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>> he said we didn't inform the victims because we were afraid if they knew about money that might be coming to them that it could be used against them by epstein's attorneys. it seems to me they were kind of bludgeoned by epstein's lawyers -- >> and he some famous lawyers, epstein. some high-powered lawyers. >> he certainly did, one of them a former law partner of acosta. but acosta, as susan was saying, was blaming everybody else for this and saying that arrangement was b.s. and he shouldn't have been allowed to go to work while he was serving his jail time and who did that, and he didn't re...

Alex acosta defended himself. >> no regrets is a very hard question. you always look back and say what if. >> reporter: with new victims coming forward questioning whether acosta was too lenient in the case, the secretary was asked whether he would reach the same agreement today. time and again he pointed the finger at state prosecutors in florida saying they were going to allow epstein to avoid jail time. >> today's world treats victims very, very differently. today's world does not allow some of the victim shame that could have taken place at trial. i don't think we can say, you know, take a...

Claimed he still has the support of the president even though mr. trump hasn't always stood by cabinet secretaries facing intense scrutiny in the past. under fire over a plea deal he once cut for multi-millionaire sex offender jeffrey epstein, alex acosta defended the handling of the case as a prosecutor. >> no regrets is a hard question. you look back and say what if. >> reporter: with you in victims coming forward questioning whether acosta was too lenient in the case, the secretary was asked whether he would have reached the same agreement today. time and again he pointed the finger at stat...

And acosta making it clear he was not resigning and she said this -- >> he should resign or the president should ask him to step down. >> reporter: so the question is what do democrats do from here? nancy pelosi made clear to me yesterday that she didn't really have much of an interest of launching a full scale investigation into this plea deal offered back in florida to jeffrey epstein. she said that they want to focus on the legislative agenda instead. but there are interests from one house oversight committee who who sent a letter to alex acosta asking him to testify this month to lay out t...