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How if he hadn't resisted it would have been fine. he also said you wish that officer pantaleo would have waited. what is the lesson to her officers coming out of this? >> immediately after this, back in 2014, ben tucker was the deputy commissioner and training still at the time. we taught all of our police officers de-escalation. we do fair and impartial policing and everybody wears a buddy coming out. there are a lot of things that came out of this incident. every time there's an incident, it affects the nypd and there is always something to learn. right behind you? >> reporter: [indistinct]...

Scandal. >> kennedy: i want to bring in gillian because she hasn't had a chance to respond. let's say the president is talking about involuntary commitment. he's talking about putting people into psychiatric institutions. let's say we completely disarmed the population, at least the law-abiding, good citizens of this country. and we take their assault weapons away, which means all semiautomatic weapons. so people are left with muskets and revolvers. what does that do to neutralize the hate and evil and society? >> gillian: here's an interesting thing, too -- even if you somehow prevented every...

>> reporter: when did you actually make this decision? was it down to the wire or a couple days ago? >> i think you've known me long enough by now that this was not an easy decision. it's not something that i can make over a few hours. i've been thinking about this since the day i was sworn in as police commissioner. the decision was made in the last couple of days. tony? >> reporter: commissioner, have any determinations been made about -- [indistinct] >> he's being terminated. whatever contributions he made to the pension system, he will get back. marsha? >> reporter: [indistinct] i know you...

It, it just lends itself to conspiracy theories. so we want to get to the bottom of it. see if we can find out and understand, because it really goes to the credibility of the federal bureau of prisons. >> gillian: lots of questions about the hours and minutes leading up to epstein's death. but also a lot of questions about the years and decades leading up to this, as well. something the investigation showed this week was that ten years ago when he was serving time in florida he managed to buy children's panties at the prison concession shop. >> melissa: the other salacious detail we mentioned...

>> kennedy: the senate almost passed that conference a background check bill in 2013 after sandy hook. the worry, harris, is that by the time lawmakers come back -- because mitch mcconnell is not going to call the senate into session. one are you going to say what i think you're going to say? >> kennedy: by the time that happens we will have rotated through so many news cycles that i think the shock of these horrific incidents unfortunately lessons a little bit. you don't have the same urgency. >> harris: that makes my throat hurt, going down. i don't know how much more we have to see to know ...