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Coverage right now. >> thanks so much, joe. hi, there, i'm stephanie ruhle. we begin this morning with the growing calls for president trump's labor secretary alexander acosta to step down. one day after the legal controversy surrounding billionaire financier jeffrey epstein erupted here in new york city. epstein appeared in a courtroom monday pleading not guilty to charges he sex trafficked girls as young as 14 from 2002 to 2005. and he paid them hundreds of dollars in cash for, you guess it, sex. here's where secretary acosta comes into the picture. back in 2008, acosta was a u.s. attorney...

Horrific. with the evidence available more than a decade ago, prosecutors insisted he go to jail and put the world on notice he was a sexual predator. now there is an opportunity for bring him more fully to justice. joining me now is kelly o'donnell. secretary acosta putting a very favorable gloss on what the so-called florida prosecutors -- he was the lead u.s. attorney did -- he had a lenient one year sentence with a lenient work release program. >> reporter: able to leave a county jail for as much as 12 hours a day to go to his office and spend the evenings there during his 13 month sentenc...

Democratic presidential candidate bernie sanders. my apologies, senator. secretary acosta was the u.s. attorney. it was his final decision. lots of questions have been raised by lots of reporting from the miami ha herald. victims were never notified about the deal, and he got a generous work release program. >> what i think that verdict, and the treatment of mr. epstein indicates is the ugly two tier criminal justice system we have in america. if you're a billionaire charged with sex trafficking with young girls, you do your time, short time in jail and you get off to go to work. virtually no ...

Trove of lewd photographs of young looking women or girls including what are clearly labeled cds of photographs by various categories. today's charges have renewed focus on epstein's previous arrest in florida for sex crimes involving minors and the non-prosecution agreement he made with the feds back in '08. epstein's lawyers worked out a deal with the then u.s. attorney alex acosta. he would be the now labor secretary in the trump government. the deal acosta agreed to allow epstein to plead guilty to less serious state charges, required that he register as a sex offender, serve about a year ...

Young looking women or girls including what are clearly labeled cds of photographs by various categories. today's charges have renewed focus on epstein's previous arrest in florida for sex crimes involving minors and the non-prosecution agreement he made with the feds back in '08. epstein's lawyers worked out a deal with the then u.s. attorney alex acosta. he would be the now labor secretary in the trump government. the deal acosta agreed to allow epstein to plead guilty to less serious state charges, required that he register as a sex offender, serve about a year in jail most of it in a work ...