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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...

He gave him basically 13 months in a work release program. and you were telling us you've never seen anything like this. >> i haven't. and it's showing who the president is willing to stand behind and who he's not. with the ambassador, the criticism is he was inept and impulsive, insecure. and look at the response. point proved. and then flip over to acosta, this guy who made an unconscionable deal, a secret de deal, a deal kept away from victims. a deal where they tried to -- i've done hundreds of thousands of pleas, i've never heard of that. trying to protect the people around the defendant....

Guilty plea because letting him walk, leading with the state attorney was ready to do go forward would have been absolutely awful. >> secretary acosta is saying that he was essentially pleased with the deal that he got because he thought of the time that it was the best deal that he could get. it should be noted that he thought that epstein was going to be put in jail for 18 months and not be allowed to go in and go out of jail. as he ended up being allowed to do. a work release program where he can leave six days a week to go to work and come back to jail. today secretary acosta said he was n...

Sounds like this happen in the 19th century. this was the most recent past. the most horrific kinds of stories. the fact that a wealthy man recruited teenage girls and abused them and was known for doing this, an open secret, and they couldn't more effectively prosecute him. he ends up going to jail for 13 months and is able to leave six days a week to do his job? that doesn't seem right. >> john: now acosta says he thought he was going to spend 18 months in jail and he said the work release program was b.s. but matt, where do you think this goes from here? democrats want to haul him up on cap...

>> we've seen him stick by roy moore. he is not afraid to use his political capital even in -- >> didn't go that well. >> that's true. >> he has pulled his support, but he has still maintained that he thinks he's an okay guy? we are in the opening stages of this story, obviously. acosta hasn't spoken much about this case, the few times he has done it included his confirmation hearing for labor secretary and there he said that he did not like some aspects of the deal, including the kind of work release program that epstein was on. so i think you will have two forces trying to convince the presi...