there are two particularly loaded words legally here that you could tell alex baldwin was on the lookout for guilt and responsibility. and what i read into that clip is what alec baldwin was told is, look, you cannot acknowledge guilt or responsibility, because those two things could come back to haunt you in court. you can talk about your emotion and reaction, but watch out for those words. you could see him steering very clear of giltd and responsibility and focusing more on his emotional reaction, which is a safer place to be. dutch, i wanted to ask you, because baldwin says it very clearly, like, to him, the only question to be resolved is where did that live round come from, where did that bullet come from. someone brought those live rounds in on the set and how they ended up in the gun. from your experience, whose ultimate responsibility is it to make sure any weapon is safe on set? well, firstly, i would say that s not the only question.
there, and she was there for a while. i was amazed at how long they didn t get her in a car and but they waited and a helicopter came. by the time the helicopter took off with her and literally lifted off, we were all glued to that process outside. when she finally left, i don t know how long it was, 30 minutes, 40 minutes. it seemed like a very long time. they kept saying was she stable. just as you disbelieved there was a live round in the gun you disbelieved this was going to be a fatal accident. you didn t know exactly how serious it was. at the end of my interview with the sheriff s department, they said we regret to tell you she didn t make it. that s when i went in the parking lot and called my wife. joining me right now is dutch marek, prop master and armorer, and cnn senior legal analyst
don t point it there, or she cannot stand there at that moment. let me play one of the moments when stephanopoulos asked what we ve heard from a lot of people, which is that since this happened, which is never pointing a gun at someone on set. let me play this. you re never supposed to point a gun at anyone on a set, some say, no matter what. unless the person is the cinematographer who s directing me where to point the gun for her camera angle. that s exactly what happened. dutch, with your experience, what do you think of what he said? well, the rule is true. you re never supposed to point at a person unless it s pointed at the cinematographer doesn t make a lot of sense. of course, had the armorer been in the room to on receiver that process and guide that blocking of the camera, they would have immediately said, no, you can t point the gun where that person
is, or let s have her step away and put the monitor on the other side of the camera, where it is safe. so those are very common practices if we do a scene like that. very common. you move the monitor to the other side and have the people stand where it s safe and there s no risk at all. interesting. elie, what do you think of that? so that canned like it was a very heartfelt interview and the statements he said were genuine, but he said things that were really important legally, including the point we just made. he said one of the big issues of exposure legally he may have been is this yld you never point a firearm at somebody, even if you think it s unloaded, as dutch just said. alex explained in his accounting the way that happened was ms. hutchens was directing me and had me manipulate it to the point it was pointing at her. everything he said in that interview is fair game for a