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>> the story is really beyond grotesque. when you read the details, and you don't need to be a parent. being a parent, makes it even worse. and he saying them a sense in being reading these details is completely horrified. the other thing about this case, it's really bothersome. geraldo is right, there has been some decent journalism but some of it is displaced. this criticism of acosta, trump trump's cabinet secretary, alexander acosta. it was the case prosecuted well? was a sentence lenient? people don't understand, the federal system acosta was working in as a united states person he , atto...

That they did reach exactly why epstein was going to be in court. so some of the victims' attorneys were under the impression that he was pleading to a state charge but that the federal investigation was still continuing. and the judge ruled in this case that they did -- prosecutors did mislead the victims in thinking they were going forward with the case. >> obviously all this begs the question why. why did acosta do this? why did he seem friendlier to jeffrey epstein and his attorney than to the victims? why did he break with convention in this case? so radically? and that hasn't been answer...

Prison. he was sentenced to just 13 months in a county jail and had to register as a sex offender. he was able to leave six days a week in a private chauffeur for a work release program to his private office. when reporters pressed secretary acosta yesterday, about why he agreed to such a deal, acosta placed blame squarely on local prosecutors in florida. >> the palm beach state attorney's office was ready to let epstein walk free, no jail time, nothing. the prosecutors in my former office found this to be completely unacceptable. they became involved. our office became involved. without the w...

County, reviewed the evidence and recommended a single charge. and that charge would have resulted in no jail time at all. no registration as a sexual offender. and no restitution to the victims. without the work of our prosecutors epstein would have gotten away with just that state charge. >> would you make this same agreement today? >> we now have 12 years of knowledge and hindsight, and we live in a very different world. today's world treats victims very, very differently. today's world does not allow some of the victim shaming that could have taken place at trial 12 years ago. >> dozens of...

Aggressively. let's listen to some of that. >> the palm beach state attorney's office was ready to let epstein walk free, no jail time, nothing. prosecutors in my former office found this to be completely unacceptable. and they became involved, our office became involved. without the work of our prosecutors, epstein would have gotten away with just that state charge. >> well, the man who he invoked, the former florida state attorney, he says this. if mr. acosta was truly concerned with the state's case and felt he had to rescue the matter he would have moved forward with the 53 page indictment...