Chris Hayes assured his viewers on on Wednesday’s episode of MSNBC’s “All In” that “I’m attempting to be rational” about Jeffrey Epstein and the varied mysteries and conspiracy theories linked to his life and dying. The issue for him is the Trump administration. “They’re being bizarre” about all of it, Hayes defined.
The genesis of that thought was the CBS report in regards to the so-called “uncooked footage” from Epstein’s cell previous to his 2019 dying by an obvious suicide on the Metropolitan Correctional Facility in New York Metropolis. Trump officers insisted, when the video was made public 3 weeks in the past, that it proved there was nothing sinister about his dying. At the moment, Wired journal recognized proof that the video had the truth is been doctored, and now CBS Information has recognized “a number of inconsistencies” between the administration’s claims and the video itself, and officers “seems to have drawn conclusions from the video that aren’t readily observable” from watching it.
Hayes started his dialogue of it saying, “each day, extra questions are being raised about that Jeffrey Epstein jail cell video the Division of Justice and the FBI launched with nice fanfare. ‘Look how clear we’re being.’ They described it as the total uncooked surveillance video from the digicam close to the kid intercourse trafficker’s jail cell the night time earlier than he was discovered lifeless. It was their so-called ‘Look. Right here’s the video.’”
“Straight away, folks observed no less than a minute was lacking,” Hayes continued. “Now the reason Legal professional Basic Pam Bonnie gave didn’t make that a lot sense, one thing a couple of tech glitch. And the FBI truly has in its possession a duplicate of the video with the lacking footage. So what precisely is happening?… I simply wish to begin off in saying my inclination is to not assume that they edited the video and that he was murdered in his jail cell. I feel he most likely did kill himself. I’m attempting to be like rational about all this, nevertheless it’s they’re being bizarre.”
Hayes then performed a video clip of Legal professional Basic Pam Bondi saying, “The video was not conclusive, however the proof previous to it was exhibiting he dedicated suicide, and what was on that there was a minute that was off the counter. And what we discovered from Bureau of Prisons was, yearly, each night time, they redo that video is previous from like 1999 so each night time the video is reset, and each night time ought to have the identical minute lacking, so we’re in search of that video.”
Afterward, Hayes mentioned to the phase’s visitor, Bulwark reporter Will Sommer, “now CBS stories there’s a model of the total video. So was she mendacity about that? Like, what? What’s happening?”
“With a lot of this Epstein state of affairs, there are all these unanswered questions, and the federal government in its makes an attempt to shut the case, retains creating extra questions,” Sommer mentioned partially. “On one hand, we had been promised right here, ‘the total and uncooked footage,’ had been their phrases, and now they’re saying initially, as you mentioned, she mentioned, they’re, properly, oh yeah, there’s one minute lacking, which we, by the way in which, forgot to say initially, and now it’s reported that there’s a minute, and there’s all these different the metadata means that there’s, the truth is, perhaps three minutes that had been lacking, or perhaps the tape was weirdly sped up. So there are all these points that the federal government actually is is simply appears to be in no rush to reply.”
The dialogue continues from there, and you’ll watch the entire thing under:
