cell that had footage that was unusable, but clear footage was also capture, but here s the problem. no one is saying with the clear video might reveal or why the bad video is too flawed for investigators to use. remember, the guards were apparently asleep, and they were reportedly no other witnesses to the suicide, so for the ongoing investigation into epstein s death, the video is paramount. and having unusable video would be cited as yet another failure of the metropolitan correctional center, and the list there is long, including each jail officials knowing that epstein was not to be left alone, and guards being told, yet failing to check him every 30 minutes. even though the medical examiner ruled his cause of death a suicide, lawyers for epstein and his family are conducting an independent investigation. in the meantime, we should note 116 women who say they were sexually abused by jeffrey epstein appeared in court today calling him everything from a coward to a manipulator.
of that, attorney general william barr said he s angry about epstein s death. he just removed the acting director of the federal bureau of prisons. both the doj and the fbi are investigating epstein s death, but there are jail workers who are refusing to cooperate with those investigators. the new york times reports that federal prosecutors have subpoenaed roughly 15 employees of the metropolitan correctional center, and according to the washington post there were eight jail officials who knew epstein was not to be left alone in his cell. what do we know about what directions were given and who knew what about the protection of jeffrey epstein inside that facility? well what we re told is, you know, there s a key moment in this process where jeffrey epstein is taken off suicide watch. this happens on july 29th. what we re told about that process is that it was very clear inside the mcc, not just among lower level officials but their supervisors as well, that there were two things
into a trust which almost certainly will make it harder for his victims to sue for damages. we also know the department of justice was in charge of keeping him alive, and the man in charge of that, attorney general william barr said he s angry about epstein s death. he just removed the acting director of the federal bureau of prisons. both the doj and the fbi are investigating epstein s death, but there are jail workers who are refusing to cooperate with those investigators. the new york times reports that federal prosecutors have subpoenaed roughly 15 employees of the metropolitan correctional center, and according to the washington post there were eight jail officials who knew epstein was not to be left alone in his cell. what do we know about what directions were given and who knew what about the protection of jeffrey epstein inside that facility? well what we re told is, you know, there s a key moment in this process where jeffrey epstein is taken off suicide watch. this happ
have been involved and we know there were several ongoing investigations and this should not have happened and that s why we re seeing all of these investigations that are now going to take place, ana. do you know if there was any video surveillance? people who we have talked to and are familiar with the way this special housing unit works say there should be cameras there. we don t know if that s the case as it relates to his cell, his jail cell. but they say that because of the nature of the security around the facility, the jail cell that he was in, there should be cameras. we re asking those questions and we ll see. we ll see if at some point they put that out. obviously that s something we re going to want to look at and i m sure jail officials already know whether or not there are cameras there. they probably have reviewed it if they exist. they have not told us so. what did we learn from the documents that were unsealed yesterday? these were documents that
he s at. those are the questions that investigators are asking and are trying to figure out. the thing is, as you said, they are these markings on his neck. we ve actually spoken to a source who has seen jeffrey epstein today. said he seems normal. doesn t appear to be seriously injured there does not appear to be any bruising on him, the source couldn t see his neck. everything seemed to be fine with him. he was meeting with his lawyers there at the jail. this is something he does routinely on a daily basis, where he meets with his lawyers. they come to the jail, they sit with him. for investigators at the bureau of prisons now, they re trying to sort out what happened. and as you said, jeffrey epstein told some of the prison officials, the jail officials that he was beaten up by a fellow inmate. they re taking that claim seriously, it s unclear because of everything going on there, and where he is, there aren t a lot of witnesses to this if they re ever going to be able to corroborat