NEW Epstein Death Timeline (Special Report)

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1:16You can see the heat on Trump's Attorney General Bill Barr, on indictments, on the watchdog report. I'm going to walk through all of this tonight and how it's rocking the Trump White House. That is moments away while we begin with President Trump's war. It is opposed across the U.S. It's driving energy blowback and economic anxiety. Gas prices soaring as today Trump visits Ohio and Kentucky. Unfortunately, prices are going to be up for a while until this ends.

1:45Julie K Brown:Freedom is not free. Americans are going to have to make some sacrifices. I think that people just sort of need to take a breath and wait a minute for some of this to shake out. I mean, this was an excursion that a lot of people wouldn't have done. I knew oil prices would go up if I did this. Price went up. Trump aides have started turning dark, pessimistic, musing about the risk of a long war, the Times reports, while facts show Trump was wrong to publicly deny the U.S. killed over 100 schoolgirls in that Iran strike. It was based on faulty intel, but the preliminary inquiry shows Trump's Pentagon is responsible for that strike.

2:25He falsely denied it this week, many critics saying he clearly lied. Now, Americans have long turned against Mideast interventions. It's an issue Trump ran against. And the hangover from Republicans lying the nation into the Iraq war has shaped a generation of geopolitics. Republican Rand Paul, who has bucked his own party's war agenda over the years, Now warning, he views Trump's bad Iran policy as a path to even worse losses in November.

2:54Julie K Brown:The 2026 elections already, we are behind the eight ball as far as the electoral process. I think if you add in high gas prices, high oil prices, and if we are still bombing Iran with kinetic action, people don't want to call it war. If there's still kinetic action that causes oil to be over$100, I think you're going to see a disastrous election. Republican bracing for disaster. I'm joined now by Howard Dean, former governor and DNC chair, who also ran for president on an anti-war platform. Governor, your thoughts on this piece of it and what you think Rand Paul is doing there. You know, it's amazing.

3:34Julie K Brown:Rand Paul and I probably don't agree on a lot of things, but I do respect his integrity, which is something that's in very short supply on the Republican side of the aisle. You know, I don't know what possesses people leadership to lie about what's going on. It wasn't just the Republicans. It was Nixon, George W. Bush, and now Trump. Lyndon Johnson lied. The Tonkin probably was fabricated incident. I don't understand why you put American troops at risk of their lives for causes that you're not willing to be truthful with the American people about it. But let's be clear. The Iranian rulership are a bunch of thugs.

4:19Julie K Brown:And Trump probably envies the way they control their own civilians. But to get us involved with this with no thought, I don't think it even occurred to Trump that the Iranians were going to hit other Middle Eastern countries and dry up the oil supply for the world. I mean, there's no thinking going on in that administration whatsoever. At least Bush had people around him who knew what they were talking about. Yeah. Or another another way to say it is it's even worse than that, depending on how you look at it. All of the serious policy planning, intelligence and thinking that goes on, which he has available to him, the best intelligence services in the world, 17 of them, have plotted and wargamed all of this.

4:59And to your point, that thinking was quite clearly ignored or rejected while Donald Trump does improv.

5:06Julie K Brown:Well, they did worse than that. They fired all the people who were who were the screeners in the past. For example, in the second Iraq war, the first one I thought, by the way, was justified because I thought we had to stand up for our treaty with Kuwait when Saddam invaded Kuwait. But the second one, MI6 knew that there were no weapons of mass destruction and that there was no atomic program going on in Iraq. And if MI6 knew it, the British Intelligence Agency, then the CIA knew it. And if the CIA knew it, somebody was either withholding that information from Cheney and Bush or they were lying straight.

5:45Julie K Brown:I don't think George W. Bush is a liar for whatever you think about his politics. So somebody else was doing the lying for them. And for the administration now, who to a person says this was a massive failure of intelligence, that is crap. Somebody knew damn well in our administration what was going to go on. And now it's happening again. I think Trump has fired all the possibly competent people. So the few that are left don't dare say anything because they'll lose their jobs. So his problem is even worse because he doesn't even have anybody who's willing to tell him the truth. All fair. You mentioned how you don't always agree with Rand Paul.

6:25Joe Rogan agrees with some of your warnings. And I mentioned your history because it matters. Sometimes, you know, in our American politics, it feels like there's no memory or accountability for anything. But it was you and then Barack Obama who changed foreign policy in the Democratic Party and then in the country. And now Americans heard Donald Trump do. You know, he was doing a 2003 Howard Dean impression. He just didn't govern like 2003 Howard Dean because Trump ran against all the forever wars. If you think about it, if you pardon my comparison, you guys have different mannerisms. Here's Joe Rogan on all the forever wars.

7:07Julie K Brown:You started World War Three by doing something that other than people that wanted this forever. Who else thinks that's a good idea? It doesn't seem like it's well thought out. Well, I mean, I guess charitable, which just seems so insane based on what he ran on. I mean, this is why a lot of people feel betrayed. He ran on no more wars and these stupid, senseless wars, and then we have one that we can't even really clearly define why we did it. Howard? I don't understand why we did it either. As I said before, the Iranian government are thugs, and they oppress their own people. But for us to do this without thinking about what the consequences are, how could you do this without understanding the oil prices?

7:55Julie K Brown:were going to go up to$120 a barrel. And the result of this, the Democrats were going to win anyway in 2026. But no amount of cheating at this point by Trump is going to be able to change that. People are really upset. We just flipped a house last night in the New Hampshire legislature again. Look at the results in Marjorie Taylor Greene's number. The Democrat did far better than in that election, election, that it's a jungle primary than they ever had when she was there. People are sick of this. And even people who voted for Trump, a lot of them were just, they weren't promised this. They weren't promised higher gas prices and higher food prices.

8:37Julie K Brown:And they are really upset. And this administration is doing absolutely nothing to make it better. So you draw a line in the midterms. Rand Paul drew a line in the midterms. Trump aides are doing this thing where they leak and put outsourcing because I guess they can't reach him in private about the midterms. We have the estimate. No one can see the future. But if the midterms were today, which is one of the more reliable ways to gauge how the country feels, people say generic congressional ballot, it's a 10 point in the Democrats' favor. To remind everyone, It was a point and a half nationally in 24, Trump to Harris, a point and a half.

9:19What do you see here in a 10-point Democratic edge?

9:23Julie K Brown:Well, look, the Democrats are well known for being able to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. You know, the Washington Democrats still have to change their approach. I'm very glad that they've insisted that they're not going to fund ICE when ICE is behaving like the Gestapo. But Democrats have got to wise up. The world is not inside the beltway of Washington. It's out in the on the hustings. It's it's I had a meeting with the governor of Kentucky over the weekend. He's got a great way of looking at this stuff. He doesn't get bogged down in all the anti-gay, anti-abortion, anti-trans stuff.

10:03Julie K Brown:He says, well, look, why don't you he vetoes all that stuff because he's got a very conservative legislature. He vetoes it all and says, why are we talking about these things when our public education system is falling apart and people can't get jobs? And that's why he's been, you know, this is a Democrat who's won four times, three times in one of the most Republican areas of the country. We need that. We need outside the beltway thinking. We need to be honest and caring about the American people who are suffering economically and get away from all the, I mean, one of the most effective ads that Trump ran was, she cares about the he, they, them, and we care about you.

10:40Julie K Brown:It was crap, of course, but it was effective. And we just need people who are not in Washington, who understand what it takes to run a state and understands the jobs and education are the things and health care are the things that people really care about. And do not let the Republicans get away with this BS. Understood. Governor Howard Dean, thank you so much. Thank you. I want to tell everyone we have something important here coming up. The Epstein files have been rocking Trump's White House. Tonight, we have for you one of our investigative timelines, a new expose on the DOJ's handling of Epstein's death.

11:19I'm going to show you damning new material and videos you will not see anywhere else on air tonight. I'm going to bring you that report in 90 seconds.

11:34Now we turn to an original Beat special report drawing on new evidence from the Epstein files about Jeffrey Epstein's death in custody, our new death timeline. He was awaiting trial and his death was always a serious issue. The DOJ is supposed to prevent inmate deaths or suicide. The Trump DOJ admitted key video recordings failed, that its jail staff broke the rules. Two officers were indicted for lying about that night. Later, the Biden DOJ issued a watchdog report on even more problems. Amidst all that, the government has maintained the same conclusion that Epstein hung himself. The autopsy ruling the death a, quote, suicide.

12:12And that finding was always a problem for the Trump DOJ with inquiries on how this high profile defendant went from arrest to death in a single month. It's an error for the Bureau of Prisons to provide conditions that allow preventable suicide. Federal law requires prison suicide prevention, treatment, screenings, watches, transfers. And jail suicides are rare. Most inmates have cellmates, which makes them harder to do. In a federal prison, there are just about 20-plus suicides a year. Homicides are even rarer, per DOJ estimates. Any suicide is a serious matter. And remember, this was not any suicide.

12:52the Trump DOJ faced swift questions about issues ranging from missing evidence to the cell conditions. Epstein was not as big a topic at that time as right now, but the week he died, we can show you the initial reports ranged from echoing the government autopsy to raising questions about his death conditions. On the beat, we reported then how his in-custy death came amid a case where there was a lot wrong with the Trump administration's approach. Breaking news. Convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein died by suicide overnight in a Manhattan jail cell.

13:28Julie K Brown:Multiple investigations now underway. This is a are you kidding me moment for Bill Barr's Justice Department. There's a lot that's been wrong with this case from the very first inception to this now embarrassing in custody death. There's some significant questions on how somebody who was such a high-profile defendant could be found dead and how this could have happened. All deaths in custody are investigated. And here, the DOJ went further. They did a more exhaustive watchdog probe published by the later Biden administration. Years later, Congress used its powers to request even more information in this new Epstein transparency law, which demands evidence on the death, incident reports, witness interviews, medical examiner files, autopsy reports, and records on the circumstances and cause of death.

14:17Now, citing cause is big. It shows Congress's current view that the government's stated cause of suicide is under review. The Trump DOJ did declare it a suicide. They also bungled the probe and the crime scene. Later, the Biden administration reached the same conclusion. So right now, is Congress questioning if Epstein did take his life? Well, leader for this law, Democrat Robert Garcia, says yes. And the Trump DOJ, he says, is still hiding the death documents.

14:54Documentation around Epstein's detention and death. Do you have all of the known requested such documents? I mean, absolutely not.

15:02Julie K Brown:I mean, the DOJ right now, first, they've withheld 50 % of the documents at a minimum. I'm not sure if there's any person in this country that isn't suspicious, at least somewhat, of the circumstances around Jeffrey Epstein's death. Amid those suspicions and the new law, we are now building on our Epstein reporting. We previously did a legal case timeline. Tonight, we have this new timeline of Epstein's death. The original story, the pending questions, and now what we're learning from some of the new files. We can report that the Trump DOJ bungled the initial probe, oversaw evidence failures, and officers who broke the rules, some later indicted.

15:44They failed to even take fingerprints in Epstein's cell after finding him dead. And that the Garland DOJ dithered in its probe, minimized key problems, and the most important news. We can report tonight that DOJ cut an FBI account of a possible sighting of an inmate near Epstein's cell the night of his death. Now, let's follow the timeline through the sometimes bombshell evidence. We begin in July 2019. Epstein arrested on sex trafficking charges, denied bail, jailed. Soon he was found in his cell with an injury. July 23rd is the key date. In this death timeline, that's the first big date because he was found with an orange cloth around his neck.

16:30Epstein first telling staff his cellmate tried to kill him, per government records, later saying he didn't know what happened. Now, that could be a key claim from someone who would soon be found dead with similar orange prison garb around his neck. Now, Epstein's cellmate denied that, telling staff that Epstein tried to hang himself. Another inmate agreed with part of that, and a preliminary jail probe reached no conclusion either way, citing insufficient evidence. Now, that incident led the jail led them to put him on suicide watch. But oddly, that ended after just six days. Now, think about that.

17:06If the Trump DOJ concluded Epstein injured himself in self-harm, not an attack, why take him off suicide watch so quickly? And if they thought the attack complaint was possibly credible, then they were on notice of a possible threat to Epstein. Later, he gave a conflicting account of the same incident, saying he didn't know what went down, and then he wouldn't discuss injuries. There are also reports Epstein was advised to pay protection money to be safe from jail attacks. Now, the jail did take a precaution assigning a new cellmate after the jail psych ward said Epstein should get an appropriate one.

17:42But that didn't last. The jail transferred Epstein's new cellmate out and then failed to assign a new one. That proved crucial. A day later, Epstein's body was found, having been left alone in his cell, despite the recent suicide watch. The mandate that he not be alone. Epstein had been regular meeting with his lawyers on site. We also know that two days before the death, on August 8th, he updated his will. Now, this was only discovered later, Updating a will can indicate that a person's pondering death. Investigators don't view a will change alone as strong suicide proof, though. Instead, psychological autopsies use several factors, not one behavior.

18:29And a will change can reflect one's fear of death, be that from disease or a murderer. So in our timeline, the will change with other factors is circumstantial evidence, perhaps that Epstein was suicidal, which some have noted. Now, inmate lawyer meetings are private. So the jail didn't know about the will until after his death, the change. The government's chief psychologist says it would have been a red flag. So Epstein was then found dead on August 10th after these developments. Now let's zoom in on the night before. Jail rules only allow inmates personal phone calls on a recorded line. But Epstein made a secret unsupervised call around 7 p.m.

19:08telling staff he was calling his mother a lie since she'd been dead for 15 years. And yet, staff allowed Epstein to break the rules with this call, unrecorded and unmonitored, before going back to his cell. If the staff followed the rules, we would have audio of Epstein's final conversation hours before he was found dead. Evidence of his state of mind, maybe more. So why would staff let this inmate indicted for grave crimes break rules? The DOJ report quotes an inmate who saw Epstein's power and money intimidating officers that Epstein would, quote, tell them he was writing down their name for his lawyer and they were on eggshells around him.

19:50Now, the DOJ says it found that Epstein called a woman that he was dating. Epstein told the guards. He told her the guards were, quote, trying to keep me safe. she recounted to the DOJ through her lawyer. Now, if that's true, it paints Epstein as more concerned that night about his safety rather than suicidal in his remarks. Could be that the lawyer's summary is also misleading or incomplete. Now, on our timeline, the guards then return Epstein to his newly empty cell after the call, but in another protocol violation, they failed to do required overnight checks. The inmate counts every 30 minutes, which was part of the protection and the whole point of having him in this special unit.

20:35Instead, he's alone and unmonitored for eight hours until officers found this scene, the ripped prison uniforms fashioned for a hanging. Now, when a jail investigates a suspicious inmate death, they look at one, if the inmate took his life, or two, the possibility that somebody killed him. If an inmate's alone until they're found hanging, that means suicide. No one else was there to do it. The jail records video, though, in the area facing Epstein's shell in the cell area, they had two jail cameras, both failed to record. So there was only one working camera near the cell. That drew headlines at the time.

21:11Government defenders, though, cited the remaining camera footage to conclude that they would say no one got near the cell anyway that night. A top Trump FBI official who rose by questioning the Epstein story even echoed that view on Trump's behalf last year.

21:28Julie K Brown:you're going to see there's no one there but him. There is nothing. If you have it, I'm happy to see it. There's video clear as day. He's the only person in there and the only person coming out. You can see it. Clear as day? A video showing that could resolve any questions, but the Trump official was wrong. This is the start of a timeline. The conclusion is even more striking, and we'll walk you through that and the bombshell FBI account I mentioned about a possible inmate next.

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