What questions Congress has for the guard on duty the night Epstein died

[0:00] New testimony this week in the House Oversight Committee's Epstein investigation. [0:04] On Monday, lawmakers will hear from one of the prison guards on duty the night Epstein died in [0:09] his Manhattan jail cell. Then on Thursday, the committee will interview a former Epstein [0:13] assistant who was listed as one of the four potential co-conspirators. She claims she is [0:19] a victim of Epstein's abuse. This after Democrats heard dramatic testimony from survivors at a [0:24] hearing this week in Palm Beach County where many of Epstein's crimes took place. Here's what one [0:29] of those survivors told me yesterday. We know that Maria filed her first report 1996. My abuse in [0:37] 2004 was really the middle of that timeline. And then to see Rosa, who is talking about she was [0:43] abused and raped while Jeffrey Epstein had an ankle monitor on five years. I think she talked about. [0:48] Yeah, for five years. And so you're talking about a timeline that spans from 1996 all the way to 2008, [0:54] just in our testimonies alone, just in that room. And so there's so much within there that you can [1:00] start to pick apart. Joining me now is Virginia Congressman James Wackenshaw. He serves on the [1:06] House Oversight and Homeland Security Committees. Welcome back to the show, Congressman. So [1:10] one of the survivors who testified came forward for the very first time and said that Epstein raped her [1:15] for at least three years, including while he was under house arrest. What other new points did the [1:21] committee learn from the testimony of these women? Well, I think we heard decades of failure by the [1:29] federal government, starting with Maria Farmer's report in 1996 that went seemingly ignored. And [1:36] we heard from different women who were abused by Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell at different times, [1:43] incredible, powerful, incredibly powerful testimony from Rosa that you shared there, [1:48] who was abused while Epstein was serving the sentence from the sweetheart deal that he got from Alex [1:55] Acosta. So it's really breathtaking, the scope and the length of these failures. Time after time [2:04] after time, the government failing to protect these women and girls. And I think our hearing in Palm [2:09] Beach highlighted that. Yeah. Heartbreaking, in fact. Oversight Democrats announced a new phase in [2:15] the investigation, starting with the report claiming former Florida U.S. attorney Alex Acosta allowed Epstein [2:22] to continue his trafficking of young women. So what can we expect in this next stage? [2:26] Well, I think what we released in that report was a demonstration of the way that after getting the [2:33] sweetheart deal, while he was allowed to continue raping and abusing women and girls, Epstein then [2:39] really took his trafficking ring global and started to recruit more girls and women from across the globe. [2:47] So that sweetheart deal from Acosta had far reaching implications. As you noted before this segment, [2:53] we have a series of depositions and transcribed interviews starting tomorrow with Tova Noel, [2:59] one of the prison guards. We're going to have Pam Bondi on the 29th, one of the potential co-conspirators, [3:08] Bill Gates, Leon Black, a lot of meaningful depositions and interviews coming up. And look, [3:14] our goal ultimately is accountability, so that anyone who was involved in these crimes or had [3:20] knowledge of them is held accountable. And depending on their role, there'll be different [3:23] kinds of accountability. But to get accountability, we got to have transparency. We still don't have [3:29] full transparency. We don't have all the files. We have illegal redactions. We have key figures [3:33] never interviewed by the FBI. And our investigation is trying to address all of that. [3:39] So what do you want to ask Tova Noel tomorrow? Again, the prison guard, he'll be speaking with you. [3:43] Tova Noel is purportedly the last person to see Jeffrey Epstein alive, failed to make her rounds to [3:54] check on him over the course of the night that he was later found dead. We know that she made a $5,000 [4:03] bank deposit that was flagged by the bank as suspicious. There's reporting from the Miami Herald that [4:10] Epstein was paying protection payments to employees at the prison. I have a lot of questions about that. [4:18] What was the source of that $5,000 that she deposited based on the salary she was earning? That's a very [4:24] large amount of money to make in a single deposit. Was there any connection to Epstein there? She was [4:32] indicted, but made a plea deal. So didn't really face significant questioning and scrutiny. [4:40] So our interview with her will give us the opportunity to ask questions about the night [4:45] that Epstein was killed and everything leading up to it, the night that Epstein was dead and [4:48] everything leading up to it. And then you have Thursday when the committee will interview Sarah [4:54] Kellen, Epstein's personal assistant, who was named as one of the four potential [4:57] co-conspirators in Epstein's 2007 non-prosecution agreement. Some survivors say Kellen participated [5:03] in and or was complicit in their abuse, even as she says she too was an Epstein victim. [5:10] How will the committee navigate this when questioning her? [5:15] Well, I think we have to be cognizant of the fact that one of Epstein and Maxwell's tools was to [5:21] turn victims into accomplices. And, you know, there's a question of where is that line and who [5:29] should be questions. You know, I think we should ask the questions that need to be asked. I hope [5:35] we'll get honest answers from her. But I start within that conversation in a different place than those [5:43] who are clearly accomplices of Epstein helping to make these crimes happen. I'm going to treat someone [5:50] who was also a victim a little bit differently than than someone who was not victimized and was just [5:55] participating or had knowledge in the crime. So we have to be careful, I think. [5:59] OK, yeah, for sure. We're going to want to hear all that you uncover with the questioning there. [6:04] Congressman, thank you so much for your time with us. Appreciate that. [6:06] Thank you. Thanks for having me. [6:08] The president pushing the DOJ to make a deal that could create a potential slush fund and you'd be stuck [6:14] paying for it. Yeah. 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