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To the events surrounding his death. william barr you mentioned dispatching two of his top aids to independentl --aides ton where epstein was being held. the team has been on site since thursday. separately, there is a review team under the bureau of prisons that falls under the justice department. they are still on the scene analyzing what went wrong. nearly a week out from epstein's death and the key issue is staffing, who was working overtime shift and whether the protocols monitoring epstein were followed after he came off the suicide watch as well as the removal of the cell mate. fox news...

The key things we are learning in this is one of the guards responsible for monitoring jeffrey epstein was not in fact a trained correctional officer. now, it's not clear what that person's full-time job is, that person, one of the two guards who was supposed to ensure epstein's safety was not trained for that. a representative for police is saying this is because of understaffing. both of the guards were on overtime shifts. one of the guards, we're not sure which one, was serving his fifth overtime shift. there was a lot of pressure on the guards. they're saying there was understaffing, and e...

Prisons has tried to tackle for a while. >> and then, katie, at least one of the guards it's being reported may have been on the fifth shift. is there an inference there that someone may have been watching but may have fell asleep? or the follow-up question is aren't there cameras and wouldn't there be a way in which to review what could have happened in terms of the watch of epstein? >> of course. so on the cameras issue first, if the cell block that epstein was in looked like similar cell blocks, we have been told that certainly there would be cameras. so i think we're all very eager to see ...

Reporting is that epstein was allowed to be by himself in the cell to begin with. typically for these inmates who are considered a risk to themselves, they are not allowed to be by themselves immediately after they are taken off suicide watch. we do understand, according to this latest reporting, that he did have a cellmate, however, the cellmate was not there at the time. another fact that will be considered not just by the fbi but the inspector general are the actual two guards that were working in the shu presumably friday into saturday. we understand that both of them were on overtime. one...

Light on how many guards were watching him and how closely the prison keeps tabs. that source telling cnn that at the time jeffrey epstein is believed to have hanged himself, nobody was monitoring him, no guards were watching his cell and despite protocol, epstein was totally alone. plus how the prison was staffed at the time of epstein's death. one of them was working a mandatory overtime shift and the other was on his fifth overtime shift of the week. so far the u.s. bureau of prisons is saying nothing. with us now, former assistant u.s. attorney for the southern district of new york, elie h...