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Have helped them through this very difficult time. >> prosecutors say they will determine whether this will become a death penalty case following a preliminary hearing. meantime the suspect remains in jail without bail and is expected to make his first court appearance monday. >> shepard: claudia: . house lawmakers holding a hearing on the treatment of migrant children at border facilities. we will keep an eye on it. house homeland security committee hearing testimony on the fed's use of facial recognition technology, after "the washington post" reported sunday that the fbi and customs agents ...

Victims? >> first, let me point out we follow department policy. department policy at the time made very clear, and this is in a written statement that was subsequently issued by what is called the office of legal counsel which is the chief policymaking -- the chief legal arm of the department of justice, that these situations with nonprosecution agreements are not covered by the cvr a at the time. because the cbre does not attach until a case is actually brought. i understand the judge had a different view and i understand that the judge's view was department policy, did not comply with the l...

>> i understand that you're saying now that it is never a slam-dunk, it seems like you are making this out to be a case in which you held the possibility of a federal indictment over the head of mr. epstein to plead to a lesser crime. that in itself is against standards. >> i do not think that the office violated the a ba standards by negotiating strongly and forcefully. >> standing here today are you finally saying that you feel that you did everything you could. but you got the best deal that you cut and you have no regrets? >> we believe that we proceeded appropriately. based on the evidenc...

Acosta. that was his actual vote. i swear. the president said, "i feel very badly, actually, for secretary acosta." the president also reiterated that the white house is carrying out some sort of review of alex acosta and his role in the epstein case. that is also what they said months ago when that federal judge ruled that acosta broke the law when he and his office made epstein this deal. the white house said then they were reviewing the matter. apparently it's still being reviewed. i mean, in terms of the pressure that acosta is facing, lots of democrats today, including house speaker nancy...

Case, that's my job. >> tom? >> tom llamas, abc news. >> a lot of people are watching this news conference, including 7 young women who say they were teenagers, they say they went to you, looking for help, they didn't hear back from you until it was too late. do you owe them an apology? >> you're waysing the issue of a victim -- in the documents i've circulated. i addressed the issue of victim notification as well. the career prosecutor in this case had a difficult decision to make, and she didn't make it alone. she made it in consultation with the fbi, and she made it in consultation with the...