There was no "missing minute" in Epstein jail video, government source says

[Eugene]

Source: CBS News

There was no "missing minute" in Epstein jail video, government source says

By Dan Ruetenik
July 29, 2025 / 6:00 AM EDT / CBS News

The "missing minute" from the surveillance video at the Manhattan Metropolitan Correctional Center where Jeffrey Epstein died in 2019 may not be missing after all, CBS News has learned.

When the Justice Department and FBI released nearly 11 hours of footage earlier this month, the time code on the screen jumped forward one minute just before midnight, prompting questions about the one-minute gap. The video shows part of the area near the cell where Epstein was being held the night he died in what the medical examiner ruled a suicide.

A government source familiar with the investigation says the FBI, the Bureau of Prisons and the Department of Justice inspector general are all in possession of a copy of the video that does not cut from just before 11:59 p.m. to midnight of the night Epstein died by suicide in his cell.

What is unclear is why that section was missing when the FBI released what it said was raw footage from inside the Special Housing Unit the night Epstein died, Aug. 9-10, 2019. The recording came from what officials said was the only relevant video camera that was recording its footage in the unit. This video has been cited by multiple government officials as a key piece of evidence in the determination that Epstein died by suicide.

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Read more: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/jeffrey-epstein-jail-video-no-missing-minute-government-source-says/

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1. "CBS News has learned"

Bullshit.

[exboyfil]

4. So did the CBS ethics czar bless this because it is "unbiased"

[spanone]

5. Could very well be.

[Scrivener7]

14. Right? Laughable.

Problem is, most people don't follow closely and think CBS is still CBS and this means something.

[yardwork]

2. Why do they think anyone believes them?!

[Blues Heron]

3. Wasn't it a three minute gap? This feels like a coverup

[johnnyfins]

7. Thats because it IS a coverup.

[travelingthrulife]

13. But it wasn't one minute.

[Blues Heron]

16. Touch!

That’s a good point!

[SonOfNebanaube]

17. it has been analyzed and found to have 4 edits. n/t

[marble falls]

6. It isn't missing if TACO and Bondi know exactly where it's been filed.

[underpants]

8. A. They released the wrong video B. Guess what, Bondi either lied or didn't know what she was talking about

[Johonny]

9. Trust us, we all have a "good" copy

But gave you a bad copy. Oops.

[intheflow]

22. "Oops. But what's done is done and you'll just have to trust us

because we ain't releasing an uncut version."

[BlueKota]

10. To quote David Letterman

"You can't spell CBS without BS."

[Prairie Gates]

11. Good Lord

I think Joe Rogan's head is going to literally implode live on air.

[Brainfodder]

12. Uh huh, because it was closer to 3 minutes?

[RazorbackExpat]

18. It's probably more like 18 1/2 minutes

That's the standard for Republican cover-ups

[oldmanlynn]

15. CBS helping trump with that title but deep in the article is this

“ One thing that is clear, forensic experts say, is that the version of the recording released by the FBI was edited and not raw, as the government stated. Bondi, FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino and others have said publicly that the video would be released unaltered. ”

They could have used “the video was edited”

[Oneironaut]

19. Seems legit.

Everything a “government source” says now should just be met with comical clown noises and a laugh track.

[Mossfern]

20. More "Alternate Facts?"

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21. CBS Cowardly Broadcasting Service

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