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A second. so many victims are going to come forward because they understand this is different. they are here for us to have our day in court. they will take their chances. maybe there is a litigation risk, but they are here for us, the victims. many girls are out there who are women now, but girls then, some of them may have been abused after that agreement was reached in florida. that's going to be the most tragic part. the good part is they have a voice now. >> the 53-page indictment that alex acosta through away included information from over three dozen girls, women talking about what happ...

He could have begun his opening statement by talking about the horrific crimes that occurred here and by talking about the experiences of these girls, now women. but he chose not to do that. he instead was defending himself and the work of his prosecutors without much concern for the victims. >> yeah, mimi, a brief sidebar. would it have killed him to express an apology? was there any standing legal reason you can think of he couldn't use those words? >> no, absolutely not. and that's what seems to be missing from all of this. even when he offers these explanations now and he talks about a ver...

He showed virtually no empathy for these victims. he could have begun his opening statement by talking about the horrific crimes that occurred here and by talking about the experiences of these girls, now women. but he chose not to do that. he instead was defending himself and the work of his prosecutors without much concern for the victims. >> yeah, mimi, a brief sidebar. would it have killed him to express an apology? was there any standing legal reason you can think of he couldn't use those words? >> no, absolutely not. and that's what seems to be missing from all of this. even when he offe...

Lawyers have, you know, always sort of signaled they didn't really believe that manafort could offer mueller very much. but that's an open question and the way the process would normally work is there would be what's called a proffer session so that manafort could lay out a little of what he knows, if he wanted to do that. as far as we can tell, there hasn't been much interest in that proffer session so far. >> harry, take me inside with the mueller prosecutors, what they are thinking. they've got him convicted on eight counts. standing trial on some similar -- many similar charges. do they ne...

>> according to giuliani -- >> if the september 1st is the date, one way or another, the subpoena is off the table. either that means he agrees to do an interview or bob mueller agrees not to subpoena him but there's no way if the subpoena happens it's going to be -- >> couldn't mueller be telling giuliani this september 1st date in order to get the president in for an interview sooner than later? >> i do think that's part of it. >> it would be to the president's advantage to wrap this up. >> and to mueller's. >> and mueller's, if he had litigation risk, he has the better of the argument but i...