Senators ask about Jeffrey Epstein Death

as I indicated in my opening statement I wanted to talk about the death of mr. Epstein do you concur with a the opinion that it was a suicide that was the finding of the coroner sir okay do you have any evidence suggest otherwise I do not how could this have happened unfortunately sir that's the thing is this the death in the whole situation is still under the investigation of the FBI and the Inspector General's Office and I'm really not at liberty to discuss specifics of this case I can discuss issues around institution operations but I can't specifically talk about that particular issue okay with a case this high-profile there's got to be their major malfunction of the system or criminal enterprise at foot to allow this to happen so are you looking at both is the FBI looking at both if the FBI is involved and they are looking at criminal enterprise yes do we have people in in custody today of this high-profile nature have we done anything to adjust since Minister Epstein's death sir we take every inmates life very seriously in the Bureau of Prisons a high profile inmate is no more important or significant in terms of our operations than just the average inmate that comes our way in high-profile somebody's on a suicide watch I would like to explain our suicide watch system if I may I can't talk specifically about Epstein but we have different tiers of response if we identify an inmate who appears to be having suicidal thinking and I came into the bureaus a psychologist I worked with lots of suicidal inmates I was warned in our psychiatric facility in Butner and I know how difficult it is to always be able to predict who's suicidal and who is not but once an in minute identified as potentially suicidal we have a suicide watch operation that we can place them in it's a very stark very difficult setting where everything is stripped from the room except a mattress they get a course gown like to wear that cannot be twisted in any way that they could hang themselves from it they have one mattress and one blanket and they are watched constantly there's nothing else in that red robe study known suicide was yes he was however the average time on suicide watch is only about 24 hours because it is such a stark and actually depressing situation we then can move them to another tier of observation which is called psychological observation that happened in this case I can't speak specifically but I am sharing this with you so that you understand our procedure sir they then can move to another tier which is suicide psychological observation where they get their clothes back there in a more normalized setting they are watched and scrutinized every moment of the day but that is a much more normal environment that have Arlen dates and once I'm sorry sir do they have room mate no they do not when they're on suicide logical observation because they're being watched continuously mr. Epstein have a roommate when he allegedly committed sue no he did not okay they move in a cycle of psychological observation psychologists see them routinely interview them repeatedly and wants it to determine that the the the threat of suicide seems to have passed then that inmate can be returned back to open population well clearly it didn't work here so we will wait the report because all the victims and mr. Epstein have to have their heart ripped out I still never see justice dr. Swire can you think of any other incidents in the history of the Bo P that have caused as much crisis for public trust for an institution as Epstein's death I can only speak for the since 1976 when I joined the bureau I don't know prior to that but I would say it's probably gotten the most public attention there are lots of taxpayers and citizens who've never thought about the Bo P and you have lots of good patriotic hard-working folks there I get that but in terms of a crisis of public trust in general but also in terms of your workforce this death happened in the middle of August early August it's Thanksgiving and you're here to testify today and you say you're not allowed to speak about this incident I think that's crazy can you distinguish among types of investigations at least for us because I'm aware of at least three epstein investigations you get a whole bunch of women who were raped by this guy this is a sex trafficking ring in the United States this guy had evidence he's got co-conspirators and their victims out there who want to know where the evidence has gone can you tell us a little bit more about the different investigations I understand there's at least one that you're directed by main justice not to speak about but there are at least three investigations can you unpack them there there are two investigations that are ongoing one is the FBI's investigation and the other is the Inspector General's investment inside BLP but there's a third one outside which is why Epstein was in your institution to begin with yeah and that sir is completely out of my I get that there's there's a lot here where the oj has failed there's a lot here that Bo p is failed let's just be clear so we have a level set for everybody in this room you're in your job because of this crisis right you come here today and you say you can't testify about it but the reason you're director now is because the last guy got fired right senator I can't tell you what I don't know I have received no information from the FBI investigation yet nor no information from the inspector general once those entities go into one of our facilities we are forbidden from talking to anybody in the institution we can send in a team and look at wherever there might have been a security flaw or something but we are not allowed to talk to anybody in our institutions about anything that happened over the EPS with all due respect you still have an obligation to speak to the girls who were raped by this guy today you may not have to speak about every particular of the guards that were arrested last night but the fact that there is an ongoing attempt by the United States government to find out if there's still any evidence about the co-conspirators you do have an obligation to speak to those girls who were raped today you may not speak about this specific of the charges again the specifics of the charges against those two guards this morning who were taken into custody but more broadly you should be able to unpack have we changed any processes about how cases like this are handled it's been more than 90 days and you said I think your quote was we treat every inmate the same we believe in America that every individual has equal dignity but not every inmate has equal value for future criminal investigations Jeffrey Epstein was still to testify in a case somebody who's already been convicted who may be on suicide watch there are lots of good reasons to not want that guy to be able to kill himself this is different because it isn't just about the individual inmate who might kill themselves it's about the fact that that bastard wasn't able to testify against his other co-conspirators so it is wrong as a management matter for you to say we treat everybody the same we should be treating people who are yet to testify against other felons against other rapists they have a lot more priority for your institution don't they senator all of our pretty much all of our inmates that are any of our jail jail facilities are pretrial there they're still yet to testify to be involved to share information on other cases I don't know what evidence you're asking of me if you're saying was there any evidence in his room in his possession at the time no that was in his brain and in the cameras and in the tapes that the American public well understands appear to not be urgent enough for the Department of Justice so it's very urgent for the Department of Justice and it's all been confiscated by the FBI and it's all part of their investigation that's why none of that is shared with the director of the Bureau of Prisons or anyone in the bureau until the investigations are completed once those are completed I'd be very happy to come up here and talk with any of one of you the one here everything about we glean from those investigations but until I have that information there's nothing I can tell you if I don't have the information I cannot share anything with you then how widespread is the problem of sleeping on the job there are lots of people in the public who think this seems a very convenient excuse and so tell us is it a systemic problem do we have a lot of people who sleep on the job when they're supposed to be guarding federal inmates we have a few sir and we have been monitoring the cameras that are existing in every one of our institutions to determine how well and how effectively our inmates are I mean our staff members are doing their rounds and counts in the institutions we have found a couple of other instances and we have immediately referred those to the inspector general's office and I'm encouraging that if people just chose not to do their job we're hoping the US Attorney's Office will pick up those cases and prosecute them for us because we don't want those people in the Bureau of Prisons they are dangerous to everybody the inmates and the staff and so we are zealously going about trying to determine which of our employees are good employees and who do their job and that is the vast majority of the prison staff but we do have some I know out there who obviously choose not to follow policy choose not to do their job and we want them gone I do not want them in our institutions and I am exploring those very very carefully to identify them and get them out of our system now if it's a training problem and they didn't know what they were supposed to do that's our problem that's management's problem we have to do a better job training our staff but if someone is well-trained well experienced and chooses not to do their job we want them gone I assure you of that I'm at time so I'll just give you a preview of something haven't asked you for the record after the event you made a really important statement about drone drops of different kinds of contraband into your institutions that's obviously a new and hard problem that's a problem against which we have to play defense but there's also new opportunities for offense and so what's your long-term strategy is inside the institution about cameras is something that I think a lot of us would like to hear more and I'll send you a letter with some questions because Epstein's hallway should have still been monitored by cameras even if his guards were asleep and we don't have information about whether or not there were adequate cameras there and so I think a lot of us would like to understand where technology dollars are going thank you doctor thank you Sara Blumenthal snags but just follow-up on this will it be an IG report regarding what happened there should be usually after the Inspector General's Office investigates they do come out with a report if people are pending criminal charges we're not going to interfere in their cases but if there's an IG report I promise you we'll get fully briefed by the committee here Christmas ornaments drywall and Gerry Epstein name three things that don't hang themselves that's what the American people think that's what the American people think and they deserve some answers and I know that you're not in charge of these investigations yes sir but you talk to the people who are and and I need you to take a very respectful message today kill the maricón people what happened and and don't rush it so that they don't do a thorough investigation but you and I both know they can make this a top priority and get it done more quickly than they normally would

Channel: C-SPAN

Views: 1,490,960

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Keywords: Jeffrey Epstein, Suicide, Lindsey Graham, Ben Sasse, Kennedy, Senate, Judiciary, C-SPAN, CSPAN

Id: HWVe1o_VlhM

Length: 10min 53sec (653 seconds)

Published: Tue Nov 19 2019

Reddit Comments

[u/markmywords1347]

Christmas ornaments, drywall and Jeffery Epstein. Name 3 things that don’t hang themselves.

[u/Gonkimus]

She and that prison were beyond incompetent or they planned on killing him.

[u/Anonymous2020B]

Still no answers it's been 8 months since this

[u/VDogMeat]

In the photos of epstein after his death, his nose has a bridge that pokes out, in a photo of him a year ago, the bridge of his nose goes inwards instead of outwards. This is more than enough to disbelieve what they all have to say about him or anything to do with him and his death.

[u/mrubuto22]

Questions they should have asked barr, the head of the DOJ

[u/-SidTheKid-]

lindsey is part of deep state too, dont let him fool you

[u/ProfessionalCan3307]

FBI director called out deep state use of sex abuse and trafficking. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BplUD6kQYuU&fbclid=IwAR1wVaXX4x_mD19cx0Tbh51Pz4ij2eWrlmJ7gjgqT5KFWdIr8yZFUVKCFeI&feature=youtu.be

[u/55661234]

We'll be in the same boat in a couple of weeks listening to them talk about Ghislaine Maxwell.

[u/1001Zion0101]

Why is this video pausing it’s self every 2 seconds?