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Assigned to watch over epstein on administrative leave, pending the outcome of the fbi in the department of justice investigation. the doj hinting that this could be just the beginning, "additional actions may be taken as the circumstances warrant." this is the associated press reported that the two guards are suspected of falsified log entries showing they were checking on epstein and other inmates every 30 minutes is required when they actually were not. surveillance video reportedly showed th...

Falsified their log entries. bryan llenas has more from the fox news room. bryan? >> harris, a source tells fox news the following -- the bureau of prisons has two teams working inside the critical center. right now, the first team is the after action team. which investigates any significant event that one of the prisons. a suicide reconstruction team interested getting how exactly epstein a partly killed himself and why. this, as the associated press reports the two guards watching epsteins uni...

With knowledge of the matter, two law enforcement officials telling nbc news, investigators are looking at whether either or both employees on duty responsible for checking on epstein were sleeping, they say no conclusion has been reached. a facility like this, a federal jail that theoretically is a maximum security kind of place with that kind of a high profile inmate that the two guards could fall asleep like something out of a bad movie. >> fell asleep, and falsified records indicated that th...

Facility. >> well, its a very robust investigation at this point. you have people from the department of justice at the facility today to start to look into this. you already see action being taken. the idea that the warden of the facility is temporarily reassigned, that is something that i would say would maybe be a normal step. the fact that two people that worked on epsteins wing had been, or his unit, i should say, have been put on administrative leave. thats a significant step they found so...

William barr cited serious irregularities, one of the two guards was a substitute and not the correctional officer. the union representing the guards tells fox news epsteins death is the fault of the bureau of prisons for systemic understaffing and overworked guards, this is the new york post reports epstein hanged himself saturday with a bed sheet wrapped around his neck tied to the top bunk bed in his jail cell, a barely kneeling to the floor and strangling himself. the current investigation i...

Zeroing in on epsteins accomplices. theres no way he did this by himself. this was a whole sex trafficking organization, almost like an organized crime family. he had -- and these were almost like family members because they were women who worked for him for years and years and years. they kept his schedule. they went out and helped recruit girls from various places, schools and spas and places where young people congregate. so there were an awful lot of people who were involved in this who prob...

And the guards were supposed to look at epstein and monitor him every 30 minutes because he was in a special unit. were learning in fact the guards hadnt checked on epstein for hours. so that left this window of opportunity for epstein to take his life. >> and before we go, those images we were just seeing, jeffrey epstein incredibly wealthy, had this home in the caribbean and now the feds are there. what are they looking for? >> of course people wondered what would happen when jeffrey epstein w...

Someone else handle it, given the politicalization of whats happening right now with the case. >> you have been following this for ages. one person im interested in is where is ghislaine maxwell, prosecutors say they cant find her. is she someone to focus their attention on? >> i dont know thats true, i heard they know where she is. and i have heard shes in london. i thought all along, i dont think she -- i think they should have paid attention to where she was going. so i think they know exactl...

Name into this mess? >> you know, i think donald trump is trying to deflect. if bill clinton has exposure, so does donald trump. bill clintons social lies with epstein. so was donald trump. bill clinton was on the plane with epstein. so was donald trump. the fact is mr. epstein took his own life. he died while he was in the custody of the trump administration. bill barr directs the bureau of prisons, and they allowed, in so ways that facilitated mr. epsteins suicide. >> well, thats not fair. wha...

Corrections officer. bryan llenas has more now from the fox news room. bryan? >> harris, the apparent suicide of jeffrey epstein has few conspiracy theories over the weekend. president trump himself retreated a conspiracy theory that implied the clintons of something to do with epsteins death. trump defended that retreat and added fuel to the conspiracy. >> what we are saying is we want an investigation. i want a full investigation. thats what i absolutely am demanding. bill clinton, did he go t...