16 times, they allegedly failed to check on him even once. instead, prosecutors say they shopped online for furniture and motorcycles, walked around theua common area, and slept for two yhours. it wasn t until they finally want to give him breakfast that jeffrey epstein was found unresponsive. prosecutors say that is when the guards tried to covereg their tracks by falsifying documents claiming they had checked on epstein every 30 minutes. today, before congress, the bureau of prisons director said this about the guards. watch. we have some bad staff. we want rid of those bad staff who don t do their job. we want them gone one way or another, even by prosecution or termination. bought the guards pleaded not guilty and were freed on $100,000 bond. an attorney for one of them said they were being scapegoated in a rush to judgment. the guards indictment also included information that could tamp down the conspiracy theories surrounding epstein s
there should have been a public airing of what happened, who helped him, who was involved in it, and now all of that s been cut off. house judiciary chairman, jerry nadler weighed in on epstein s death, tweeting he was deeply disturbed. there are many questions that need to be answered in the case. alexandria ocasio-cortez was more blunt in her assessment, tweeting out, we need answers, lot of them. while lawmakers demanded more information into the death of epstein, president trump was at his new jersey golf club promoting baseless conspiracy theories surrounding epstein s death. nbc news correspondent kelly o donnell has more. reporter: wields the most powerful megaphone, president trump re-tweeted a baseless conspiracy theory to 63 million twitter followers, a spurious accusation that the clintons are show linked to jeffrey epstein s