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The epstein case on wednesday, blaming state prosecutors and insisting he cut the best deal possible, but it wasn t enough to save his job. sources tell nbc news that trump spent yesterday asking friends and allies about whether acosta should be fired and was assured that acosta would leave on his own which must have been a relief i just want to let you know, this is him not me, because i m with him he was a he is a tremendous talent he is a hispanic man he went to harvard, a great student. and alex, i think you ll agree you said you don t have to do this he doesn t have to do this you know what i know about alex? he was a great student at harvard. he s hispanic, which i so admire you did hear that last part right. the president said he was a great student at harvard, he is hispanic, which i so admire. acosta will be replaced by the latest acting member of the trump administration, incoming acting labor secretary patrick ....
Conference the other day or not, is not going away. and the more and more we continue to watch that, hear about the charges, see what happens to him, akaucosta s nams going to continually be part of that narrative. sarah westwood joins me outside the white house i believe in milwaukee i apologize. that s where the president is going. all right, so this is huge news, sarah. what can you tell us about what has happened in the white house in the last 24 hours? because frankly last all our viewers heard was that the president was pleased with how acosta has been handling himself. that s right, poppy. but there was soming of whether acosta s connections to that extremely lenient plea deal that jeffrey epstein received back in florida about a decade ago was going to become an even greater distraction for this administration. sources told cnn that president trump and his white house team were waiting to see how the coverage of acosta s, epstein s ....
For example, they re using grooming techniques. they re using recruitment techniques. they re using telephones. they are using computers. they re using bankers and money s moving around. there are a lot of witnesses in addition to these girls that could have corroborated their story. and they didn t do it. they did not stand up for these girls when they needed to. and it s indecent. and, cynthia, i think that, again, as kimberly notes, there is still a big question mark hovering around whether acosta will survive this given all of those unanswered questions in the way that he handled that press conference yesterday. thanks to both of you, kimberly atkins and cynthia. one more thing before we go. an hour from now, a social media summit will be underway at the white house reportedly focused on the opportunities and challenges of the web. the summit comes after months of presidential tweets claiming social media giants work overtime to secretly censor its ....
The guy card. he s a terrific guy. and yet they had a rift a number of years ago. we don t know the nature of that rift. but i ve been reading what will be a telltale sign is whether acosta will be in the cabinet meeting in one week from now. let s move on to what s happening with the census. the trump administration has hit yet another road block in order to add a citizenship question. now there s a charge they cannot swap out their legal team to move forward with this. the judge is demanding an explanation the quote is defendants provide no reasons, let alone satisfactory reasons, for the substitution of counsel. right. they have to come before him and explain why they are leaving their departure. that s interesting. i would like to hear that as well. and it could be embarrassing for the administration if they have to go through a process of discovery. a question is whether some of these attorneys are leaving ....
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 the details of the plea agreement. no word yet about whether or not acosta will come and whether or not it will lead to a subpoena from the house oversight committee. so there is still some interest on capitol hill to get some more answers to what what has happened here and whether acosta properly moved forward with that plea agreement more than a decade ago, wolf. ....