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His source. >> i should also say that my beloved magazine, "the nation," that i worked at for years ran stories dabbling in this. this got to lots of places that were left venues that adopted it, there were conservative venues, all the way up to sean hannity and local news stations. this was everywhere. >> and we should point out, the trump white house. we have text messages from steve that is "all in" for this evening. tonight the president tries to distance himself from an old friend, a new york finance year and sex offender. while trump sympathizes with his labor secretary under fire for ...

And after making clear he and the president had not discussed this, he straight up said it's not going to be long concerning acosta's time remaining as labor secretary. where do you see acosta's future? where do you see the president's exposure in this case? >> yeah. that's a great question. look, you know, we'll see how this plays out. but this has the whiff of danger for secretary acosta for obvious reasons. president trump doesn't particularly like it when his top advisers come under this kind of scrutiny. it's a distraction from his point of view. he's going to be asked questions about it....

Bragged about his exploits with women, and he obviously is on his third wife, and he was not the traditional model of a president or a future president working out. that's never stopped him in political life. he's managed to do what other politicians have not been able d to do and sort of move beyond that kind of sensational lifestyle. it would have been enough to stop any other political career. so in that sense, it's something that he has managed to handle. but this is a special case. this is a case involving young women below the age of consent. this is not a situation where you can talk ab...

To say the least. >> we've had three white house chiefs of staff. two secretaries of defense. two secretaries of state. three homeland security secretaries. two attorneys general. we've had two cabinet secretaries at hhs at interior resign under a cloud of scandal and now this scandal could sweep in two more cabinet secretaries. secretary of labor and the attorney general. so when the president promises that he surrounds himself with the best people, you got to ask your question. ask the question was acosta vetted? were these decisions undertaken in the southern district of florida reviewed by...

Trafficking? something doesn't add up. >> jeremy, what do you make of the clumsiness of the president's effort to distance himself from epstein, the folks were -- who were around during this period the 90s in new york, openly referred to these two guys as running mates. >> any time the president says i hardly knew him, i barely can remember his name, or something to that effect, it's usually a tell that he's exceptionally close to that person. we saw that in the manafort case. we saw that in the cohen case. and also when he says something snide or derogatory like in the case of the sexual assa...