions by a fellow prosecutor because cases can be complicate and there might be reasons you would make a decision. Things he said did not ring true. One is the idea that he was somehow bound by what the state Court Prosecutor was doing. Because the state Court Prosecutor was going to charge a very low offense that somehow it was on him to rescue that case. As the prosecutor has stated, they were in no way bound together. He could have filed his own 53count indictment without regard to anything that the state Court Prosecutor was doing. I thought his answers were inadequate about protecting the credibility of the witnesses if the deal should fall apart. Thats no reason to violate the crime victims act and finally i also thought his answer was inadequate that granted immunity to any potential coconspirators. He said the focus was on the top player. That clause could apply to anyone in the world. To include it without specifying names, they specified names and also said and any potential coconspiror will not be prosecuted. You could drive a truck through that and makes me wonder if there was not someone else they were seeking to protect with that language. Many of us were listening and the whole thing is being blamed on the local Florida State prosecutor and wondering whats the local florida prosecutor going to say and pretty much after that press conference is over, he said all of that is untrue. Thats not a great situation when you had a press conference and the person was the person you were addressing and completely misstated what happened. Coming out of that press conference. He was congratulating the Southern District of new york for bringing charges based on what he said was new evidence. The Southern District of new york indicted epstein for events that took place partly in florida from 2002 to 2005. Those facts existed at the time acostas office was running their investigation. So to have entered into a nonprosecution agreement and say we are so happy that another district has done what we should have done 12 years ago, but we are blameless as barbara said, doesnt ring quite right. Ron, we are here discussing this because this is Donald Trumps world. This is the only president of the United States who in the vetting process for his labor secretary would have discovered this and they did. It was discussed by the vetters in the process. This history for alex acosta was perfectly okay for donald trump. Yeah. Lawrence, thats the key point. The biggest news is that there is no news here at all in some respects. This was known that mr. Acosta had bungled the case and a judge said he violated the law in not notifying the victims about his decision. There was information about his sweetheart deal and donald trump nominated him anyway and the majority of the senate and republicans confirmed him anyway. Not just for any job. Mr. Acosta is the senior federal official in charge of most of our antihuman trafficking programs. We have a person who turned the other way on the trafficking of young girls be in charge of now enforcing the laws that protect many young women in the workforce for these trafficking things. The only thing worse than putting alex acosta in charge of the Labor Department is the fact that we sit here and he is still in charge of the Labor Department and donald trump seems uninclined to do anything about it. What do you make for the one on one meeting with one of the Jeffrey Epstein lawyers . I dont know. He did point out that the agreement had been signed in september and that meeting occurred in october. He made quite a point of that. Therefore that meant it could not have had anything to do with the agreement whatsoever. As the reporter pointed out from the miami herald, what they were discussing there was not the substance of the agreement itself, but the secrecy of it and not informing the victims in miami instead of palm beach where the victims reside. I dont know if i was satisfied by the answers. The meeting occurred after the formal document was signed doesnt mean they didnt discuss things that might have been improper. It does seem odd to have a meeting to discuss the substance of the case without the prosecutors assigned to the case being present and involved in that discussion. If you were u. S. Attorney, you dont want to be in a meeting like that alone. You want today or in the future have your witnesses to come forward with the assistant u. S. Attorneys in the room with you to say this is what happened in the meeting. Im stunned that a u. S. Attorney would do a one on one meeting out of the office with a lawyer in a highly controversial case like this. Its a very, very dangerous thing to do. I had a policy against ever doing that. You want to have the line prosecuted to make sure what you are being o being told is true with respect to what happened in the case and as you mentioned, you dont want to footage thini meeting and tell the prosecutors the u. S. Attorney said we could do this. Then your prosecutors are left without resource because they were not at the meeting. The fact that it took place, thats the problem. Thats a dangerous thing to do. The House Oversight wants to go in. Alex acosta doesnt want to testify during his entire career as labor secretary. What happens next . What happens is i think that hes going to need attorney general barr to invent a special secret, wonderful amazing privilege that prevents the secretary of labor to testify before congress. If he does, he is going to be exposed for not just horrible judgment, but all the lies he now told about it and all the misleading statements. I dont see how he survives that hearing. If that hearing stays on the books, my guess is that the secretary may reconsider his position and resign before he has to testify before congress about the events he discussed today. Thank you all for starting us off on this important subject. Appreciate it. Thank you. When we come back, you will hear Savannah Guthries very, very sad, very grim interview this morning with a new accuser of Jeffrey Epstein who says he began sexually abusing her when she was 14 years old and she said that he forcibly raped her when she was 15 years old. Ry mo, they feel like they have to drink a lot of water. Medications seem to be the number one cause for dry mouth. Dry mouth can cause increased cavities, bad breath, oral irritation. I like to recommend biotene. 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She was poor and attended a high school for the performing arts and was recruited by a woman hanging around the high school scouting talent for Jeffrey Epstein. She described that recruiters technique with Savannah Guthrie on the today show. The first time she brought up the name Jeffrey Epstein, how did she describe him . A great guy. He helped me. She was similar to me. Did she say he could help you with your career. That was a big part. You used the phrase recruiter. 100 , yeah. When you met him, what did you think . Very nice. Saying that he heard a lot about me. The recruiter was talking such nice things. A few weeks later she said Jeffrey Epstein took her into his massage room. In that moment it didnt but at the same time i was scared too because i didnt know if he would get angry. I kind of just followed. I had just my underwear on. Thats how he liked it. I would give massages back. He would potentially later on turn over and play with himself. He would also like when i would play with his nipples. He used to get turned on by that. Then he would finish himself off and that would be the end of it. He would still give