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3 Missing Minutes in Epstein Video, President Asks AG to Release Epstein Grand Jury Testimony | Crime Alert Hourly Update 6AM 07.18.25 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime Alard hourly update breaking crime news. Now, I'm Jackie Howard.
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  Speaker 1: Six years after his death, convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein
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  Speaker 1: is back in the news, and despite the FBI maintaining
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  Speaker 1: that the millionaire financier committed suicide in prison, doubts Linger
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  Speaker 1: added to that phray is the fact that the FBI
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  Speaker 1: released prison video of Epstein had nearly three minutes cut
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  Speaker 1: out of it before it was made public. The video
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  Speaker 1: is from the only camera near Epstein's cell the night
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  Speaker 1: before he was found dead, and it had been described
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  Speaker 1: as the full raw video. The roughly eleven hour video
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  Speaker 1: was released in an effort to stave off the continued
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  Speaker 1: rumors that foul play was involved in Epstein's death. News
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  Speaker 1: of three missing minutes is just fanning the flames. Attorney
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  Speaker 1: General Pam Bondi has attributed the three minute discrepancy to
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  Speaker 1: a nightly system reset. It's unclear if the miss footage
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  Speaker 1: could show anything relevant. The existence of Epstein documents related
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  Speaker 1: to his prosecution is also garnering headlines. Government officials confirmed
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  Speaker 1: there is no Epstein client list, meaning wealthy and powerful
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  Speaker 1: men who were provided with underaged girls for sex. Attorney
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  Speaker 1: General Pam Bondy released what she called the first phase
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  Speaker 1: of the declassified Epstein files in February, flight logs, an
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  Speaker 1: evidence list, and a redacted list of contacts. The AG
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  Speaker 1: said at the time the Justice Department will release more
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  Speaker 1: files after redacting victims' names. When asked, Bondi said a
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  Speaker 1: list of Epstein's clients was on her desk for review,
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  Speaker 1: but in this month's memo, the Justice Department said there
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  Speaker 1: was no incriminating client list, and when pressed about it
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  Speaker 1: at a press conference, Bondy sidestepped.
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  Speaker 2: The issue today is about fitanel overdoses throughout our country
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  Speaker 2: and people who lost loved ones to fentanyl. That's the
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  Speaker 2: message that we're here to send today. Nothing about Epstein.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not going to talk about Epstein.
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  Speaker 1: The July memo stated, quote, there was no credible evidence
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  Speaker 1: found that Epstein blackmailed prominent individuals as part of his actions.
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  Speaker 1: We did not uncover evidence that could predicate an investigation
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  Speaker 1: against uncharged third parties with the political for or growing.
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  Speaker 1: President Donald Trump said on Thursday that he asked Attorney
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  Speaker 1: General Bondi to release grand jury testimony related to Epstein's
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  Speaker 1: criminal prosecution. Bondy replied in a social media post, President Trump,
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  Speaker 1: we are ready to move the court tomorrow to unseal
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  Speaker 1: the grand jury transcripts. In related news, the Justice Department
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  Speaker 1: this week fired Maureen Coomy from the United States Attorney's
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  Speaker 1: Office for the Southern District of New York, where she
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  Speaker 1: just led the prosecution of Sean Diddy Colmbs. That jury's
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  Speaker 1: decision was split. No word on why Coomy was fired.
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  Speaker 1: It should be noted that called Me prosecuted Epstein before
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  Speaker 1: his death and then successfully prosecuted Glaine Maxwell, a former
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  Speaker 1: associate of Jeffrey Epstein called Me worked in the US
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  Speaker 1: Attorney's office for nearly a decade. Maxwell, with interest in Epstein, reinvigorated,
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  Speaker 1: is appealing her conviction. More crime and Justice news after this,
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  Speaker 1: it was a nine to one one call that shocked
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  Speaker 1: the country.
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  Speaker 3: You upon a twelve year old female two pears of
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  Speaker 3: being stabbed. Chief pears to be what step stabbed.
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  Speaker 1: Twelve year old Peyton Lightner was lured by two of
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  Speaker 1: her classmates, one of them her best friend, into the
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  Speaker 1: woods after a slumber party. Lightner saw no danger in
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  Speaker 1: following Morgan Geyser and Anise. We are also twelve into
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  Speaker 1: the woods. Then Geyser attacked Peyton with a knife, stabbing
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  Speaker 1: her nineteen times. Weir was nearby, caring Morgan on.
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  Speaker 3: You alf of the sun.
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  Speaker 1: After the attack, the pair told Lightner to lay down
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  Speaker 1: and they would get help, but they didn't. Lightner dragged
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  Speaker 1: herself to a bike path, where cyclist Rick Steinberg found her.
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  Speaker 3: She said she's having trouble breathing. She said she was
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  Speaker 3: stabbed multiple times, yabbed multiple times. Yeah, okay, sir, are
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  Speaker 3: you with her right now? Yes? Is she awake? She's awake.
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  Speaker 3: Is she breathing, Yeah, she's breathing. She's said she can
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  Speaker 3: take shallow breaths. She's alert. Oh. Is there any assailants around? Ah?
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  Speaker 3: I didn't even look. I don't see anybody. Okay, stay
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  Speaker 3: stay right with her, sir. Is she on the ground
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  Speaker 3: or is she standing up? No, she's laying on the grass.
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  Speaker 3: Is there any bleeding going on? Her clothing has got
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  Speaker 3: blood on it. Where are the wounds? Do you see
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  Speaker 3: where the wounds are? No? I don't know if I
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  Speaker 3: should be rolling or over and checking or not. Okay,
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  Speaker 3: So you see any active bleeding or blood spurting out
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  Speaker 3: or anything like that. No, unless it's underneath her. I
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  Speaker 3: just see ride blood Okay, just dried blood. Okay.
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  Speaker 1: Peyton survived her terrible wounds after five hours of surgery.
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  Speaker 1: Investigators tracked down Morgan Geyser and Anissa Weir, who were
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  Speaker 1: found walking on Interstate ninety four in Waukeshaw. The girls
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  Speaker 1: admitted to the stabbing in a plan to please an
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  Speaker 1: online fictional creature known as the slender Man. Slender Man
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  Speaker 1: is tall, thin with a featureless face, wearing a black suit,
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  Speaker 1: white shirt, and living in the woods. Weir was found
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  Speaker 1: guilty of attempted second degree intentional homicide and was granted
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  Speaker 1: release from a mental health facility. Geyser was found not
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  Speaker 1: guilty by reason of insanity, but with her plea deal,
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  Speaker 1: she spent eight years at a psychiatric facility. Now, a
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  Speaker 1: Waukeshaw County judge says Geyser and be released. Latner's mother
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  Speaker 1: expressed concerns about where Geyser was set to be resettled,
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  Speaker 1: a group home just eight miles from where the victim lives.
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  Speaker 1: The judge ordered a new plan, but neither details nor
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  Speaker 1: a release date have been announced. A few years ago,
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  Speaker 1: Peyton spoke with ABC's twenty twenty When asked what she
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  Speaker 1: would say to her attackers, this was her reply.
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  Speaker 4: There's a lot that I would want to say to her.
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  Speaker 4: I would probably initially thank her, I would say because
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  Speaker 4: of what she did, I have the life I have now,
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  Speaker 4: which I really really like it. Like without the whole situation,
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  Speaker 4: I wouldn't be who I am.
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