i m john king in washington. thanks for sharing a busy news day. alec baldwin staring down charges. he will be indicted for involuntary manslaughter after the onset death of the rust cinematographer. we ll bring you details plus, brand-new cnn reporting. sources say questions about classified material and a special counsel investigation will not alter joe biden s 2024 campaign launch. the view in the west wing, the documents scandal. team biden says it s a beltway obsession and hope not much more and go to hell. a homeless veteran accuses george santos of a new low. swindling money from a gofundme intended to pay for a dying dog s lifesaving surgery. i don t want him to do it again. he took a piece of my heart when he did this. prosecutors in new mexico just last hour are announcing alec baldwin along with the film s armorer will be charged with involuntary manslaughter in that fatal shooting on the shoot of the western movie rust. let s bring in elie honig and crimi
continues to spawn violence across the country. meanwhile on capitol hill, the stalemate over the debt ceiling continues as the country hits its borrowing limit. we ll have the latest on efforts by the white house to find some sort of compromise. plus, the george santos saga takes another really strange turn. now there are questions about where his mother was on 9/11. also ahead, we are hours away from a decision on criminal charges in the deadly shooting on the set of rust. remember that? we ll get you caught up on the case that could come to a major development this morning. and we ll dig into new reporting on an aggressive new proposal from the biden administration as it pertains to the war in ukraine. joe has the morning off but willie and i are here in new york, and we have with us, the former aid to the george w. bush white house and state department, elise jordan, an msnbc political analyst. former white house communications director under president obama, jennifer
vi lerio reporting. hello again, everyone. thanks for joining me. i m fredricka whitfield. we re learning new details about the actions of the man accused of killing four idaho college students in the weeks before the murders. people magazine reports that bryan kohberger followed all three of the female victims on instagram but they didn t follow him back. that s according to an investigator familiar with the case combined with the magazine s review of the now-deleted account. the 28-year-old is also alleged to have repeatedly messaged one of the young women about two weeks before the killings. kohberger faces four counts of first-degree murder and he has yet to enter a plea. cnn national correspondent camila bernal is following the latest developments for us. camila, what more can you tell us? reporter: hey, fred. this is important because police have not given us a link between the victims and bryan kohberger. they haven t said whether they knew each other, whether th
hut hutchins. this time it s a crew member in charge of the guns. jonathan hunt reporting live from los angeles. hi, jonathan. hi, martha. having already been accused by prosecutors of being hungover on the day she handed a loaded prop gun to actor alec baldwin on the set of the low budget movie rust has now been charged with evidence tampering. that charged aed to an amended complaint now filed with the court alleges that hannah gutierrez read transported narcotics to another person to prevent the conviction of herself. halyna hutchins was killed in october of 2021 during a scene rehearsal when alec baldwin fired a gun that parentally inadvertently been loaded with a live bullet rather than a dummy round. involuntary manslaughter charges against baldwin were dropped in
open the gun, look at the cylinder, the chamber, the barrel. make sure there s an inert dummy round. the training tells you how to distinguish it. baldwin didn t do any of those things. failure to do it could constitute gross recklessness, which is involuntary manslaughter. his other problem is he was the on-set location producer. that carries with it an additional duty of care to protect the crew. and you know, the prosecution is prepared to put witnesses on the stand that will say this was an out of control sloppy reckless set in which there were misfires of weapons. people are having fun and games shooting at beer cans during breaks. if it could be shown that baldwin knew that was going on, live rounds are never supposed to be anywhere near a set. that could also constitute gross