america is listening. tod earlier today, the fedaysspicio a report on the suspiciousus 209 death of jeffrey epstein in a new york city prison. our very own jonathan hunt, he has the latest tonight. jonathan, a lo lt interesting s, questions today. for sure, sean is a report that was released today and it raises as manys as it answers about jeffrey epstein s death. the report by the inspectorst general reveals, for instance, that epstein was lefeis let in s cell with extra bed linens, linens. he ultimatelt hey used in what s officially being ruled a suicide. ruled o points out that nearly all the surveillance cameras in epstein s jai camerl not working, that he was not checked on regularly, a suicide attempt two weeks earlier and that guards simply weren t doing their jobs. the combination of negligence, misconduct and outright job performance
people leaving government, retiring, feeling like, why would i work here any more, when i don t know in which direction the ship is headed. i think that s a real problem. particularly as barbara inpots o points out, there are so many things going on in the world right now. i want to go back to barbara at the pentagon. as we follow this news now of shanahan s departure, what are you making for instance of what we re hearing coming out of iran and the fact that there s going to be shifting leadership that with mark esper leaving, what is it going so mean. it seems like so much of this policy is driven out of the white house. it s an interesting thing, we have to see where the national security adviser john bolton falls in all of this.
of play there. he is in an incredible position coming into this presidency and it is something that we wanted very badly for this reason as well. so tax reform, please, over supreme court nominations for sure. give us a sense here, we re talking about 103 vacancies right now versus 54, and a lot of them can be confirmed up or down, essentially a filibuster. how big of a different, the headline is all of a sudden the supreme court. how big of a different do circuit and federal court judges make. things like gun control, the impact the judicial o points can have, and we re talking about for years are greater than a typical piece of legislation.
for example, i am a and i think the best that i can take is the way that i wait for it. so please do our only low that we can do. thank you, vegas. even though she earned zer o points for that answer, overall scores put her in third place. miss usa won. up next, the benghazi hearings and the state department is now in the eye of the storm. you re watching hardball, the place for politics. imagine facy with less chronic osteoarthritis pain. imagine living your life with less chronic low back pain. imagine you, with less pain. cymbalta can help. cymbalta is fda-approved to manage chronic musculoskeletal pain. one non-narcotic pill a day, every day, can help reduce this pain. tell your doctor right away if your mood worsens, you have unusual changes in mood or behavior or thoughts of suicide. antidepressants can increase these in children, teens, and young adults.
bill clinton do. they re not bill clinton, but having said that, did that surprise you? they both had a lot of points to make from the get go. and in that first answer to the college student, president obama brought up the auto bailout. that was all about ohio. the polls are tigening there. he does not want to lose his lead there. so they got into a back and forth over the auto bailout and how mitt romney would have approached it differently. and president obama won that exchange which is an important thing for the polls in ohio over the next week. do you think that s right? my question is doou go for t win o points? or do you go for. reporter: we well, no. you go for the win on the audience watching around the country. if you re politically talented enough as few presidents have been in the past 20, 30 years. you can both make that really good connection with the town hall participant like you mentioned and then turn it to a broader communication to the