yesterday here in manhattan. but it looks like we have a long legal road ahead and a team of legal of legal representation behind baldwin who is hoping to fight these charges. all right. gloria, thank you very much. joining me now is dutch merrick, a prop master and founder and chief instructor of prop gun safety llc. dutch, appreciate you joining us this morning. just hearing, you know, gloria s reporting, industry professionals have said that it s the armorer and the assistant director who has the responsibility to ensure that the prop gun is safe before they are used. baldwin has been charged. what s your reaction to that knowing the industry s standards and practices? well, it shocked all of us armorers when we heard the story as it unfolded as the investigation exposed what happened on the show. all of the normal rules and processes seemed to have been
The prosecutors in New Mexico who made the decision to charge actor Alec Baldwin with involuntary manslaughter in the fatal shooting of a cinematographer on the “Rust” movie set said Thursday that he bore responsibility for ensuring that the gun he was handed did not contain live rounds.
firearm. that is all you should be thinking about. any ancillary work, i don t think, is a fair expectation. but i think that was most likely happening because of a low budget. because there was not another line, another line item, to spare. dutch merrick, rob ackerman, think he s a. much for having me. and up next, hollywood s history, unfortunately, of tragic accidents on set. with two max-strenength pain relievers. so you can rise from pain like a pro. icy hot pro.
set. it s just not even in the realm of something i can imagine at snl. and if it happened, i would stop everything. on that point, rob ackerman, there s been a lot made and i ve heard this phrase tonight and i ve heard throughout the day about a low budget, non-union film. why that s irrelevant in terms of a teaching lesson in order to why the budget so important in this conversation? it seems to me and dutch can add to this he has a lot of experience too. but it seems to me that they were having, this young woman multitask she was working as a prop assistant, and also as an armorer, which, anytime there s a firearm onset, that is just not okay. you are one and only task and every armorer i have exist with this is true the only task is the care and moment to moment safety with that prop gun, a
dutch, thank you so much. elliot, i appreciate it. thank you. there s a lot to this and we now are just hearing from this district for the first time about the decision to charge. about the long investigation that went into it and now the legal process kicking in. alec baldwin charged with involuntary manslaughter. the armorer on the film set of rust charged with involuntary manslaughter. the district speaking with josh campbell and also this mystery of how that live ammunition got on the set, the d.a. saying they may never know but it also did not have any berkeley in terms of her decision to make these criminal charges. thank you all very much for being with us. i m kate bolduan, inside politics with john king starts after this quick break.