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Give me a break. they didnt have the money for that? >> right. even more so there is reporting that came out that the guards that were staffed with watching epstein had been working several back-to-back shifts, were on a series of overtimes. so perhaps werent at the peak of their ability to actually monitor the situation. but i just want to throw out the second piece, which is i do think that institutions, whether right or wrong, and the b.o.p. has to answer to this, there is a hesitancy to keep...

Its a very unpleasant place to be. a sense of hopelessness would not have been surprising at all. so we have the prior suicide attempt here. hes on suicide watch. he comes off suicide watch. and maybe that by itself is not so unusual. people typically dont stay on suicide watch for very long within the b.o.p., but all these other failures as well. the shortage of staff, which meant you just didnt have enough people to be watching him. the best way to prevent a suicide is to have this particular ...

Tangled web in which he lived, all of the major power players that could be implicated. at this point there are no signs of foul play from the autopsy but no conclusion on cause of death. why not? >> reporter: i think, stephanie, look. this is going to be a death studied for the next 15, 20 plus years. the medical examiner in new york city is typically cautious. and i think they want to take a step back, a chance to look at every possible thing. say there is a cut on his hand or abrasion on his ...

Happened. so you should i think acknowledge that and acknowledge that, that this was a big screw-up on the part of your department. and can no one in this administration be bothered to staff the federal bureaucracy at any level with competent people who see the holes in the system, who see deficiencies in the system, who are smart enough and experienced enough to know when you dont have, say, enough correctional guards on duty at the mcc, whatever the problem happens to be. >> you say barr uses ...

Taken off of suicide watch he was paired with somebody, so things seemed to be sort of going a pace per usual protocols for a couple of weeks. >> so earlier, and last hour i spoke with a former deputy warden not at mcc but he has had some experience he said at mcc, and he said this is a reflection of a real leadership problem perhaps at that facility. is that anything that youve learned from officials there? >> yeah, weve talked about this for several stories. bop, first of all, they have an act...

Him off suicide watch, his accommodations may have changed d he have bedding, a full set of clothes. you hear this periodically, they still manage to take their own life using the pants that they were wearing, perhaps using something else that they do have access to in the cell, so the question is how realistic is it given what was in that cell, so we need to wait and hear from the bop what he had access to and how he in fact took his own life, but again, he was in his own cell and he was being ...

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Am still -- like fireworks. so, as soon as the two pops stopped. there was pop, pop, pop, one after the other, that sounded to me like somebody who has a military background. i know the difference between one weapon to another. there was a hesitation in the beginning, he turned into semi, it was definitely a large weapon. it was not just a pistol or something simple. it was definitely, either military grade and definitely, illegal. everybody is screaming, they are

>> ariela. you said you have military background. what is it you can describe? >> yeah, im -- ive been in the israeli military. >> so, as you were listening to these gunshots, can you give me a sense were they fast? were they slow? is it bop, bop, bop? you have an understanding of how different firearms work. >> yeah. the first one was pop-pop. and the second was pop pop pop pop pop like that but semi. you can totally tell a difference between the two. >> and how far apart were these and how man...