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Has avoided any serious punishment. he previously avoided similar charges by securing a secret deal for a much lesser offense with prosecutors in florida in 2008 led by then u.s. attorney and now secretary labor secretary alexander acosta. the "miami-herald" details how he gave epstein the, quote, deal of a lifetime, allowing the man connected to donald trump and bill clinton to avoid spending the rest of his life in jail. for years of preying on vulnerable girls, some allegedly as young as 14 while allegedly getting them to recruit other girls. all the while he allegedly trafficked the victim...

>> brynn gingras thank you. and joining me is elliott williams. you heard the attorneys calling this indictment a do-over of the, quote, very stuff investigated by the feds in florida. so explain, is there a double jeopardy issue here and how can the south district of new york charge epstein if he reached a non-prosecution deal with different federal prosecutors in florida? >> well, the new york prosecutors were very -- if you read the indictment carefully, they were very careful in the facts they allege. they laid out conduct that happened in new york, and they charge sex trafficking there ...

The question on the census. >> reporter: and in addition to commenting on the census, bill barr commented on former special counsel robert mueller impending testimony before the senate -- the house democrats. barr called that disappointing. he said the democrats are trying to create some kind of public spectacle and that testimony is scheduled to happen next week, jake. >> abby phillip at the white house. in the past, president trump has called climate change a, quote, chinese hoax which it is not. now he just spoke about his environmental record and we're going to fact check his claims, tha...