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One of the really disturbing things about this case is there's a record here. the documents that i shared today we have shared previously with the media, yet i have seen no reference to any of these documents in the perspective of some of these prosecutors. all of these documents are publicly available. they could've been pulled up by anyone in this room. and so, you know, there is a record -- i wasn't at main justice. i do not have a full list of the individuals that reviewed this matter at main justice. i can tell you individuals referencing this letter, and i would refer you to the record. ...

With the charges. and i understand that you're saying now that it is never a slam dunk. but it seems like you're making this out to be a case in which you held the possibility of a federal indictment over the head of mr. epstein to get him to plead to a lesser crime and that in and of itself is against the a.d.a. -- >> i do not think that the office violated the a.b.a. standards by negotiating strongly and forcefully. sir. >> so standing here today, are you basically saying that you feel that you did everything you could, you got the best deal you could get and you have no regrets? >> we belie...

Did you believe that the evidence against epstein would have been insufficient to make a conviction beyond reasonable doubt? if so, why was a knot in the interest of justice to charge him with these crimes? >> again, i would refer you to the documents i provided. there is a big gulf between sufficient evidence to go to trial and sufficient evidence to be confident in the outcome of that trial. and so if i could come and i will give you a follow-up in a minute, if i could, when this case, and i provided a letter that outlines some of the timeline of this. in july of 2007, the career

He pled guilty to that state case. i think all of that is significant and there's a lot of pressure on him to explain exactly what happened and why he reached that plea deal, what chuck schumer called a sweetheart deal. and he said he did the best he could with the evidence he had at the time. i expect we're going to hear more of that from acosta. does he survive this? president trump yesterday defended him but did leave the door open for changing his mind. he said he's going to look into exactly what happened here. >> and he seemed to sort of distance himself saying i didn't know him that wel...

Agreement, it was correctly described as a sweetheart deal in the way he described it i think doesn't really fit those who have had that job before. >> shepard: he refused -- he said he wouldn't really comment on whether epstein's money and powerful lawyers had an effect on the case. >> what can you say question mike that's obviously the answe answer. it's hard for someone to say yes it's because he had very powerful lawyers. >> shepard: i got the feeling that he was speaking to an audience of one today and you wonder how that audience felt. >> i think he had to be. he was trying to keep his j...