Barr-Transcript.pdf

"DEPOSITION OF: WILLIAM P. BARR Monday, August 18, 2025 Washington, D.C."

"For THE WITNESS: ED O'CALLAGHAN Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLC"

"And then President Trump appointed you Attorney General February 2019 through -- and then you left December 2020, correct?"

"I became aware that the Southern District was conducting an investigation. I think it was a little bit before his arrest"

"Are you referring to the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York? Geoff Berman, yeah."

"looking as to whether any individuals were accomplices or complicit in that activity, either as facilitators -- as, you know, they ultimately went aft"

"Present: Representatives Comer, Subramanyam, and Crockett. ... Jasmine Crockett, Texas-30."

"it possible for someone to get up to Mr. Epstein's cell while evading that camera? ... the SHU is itself physically isolated"

"you're representing that that's Epstein walking through? ... him being taken to his cell. That was 7:49"

"And they did an almost 4-year investigation into this, I think? The IG did."

"Do you recall any conversations about Ms. -- the Maxwell case while you were Attorney General?"

"Mr. Epstein's death while at MCC in Manhattan. ... And Mr. Epstein's cell is the one highlighted in red."

"The inspector general ended up reviewing Mr. Epstein's death, investigating -- Mr. Epstein's death. And they found that the camera pointed directly do"

"I believe they eventually found her in like a cabin in Vermont or something? New Hampshire."

"he was looking at a period of time of incarceration in that place ... I learned of serious irregularities that were deeply concerning at MCC"

"after your time as Attorney General in June of 2023 ... after I left the Department, I wasn't getting anything."

"David Bowdich, who was the Deputy FBI Director, and I had a good relationship"

"David Bowdich, who was the Deputy FBI Director, and I had a good relationship, and we talked frequently."

"You instructed the IG to open the investigation into -- Epstein's death? Yes."

"he was allowed to make an unmonitored call to a woman, who I believe was in Byelorussia and who was his -- I understood to be or believed to be his gi"

"Dr. Baden just very briefly... his contrary findings. Do you recall having any conversations about Mr. Epstein's broken larynx and hyoid bones outside o"

"During a speech shortly thereafter at the Fraternal Order of Police conference on August 12th, you said that you learned of serious irregularities"

"determination that he could be taken off that kind of intensive watch. ... his lawyers had been pressing hard for him to be let out of suicide watch"

"I directed the IG to have people in New York go to the scene and conduct an investigation -- start an investigation"

"The FBI was conducting an investigation, and the Southern District was involved in that"

"Mr. Epstein's brother hired an expert medical witness"

"The chief medical examiner at the time stated after examination that Epstein died by, I believe it was described as kneeling hanging"

"did you review like entry and exit logs for the SHU?"

"David Bowdich, Deputy Director of the FBI at the time."

"this was a pretrial -- MCC is pretrial. And, you know, generally, the way a pretrial suspect is handled is monitored by the U.S. Attorney's Office"

"After he was put back in the Special Housing Unit, according to his roommate"

"And then the IG kind of went into detail about going on and taken off suicide watch... Do you remember any internal investigations after his death"

"MCC had not assigned Epstein a new roommate; indicating the black rectangular box next to the red portion of Mr. Epstein's cell on the schematic"

"Mr. Epstein made an unmonitored phone call the evening prior to being brought back to his cell before he was -- before his death on the 10th"

"individual one, the recipient of the call, or her attorney, gave a proffer to the Southern District of New York"

"Attorney General Barr just wanted to clarify two points from the prior testimony"

"the investigation into Mr. Epstein by the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Florida"

"the DOJ's Office of Professional Responsibility undertook an investigation in 2019 -- into the circumstances surrounding the Florida plea deal"

"And Bowdich oversaw. He's the deputy in Washington."

"Mr. Epstein entered into a nonprosecution agreement with the U.S. Attorney's Office in September -- September 2007. Among other things, that agreement"

"during your tenure during either times you were Attorney General, do you recall there ever being a scenario that you authorized that was similar"

"One was when I heard about the suicide, I called him up and said, You better brace for this, and I told him words to that effect, and I told him about "

"In the two conversations you had with President Trump, did the President express any views on the investigation?"

"being briefed by the DAG at the regular meetings that were held at Main Justice."

"The initial indictment against Epstein in July?"

"It wasn't the FBI in the initial stages of the investigation, but they were essentially -- working with the prosecutors."

"the evidence amassed by the Southern District to prosecute either Epstein before he committed suicide"

"exhibit B a three-page catalog of evidence that was reportedly prepared by the FBI."

"two corrections officers, Tova Noel and Michael Thomas, were eventually indicted for falsifying those records"

"two corrections officers, Tova Noel and Michael Thomas, were eventually indicted for falsifying those records"