{"id":"1794353560561-news-segment","slug":"epstein-report-feds-could-have-prevented-crimes","title":"Epstein Report: Feds Could Have Prevented Crimes","summary":"House Republicans later voted 211-204 to send the Massie impeachment articles to committee, blocking a floor vote; Hegseth was not impeached.\n\nCBS News projected that incumbent Republican Maria Elvira Salazar won Florida's 27th Congressional District after a recount.\n\nHouse Republicans voted 211-204 to send the impeachment articles to committee, blocking a floor vote.\n\nSpain's king and queen attended a memorial service after a rail collision near Toledo killed 69 people; 28 people remain in hospital.\n\nA Republican-led congressional report found that U.S. federal authorities could have prevented Jeffrey Epstein's crimes.\n\nSurveillance footage captured an e-bike battery exploding into a fireball inside an Oregon home.\n\nProtests by supporters of ousted Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina turned violent; they want her to return from exile in India.","publishedAt":"2026-11-10T23:32:40.561Z","channel":{"id":"news","name":"Oncast News","language":"en"},"show":"News Tonight","verification":{"status":"verified","leadVerdict":"MISLEADING","notes":"MISLEADING: House Republicans later voted 211-204 to send the Massie impeachment articles to committee, blocking a floor vote; Hegseth was not impeached.\nSource: [apnews.com](https://apnews.com/article/hegseth-impeachment-briefing-trump-massie-87a78193502f716e6fb8eee5aef06ac0) NAMES: Pete Hegseth = U.S. Secretary of Defe (https://x.com/Reuters/status/2120296633015599470)\n\nTRUE: CBS News projected that incumbent Republican Maria Elvira Salazar won Florida's 27th Congressional District after a recount.\nSource: [cbsnews.com](https://www.cbsnews.com) NAMES: Maria Elvira Salazar = Republican U.S. representative for Florida's 27th District. (https://x.com/CBSMiami/status/2120296600459194564)\n\nTRUE: House Republicans voted 211-204 to send the impeachment articles to committee, blocking a floor vote.\nSource: [bbc.com](https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cq1j3jngn81dt) NAMES: Thomas Massie = outgoing Republican U.S. representative from Kentucky; Pete Hegseth = U.S. Secreta (https://x.com/pushnowornever/status/2120296525121159189)\n\nTRUE: Spain's king and queen attended a memorial service after a rail collision near Toledo killed 69 people; 28 people remain in hospital.\nSource: [bbc.co.uk](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckjwew54yd4wo?atmedium=RSS&atcampaign=rss) (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckjwew54yd4wo?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=rss)\n\nTRUE: A Republican-led congressional report found that U.S. federal authorities could have prevented Jeffrey Epstein's crimes.\nSource: [bbc.co.uk](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cq5ynyn8zyr8o?atmedium=RSS&atcampaign=rss) NAMES: Jeffrey Epstein = disgraced financier and sex offender. (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cq5ynyn8zyr8o?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=rss)\n\nTRUE: Surveillance footage captured an e-bike battery exploding into a fireball inside an Oregon home.\nSource: [bbc.co.uk](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/cr0qkqqkn3j7o?atmedium=RSS&atcampaign=rss) (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/cr0qkqqkn3j7o?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=rss)\n\nTRUE: Protests by supporters of ousted Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina turned violent; they want her to return from exile in India.\nSource: [bbc.co.uk](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwkg5g5pjpyko?atmedium=RSS&atcampaign=rss) NAMES: Sheikh Hasina = ousted prime minister of Bangladesh. 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Fact-check by Oncast (oncast.fm)."},"hostsSaid":[{"host":"Brian","text":"The BBC is reporting that a Republican-led congressional investigation found federal authorities could have prevented Jeffrey Epstein's crimes."},{"host":"Bella","text":"Fifteen months of digging, and that's the headline: it didn't have to happen."},{"host":"Brian","text":"That's not just an accountability report. That's an indictment of every agency that looked the other way."},{"host":"Bella","text":"It's a congressional report. It's political by nature. The question is whether the facts hold."},{"host":"Brian","text":"The facts have held for years. Victims spoke up. Nobody stopped him."},{"host":"Bella","text":"That's true. But a report can be right about the failures and still be written to protect certain people."},{"host":"Brian","text":"Who's protected by saying the feds failed? That points at the feds, not away from them."},{"host":"Bella","text":"It can point at the agencies a committee already wants to cut. That's the politics I'm watching."},{"host":"Brian","text":"You can't write off a fifteen-month investigation just because of who runs the committee. Women testified. Agents ignored them."},{"host":"Bella","text":"I'm not writing it off. I'm saying read all of it. But the core finding — he could have been stopped — that's established."},{"host":"Brian","text":"So we agree on the part that matters."},{"host":"Bella","text":"We agree on the tragedy. The blame fight I'll wait on."},{"host":"Brian","text":"But if agencies get a pass again, nothing changes. That's the pattern."},{"host":"Bella","text":"And if the report just becomes a cable news prop, nothing changes either."},{"host":"Brian","text":"How many more reports do we need before someone is held accountable?"},{"host":"Bella","text":"That's the exact question this report is supposed to answer. Let's see if it does."},{"host":"Bella","text":"Different danger entirely. The BBC has surveillance footage from Oregon: an e-bike battery starts smoking inside a home, a mother and son spot it, and then it erupts."},{"host":"Brian","text":"Seconds. That's all you get. Those lithium batteries don't smolder, they detonate."},{"host":"Bella","text":"And that's the part that bothers me. A product inside someone's home should not become a fireball."},{"host":"Brian","text":"It can, though. People overcharge them, buy cheap replacements, block the vents."},{"host":"Bella","text":"In the video, it's just sitting there. They notice smoke. It's not some modified rig."},{"host":"Brian","text":"I'm not blaming them. I'm saying you can't regulate every battery out of existence."},{"host":"Bella","text":"I'm not saying ban them. I'm saying safety standards exist for a reason."},{"host":"Brian","text":"Cars catch fire too. We still drive them."},{"host":"Bella","text":"Cars don't explode in your hallway while you're watching."},{"host":"Brian","text":"Some do. But fine—if there's a defect, the company should answer."},{"host":"Bella","text":"That's all I'm asking. Real standards, real recalls."},{"host":"Brian","text":"And real consumer sense: don't charge batteries on the way out the door."},{"host":"Bella","text":"The video is a warning. That family got out, but it's a fireball in a living room."},{"host":"Brian","text":"Speaking of courts: a Texas high school football team was reportedly caught up in a court ruling."},{"host":"Bella","text":"Season ended in court? What for?"},{"host":"Brian","text":"The Cross Timbers Gazette reports on X that a judge denied the school's request to block the league from removing the Warriors from the playoffs."},{"host":"Bella","text":"So the game gets decided by a temporary restraining order."},{"host":"Brian","text":"That's what it says. A judge reportedly declined to stop the removal, and the playoff run is over."},{"host":"Bella","text":"We should note this is one local outlet reporting it; no independent confirmation yet."},{"host":"Brian","text":"Fair. But the image is perfect: football pads in one hand, lawsuit in the other."},{"host":"Bella","text":"If the league broke its own rules, court's the only place left."},{"host":"Brian","text":"Maybe, but a judge just looked at the emergency motion and said no."},{"host":"Bella","text":"That's a loss on the road and in the docket."},{"host":"Brian","text":"And somewhere a team is moving on because a court filing didn't work."},{"host":"Bella","text":"That's not how you want a season called."},{"host":"Brian","text":"No, but it is how modern disputes end."},{"host":"Bella","text":"So somewhere in Texas, a playoff bracket has an asterisk that says \"judge's ruling.\""},{"host":"Brian","text":"If the report holds, the season didn't end with a whistle. It ended with a gavel."},{"host":"Bella","text":"And people say high school football isn't complicated."}]}