Good evening, a very minor part of the news tonight in Washington is whether the president's

labor secretary, Alex Acosta, will actually keep his job.

The larger story is whether back when he was U.S. attorney in Miami, Acosta did all he

could to put financier Jeffrey Epstein, a man he apparently believed to be a serial child

molester and rapist behind bars.

And before we even listen to any of Secretary Acosta's televised public accounting this afternoon

for the decisions he made back then, for the deal he cut, for what he did and didn't

say to the accusers, the alleged teenage victims, I want to read you some of what the chief

Palm Beach County prosecutor at the time just said about it tonight.

And I'm quoting, as the state attorney for Palm Beach County for 16 years, 1993 to 2009,

which included the entire period of the Epstein investigation, I can emphatically state

that Mr. Acosta's recollection of this matter is completely wrong.

He went on to say 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 that his

own office drafted.

Instead, Mr. Acosta brokered a secret plea deal that resulted in a non-proscution agreement

and violation of the Crime Victims Rights Act.

Mr. Acosta, he concludes, should not be allowed to rewrite history.

And here's some of the real history.

It's a passage from the Miami Harrel's prize-winning investigation of the allegations against Jeffrey

Epstein, friend and neighbor at the time of Donald Trump, friend of President Clinton,

and Brindon's Prince Andrew.

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