i didn't even ask you about -- we appreciate you coming on. thank you so much. >> thank you so much, tucker. >> tucker: last-minute holiday's to shop and go to tuckercarlson capsoff.com. we spoke to roger stone for a full hour. it is worth catching up on that conversation. it was fantastic. we'll be back tomorrow night and every weeknight at 8:00 p.m. here's sean hannity. >> sean: they cue, tucker. welcome to "hannity." everybody else seem to have turned the page. we refused to on this program. 109 days counting and tonight the taliban along with the rest of america's enemies are now taking advantage of your president joe biden's obvious weakness on the world stage. coming up, former secretary of state mike pompeo will join us with the very latest out of russia, china, the middle east, afghanistan. and later, stacey abrams thinks

that she's running for reelection as the rightful governor of georgia. we will have full coverage of the midterm elections, that is straight ahead. alec baldwin now speaking out after allegedly killing a person on the set of a movie. the far left actor is now claiming he never pulled the trigger before accidentally shooting to people on a movie set. if he didn't pull the trigger, who did? we begin with an important christmas message from presidential biden. today he proudly announced that he takes no responsibility whatt all for the supply chain crisis and according to joe, do not you bettertake it up with santa. >> i can't promise that every person will get every gift they want on time. only santa claus can keep that promise. but the ride ins every that sellout that are hard to find,

some of you moms and dads may have remembered cabbage patch kids in the 80s, beanie babies in the 90s, or other toys that have run out in past years when there was no supply-chain problem. >> sean: don't want you to think the supply chain crisis is a myth and its santa claus' fault. according to him, the empty shelves you see right here are not empty. if your presidents don't arrive in time, why not blame donald trump? everyone is to blame but him. jen psaki calling it the tragedy of the delayed treadmill. so sad, too bad, your kids will be crying. not like it santa claus and they want to be happy. you might remember some of these moments. speak of this administration guaranteed the holiday packages would arrive on time. >> they are not the postal service, ups, or fedex.

we cannot guarantee. speak of those always been two kinds of christmas shoppers. once who would that have the list completed by halloween and people like me who show up at the mall on christmas eve. if you are in that letter buckets come obviously there's going to be more challenges. >> dishwashers, furniture, treadmills delivered on time, not to mention all sorts of other things. speak of tragedy of the treadmi- >> they are run by the private sector. people say to me, will christmas gifts be delivered? two which i say, call fedex. >> sean: it does not stop with joe or anybody in the white house, ron klain actually thinks this economy is doing great. today in a tweet that should be deeply consenting to every american, he's writing "stronger covid measures reduce stronger economic outcomes." that is the answer to a healthy

economy. of course, the opposite is true. and as you can see, the biden administration takes responsibility for nothing and including the ongoing pandemic. this new omicron variant is now officially here confirmed in the u.s. thankfully this new strain of covid, according to early reports, causes mild symptoms. although it may be more contagious and while i always encourage everyone to take the pandemic seriously, there is, as of today, no reason to panic. check with your doctor. but that didn't stop joe biden from banning travel from a variety of african countries. but when donald trump band travel from china where the virus originated from coming was called if your monger and to suggested he's. apparently now it's okay because president joe and dr. fauci approve. but today, even dr. fauci could

not explain the african band. take a look. >> what justified the travel ban on the continents that have zero cases of the -- >> that is a very good question, an important question. we did struggle with that, but we wanted to see if we could buy time temporarily, so i do hope that this gets sorted out before it has any significant impact on your country. >> sean: i want to know why the nih what gave money to the alliance that according to the nih was involved in gain of function resource at the wuhan virology lab. to recap them according to biden, trump is a racist bird banning travel from china where the outbreak started to read perfectly okay for him to band travel from certain african countries where the omicron variant isn't even really present. throughout this entire pandemic, there is one thing we can always count on and that is the great

flip-flop dr. fauci who is in love with his newfound celebrity status. his 15 minutes have been over a long, long time ago. he should be fired for it like all good celebrities, he recently spent some quality time with barack obama during an event that was open to the press and of course today felt she was more than happy to spend a long time at the white house press briefing speculating about anything and everything including new covid-19 testing requirements. let not your hearts be troubled, because if you are an illegal immigrant and you unlawfully break the laws, don't respect our borders, have our summer tea, these new rules won't apply to you. that doesn't make sense, does it? that mask isn't going to work. that mask -- that's not going to work. take a look. >> have you advised the

president about the possibility of new testing requirements for people coming into this country? did that include everybody? >> the answer is yes, because you know that the new regulation, if you want to call it that, is that anybody and everybody is coming into the country needs to get a test within 24 hours of getting on the plane to come here. >> what about people who don't take a plane and just these border crossings coming in huge numbers? >> we still of title 42 of which is protection of the border, so there are protections of the border that you don't have the capability, as you know, somebody getting on the plane, getting checked, looking at a passport. we don't have that they are. but we could get some degree of mitigation. >> more than happy to band travel from africa, but if you enter this country illegally, you just waltz right through. and you get preferential treatment, no testing. jen psaki says you are not going to be here very long. then you donate a covid vaccine

mandate because you are not going to be here very long. as we continue, it's no wonder that more americans have died than under trump's watch. >> in 2020 when roughly 220,000 americans have artie died of covid, joe biden set about trump, anyone his response will for that many deaths should not remain as president of the united states of america. is that still the standard now that more americans have died under president biden than president trump? >> the fundamental question here is what are you doing to save lives and protect people? the former president was saying -- reportedly didn't even share with people he was going to interact with that he had tested positive for covid himself. he continued to provide a forum for misinformation which

probably led people not to protect themselves, to wear masks, to eventually get vaccinated print this president has made the vaccine widely a available. >> sean: we all know jen psaki, biden, and dr. fauci are all liars and of course they love to smear president trump. but what else could she do? joe biden is a disaster, his policies are terrible, his brain is barely functioning. america is now facing several major crises. he has caused everyone and all of them have been preventable. republicans, independents, democrats are desperately looking for a better way forward paired here with more, white house fox news corresponded, i don't know, must-see tv, jen psaki has always said, 220,000. you shouldn't be president. we are now at 355,000. you seem to have gotten her a little bit angry there. >> i don't know if she was angry, but i would note that today is her birthday and when i

wished her happy birthday, she said you better ask me a really hard question. so if that was a hard question, obviously they can answer it however they want. but to go back to the clip with dr. fauci, he said that people walking into the country is a different issue when it comes to international travelers, potentially with covid. at least getting covid tested. he said that there are ways to test them at the border. that is true. there are ways to do it. however, u.s. customs and border protection doesn't do it. except in very few circumstances. they kick it over to nongovernmental agencies. we know that they don't always do it because remember, it was only a couple months ago that some of these larger border towns, they had midsize hotels that were filling up with people who either had just tested positive for covid or somebody in their family had just tested positive for covid. the people in town had no idea.

there are two sets of rules based on these very strict regulations coming out tomorrow on how they are going to be applied. one set of rules, if you do things the right way and go to the airport and just say, i'm coming from overseas, this is where i was. and then another set of rules if you just walk on it. >> sean: let me see if we understand this. i understand, okay, travel ban -- it's hysterical, it's fearmongering and racist. which you did say unto you as that important question and didn't get a real response. some trying to understand, what is the difference if you are traveling from another country where you can travel into this country from another country, what is the difference if you come into the country illegally and we don't even know where you came from. we are not covid testing, but as jen psaki said, and correct me if i'm wrong, that the reason they don't test them, the illegal immigrants come is because they are not going to be here very long.

but then they dispersed people here illegally in the dark of night. i stand corrected, almost 4:00 a.m. early morning flights into small airports are out in the country. and we are supposed to believe all of that? >> she had said that they don't calculate a lot of these people walking into the country are going to stay for long. but remember, a lot of these people walking into the country -- if you look at the monthly reports, they are coming from all over the world. it is just a little confusing to understand how this administration and a president who once said that disease is do not stop at border for less, how is that they think that testing people at the airport is going to keep covid out, but while at the same time people are just walking in on tested. it is confusing and we do expect by sometime tomorrow morning to have very new, very detailed

instructions about what everybody is going to have to deal with, even people who have been doing it -- doing what they've been asked by the government since march of 2020. >> sean: we are being told that these are going to be even more draconian in terms of restrictions than ever before? >> it sounds like it's going to be a more strict testing, so basically if you go overseas, they want you to prove before you get here that you are negative covid and after you get here if you are negative covid. something we talked about last night, there was a report in "the washington post" that it has been discussed among biden administration officials that they might ask americans, vaccinated or not, negative covid test or not, to quarantine in their house for up to seven days. if somebody asks dr. fauci about that and he said he didn't know. >> sean: peter doocy. i'm telling you, there is a show here. and i will announce it on jen psaki's birthday. i think peter doocy on one side versus jen psaki -- why don't we

just -- why don't you get a one-hour special and fill in for me one night? that would be great for me. would you do that? >> it took all morning to come up with 5 minutes worth of questions. i don't know if i could do an hour. [laughs] >> sean: peter, thank you. joining us now, donald trump jr. don't forget, by the way. this new photo book by president trump, our journey together, is available at 45 books.com. i did not know until tonight that yours truly is actually a niche. and i was like oh, no. because i know he wrote the captions i'm like oh, no. i'm going to get hit hard. it was actually really nice. >> sean, your caption was great. i think you look great in the photo. we had to include some of our favorite fox personalities. you look great in the book, sean. it was a really fun project. it was sort of interesting and you are well aware of so many of these stories that the mainstream media wouldn't report. but a picture says a thousand words. i remember going over the last

few months with my father some of the great pictures of his presidency. he started to verbally notes on some of them thinking about it for other purposes and we said no, no, just leave it. so we put together this incredible book, our journey together details the entire presidency. a beautiful coffee table book. i think people can really see all of the stories and capture all of the emotion and difference that he made in the lives of americans. all of those policies that helped lift our entire country that has been decimated in last ten months by the incompetence of the biden administration. it was a really fun project to work on. juxtaposed against what's going on in the world right now he said man, we had it so good for so long. they recognize how badly that they've been lied to by the mainstream media. it was really awesome. as it related to what he was

doing, it was really good to see him to go through it with him and to put this together. so america could experience this in their own living rooms themselves. >> sean: so joe biden and the candidate production program in the 2020 campaign is based in a bunker -- i think president 220,000 americans have died at that point there the worst pandemic since 1917 and 18. a whopping three to 55,000 americans have died from covid-19. more than in 2020. your father handed him three vaccines. and then you tied to the whole border were now we give preferential treatment, no testing, no vaccine mandates to illegal immigrants and joe biden is supporting if people try to enter this country illegally and they are separated somehow from there the families, they want to give them a check for 450 grand. tell me where any of that makes sense. >> sean, it doesn't.

but it doesn't matter. because the democrats have the advantage of having mainstream media, truly dollar industry, social media, big tech, trillion dollar industry. all functioning as the marketing department had what is really nice as i think they've blown it so badly, they took so many things, whether it's energy and dependence, lying to the face of the american people. i remember very clearly, we are not going to end fracking. we have the afghanistan withdrawal. i do know that we've seen a worse incident in our country in the last century where we are abandoning americans, giving said enemy lists of people and biometric data that they can track them down. you have killing american pipelines -- as my father's administered and did a great job blocking it. then we can give them more money to protect them from the russians. hunter must be on the payroll somewhere. it never ends. the incompetence doesn't end. the democrats are going out and

making heroes of. he saw this during this rittenhouse trial. boys as young as nine he attacked, he can go around with a gun writing in kenosha, no problem, but carl rittenhouse, a 17-year-old kid, protecting, functioning as an emt, that is the terrorist. that is how far the democrat party has fallen. it is an absolute disgrace and people are getting it. mothers are being told that they should have no part whatsoever in what their children learn in school. the democrat party has fallen so far that people are waking up in the trillion dollar industries that have been boosting them forever, it won't matter. because you can't fix this level of incompetence without cleaning house, without getting rid of all these democrats and replacing them with some common sense. replacing them with republicans who will fight for our country, for our freedoms, for our values, and for our families.

that is what we need to do to right the ship and to correct these wrongs. >> sean: you will definitely one day run for office. i don't know what office, but you are running pit that was a powerful -- that was a powerful monologue and i mean that. let me ask you this, they are denying inflation. if you look pretty covid, your dad got us to energy independence. we didn't import a single barrel of oil from saudi arabia or the middle east. in terms of safety and security it meant nothing. we were net exporters of energy. now biden claims he is not responsible for inflation for the supply chain issue. meanwhile, with your dad's energy and dependence policies, we are paying about 50 less a gallon then we are now, some families will pay $1,000 more to heat their homes this winter.

everything we buy in every store we go to, we pay more for. it seems to me, and i've been saying it for days, the only way to get out of this mess is for joe to adopt your dad's policies. we both know that's not going to happen. >> they are talking about it. they are talking about the travel ban. guess what, it makes sense when it is done right. the differences his trump doesn't, it's racist. if biden does it, it's policy. it is a huge tax on working class americans who are trying to get by and struggling. then they want to implement more of ridiculous lockdowns. everything that he said in his emails contradicts what he said on tv. he doesn't know what he's talking about, he is a bureaucrat. he's not a good doctor, he's better at being a bureaucrat. they are going to implement the draconian measures to shut down

our economy once for all because they don't care but there's no consequence. and as long as we keep giving that clown his 15 minutes of fame come of the tv that he so desperately craves, we are going to be in these lockdown situatih is enough. there's going to be a new variant and it's going to be infinite. it's never going to stop until we say enough is enough. and we push back. that is what we are going to do, sean. we need to fight for the hardworking men and women of this incredible country. >> sean: your father run for office, will he run for president again in 2024? >> i really hope so, sean. we need a fighter. until we have a bench deep enough, we need someone who is willing to put themselves out there. i think americans are getting at. one guy out there by itself, it's hard to beat all of that energy. but if we all bed together, if we fight together for our children come up for a future, for our freedoms, we can do it and we can take back our country. >> sean: donald trump jr., was great to have you. when we come back, straight

ahead, the bidens weakness now on the world stage. it is now getting extraordinarily dangerous with hostile regimes all over the world. our adversaries are taking note of this cognitive weakness. mike pompeo reacts to these real mounting concerns, straight ahead.

♪ ♪ >> sean: tony blinken headed to europe among room fear is of a russian invasion in ukraine as putin continues to sense jill biden's weakness and continues to double down on efforts to build up a strong military presence on the country's western border. and what is his response? he says russia should be prepared for a "high

"high-impact response" like sanctions. if russia invades ukraine. i'm sure vladimir is scared to death. take a look. >> now, we don't know whether president putin has made the decision to invade. we do know that he is putting in place the capacity to do so in short order should he so decided. >> we've made it clear to the kremlin that we will respond resolutely, including with a range of high-impact economic measures that we have refrained from using in the past. >> sean: you just give them a waiver and let him build his own pipeline and let him fire keystone pipeline workers. if the biden administration really cared about russian aggression, biden would not have cleared the way with the stream pipeline, something to give put an even more leverage over our allies in western europe. it's like we've been telling neil, putin, american adversaries, these are all hostile regimes -- they all see

what we see. that is a weak, frail, cognitive mess of a president, joe biden. one has to believe that the biden family syndicate that made millions of millions from these countries are likely compromised by all of them. they see what we see it, what we show you night after night. joe biden, the cognitive mess and his america last policies. that is why the american public is losing confidence in joe biden. the latest poll cratering now to 36%. this comes now is americans are increasingly seen china as a top threat, especially as beijing keeps signaling that they are set on their so-called reunification or more likely hostile takeover of tywhon pickford fox news contributor, mike pompeo. we know what happened in eastern

ukraine. i can't think of any other reason that vladimir putin would put a lot of troops there except for that territorial ambitions, mr. secretary. i don't think tony blinken is saying that they are going to have a high-impact economic tactics used against them is to intimidate into vladimir. >> sean, i think that's right. good to be with you tonight. those words are not going to make a difference to vladimir putin's decision-making. they want to engender the deterrence that we need. look at the facts, vladimir putin shuts down a pipeline in the southeastern united states closing up gasoline as president biden goes to meet with him and just wants him and says, don't do it again. they watch the debacle in afghanistan, the weakness we showed there. you mention the north stream pipeline. we should be clear also succumb about what we've done with american industry is great at some up for vladimir putin, he

is a big winner. i think he believes that he can make decisions he needs to make. he has always believed that the dissolution of the soviet union was the greatest catastrophe of the 20th century. he wants those satellite states back for his country and now he sees that we have a president who is not prepared to do the hard work of deterrence. i think that is real risk, the real risk of the week of the united states is, we have shown no resolve and these first ten months of this administration. >> sean: watching china, watching president xi, they watched joe biden abandon americans and afghanistan took 13 days after he said he wouldn't do that. there still thousands of people with american greeting cards that are welcome into this country. so china talks about reunification, we both know it's really a takeover of taiwan. they are flying over taiwan airspace every day with their fighter jets. and then, i've got to look at this, why would joe biden not to

lift a finger on russia and a finger on china? now we know that hunter biden made money from both countries. $3.5 million from a russian oligarch, the first lady of moscow. he had the $1.5 billion deal with the bank of china. $100,000 shopping spree with a chinese national. and miranda devine's book, off of hunter's laptop, joe himselfs directly with china's energy companies. if they have a dossier on the hunter biden family, i would imagine the dossier of that china and russia have is probably a lot more detailed than this family has compromise? >> i have no doubt the chinese and russians no hike a lot of mom more about nearly everything that happens in the world. i think that is certainly true.

we saw miranda devine's work, we saw otis happening with china. i frankly think the problems go deeper than this. you know this, sean, the whole world watches everything that we do. not only did the irradiance noticed, but the chinese, north koreans, and russians. we are not prepared to bring americans home from afghanistan, they know that they can rule the united states. this is something the leader in china certainly must be observing. he must know that he has a window to do the things that he wants to do including trying to bring taiwan back into his orbit. these are perilous moments. this is a high-risk time for the united states of america and it can only be fixed by a president who is prepared to defend the things that matter most of the american people and keep us secure. today, president biden has shown very little intent of actually delivering on the things he promised americans he would do. spew on if the libyans dossier on hunter had in it did that he

was a drug addict who frequented, you would assume, as i do, that the russians and chinese knew as much, but they also did deals with millions, and in the case of the bank of china, a billion. why would somebody with no experience -- i would think that the communist chinese would be smart enough to know about goldman sachs, deutsche bank. really, let's say professionals in the field. why would they go with somebody with no experience that we could find? >> sean, i'm pretty creative, but i can't pick up a single reason. because that would be the case. we saw this too with a dealings in ukraine, we saw that he set on the board of burisma as an advisor with no known experience there. there's something going on there different, fundamentally different than looking for someone who can help your business. there's that real taint there. i could assure you that if

something happed like this in the previous minister should come the media would be all over it and be making all kinds of accusations. we know they got rushed into the narrative -- they continued to report things that they had to know sorcerers were making up or lying about and yet they furthered that story. they don't want to touch the hunter biden story. it's an important component of what had happened prior to president biden taken office in the american people need to think about what that means for american national security. >> sean: i didn't come in top in my class like you did, i was never the cia director, but every instinct to my body tells me that the biden family is compromised by all of these countries and that is a threat to our national security and that does need to be investigated, unlikely russia hoax. mr. secretary, always love having you on. thank you, sir. coming up, after her loss four years ago, stacey abrams just

announced that she is running for another term. as georgia governor. we have the very latest. we will react to that and alec baldwin says he never pulled the trigger, ever. what is going on there? straight ahead.

♪ ♪ >> sean: far left democratic activist stacey abrams announced she will run again for the georgia governorship setting up a possible rematch with current republican governor, brian kemp. he has been very ineffective as a governor and frankly for the sake of the state of georgia, i think you should probably bow out of the race. i think the candidate to watch, and i hope he gets in, would be former senator david purdue. he would be a much better candidate versus stacey abrams.

if kemp stays in, that would hurt walker and his senate race against warlock. he refused to concede after being defeated in 2018 and she repeatedly pushed debunked conspiracy theories about why she lost. he with reaction, former counsel to resident trump, carolyn calloway. and mike huckabee. kelly on, your take? i know it's really little and i know a lot of people there, many friends. kemp is not particularly well liked. i don't think he would be a good top of the ticket person for the republicans. >> senator perdue, obviously the purdue name is very popular across the state of georgia. he's been talking to president trump and others about possibly getting in that race for governor. stacey abrams -- obviously she's a formidable candidate because she's artie gotten the celebrity treatment that candidates like

that do. she's been on the cover of fashion magazines, her campaign has raised millions and millions of dollars from the likes of george soros and the soros family members, tom steyer, michael bloomberg gave her about $5 million. i hope he also gave her -- she was destroyed by elizabeth warren in about two seconds on the debate stage. but this is a woman who i think everyone should pay attention to. stacey abrams groups -- they registered about 800,000 new voters in the last several years. she lost the governor's race by 55,000 votes. donald trump, as president in 2018, put brian kemp on his back and carried him across the finish line. he would not have won without donald trump's help. ron desantis won by four-tenths of a percentage point in florida against galen and kemp beat stacey abrams up in georgia. as presidents, he was up against

obama, oprah winfrey, the whole group. he was supporting stacey abrams. i think president trump would get involved again if he would support a candidate there, but stacey abrams was asked by senator tangent cruise this past april, so i guess, or no? was the election in 2018 stolen from you? and she said it was stolen from the voters of georgia. she is still on social media, still could run for office. she still on tv. >> let me ask governor huckabee. i've been pushing for election integrity measures so that we can have confidence in the results, simple things. voter i.d., signature verification, chain of custody controls. i think we need updated voter rolls and i think the laws that allow partisan observers to observe the votes start to

finish up close, not 100 feet away, need to be enforced. i think every state needs to do it. i don't think illegal immigrants should vote either. i think republicans also have to embrace early voting and mail-in voting considering that's happening anyway. do you agree with all of that and if you do, the one thing that's missing from the new georgia law is signature verification. the legislature would argue they need to fix that. >> i agree with everything you said. i'm so glad i watched tonight, because i learned something i didn't know. i thought stacey abrams was the governor of georgia. it just shocks me to find out that she wasn't after all these years, because she has been telling everybody and the democrats have been telling everybody that she really won the election. i thought she had an office at the capital and everything. silly me, i guess i shouldn't believe what cnn says after all. here's what i find interesting. stacey abrams can say the election was stolen from her,

hillary clinton can say the election was stolen from her back in 2016. and it was all the russian's fault. and that is fine, they can say that and they can keep saying it because hillary still does and abrams still does. donald trump can question the election, because somehow we are supposed to believe joe biden got 16 million more votes than barack obama ever did and 16 million more than anyone ever has in the history of the country when all he did was pop up out of his basement a few times, go out to a parking lot, and to scream a teleprompter at about a dozen cars. so okay, if i'm supposed to believe that and i can't question it, then how come stacey abrams and hillary get to question an election that now is almost six years ago? >> sean: i can tell you one person that will be the next governor of another state and that would be arkansas. and i just happen to believe she will be the best governor in

history. her name happens to be -- oh, sarah sanders. you might know her. i think every american deserves election integrity. when you have laws that say partisan observers get to watch the vote count from start to finish, you need to have that. voter i.d. -- you need a vaccine card to get into a restaurant now? i think you need voter i.d. to get into the white house, the dmc. every state has to have election integrity matters so we can have confidence in the results could. those who don't want it are up to no good. thank you. when we come back, a very strange and very bizarre turn. alec baldwin breaking his silence following the fatal shooting on the film set of the movie "rust." he said he never pulled the trigger. okay? up to now that is all we've heard. if you didn't pull it, who did?

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♪ ♪ >> sean: now actor alec baldwin is speaking out tonight following the fatal film set shooting in new mexico that killed the movie cinematographer, her name was helena hutchins. baldwin is now claiming he never pulled the trigger. here is what he told abc news. take a look. >> the trigger -- i didn't pull the trigger. >> you never pulled the trigger? >> i would never point a gun and pull a trigger. somebody put a live bullet in the gun, something that was not even supposed to be in the property. >> is this the worst thing that's ever happened to you? >> yes. >> sean: obviously this raises more questions. if baldwin is telling the truth, then how did that gun discharge?

guns don't fire themselves. authorities have released the fourth search warrant in the investigation revealing new theories about how the live ammo made it onto the set including the possibility that reloaded ammunition was provided to the production which featured the same logo as the dummy rounds normally used on set. here with reaction, fox news legal analyst, gregg jarrett, brian carpenter. let me start with you, brian. he said the trigger wasn't pulled, i didn't pull the trigger. i would never point a gun at anyone and pull the trigger" however, the santa fe sheriff's department said in a warrant that he fired the gun and baldwin was holding the gun rehearsing a scene in the movie when the live round rang out. okay, those two reports contradict each other. so if he had the gun and he says he didn't pull the trigger, guns don't fire themselves.

i've been a hand gun marksman since was 11. >> yes, correct. it's important to differentiate a modern revolver from the top revolver that they were using. a modern revolver, as you know, it has a double action revolver generally meaning that the mechanism by which it fires allows one to pull the trigger, which rotates the cylinder and allows the government to fire. those weapons are single action resolvers, period pieces. which means there is a two-part mechanism to fire the weapon to the first part is actually physically cocking the hammer back with your thumb and pulling the trigger, which once you start you are involved in the action of firing that weapon. and at that point, either you let go of the hammer and such a way that you allow it to detonate or you pull the trigger. and it is all manual, so it has to be done by the operator of the firearm. >> sean: if the gun is in his hand as the county sheriff reports, gregg jarrett, guns

don't fire themselves. and if he said it didn't aim it at a new buddy, well, certainly it had to be aimed at somebody else it wouldn't have hit somebody. so he is either lying or was there another gun involved, perhaps? where do we go with this? >> it's hard to believe. and if alec baldwin thinks this somehow absolves them for potential criminal culpability, he is sorely mistaken. the issue is not whether he pulled the trigger or the gun went off accidentally, which is hard to believe, because this isn't an intent crime that is being investigated, it is a gross negligence crime. so prosecutors are focusing not on the trigger pull, but on the handling of the gun by baldwin prior to the shooting incident. was he grossly negligent and reckless? did he fail to exercise due caution as the law requires to ensure the safety of others? so what is the standard in the industry for actors using guns on the set.

it is set forth very clearly in their own rules that actors are required to follow, actors equity. it states, treat all guns as if they are loaded and deadly. check the firearm every time you take possession of it. it did baldwin do that? apparently not because he said he had no idea there was ammunition in the gun if he had checked it he would've seen it. he is also supposed to stand there and watch the armor and prop master before they hand them the gun, inspect the barrel and cylinders bear that to happen either. in addition, he's also the on location producer. he was put on notice that there was a grave dangers problem with guns on the sets prior to the fatal shooting. there were three episodes of gun mishaps, a responsible prude and producer would have shut down production, conducted an investigation, and instituted safety protocols and corrective measures. that didn't happen.

he could also be charged on that basis. >> sean: lastly, if you have a gun in your hand, brian, loaded or unloaded, you never pointed at anybody. >> that is correct. >> sean: it would be hard to believe that what alec baldwin is saying here contradict everything else -- we have about 20 seconds. >> obviously that is one of the primary safety rules. never point a weapon at anybody, loaded or unloaded, considerate loaded at all times. a simple physics is if the round left the barrel and struck her, it was pointed at her. >> sean: this is now, in my opinion he may have gotten himself and a lot more in legal jeopardy tonight. but we will see. thank you both. when we come back, we will have more "hannity" straight ahead. ♪ ♪

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