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Praising his work at the labor department privately and downplaying the role that he had in jeffrey epstein's plea deal. after alex acosta came out, the reaction was essentially mixed. some people said it wasn't as bad as they thought it was going to be initially, but then the president started hearing criticism from people over how he conducted himself, how he hadn't offered an explicit apology to the victims in that plea deal situation. the president essentially started to change his tone on him and started asking people about other potential leaders at the labor department and pointing to c...

Separate office. it was not a signatory to the nonprofit agreement in florida. it's not bound in any way by that agreement. so it's free to start its own investigation. the way the nonprosecution agreement was carried out and what acosta seems to have done is really go out of his way to shut down the possibility that another office would pick up this case. >> so here is a prosecutor that trump says he feels badly for who says rather than prosecuting was actually trying to protect. why? >> that's the big question. there are obviously a number of red flags in how this nonprofit agreement was neg...

So letting this potential defendant decide anything is not how you do it? >> correct. it's suggested they're dictating the terms. and that's exactly what happened here. they were able to dictate the terms in terms of not contacting witnesses, keeping it quiet from the press, and of course acosta shuts down the investigation not only as to epstein, but as to everyone else while the fbi is actively interviewing witnesses across the country. >> what does it sell you about jeff berman who is a trump appointee, he runs the office you used to work at. what does it tell you that he is willing 20 do s...

Who prosecuted the original case or, rather, approved the nonprosecution agreement received kid glove treatment at his confirmation hearing. and so she decided to dig into this story and held it up to the light and it looked bad and it smelled even worse. and the result was our project perversion of justice which has had kind an impact and i believe it is why we're seeing this case in court today. >> and of course acosta is a cabinet secretary and not involved as far as we know, but a lot of questions have been raised about that earlier kid gloves treatment indeed of mr. epstein who is very we...

We're expecting probably in the next 15, 20 minutes or so epstein will be in court for his first presentment. they will detail the charges begins him and then later this afternoon and the timing is very fluid, we don't know what time he will appear before judge berman, at this point they will have the bail hearing and prosecutors will advise the judge of this memorandum that they filed and at that point the judge will make a decision likely today whether or not epstein leaves court today on bail or whether he is held in detention. >> extraordinary case, tom, thank you so much for that. casey, ...