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That is, steph. listen, accosta has been caught by a federal judge, having violated the crime victims rights act. that act came into existence in 2004 and i know the exact month because i was supervising about 25 to 30 federal prosecutors at the time, and we had to move at light speed to absorb it, understand it, train our prosecutors on it, and make sure we upheld every single right that victims now had under the law. and to see this reporting, remarkable reporting as you said, that accosta violated the rights of the most vulnerable victims -- these are young girls, young ladies who were bein...

In an indictment which would be a public record. we take pains to protect the victims. of course, that's a little ironic because the u.s. attorney at the time, accosta, not only was not trying to protect the victims, but he was violating their rights -- >> okay, stay on that for a moment, because you obviously always want to protect a victim. but these victims were misled. they were misled about the fbi investigation being terminated. >> they were misled. and you know, they're involved in this litigation now. i think the judge gave the parties 150 days to report ba parties 15 days to address h...

His palm beach mansion and sexually abused them. the report also found epstein was giving a shockingly lenient plea deal by the southern district of florida which was headed by alex accosta at the time. all this now leading to calls for accosta to resign from his kw cabinet position. it's a complicated story. joining me is former prosecutor for the southern district of new york, mimi. this is the inspector general for the attorney general, because at the time that this was happening, accosta was an employee of the department of justice. >> exactly. i mean, you have here sort of a perfect storm...

Seriously enough. right, you put it exactly right. in the best case scenario is frankly not criminal. the best case scenario that's this a prosecutor who had relation ships, several attorneys including alan dershowitz and others. there was a private meeting that was reported between accosta and one of the attorneys who he was friends with outside of the u.s. attorney's office privately. i mean, very strange circumstances. and so i think frankly, the best case scenario is that he just agreed to lenient deal because they did not take these crimes seriously enough and they need to be relooked at,...

I will retweet it. it is grotesque. and these women deserve justice. >> and women is getting a little ahead of the maturity curve here. many were as young as 13. >> frightening. >> many of them were young teenagers. theerz' what we hear from accosta. this is the part -- i've never really heard this from the federal prosecutor, let alone someone who is supposedly politically ambitious. usually they take on cases you want to argue to be hyper aggressive. here, they say well, started as a state case. so really, you know, it was a little tough for the fed -- that's never true, especially when ther...