'Easy way out': 2020 Democrats from Congress open to Jeffrey Epstein hearings

DES MOINES, Iowa — White House hopefuls campaigning in Iowa are voicing their support for congressional hearings into billionaire financier Jeffrey Epstein’s apparent suicide while in federal custody.

Although Democrats don’t control the upper chamber, Klobuchar, a senator from Minnesota, said testimony could shed light on how Epstein may have been able to take his own life overnight at the Manhattan Correctional Center, where he was awaiting trial for charges of child sex trafficking next year. Last month, he had been found nearly unconscious on his cell floor with marks on his neck, but authorities never confirmed the circumstances surrounding the incident.