alec baldwin is facing two counts of involuntary manslaughter tonight, the 2021 rust movie set shooting. cinematographer halyna hutchins was killed when she was struck by a live round of ammunition that was fired from a prop gun. held by eligible when. the movie s armorer, hannah gutierrez, will also be charged with two counts of involuntary manslaughter. baldwin s attorney says the actor feels blindsided. and is gearing up for a fight. i want to start with cnn security correspondent, josh campbell, entertainment reporter, chloe melas, they ve both been covering this story since the beginning. let me begin with you here, josh, you actually spoke thud to the dea intent on bringing these charges. what are you learning about these charges? you know, laura, i spoke with the district attorney and the special counsel here in the first tv tv interview since those charges were announced. and what the dea said specifically, this basically comes down to, in her view, negligence. negl
ad who would work with an armorer closely also a supervising producer and i really relieved the actor s job is always to be an artist, a performer, to think about the work of telling a story, in kind of a make believe, artistic endeavor. endeavor. the armorer s job is to be a safety check on everything on that actors behalf. that is how it always at snl. and the armorer, when i worked at snl, took that off my plate, my very full plate. and i was always grateful to the armorer s for his or her expertise, when it came to handling firearms. well you are an armorer and i ask, in the sense of, what seems to have transpired here, according to what the dea is saying about the charges, she laid out a case that, essentially, not only the armorer was at fault,