Two MAJOR findings from the Epstein files make Glenn Beck question EVERYTHING

What this episode is about

Newly released DOJ documents reveal intriguing findings regarding surveillance footage from the night of Jeffrey Epstein's death, specifically noting an unidentified orangecoled shape seen moving towards his cell. Investigators are divided on the identity of this figure, with hypotheses ranging from a possibly escorted inmate to a corrections officer carrying bedding, raising questions about protocol violations and the circumstances surrounding Epstein's demise.

Key takeaways

• In a prison where protocols reign, an 'orange shape' challenges everything we thought we knew about Epstein's death.
• Surveillance can be misleading; a fuzzy orange shape now raises more questions than the actual cause of death.
• Late-night inmate movements are more suspicious than a cat burglar; what was someone doing there at 10:39 PM?
• Officers were 'unusually absent' that night—if only sleepy guards were the only thing haunting Epstein's cell.
• Official reports ignored the 'mysterious orange', proving sometimes the truth isn't just stranger than fiction; it's invisible.

Who speaks in this episode?

• Glenn Beck (Guest) · 16 min speaking
• Dan Bonino · 1 min speaking
• Tova Noel (Guest) · 1 min speaking
• Gito Bonhomem (Guest) · 1 min speaking

What is discussed, and when

1. 0:00 – 3:00: Jeffrey Epstein, CBS News, FBI
2. 3:00 – 6:00: Jeffrey Epstein, CBS News, Gito Bonhomem, Tova Noel
3. 6:00 – 9:00: Jeffrey Epstein, Gito Bonhomem, Tova Noel
4. 9:00 – 12:00: Jeffrey Epstein, CBS News, Tova Noel, New York City's Office of the Chief Medical Examiner
5. 12:00 – 15:00: Jeffrey Epstein, Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)

Notable quotes from "Two MAJOR findings from the Epstein files make Glenn Beck question EVERYTHING"

• Newly released Department of Justice documents show that investigators reviewing surveillance footage from the night of Jeffrey Epstein's death observed an orangecoled shape.

  about Jeffrey Epstein · at 0:04

• That tier. That's what's in their observation log. This again reported now by CBS News. It also appears, according to an FBI memorandum, that reviews by investigators left…

  about FBI · at 0:59

• Official reviews of Ebstein's death make no mention of the figure in orange and later pronouncements from authorities including the attorney general at the time Bill Bar were…

  about William P. Barr · at 3:18

• Rule out whether somebody could have climbed the stairs and entered the tier without being clearly visible. CBS News analysts of that analysis of that video found additional…

  about CBS News · at 4:35

• Neither officer were specifically asked about the orangecoled figure noted in the video observation log. Bonhomem told investigators that he did not remember the period between 10 p.m. and midnight.

  about Gito Bonhomem · at 6:25

• Report did not identify Noel as the figure seen in the footage. In her interview, Noel told investigators, Distributing linen was not part of my duties. I never gave out linen ever because that's done on the shift prior.

  about Tova Noel · at 7:12

• Have been cut from Ebstein's body was later returned from the hospital in a bag of personal stuff. New documents also show that New York City's Office of the Chief Medical…

  about New York City's Office of the Chief Medical Examiner · at 10:03

• But thank God people are still looking into it that actually have the ability to look into it. We still have a FISA warrant out or a FISA request out. oh, sorry, not FISA.…

  about Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) · at 12:58

Who and what is mentioned in this episode?

People

• Jeffrey Epstein — Person · Central subject (deceased detainee) · 14 mentions · first at 0:11
  The discussion centers on surveillance footage, official accounts, and procedural failures surrounding Epstein’s death at the Metropolitan Correctional Center.
• Gito Bonhomem — Person · Referenced corrections officer (MCC staff on duty) · 3 mentions · first at 5:15
  Discussed as the other officer assigned to the unit; described as having worked multiple shifts and sleeping on duty, with limited recollection of the relevant time window.
• Tova Noel — Person · Referenced corrections officer (MCC staff on duty) · 3 mentions · first at 5:15
  Identified as one of the two officers assigned to the unit; discussed regarding missed counts/wellness checks and a claim that she was believed (by investigators) to be carrying linen/clothing in footage.
• William P. Barr — Person · Referenced authority figure (Attorney General at the time) · 1 mention · first at 3:26
  Cited as an official voice who publicly asserted that no one entered Epstein’s housing tier, which the speaker contrasts with newly discussed video-log observations.
• Dan Bonino — Person · Referenced media interviewee (law enforcement official per transcript) · 1 mention · first at 3:36
  Quoted as saying the video shows Epstein as the only person in and out; used to highlight alleged contradictions with later-described ‘orange figure’ observations.
  Ebstein's housing tier the night of his death last summer in an interview on Fox and Friends then deputy FBI director Dan Bonino said quote there's video clear as day. He is…

Companies & orgs

• CBS News — Company · Primary reporter · 6 mentions · first at 0:00
  CBS News is the main source reporting on the newly released documents and analysis regarding Jeffrey Epstein's death.
• FBI — Company · Investigative agency · 1 mention · first at 1:12
  The FBI is involved in the investigation of Jeffrey Epstein's death, with differing conclusions from other agencies.
• New York City's Office of the Chief Medical Examiner — Company · Medical examiner · 1 mention · first at 10:08
  The office reviewed the jail surveillance footage and ruled Epstein's death a suicide, despite unclear evidence.

Concepts & topics

• Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) — Concept · Legal request · 1 mention · first at 13:02
  The Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request was made to obtain more information about Epstein's death, but the government has been unresponsive.

Full transcript with timestamps

0:00 from CBS News. Newly released Department of Justice documents show that investigators reviewing surveillance footage from the night of Jeffrey Epstein's death observed an orangecoled shape. I don't know about you, but orange colored shapes move around my house all the time. An orangecoled shape was moving up the staircase towards the isolated locked tier where Jeffrey Epstein's cell was located at approximately 10:39 p.m. on August 9th, 2019. That entry in an observation log of the video from the Metropolitan uh Correctional Center appears to suggest something previously unreported by authorities. A flash of orange looks to be going up the L tier stairs. Could possibly be an inmate escorted up to that tier. That's what's in their observation log. This again reported now by CBS News. It also appears, according to an FBI memorandum, that reviews by investigators left disperate conclusions by the FBI

1:16 and those examining the same video from the Department of Justice Office of Inspector General. FBI log describes the fuzzy image as possibly an inmate. I don't know if you know this, but inmates at 10:39 are not going around uh in that area outside of their cell. So FBI, that doesn't make sense. The inspector general logs it as an officer carrying orange linen or bedding. Okay, we now know they knew when they wrote that in there, they knew that bedding is delivered the shift before this. So, it would have been 5:00 in the afternoon before these people were even uh in. That's when you deliver bedding.

2:00 No one is allowed on that floor at 10:39. You would have to lock you would have to log in. So, delivering bedding, no. The guards say that would have been uh a breach of protocol and you would have had to sign something. The final report says approximately 10:39 p.m. an unidentified CO appeared to walk up the Lier stairway. So, we're no longer just an orange shape. This this orange shape seems to have legs and then reappeared within the view of the camera at 10:41 p.m. Official reports state that Epstein died by suicide sometime before 6:30 a.m. when his body was discovered before breakfast. Blah blah blah.

2:49 an in-depth analysis of surveillance video from the jail. CBS News previously reported on the figure on the stairs and consulted independent video analysts who say the movement was more consistent with an inmate or someone wearing an orange prison uniform than a corrections officer. The new records raise more questions about the activity near Epstein's tier late that evening. Official reviews of Ebstein's death make no mention of the figure in let me say Official reviews of Ebstein's death make no mention of the figure in orange and later pronouncements from authorities including the attorney general at the time Bill Bar were that no one entered Ebstein's housing tier the night of his death last summer in an interview on Fox and Friends then deputy FBI director Dan Bonino said quote there's video clear as day. He is the only person in there and the only person coming out. You can see it. Prison employees interviewed by CBS

3:51 News said escorting an inmate at that hour would have been highly unusual. The identification of the individual could have been crucial to reconstructing the events. You think so? Given that the sighting occurred within the estimated window of Epstein's possible time of death. Okay. Thi this I I warn you this is about to get worse. The staircase leading to his cell tier was captured by the only camera known to have been recording that night. H positioned in a way that partially obscured the approach to Epstein's tier. Government investigators relied heavily on that footage in reconstructing the timeline of the events, but because of the camera's angle, it was not possible to rule out whether somebody could have climbed the stairs and entered the tier without being clearly visible. CBS News analysts of that analysis of that video found additional contradictions between what the video showed and the official

4:50 statements. Okay, you ready? Buckle up. I just learned some things in the next few paragraphs that I didn't know. Among those interviewed were the two corrections officers assigned to the unit that night. Let me just ask you, what do you know about these guys? All I know about these guys is they fell asleep. Okay, that's all I know about them. Tova Noel and Gito Bonhomem uh were assigned to the unit that night. They've not been publicly identified until now. Documents show Bonholm was interviewed twice in September 2019 in sessions conducted in lie of a grand journey jury subpoena. H interesting.

5:40 According to Nol's account, Bonhomem had been working multiple consecutive shifts and slept while on duty for a period of approximately 10 p.m. and midnight. Investigators also questioned Noel about the unexplained change in the recorded number of inmates in the H Shu, which appeared to drop from 73 to 72 sometime between 10 and 3:00 a.m. She said she was just probably mistaken about the discrepancy and told investigators she had no memory of account changing. Okay, I'm just going to just dismiss that one. That's just somebody just writing the wrong number in. Okay, let's just go with that. He can't do it with the rest of this stuff. Neither officer neither officer were specifically asked about the orangecoled figure noted in the video observation log. Bonhomem told investigators that he did not remember the period between 10 p.m. and midnight.

6:39 Said he had no recollection of anyone walking up the stairs towards Ebstein's tier around 10:30. Yeah, cuz he was asleep. He added, however, that a jail employee entering a tier alone would have violated all of their policies. Probably sleep would have too. A separate internal presentation including in the doc included in the document released described a corrections officer believed by investigators to be Noel carrying linen or inmate clothing up to the tier. The 2023 Inspector General report did not identify Noel as the figure seen in the footage. In her interview, Noel told investigators, "Distributing linen was not part of my duties. I never gave out linen ever because that's done on the shift prior."

7:29 Okay, so they leave this out in the Inspector General report, but they do not address the orange figure that is moving up. They just say it's not these two. You ready? Okay, here we go. Thomas and Noel failed to complete inmate counts at 3:00 a.m. and 5 uh a.m. as well as mandatory 30-minute wellness checks of Ebstein. All night long, they didn't do any of those things. Thomas and Noel were later charged with falsifying records certifying the inmate counts had been completed. Federal prosecutors eventually dropped the charges in exchange for cooperation agreements that included interviews. A transcript of Thomas's interview conducted two years after Ebstein's death and released in the recent document disclosure shows significant gaps in his recollection of the morning Epstein was found. Ready?

8:25 Thomas told investigators he discovered Ebstein in his cell shortly after 6:30 a.m. on August 10th and that he ripped Ebstein down from the hanging position. Investigators asked what happened to the noose? What happened to the noose? Have you heard any of this before? What happened to the noose? quote, "I don't recall taking the noose off. I really don't. I don't recall taking the thing from around his neck." Noel, who remained standing at the cell entrance, told investigators she saw Thomas lower Epstein to the floor but did not see a noose around his neck. The noose Epstein allegedly used has never been identified.

9:19 According to the inspector general's report, a noose collected at the scene was later determined not to be the noose used in Ebstein's death. Okay. All right. First, you had us believe that it was a paper noose. Now, you're saying the paper noose that was found was not the noose that killed him. In fact, you can't find the noose, the paper news. And this one was late later added to the scene. By whom? By whom? By whom? By whom? By whom? Thomas also described Ebstein as shirtless when they found him. Evidence records indicate a shirt believed to have been cut from Ebstein's body was later returned from the hospital in a bag of personal stuff. New documents also show that New York City's Office of the Chief Medical Examiner reviewed the jail surveillance footage 6 days after the death as part of his investigation, but concluded the video was too blurry to identify any individuals. Hours later, the office publicly ruled

10:23 Epstein's death a suicide. Wait, you don't have the murderer suicide weapon. The weapon that you do have, the noose, is not the noose that killed him. No explanation on how that arrived later at the scene. You have a blurry figure. I don't care that you can't identify. You have a blurry figure going up in the middle of the night and you can't identify that individual, but it's a blurry figure going up and yet you rule this a suicide. That is fascinating to me. By the way, CBS News previously reported on the offic's unorthodox handling of the crime scene.

11:07 Okay, let me let me do a commercial and then come back and let's just let's just think about this for a second, shall we? What is the biggest problem in America right now? What is the problem that we face? I think there are two big problems. One, we have no idea how our government works. We don't we can't describe our rights. We can't describe our responsibilities. We have no idea about the three branches of government. No one knows how this system works. And so, it's working however it wants to work because the people have fallen asleep.

11:51 There's problem number one. Number two, because the people fell asleep, there's all kinds of shady stuff going on that we all know now because it is so I'll bet you a third of our budget is is gone in in graft and and uh bribes and whatever. I'll bet you a third of our federal budget is nothing but a con. Okay? You know that. I know that. You can't trust the media. You can't tr you can't trust anybody anymore. And now when they release this is the problem with the Epstein thing. Okay, this is the ultimate test of trust.

12:33 You have to get trust back or you don't have a nation. So nothing has felt right with this. Nothing has felt right with this. I don't know what you're going to find, if anything, because I think so many people are involved. Would I like to get to the bottom of this? Yes. Do I think we're going to get to the bottom of this? No. But thank God people are still looking into it that actually have the ability to look into it. We still have a FISA warrant out or a FISA request out. Uh oh, sorry, not FISA. That's why I was getting screwed up. um foyer a foyer request freedom of information act about this and we've been stonewalled from the government. I'd like to know why.

13:21 And you know what it would answer a lot of these questions I think because what we foyed is happening right at the time that they're saying there's no nothing to be seen here. Um, so thank God people are still digging in and looking, but let me just go through the problems that this is now caused. You have an orange flash on the stairs. Were you told of that? Did have we ever heard that before from I mean from any source in the government? We were told there is nothing there. Clearly friends and foes both looked at that video and said there is nothing there.

14:08 CBS had some analysts look into it and they're like, "Well, what's that orange thing moving up? That's obviously a person." Okay, I thought there was nothing there. Problem number two, they knew this right away. They knew it right away and then they dismissed it as if it was nothing. Three, there's no time of death. The the medical examiner said because they took the body down, he couldn't tell a time of death. Now, all my criminal CSI knowledge comes from television. And I know I know reality is not television, but you can't tell me that because you move the body, you couldn't put your hand on the corpse and go, "Okay, that was an hour ago or that was last night at 10:30."

15:10 Just the body cooling would have told you something. The medical examiner cannot assign time of death. Well, that's interesting because if you could say it happened between 10 and midnight, maybe we would have been able to narrow things down. But because it could have been done at 3:00 in the morning, could have been done at 5:45, they walked in at 6:30, he might have done it at 6:29. That's bull crap. And you and I know it. And then the worst thing is they don't remember the news. Nobody remembers taking the noose off.

15:48 Nobody remembers seeing a noose and then another noose which they have determined was not the noose used just magically appears in the cell later. Excuse me. I mean there's just no way to square this circle. There's no way to do it. You cannot with any credibility say, "Yeah, this guy committed suicide." Now, it may turn out that he committed suicide, but not until you lock all these other things down. Who put the freaking news? The cameras weren't working at 6:30. The cameras weren't working at 6:30. They were turned off.

16:30 Okay. And they said, "Well, I don't know what happened there." One of the first things you would have done is, "How come did we see anybody walk in?" No, those cameras on weren't on at 6:32. Somebody would have said, "Turn the damn cameras on, right?" Nobody saw anything. Nobody. Who came into the room? Who h That would have been a crime scene. Who had access to the room to throw a noose inside? My gosh. There's a reason why we don't believe the government. There is a reason, and it's this kind of crap.

Questions about this episode

Who speaks in "Two MAJOR findings from the Epstein files make Glenn Beck question EVERYTHING"?

Glenn Beck (Guest), Dan Bonino, Tova Noel (Guest), Gito Bonhomem (Guest).

What is "Two MAJOR findings from the Epstein files make Glenn Beck question EVERYTHING" about?

Newly released DOJ documents reveal intriguing findings regarding surveillance footage from the night of Jeffrey Epstein's death, specifically noting an unidentified orangecoled shape seen moving towards his cell. Investigators are divided on the identity of this figure, with hypotheses ranging from a possibly escorted inmate to a corrections officer carrying bedding, raising questions about…

What is mentioned in this Glenn Beck episode?

9 people, works and ideas are mentioned, including Jeffrey Epstein, CBS News, Gito Bonhomem, Tova Noel, FBI, New York City's Office of the Chief Medical Examiner. Each one on this page links to its own page with every episode that mentions it.

How long is "Two MAJOR findings from the Epstein files make Glenn Beck question EVERYTHING"?

The episode runs 17 min; the transcript is about 2,411 words in 20 timestamped sections.

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