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>> and chuck, here is secretary acosta. let's listen in. >> good afternoon. let me start by reiterating that i'm pleased that the new york prosecution is going forward. they have brought these charges based on new evidence against jeffrey epstein who is now a registered sex offender and this is a very, very good thing. his acts are despicable. and new york prosecution offers an important opportunity to more fully bring epstein to justice. in 2008, a major newspaper described the epstein prosecution like this, a florida grand jury, that is a grand jury convened by the district attorney of palm ...

Will new facts come out about the plea deal that was made in florida and then third, and you can to the power of that new accuser coming out and appearing on television. if you start to see a plot of these women, particularly women who were down in florida were numbered underrates there were never told that the steel had been made between then u.s. attorney acosta and epstein's lawyers, that could be very damaging as well. but job one for alex acosta if he wants to keep his job is to do well in this news conference in half an hour. >> dana: we saw the vice president chief of staff that saying ...

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

>> let me start by reiterating that i am pleased that the new york prosecution is going forward. they brought these charges based on new afferent evidence, on jeffrey epstein, who is now registered sex offender. this is a very good thing. his acts are despicable and the new york prosecution offers an opportunity to more fully bring epstein to justice. in 2008 commit a major newspaper described the epstein prosecution like this, a florida grand jury, that is grand jury convened by the district attorney of palm beach county, had charged epstein with a lesser offense. at that time the epstein leg...

Watching secretary acosta's press availability. we'll play some of savannah's interview. but first the reporter who led the coverage, jewelry blulie brk you for joining me. i want to get your perspective and i just want to set up something that you tweeted yesterday after acosta took to twitter to defend himself, he said now that new evidence and additional testimony is available, new york prosecution offers an important opportunity to more fully bring him to justice. you replied except the record shows you had the evidence in 2007. remember the 53 page indictment, the phone records, the trash...