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12 notes to the judge. at one point requesting a white paper board, colored posted notes and highlighter. two weeks of graphic testimony four women said they were underage when maxwell tricked them into being sexually abused by epstein. if she is found guilty she is facing 70 years behind bars. she pled not guilty. the defense says she should not be the scapegoat here just because prosecutors can't charge epstein and back in front of the federal court jury deliberations began an hour or so again and should be wrapping up around 6:00 tonight. an hour later than the judge wants them to stay comp...

Delayed and frustrated their investigation and their prostitutipro prosecution of the case. >> still, he says, acosta told him his office was moving forward. >> i left that meeting thinking this guy is going to hopefully do his job. he's telling me he is. >> but then he decided not to charge epstein in federal court and sent the case back to the local prosecutors, the very same office that rider says dropped the ball in the first place. now epstein made a deal, pleading guilty to two counts related to prostitution. >> they're calling the victims prostitutes. >> that's right. >> it's not prosti...

There is no such thing as child prostitutes. so to these young women now, they believe that they're finally getting vindicated, that, you know, a prosecutor in new york, jeffrey berman has taken up their cause and has promised to at least charge epstein and probably will charge others, i would think, given the amount of information that's coming out in some of these court documents that were unsealed yesterday. >> last question here, you know better than anyone, the breadth of the universe with jeffrey epstein at the center of it. help us understand the vastness of that universe. we were talki...

Attorney office to federal prosecutors, the potential for witness tampering and witness intimidation taking place in the case, a lot of fact that is need to come out to determine whether or not acosta's behavior was that of a prosecutor trying to the their job and get justice or somebody who caved in so epstein's defense team. arthel: so misty, we played the sound bite alex acosta blamed the palm beach state attorney's office, is he right? >> well, essentially what he was saying is that the state's attorney office was going to charge epstein with a crime that would have carried no jail time an...

State's decision to be a factor in how the federal prosecutors decided to handle this case. it's not a determinative factor, it's one of many factors, richard pointed out, the question here, once we have all of the facts is whether this was prosecutorial discretion, evidentiary issues that would have put verdict at risk or prosecutorial misconduct, two very different things. arthel: misty, wasn't that so-called jail times 3 months with conditions that he could have a pass to go to work. >> yes. arthel: 6 days a week. that means one day a week, 13 days total in jail. >> right, that's what we ca...