birds, crosby, stills and nash, and crosby, still, nash & young. a legendary songwriter that managed all at once to be of his era and for the ages. helplessly hoping heart again hovers nearby, awaiting a word gasping at glimpses of gentle truth s spirit, he runs, wishing he could fly that is david crosby with steven stills and graham nash at woodstock. only their second concert as a trio, still famously telling the crowd there how scared they were. for most of his 81 years, his music career seemed fearless in a life that was at times as turbulent as his music was at times soothing and brilliant. our randi kaye has more. reporter: he helped shape the sound of 1960s folk recognize as a founding member of the birds. but david crosby will always be best known as a founding member of crosby, stills and nash. the wildly popular group was made up of crosby, steven stills and graham nash. their sound distinctive for its melody and harm days. i am yours, you are mine,
that cia director william burns made a secret trip to ukraine to brief president volodymyr zelenskyy and share u.s. intelligence on russia s next moves in the war. actor and producer alec baldwin now faces criminal charges in the fatal shooting of a crew member on the set of the film rust. our legal experts are weighing the evidence and whether the involuntary manslaughter charges will stick. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer and you re in the situation room. we begin with the partisan showdown over raising the debt ceiling and fears of an unprecedented default by the united states. our chief congressional correspondent manu raju explains where this critical fight stands tonight. reporter: tonight congress and the white house engaged in a risky standoff as the u.s. reaches its $31.4 trillion borrowing limit. the white house and congressional democrats say no negotiations to raise the debt ceiling and no conditions
that you re pressing it and you pull the hammer back and release it, the gun will also fire. and i believe that that s why he is saying he didn t press the trigger. reporter: baldwin s attorney says he will fight the charges, calling the decision a miscarriage of justice, and mr. baldwin had no reason to believe there was a live bullet in the gun or anywhere on the movie set. he relied on the professionals with whom he worked who assured him the gun did not have live rounds. an attorney for gutierrez-reed calls the charges wrong and believes the armorer will be found not guilty by a jury, and she did not commit manslaughter. she has been emotional about the tragedy, but has committed no crime. it s not clear to me there is criminal liability here. given all the circumstances, i m not seeing that i m really looking forward to what they are going to prove, because this is an aggressive charge, and i m not sure they have. and josh campbell joins us now. has the family of halyna hutc
there were three people, that if they had done their job that day, this wouldn t have happened. that is david halls, hannah reed and alec baldwin. halls has already pleaded guilty to negligence of a weapon. baldwin has repeatedly claimed he pulled back the gun s hammer as far as he could without cocking the gun and released the hammer, telling cnn and others the trigger wasn t pulled. i didn t pull the trigger. you never pulled the trigger? no, no, no, i would never point the gun at anyone and pull the trigger. that was the training i had. you don t point the gun and pull the trigger. the district attorney disagrees. every person that handles a gun has a duty to make sure if they re going the handle that gun, point it at someone and pull the trigger, that it is not going to fire a projectile and kill someone. an actor doesn t get a free pass just because they re an actor. reporter: safety expert steve wolf has a theory as to why baldwin says he didn t pull the trigger.
felony. fireworks that cause a death. that could be invol manslaughter. the other way is to do a lawful act. let s just say using that gun in that scene was lawful, but doing it without proper contemplation and caution. and that s where the strength of the state s case is going to go. even though they re aggressive charges, they re going say, look, a gun is a dangerous instrumentality. we know that, and you have to presume that it s loaded. and if you didn t do everything you should have done, that s not enough caution, and he could find himself with a conviction of involuntary manslaughter. but mark, even if you have people who are supposedly experts, the armorer on the set handed you the gun, and the assistant director saying it s it s safe to use. and that s his defense. the defense is, look, movies are artificial to begin with. we make-believe there is war. we make-believe there is gun gunfights. we make-believe i m hitting you