good health. reporter: for the first time, a glimpse into griner s life behind bars, doing hard labor and sleeping in a bed far too tiny for her 6 9 frame. griner s lawyer told espn that she chopped off her signature dreads because it was so frigid, her hair froze. marine veteran, paul whelan, imprisoned in russia since 2018 on what the u.s. calls sham espionage charge was not part of the exchange, and freed convicted arms dealer viktor bout, known as the merchant of death. today, vladimir putin did not rule out more prisoner swaps, saying anything is possible. viktor bout was the highest profile prisoner we had. so what else do we have? well, we ll see. actions not words. so we heard what mr. putin said. now, let s see what he and his officials are willing to do to help us get paul home. reporter: a u.s. official
times ten, when you have the highest profile prisoner in the entire bop. what happened is hard to decipher. back to a very good original question harris: hold on can these guards cooperate? harris: three doors down, reportedly, was el chapo guzman. and he has been handled fund, which is a good point made, and you ve made it. common sense and human nature is that when you have jeffrey epstein derek he is much even closer. these guards have been charged with falsifying paperwork. i ve been into coke of these cases, when in federal court and one in state court. the point is, will they cooperate? i can t give a crystal ball answer. the second question is what would they cooperated out? was really just a follow-up that they fell asleep? or is there larger story. spew and you heard attorney general barr, that it was a perfect storm of screw ups. i want to move on to across the pond. can the fbi compel the
another either by prosecution or by termination. steve: which was it? a major malfunction or a criminal enterprise we talked to brett tollman in salt lake city this morning. he had this to say about all of that. the charges are a place holder while they look at is there a conspiracy? are there more people involved in this? are there inconsistencies with suicide. when you take that in contrast how he was treated by the feds when he was investigating in florida. you have to be concerned there is more than just these guards ignoring the highest profile prisoner they have had. it s scary. when someone has connections to powerful people ends up dying when he is supposed to be on suicide watch more than coinchts.
up. meantime dozens of schools closed today in the los angeles area as the new brush fire quickly grows north of the city. there is some good news on that finally. calmer weather has given crews the upper hand on multiple wildfires in the golden state. four people are dead and several other injured at a shooting at a halloween party in northern california. there is no word on the shooter currently. i still stand by something doesn t fit here. it just doesn t make sense that the highest profile prisoner in america, someone forgot to guard him. so i want to understand everyone wants to understand what really happened. bill: we re wondering whether or not the story is changing. bill deblasio agreeing with michael baden there is something fishy about the debt of jeffrey epstein in prison.
so, we don t have that. and apparently they can t find that. there are no cameras that were working that night. the guards were all asleep. it seems like a perfect storm of a lot of stuff missing. well, it does seem like a series of unusual events when you are talking about a highly secure federal prisoner, a very high profile prisoner and you are talking about a suspicious death. the other thing dr. baden said that was very significant to me the guard before he stopped talking and give any further statements, the guard said he found epstein leaning forward on his knees as if he had strangled with the ligature. which you can. you can put enough pressure on the carotid artery to strangle that really does not explain the broken bones which you would have expected to have to happen from a force or a drop of some distance or from manual pressure applied from