The Missing Minute: AG Pam Bondi Tries to Explain Why Epstein Jail Video Appears Edited | Crime Alert 4PM 07.10.25

A missing minute in jail video from the night Jeffrey Epstein died has reignited questions about his death and the investigation that followed. Attorney General Pamela Bondi is accused of protecting someone, with Democrats saying she's protecting President Trump. A militia group that believes weather radars are weapons claims it is behind a recent attack that knocked out a local news station’s radar in Oklahoma City. Drew Nelson reports.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Crime Alert, hourly update, Breaking crime News.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
Now, are you still talking about Jeffrey and Epstein? This
guy's been talked about for years. You're asking, we have Texas,
we have this, we have all of the things, and
are people still talking about this guy? This creep that
is unbelievable.

Speaker 1 (00:20):
I'm Drew Nelson. Yes, we're still talking about Jeffrey Epstein.
A missing minute in jail video from the night Epstein
died has reignited questions about his death and the investigation
that followed. Attorney General Pam Bondi spoke at a cabinet
meeting to explain why that key minute of footage from
outside Epstein's jail cell appeared to be missing.

Speaker 3 (00:40):
The video was not conclusive, but the evidence prior to
it was showing he committed suicide. And what was on
that there was a minute that was off the counter.
And what we learned from Euro of Prisons was every year,
every night they redo that video as old from like
nineteen ninety nine, so every night the video is reset

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and every night should have the same minute missing. So
we're looking for that video to release that as well,
showing that a minute is missing every night and that's
it on Epstein.

Speaker 1 (01:13):
The Justice Department released nearly eleven hours of surveillance footage
on July seventh. There's a spot with the timestamp in
the video, skipping from eleven fifty eight fifty eight to
twelve zero zero. The video was part of a broader
report concluding that Epstein died by suicide in twenty nineteen.
The memo also stated that there was no so called
client list, no blackmail material, and no evidence of a

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larger conspiracy. The DOJ wrote quote, there was also no
credible evidence found that Epstein blackmail prominent individuals. Despite the memo,
many believe Bondi is hiding the truth. In February, she
told Fox News that a client list was quote sitting
on my desk to be reviewed. She later claims she
was referring to Epstein's case file, not specifically a list.

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Former DOZE in chief Elon muskimed on social media that
the President's name was in the files and that was
why they weren't released. Musk posting on X quote, what's
the time, Oh look, it's no one has been arrested
a clock again. Democrats are also accusing Bondi of shielding
mister Trump. Representative Jamie Raskin and fifteen others sent a

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letter demanding the release of all files that mentioned the
president quote stop protecting your boss and former client. The
FBI and DOJ have said they will not release more evidence.
Most of the remaining materials are sealed to protect victims.
The memo said, quote only a fraction of it would
have been aired publicly had Epstein gone to trial. More

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Crime and Justice news after this. A militia group that
believes whether radars are weapons claims it is behind a
recent attack that knocked out a local news station's radar
in Oklahoma. Kwtv's whether radar in Northeast Oklahoma went offline

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Sunday after a man broke into the site and smashed
up some of the gear. The TV station described surveillance
footage showing the suspect climbing a fence around nine thirty
that night, smashing the power meter, disabling the power disconnect,
and breaking into the generator's transfer switch before destroying it.
He then vandalized all the security cameras, but you'd think
he might have done that first if he didn't want

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to be identified. The vandalism knocked the radar offline for
several hours. On Tuesday, police arrested thirty nine year old
Anthony Tyler Mitchell on unrelated charges of destruction of property
and violating a protective order. Investigators believe he is the
same person seen in the radar footage. He has not
yet been formally charged with the vandalism. After Mitchell's arrest,

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a group called Veterans on Patrol claimed responsibility for the attack.
The group is described by the Southern Poverty Law Center
as an anti government militia. Its founder, Michael Lewis Arthur Meyer,
says they are targeting radar systems across the state. Quote
when the military plays god with the weather, they're mocking
our heavenly fought. He calls the radars quote energy weapons

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and describes the damage as part of a deliberate plan,
quote destroying the backup supply, the cooling network. Those items
need to be reordered and installed. They will cost a
lot of money and time. Meyers said his group is
tracking other radar towers in Oklahoma and claimed they would
not stop. Quote our goal is to take out fifteen
energy weapons in this state, and we want to do

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it simultaneously. Veterans on Control says the government uses radar
and cell towers to control the weather and track people.
Kwtv's chief meteorologist, David Paine refuted the group's beliefs. Quote,
we have one of the most powerful live radars in Oklahoma,
but we cannot do any weather modification at all. He
warns that when radars are sabotaged, quote, we cannot track

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severe weather. We cannot track tornadoes. And this is Oklahoma
we're talking about here. The Oklahoma Department of Public Safety
said its Fusion Center is monitoring threats to infrastructure and
asked the public to report suspicious activity through the Protectocare app.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says the agency is
aware of the threats and is working with law enforcement.

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I'm Drew Nelson.