baldwin does that incredibly in the essay. he talks about growing up in harlem. he talked about particularly onset of adolescents in harlem and a treacherous it is because adolescence, we begin to map out the paths allies will take. he sees nothing but danger really ahead of him, and the lure of the church is kind of an escape route, via lure of the avenue, all these things will in some way compound the dangers of living in harlem, and the sum total would be people's lives that are stilted in some way by race. what he does in the course of telling this long autobiography process is contextualized elijah mohammed. for people who could not understand the militancy, the radicalism, the content for white people that the nation of islam embodied, you need the preface of a baldwin essay. he goes on to say islamic people feel this way, but he was explaining how he comes to the question at how elijah mohammed is almost a logical project of the world that he had navigated. >> interestingly, one of the baldwin pieces and as many great pieces in this anthology is henry loui

baldwin says he placed his trust in hannah gutierrez reed.ccording to a search warrant executed this week, the young armorer told investigators she loaded five dummy rounds into baldwin's gun before lunch and a sixth after when the gun was retrieved from a safe. gutierrez reid's attorney says she has no idea where the rounds came from. raising the possibility someone may have deliberately mixed live rounds in a box of dummies in an act of sabotage. >> her attorney has said he believes the set was sabotaged. do you believe the set was sabotaged? >> do i believe that the set was sabotaged? no, because i can't imagine how that would have been effected. i don't know how somebody would have done that. >> reporter: the santa fe district attorney leading the investigation has said she does not believe sabotage is a possibility. >> i know that some defense attorneys have come up with conspiracy theories and have used the word "sabotage." we do not have any proof. >> reporter: according to a search warrant, assistant director david halls, seen in this

alec baldwin says he has nothing to hide. we're hearing from the actor in a raw and emotional first interview since the deadly shooting on the set of his film "rust." >> the tragedy took the life of cinematographer halyna hutchins. baldwin tells abc news at first he didn't even realize she had been shot. he recalled the moment when the gun went off. >> she was someone who was loved by everyone who worked with and liked by everyone who worked with and admire d. sorry. but admired by everyone who worked with her. the trigger wasn't pulled. i didn't pull the trigger. >> you never pulled the trigger? >> no, no, no, no. i would never point a gun at someone and pull the trigger ever. that was the training i had. >> you just pulled -- >> the hammer as far back as i could without cooking the -- >> you're holding on to the hammer -- >> i'm showing, do you see that, is that good? yeah, that's good. i let go of the hammer and bang, the gun go. everyone is horrified, they're shocked. it is loud. they don't have their earplugs in. the gun

we are tracking breaking news including alec baldwin's interview. he shot two people on a movie set killing one and claims he never pulled the trigger and tried a lot. take a look. >> she was someone who was loved by everyone who worked with and admired. [sobbing]. i'm sorry. >> tucker: first our count continues sadly. >> american held hostage behind enemy lines. day 110. >> sean: the media turned the page and joe biden turned the page -- we will never turn the page. 110 days since joe biden abandoned americans in afghanistan. military families and green card families and afghan allies. 123 days since he promised he would leave nobody behind. joe biden lied to every american. you can still go rescue the americans, the green card holders and the military families that you abandoned. back home joe is barely able to form a sentence. today during another rambling and mumbling speech about covid 19 the frail joe biden struggled to speak at all and coughing up a lung in the process. take a look. >> without cutting corners to get vaccines reviewed and appr

baldwin appearing emotional as you saw in that clip. he also described this incident as one of the worst experiences of his life. take a listen. >> you said you're not a victim, but is this the worst thing that's ever happened to you? >> yes. yep. yeah. because i -- i think back and i think of what could i have done? >> reporter: again, a lot of unanswered questions. we're hoping to learn more when this interview airs, alisyn, victor. >> okay, lucy kafanov, thank you. let's discuss this with a veteran movie stunt coordinator and armorer, also a former member of the nypd. scott, great to see you again. can a gun go off without someone pulling the trigger? >> so, the more information that comes out, the more questions i have. this was an old west style cowboy gun and it's being called an antique. i want to know how old was this gun actually. if it is before 1898, the atf does consider it an antique. is it just a modern replica that looks like an antique? this is a gun that has to be fired single action and single action only, and gun safe

juliana, madisyn baldwin, and justin shilling. they played this video of myer speaking after a football game. >> this is where we live. a tough, muddy -- everything about us is tough. >> reporter: tonight, there's a movement to name oxford's football stadium after him. and david, the prosecutor is now reviewing potential charges for the parents of the shooting suspect after he allegedly got access to that weapon inside their home. she hopes to make an announcement within the next 24 hours, david. >> trevor ault from michigan tonight. thank you, trevor. >>> we're going to turn to breaking news from capitol hill at this hour on efforts to avoid a government shutdown. a vote that just happened. let's go live to rachel scott on the hill with late developments. rachel? >> reporter: david, the house just passed the bill to keep the government funded and i'm told that the senate is closing in on a deal. but right now, it is being held up by two republican senators, mike lee of utah and roger marshall of kansas, who are protesting preside

baldwin says he placed his trust in hannah gutierrez reid. according to a search warrant executed this week, she told investigators she loaded five dummy rounds before lunch and six after when a gun was retrieved from a safe. her attorney says she has no idea where the live rounds came from. he raised the possibility that someone may have deliberately mixed live rounds in a box of dummies in an act of sabotage. >> her attorney has said he believes the set was sabotaged. do you believe the set was sabotaged? >> no, because i can't imagine how that would have been effected. i don't know how someone would have done that. >> the santa fey district attorney leading the investigation has said she does not believe sabotage is a possibility. >> i know some have come up with conspiracy theories and have used the word sabotage. we do not have any proof. >> when the dust settled, halyna hutchins, just 42 years old, lost her life. >> she was someone who was beloved by everyone who worked with her, and admired. sorry. but admired by everybody who worked w

you need the preface of a baldwin essay. he goes out and says islamic people feel this way but he's stating how he comes to the question and how elijah mohammed is almost a logical project that he had navigated . >> one of the many pieces in this anthology is gates profile of louis farrakhan. it's writtenaround the time of the million man march . how do you see farrakhan? how would you go about explaining farrakhan for people in some corners still compares to the way all the wind is assessing the nation of islam in 1962? so it's a pretty big generation at least gap between those two pieces. >> what's interesting about that is baldwin is writing in the midst of the civil rights movement. and to colson he wrote another essay either a long profile of martin luther king but he says that the negro leader has traditionally been in a position of telling white people to hurry up while telling negroes to wait . and he really is articulating that in the midst of the civil rights movement that is a possibility but also is, there's this

what did alec baldwin do and what did alec baldwin do to your client.here's no question a gun that was in his hand went off and killed someone, but it wasn't your client. >>er some, of course. >> so what i'm trying to figure out at the moment when your client saw it, saw the whole thing happened, told alec baldwin he bore no responsibility, from that moment to now, what changed? >> it's -- a person who is a victim who suffers, and the suggestion that my client hasn't suggestion is absurd. it's a total lack of understanding for people that suffer emotional stress and post-traumatic stress syndrome. my client has suffered tremendously. for alec baldwin to say i find it strange that he filed suit before matthew hutchins is absurd. matthew hutchins is suffering in his own way and will do what's best for him. there is no basis for mr. baldwin to criticize mr. svetnoy. he is exercising his legal rights. and to criticize him is not alec baldwin's place. >> how would your client feel if your client was to get money before the family of halyna hutchins? >> it's

alec baldwin made the claim that he never pulled the trigger. that what he did was he pulled the hammer back and then released it. explain -- >> i'll show you exactly what happened. >> explain to me what he is claim and how plausible that is. . >> okay. so not plausible. on a single-action revolver, when you pull the hammer back, which is an intentional act, click, click, click, click. now the hammer is set. when you pull the hammer back and let go, the hammer doesn't go anywhere. when you press the trigger, which i'm going to do it with this figure so you can see what a minute act that is, it takes very little to press the trigger. option one, he pressed the trigger. it was such a minor press that he wasn't aware that he had ordered that signal from his brain. or option b, he's holding the gun with the trigger depressed. now, on this gun it doesn't matter which order you go in. you can cock the gun and press the trigger. or press the trigger and then cock the gun. if you release it, it falls and the gun fires. so as he is cross-drawing, his fin

the ukrainian born cinematographer quickly gelled with baldwin. and -- but the people who watched the dailies said that her work was beautiful. she was someone who was -- loved by everyone who worked with, and liked by everyone who worked with, and admired -- sorry. and admired by everybody who -- who worked with her. >> "rust"'s 21-day production began filming on october 6th at the bonanza creek ranch, just outside sante fe, new mexico. the ranch has long been a favorite location for filming westerns. >> we need a place to lay low. >> the day that i flew there, they had been shooting for a week already, i come the following week on the 11th. that night of the 11th, i had dinner with halyna and joel. and we talked about some of the compositions i was thinking of to -- >> that was the first time you met? >> first time i met halyna, yeah. >> what was your first impression? >> when i met her, i knew she had that spark. i knew she had that flint to her, that she was gonna get that day's work done and get the shots that she wanted. she was very focused

alec baldwin is asking how a live bullet ended up in that gun. watch this and we'll talk. >> as far as i'm concerned, someone put -- the investigation's going to find that someone put a live bullet in a gun, a bullet that wasn't even supposed to be on the property. this is the thing i hope the sheriff's department doesn't give up on, follow it to ends of the earth. where did that bullet come from? somebody brought live rounds, plural, on to the set of the film and one of them ended up in that gun. if the bullets didn't come on the property, we wouldn't be having this conversation. >> i mean this is still under investigation, sharon, this fatal shooting. but this was a stunning interview. he didn't even know he had shot her, thought she had fainted. what stood out to you? >> that was headline of the story we put out on "the wrap" about this. he thought she had had a heart attack or hit with a dummy bullet. bauding he called it. he didn't realize for 45 minutes that she had been shot. notion of that just crazy to me, and then -- but also indicates

. >>> alec baldwin speaking out about the fatal shooting on the set of "rust." why he says he does not feel responsible >>> the arrest made in those smash and grab robberies. >>> and the race to deliver. how the journey of a single sweater from a popular online retailer explains the whole supply chain crisis. >>> this is nbc "nightly news" with lester holt. >>> good evening we have been following a bizarre and unfolding drama in michigan today involving the parents of a 15-year-old suspected school shooter. tonight the oakland county sheriff says a fugitive man hunt is underway for those parents who, in an unprecedented move, were charged earlier in the day with involuntary manslaughter they're accused of providing the weapon their son allegedly used to kill four students at oxford high school on tuesday. the teen, ethan crumbley, remains in custody. facing murder and terrorism charges. his parents, however, no shows at their scheduled arraignment this afternoon the prosecutor meantime laying out in unusual detail what she says were chilling signs the teen was a

baldwin when he received his training.eone shooting that gun earlier that day with live ammo brought it back and left it on a set cart and then dave picked it up because he needed for this rehearsal without checking it and most irresponsibly, declaring a cold gun without checking it and ended up to someone that took his words for it. why would you listen to dave hall,? there was enough blame to go around the issue about live ammo would not have been a factor as he would like to make the only factor but it would have been a factor if he had not pointed the gun and press the trigger. plenty of blame to go around. >> as a pilot i will tell you a plane does not end up on the side of the mountain because of one mistake. >> right. when alec baldwin said to george stephanopoulos when asked of the cardinal rule of not pointing a gun at anyone at any time or aiming at anything you don't want to destroy and alec baldwin says well, unless the cinematographer says i need you to point it in my direction so i can line up the shot so i c

you have alec baldwin saying he didn't pull it and another corroborating baldwin's claim he never pulled the trigger. is it important to get to the bottom of this? >> yeah. either the assistant director is going like this and blaming the armorer with it. the idea is that a gun is a piece of machinery. it could potentially accidentally discharge for a variety of reasons, but i'm always skeptical of a shooter who says he didn't shoot. we have one person saying his finger was not on the trigger. another person saying, yes, it was. and, yeah, it is important to get to the bottom of this, but i don't think it changes baldwin's liability here. baldwin was a producer. he wasn't just an actor relying on a prop being given to him. so even if we have this additional category of people liable, the owner of the prop store who provided the ammunition, you know, the gun manufacturer, discontritributor whoever gave birth to this gun that made it on the set could potentially be liable if this was, in fact, an accidental discharge or some sort of defect. but it's an added level of liability. it doesn't t

>> you've already heard alec baldwin speak. now, what do other on the set and those in the know have to say. >> two other people that inspected the loaded firearm, hannah gutierrez and david halls. >> sabotage is the most likely possibility. >> this was not sabotage. this was incompetence. >> so, when someone dies -- >> i have been toll it's highly unlikely i would be charged with anything criminally. >> i can't control what he says or what he believes but i know we have not ruled out anyone. >> the sad thing is there have been other accidental deaths on movies. >> such a horrific tragedy of someone losing their life again. >> it would be a cold start on the day, but we'll also have plenty of sunshine. high in altitude. 56 degrees. santa fe, 63. >> bonanza creek ranch in santa fe, new mexico, is a long-time location for shooting films. several thousand acres, a number of buildings, lots of great views -- all the things that people come to new mexico to shoot for. >> it's used for a lot of westerns. >> if you go back and look at

don't do that. >> reporter: baldwin doesn't blame himself for what happened. he said he believed the weapon was safe. he did not typically check the guns for safety himself. saying, quote, an actor's responsibility is to do what the prop armorer tells them to do. he stressed multiple times he once answered how a live round ended up on the set. take a listen. >> the there's only one question, where did the live round come from. someone put a live round in the gun, a bullet that wasn't even supposed to be in the property. where did that bullet come from? somebody brought live rounds, plural, onto the set of the film, and one of them ended up in that gun. >> reporter: now, baldwin also attacked the two people who have filed civil lawsuits so far. those are script supervisor mammie mitchell and the chief lighting technician. he said he found it unsettling that they filed lawsuits before hutchins' husband matthew hutchins did. baldwin went on to say he believed it's highly unlikely he himself would be charged with anything criminally. his attorney speaking to cnn d

but as the actor alec baldwin.forward. now we have alec baldwin himself coming forward to dispute what had seemed to be a part of the whole narrative, mainly that he was the person who pulled the trigger of the gun that fired the live bullet that killed halyna hudgins. naturally, this raises a whole load of questions — triggers don't pull themselves, so how did this gun go off? could alec baldwin perhaps inadvertently applied pressure to the trigger that caused the gun to fire? combined with a range of other uncertainties, disputes on the part of members of the film crew, the inverted misfiring of other weapons on the set, and claims of potential sabotage. this all looks anything but a straightforward.— this all looks anything but a straightforward. where are we u . straightforward. where are we u- to straightforward. where are we up to with _ straightforward. where are we up to with the _ straightforward. where are we up to with the investigation? l up to with the investigation? detectives are focusing on how live

pull the trigger and baldwin did not have his finger on the trigger.expert steve wolf says why he finds that not likely. >> not plausible. on the single action revolver, when you pull that hammer back, click, click, click. now the hammer is set. when you pull that back and let go, you can see i am not holding this, the hammer doesn't go anywhere. >> he says if baldwin's finger was resting on the trigger when he let go of the hammer. >> he doesn't have to press the trigger if he already has pressure on it for the gun to fire. >> baldwin became emotional describing his admiration for hutchins, but said he doesn't feel responsible or guilty for her death. >> i feel that someone is responsible for what happened and i can't say who that is, but i know it is not me. honest to god. if i felt i was responsible, i might have killed myself if i thought i was responsible. i don't say that lightly. >> after alec baldwin's interview, the district attorney in santa fe released a statement saying that everyone had a responsibility on that set to behave in a way that

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. >>> also breaking overnight, just hours before the abc news exclusive interview with alec baldwin,he assistant director on that movie set on the day of the deadly shooting comes forward. what he's telling us about who fired the gun. >>> major league impasse, baseball enters a lockout overnight for the first time in decades. >>> roe v. wade, a thing of the past? our legal expert explains the historic arguments in the supreme court abortion battle and what's next. >>> delivery dilemma. more fedex packages are found dumped along the side of a road. the growing concern this holiday season. >>> and wrong number. how a misdial led to a surprise conversation with tom brady. >>> good thursday morning, everyone. we begin with the new steps to fight the omicron variant of the coronavirus now that the first case has been confirmed in the u.s. >> the fully vaccinated patient in california had traveled to south africa and is now recovering, but as the variant spreads around the world, president biden is announcing new measures to guard against the virus. >> abc's em nguyen begins our coverage f

the gun that fired the bullet was in baldwin's hands, but baldwin says he didn't pull the trigger. >>e this colt .45 and you just pulled -- >> the hammers far back as i could without clocking the actual -- >> and you're holding on to the hammer >> how about that, do you see that do you see that? she says yeah, that's good i let go of the hammer bang, the gun goes off. >> the movie's assistant director has also backed baldwin's claims so is what baldwin claiming even possible cnbc's perry russom spoke with a top hollywood armorer to find out. >> guns don't go off without their triggers being pulled. >> reporter: weapons expert thk steve wolf says the gun alec baldwin was holding is a single action revolver. >> if you pull the hammer back like this and press the trigger like this, the gun fires >> reporter: wolf says there is another way for the gun to be fired. >> and that is by pressing the trigger and then pulling the hammer back and releasing it that will also fire the gun. that's consistent with what alec said last night. >> reporter: in his interview with abc news, baldwin says he

they interviewed alec baldwin several times as well.t so far, there are no charges that have been made against anybody in connection with it. alec baldwin's interview today just raises more and more questions. santa fe new mexico police department say they have no comment to make on these latest remarks by alec baldwin, but as previously said, they are keeping an open mind as to charges as far as everybody is concerned on the set. david willis speaking to me there. if you want to get in touch with me on any of the stories so far, what david had to say in that interview, for instance, i'm on twitter at @bbckarishma. i'm looking forward to hearing your thoughts. you're watching newsday on the bbc. still to come on the programme... and the winner is a traditional irish pub. the belfast based array collective wins the turner prize with an art installation depicting issues affecting northern ireland. it's quite clear that the worst victims of this disaster are the poor people living in the slums which have sprung up around the factory. we fe

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and that was the character played by alec baldwin. >> reporter: alec baldwin was both its star and a're out here making a western. that's classic cinema right there. >> reporter: helena hutchins,ns, 24-year-old photographer originally from ukraine. >> it's a passion for sure. once you get the bug, you can't get out of it. >> "rust" was a big break. it was an opportunity for her to just show how good she was. >> this is a $7.5 million movie. it is the catering budget on a d.c. comics movie. >> they were insisting upon having one person do two very important jobs. the armorer role, taking care of the guns and ammunition, and then they wanted that person to also be an assistant prop person. >> reporter: 24-year-old hanna gutierrez reid was hired as both armorer and prop assistant. she's the daughter of thell reid, a well-known hollywood armorer. >> hanna gutierrez reed has spent her life watching her father handle and oversee the use of firearms in any number of movies. >> she's been raised around gun safety and all that stuff when she was a little girl. she's so safe with the guns, the

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alec baldwin's interview todayjust raises more and more questions.remarks by alec baldwin, but as previously said, they are keeping an open mind as to charges as far as everybody is concerned on the set of there. david willis speaking to us. you're watching newsday on the bbc. still to come on the programme... we're on board one of america's aircraft carriers as itjoins up with allies in asia, while politicians focus on china's intentions towards taiwan. it's quite clear that the worst victims of this disaster are the poor people living in the slums which have sprung up around the factory. we feel so helpless. the children are dying in front of me and i can't do anything. charles manson is the mystical leader of the hippie cult suspected of killing sharon tate and at least six other people in los angeles. at 11 o'clock this morning, just half a metre of- rock separated britain i from continental europe. it took the drills just i a few moments to cut through the final obstacle, - then philippe cossette, a miner from calais, was shaking hands and excha

are you surprised alec baldwin did this interview?prised his lawyers let him do the interview. i am not surprised he would want to do that interview. he is a very emotional, kind of hot headed guy. i understand given all the attention on this case his desire to get his story out there and tell people what his side is. i am very surprised they let him, given the ongoing investigation and all the things involved, the civil cases, very surprised. >> joey, at least one member of the crew is backing up baldwin's claim that he didn't pull the trigger. another one has filed a lawsuit. alec baldwin has been told he is highly unlikely to be charged criminally. do you agree with that? >> it is a difficult criminal prosecution. as i was noting before not all crime is predicated upon i intended to do it. sometimes you can be so careless and reckless in what you do it amounts to criminality. the prosecutor has a real decision to make. at the end of the day you look at two things. number one what did he not do? and should he have had an obligation

one said alec baldwin did one hell of an acting job with george stephanopoulos.c baldwin's interview with stephanopoulos might have been his best piece of acting. >> i don't know what is in the man's heart. i know guns. my follow-up yes, if you did not pull the trigger, then who did? whose finger was in the trigger? you were recording. this should be easy to verify. >> that's a good point. >> it's been over a month and someone died. who brought the live ammoon set? there are a lot of questions to be answered. i never pulled the trigger is not good enough. whose finger was in there. >> why did george stephanopoulos think the operative was this the first thing -- worst thing that ever happened to you. >> and the sheriff's office is still investigating the matter. video evidence whether it captured the actual shooting we are not sure of. we can agree in the court of public opinion, alec baldwin is losing his argument. >> and quickly, it's important to note the sheriff has been clear and told fox news this: i would not use the word accidental. the sheriff said that.

however, the santa fe county sheriff's department said in a warrant that baldwin fired the gun, and baldwin, 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 handgun marksman since i was 11. >> yes. correct. and it's interesting, it's important to differentiate a modern revolver from the type of revolver they were using. a modern one is a double mechanism, it allows one to pull the trigger which cocks the handle. those weapons are single action revolvers which means there is a two part mechanism. the first part is cocking the hammer back with your thumb and pulling the trigger. once you coc it back you're involved in firing the weapon and at that point either you let go of the hammer in such a way that you allow it to detonate or you pull the trigger. if it's a manual it has to be done by the operator of the firearm. >> sean: if the gun is in his hand, guns don't fire themselves, and he didn't aim it at anybody. it had to be aimed

he handed it to baldwin.that point should have looked, the armorer should have displayed that gun to him and said here, it's empty. look. check it out together. there's no intermediary. it goes from the armorer to the actor and back. that's it. no first ad. first ad had no reason or business or authority to touch that weapon. the third one is baldwin. all actors know and he's been around long enough to know this, you don't point the gun at anyone. you just don't do it. and he says that he didn't pull the trigger so we're going to go through this again. this is an unloaded weapon. completely empty. and it's a single action revolver. that's the single action. it won't fire unless you actually have that cocked. now, you see that the hammer's staying back by itself. so he's claiming that he held it, he held the hammer back with his thumb and let it go. it doesn't do that. it will not fire. it's a physical impossibility. it goes against everything mechanical. then the only way it could have fired is by placing a f

it did baldwin do that?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 po

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is there something with independent producers like baldwin cutting corners?ducers. he is sloppy and reckless, and now someone is dead. he's got to pay for that, civilly or criminally. this guy is being treated like a civilian, and expects to be treated like a celebrity. for a guy that has gotten vip treatment his whole life: chauffeurs, free clothes, get out of jail free card -- >> it is over. >> jesse: -- right, it's absolutely over. for a celebrity, you would think he would have some graciousness for being treated so nicely his whole life, but he squandered it. every time he sees a paparazzi, he punches them. he kicks random people. he yells at family members. he goes on social media and tears people's there. do you think people feel sympathy for him? she kept a producer accidentally -- i am sure she feels sorry about it. alec baldwin does not deserve the sympathy most normal people would get because of his past behavior. to indict him -- she must be under a ton of pressure. he is a well connected guy. i'm sure she has been offered favors and winks. i know

>> remember, so far alec baldwin is mostly talking about alec baldwin the actor and his role there and any possible criminal charges here and certainly with regard to any civil lawsuits, it's primarily going to be the producers, the people or the director who allowed -- >> criminal for them as well as civil? >> potentially, yeah. that's what the investigation is. the investigation -- look, i don't know if there's going to be any criminal charges here, but the investigation is going to be into who allowed this to happen? how did it happen and it's not just about alec baldwin, the actor, who was holding the gun. it's about who allowed that live round to get on the set and into that gun? those are going to be the key questions. >> dan, dutch, thanks very much. michael. >> all right, george, thank you. >>> coming up next, gio is at the blue origin launch site in van horn, texas, where i'll be lifting off in just six days. what is... an overpass? come on! question, is that an “s” or a “5”? think it's a 5... i thought so. argh! frustration...loading. [sfx: laser sounds] nobody wants more rob

hollywood actor alec baldwin insists he did not pull the trigger in the fatal shooting of cinematographer halyna hutchins. abortion rights in the balance as the united states supreme court hears the most important case in a generation. and amid tensions with china over taiwan: the uss carl vinson finishes its biggest ever annual drills in the region. our correspondent�*s on board. this is the us navy's newest, most advanced and most expensive fighter aircraft. this is its first employment outside the us and their is no surprise it has been sent here. hello. very good to have you with us wherever in the world you are watching. some of the biggest names in tennis have thrown their support behind the women's tennis association after it said it will immediately suspended all tournaments in china. the head of the wta has told the bbc the decision was taken because chinese authorities have failed to address sexual assault allegations made by the doubles star peng shuai against a former vice premier. courtney bembridge has the latest. it's been a month since peng shuai posted on social media acc

. >>> alec baldwin describes the fatal shot, one he says he didn't fire. >> i let go of the hammer, bang, the gun goes off. >> so what did happen? we ask a hollywood weapons expert. >>> arrests made after a string of smash-and-gran robberies but some already let go. the backlash. >>> a major labor crunch hits child care in america. >>> stolen cash find inside a wall at a joel osteen church and smugglers caught in the act. >> announcer: live from cnbc, the facts, the truth, the news with shepard smith. >>> good evening there is a manhunt under way right now in michigan. the sophomore charged with shooting up oxford high school north of detroit three days ago, he's locked up the manhunt is for his parents the local sheriff, the fbi, the u.s. marshal service all involved the sheriff announced the parents went missing, just hours after a prosecutor said they'd be charged in that deadly shooting, four counts each of involuntary manslaughter they were supposed to show up in court this afternoon but they never did. their lawyers say they're not on the run, but that they left town on tuesday aft

baldwin says he did nothing wrong.pened. >> i'm going to cock the gun. i take the gun. i start to cock the gun. i'm not going to pull the trigger. she said cheat it down, tilt it like that. i cocked it. can you say that? can you see that? i let go over the hammer and the gun goes off. >> according to the armorer, baldwin was not supposed to cock the gun, saying "we had the gun the whole time before the incident. nothing happened. they, meaning baldwin and the director, were not supposed to be pulling the hammer back." why? many gun movies are adjusted to reduce the force necessary to pull the trigger. reed says she loaded five dummy rounds. one round wouldn't go in. she cleaned the gun and grabbed another round from in her words had been a wonky set of ammunition. police want to see movies, texts and pass words through the clouds. finally baldwin says he requested a bigger gun. he denies that. the phone will tell us who is telling the truth. back to you. >> martha: thanks. let's bring in attorney brian claypool once ag