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Some of the argument is the girls might have been reluctant witnesses, for obvious reasons. they were very scared. >> of course. >> but there were other people involved in this operation. there were recruiters. there were schedulers, there were piefltlots, there were houn who paid the girls. there were drivers who drove them back and forth. there were plenty of people that they could have zwesqueezed if y really wanted to. they could have looked at his finances. he was paying lots of cash to these girls. i mean, the computers. they never went after his computers. that doesn't make any sense at...

Intentionally helping this rich white man over these young girls who didn't have the kind of representation that the department of justice is ethically responsible and morally responsible to advocate for. >> you know, part of the issue to me is that there is -- we still don't have the full story. julie brown did amazing reporting. >> absolutely. acosta should answer questions. >> yes. >> i'm all for the state's attorney answering questions, but we don't have an answer on why he was meeting offsite, why did he lie to the girls? why did he give immunity to these other four women plus persons kno...

Secretly with defense attorneys. when i was a prosecutor prosecuting sex crimes or police officers, i didn't defer to any defense counsel, and i don't know anybody who did. and these guys were deferential and would this be okay with you? it was a bizarre relationship that they had. but it's more than just sloppy. this is intentionally -- intentionally helping this rich white man over these young girls who didn't have the kind of representation that the department of justice is ethically responsible and morally responsible to advocate for. >> you know, part of the issue to me is that there is -...

Shouldn't be swayed by a big star power attorney, defense attorney. you should be still advocating for these girls. these were, you know, young 13, 14, 15-year-old girls here. you know, that's who you should be protecting, not a child molester. >> and just to be clear, these girls, these teenaged girls, they and their parents wanted to go forward, right? >> yes. >> they wanted -- oftentimes in these cases you have extremely reluctant witnesses, for good reasons, ambivalent about it. in these cases the individuals wanted the charges to be pursued. >> there were several women that were very stro...

They could have looked at his finances. he was paying lots of cash to these girls. i mean, the computers. they never went after his computers. that doesn't make any sense at all. so were they really trying to get him? were they really trying to investigate? i mean, to me, there is a lot of questions there about whether they were really serious about the case to begin with. >> how much pushback pressure was brought to bear on that u.s. attorney's office from people connected to epstein and his attorneys who were very high-powered, high-priced attorneys when this case was before that u.s. attorn...