joining me now is carol lenning, investigative reporter for the washington post. good morning, carol. thank you for being here. and i want to refer you to your own tweet from yesterday, and you tweeted this. you tweeted people close to epstein fear he was murdered. as epstein told authorities someone tried to kill him in a previous incident weeks earlier. he was described as being in good spirits in recent days. so two questions for you. question number one, i want you to detail a little bit more about this allegation because what you re referring to here are people close to epstein with a previous incident which was an alleged attempt on his life, that s number one, and number two this is ridiculous question. i m so sorry to have to ask you this but do the people close to epstein who fear he was murdered think the clintons somehow pulled off a hit against jeffrey epstein? well, let s take those questions one by one, joy. thank you for all your preface.
dalton high school here in new york. he worked at the law school before becoming attorney general but refused to recuse himself. he recused himself from the florida portion that had to do with the swaet heart deal jeffrey epstein got from mr. acosta, but he didn t recuse from this part. frank figliuzzi tweeted yesterday, yes ag barr overseas the u.s. attorney s office in new york and many years ago barr s father hired to teach at the dalton school with no private degrees so there s that. is there a reason for the public to be skeptical about mr. barr and he will be candid in whatever the fbi finds out about this ca? honestly, joy, i would give the attorney general the benefit of the doubt about this one because he s said in multiple ways this is appalling to him this happened.
i know everybody is sort of banging a gavel on the table, you know, justice for the victims of epstein and that makes sense but under this global agreement which may have been really inappropriate and sure looks like it how do you bring a new fresh case? i d be interested in hearing about that behind the covers. and also whether or not any prosecutions of any alleged coconspirators and my last question to you, carol, having talked to people close to jeffrey epstein and given their fears of what they think happened to him, do you expect there to be an autopsy that the family might at some point share with the media or make public? stay tuned. i don t know the answer to that question this moment, but i think it s a good question, joy. all right, we will definitely stay tuned. thank you so much for your time this morning. all right, coming up beto
as well, what about all the things he knew based on the unsealed records on friday. what about all the things he knew about his coconspirators? important or not important people? that information is gone. right. and the challenge i think that i m having, and i m just going to go ahead and, you know, cop to my skepticism on this is that now the one person we in theory must wait for answers from is william barr. and william barr s record just to be candid, doesn t seem to denote somebody who s willing to tell truth about donald trump or make donald trump uncomfortable or unhappy. jeffrey epstein, like it or not, sorry trump fans, he was a threat to donald trump even just because it was embarrassing he had these connections to him. mr. barr had his own ties to jeffrey epstein. his father hired jeffrey epstein be to be a teacher who was not qualified to be a teacher in the
government? if this jail was secure enough to hold elchalpo how was epstein able to follow through with an alleged suicide? how exactly is the justice department going to explain why epstein was taken off suicide watch after an alleged suicide attempt just a couple of weeks ago? does that make any sense? these are all real questions that donald trump s justice department has to answer. but it was the answer that donald trump cooked up on saturday that by a twitter retweet that represents a new low for an administration that has already descended to child taking, caging, shrieking rallies and rhetoric from the president that inspires white nationalist domestic terrorists. donald trump retweeted an account that blamed the former president of the united states or the former first lady and