Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20190710:07:02:00
For the southern district of florida that protected him from federal prosecution, allowed him to plea to state charges and spend just 13 months in jail with work release privileges. the u.s. attorney who oversaw and signed off on that deal was none other than alex acosta, who is now donald trump's labor secretary. in the wake of the new charges against epstein, more than a dozen democratic presidential candidates, along with chuck schumer and nancy pelosi have said acosta has to go. for his part, acosta maintains the deal was the best he could get at the time. on twitter today he said he is, q...