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>> alex, i think you'll agree, you don't have to do this. he doesn't have to do this. >> the outgoing labor secretary told reporters he didn't want to be a distraction. amid growing questions over the sweetheart deal he gave to convicted sex offender jeffrey epstein. >> i called the president, i told him i thought the right thing was to step aside. >> sources told cnn, the president had been stewing over acosta's fate after praising the secretary earlier in the week. >> he's done a fantastic job. >> there were concerns the revelations in the epstein case would provide ammunition to democrats i...

The president effective seven days from today. >> alex acosta alex acosta indicating two days ago we have no plan stepping down as labor secretary him, then decided to t even the president didn't ask him. we bring in our panel, mollie hemingway of the federalist, new book of justice on trial. charles lane for "the washington post" ." mollie, do you have any sense that alex acosta jumped or was pushed? >> at the president wanted to make sure he stayed there, he stayed there. this is a sign that this case, this epstein case is something going to royal washington. acosta was the a csa who made th...

Case. and the press conference that he had the other day was -- there were so many untruths there. i was preparing a fact check story where i was going to be able to show with documents that a lot of what he said was not true. so i just don't think that there was any way at this point he's going to be able to get ahead. >> you should still put that out. i think everyone will want to read that and pay perhaps even more attention to it now. what do you make of our katilan collins reporting that the president's turn on acosta was because of the lack of victim notification? and can you remind our ...

Series involving a name by the name of bruce ryan hart who was an assistant prosecutor with acosta. he technically was not on the epstein case, but epstein was pressuring these prosecutors, and among the other tactics he used was to offer them a job. mr. rein hart, he's now a federal magistrate. he's denied he did anything wrong at all. it's very suspect that one day he's working for acosta and the next day he's working for epstein. he literally left his job at the prosecutor's office one day and opened his own firm that happened to be located right next to jeffrey epstein's lead attorney jack...

Him deciding to resign. not that he did anything wrong, but because of the distraction from the great economy since he is the labor secretary. i mean, there's so many things to say about that, how that should not be the case. but look, it is. and it has been a distraction. not necessarily because he didn't do anything wrong, but because this is scandalous in the truest sense of the term, in that acosta was involved -- actually not just involved, he spearheaded a sweetheart deal to effectively allow somebody who was in charge of and helping in the raping of children to go free and continue to d...