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Evidence sufficient to support the conviction. do you have any reason to doubt that it was in the interests of justice. did you believe, sir, that the evidence against epstein would have been sufficient to secure conviction beyond a reasonable daughter for federal offenses? and if so, why was it not in the pursuit of justice to charge him with these crimes? >> so again, i would prefer you to the documents i've 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 -- and i'll give you a fo...

Seek -- the decision is charged in the interest of justice. did you believe that the evidence against epstein -- and if so, why was it not 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. i'll give you a follow-up in a moment. but if i could, when this case, in july of 2007 the career staff

No federal charges and his victims were not told about any of it. back in february, a federal judge violated the law by not disclosing the deal to those victims. now, the doj's office of responsibility is investigating if there was any misconduct on behalf of prosecutors. akogs ta is defending his actions this week, tweeting that his work was based on evidence available at the time. he went on to say that he is pleased that new york prosecutors are moving forward with this new evidence that he says will mull fully bring epstein to justice. gloria borger is our chief analyst we get it from kait...

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

To the president. and understanding that this is all about saving his job. and saving his reputation, quite frankly. the case he's going to make is the case he probably made to the president privately, and made in his tweets, which is that there's more evidence and i'm so thrilled that finally this man is brought to justice. as you just alluded to, in the original case in which you were talking about, there were 36 victims. 36, that's a lot. >> i don't know what new evidence he's talking about, and i don't know what more evidence you would have needed last time around. it will be interesting t...