ex-president very clear publicly known efforts and plot to overturn his defeat in the 2020 election. a series of court battles over the last few weeks have largely gone in special counsel jack smith s favor, resulted if a whole slew of new trump officials and allies now being ordered to testify. some big names, none of them bigger than the one, vice president mike pence, news broke on tuesday that a federal judge had ordered him to answer questions under oath regarding conversations that may involve illegality on donald trump s part. here s what mike pence told nbc news about all of that this morning. i ll be in washington, d.c., later the week. i ll be meeting with my counsel that week and we ll determine the best way forward. again, i have nothing to hide. i believe we did our duty under the constitution on january 6th. nothing to hide, but that response begs the question, if that s the case, and frankly the fact that he wrote the book about it, why hasn t he testified
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
part of, we spent years trying to prevent foreign adversaries from meddling in our lechs and making it harder for people to vote and now here s the republican party doing the job for them. i mean, our adversaries would love this sort of activity. the idea that certain segments of the population could be actively disenfranchised and they re doing in real time all across the country republican legislators are advancing this maga agenda to make it harder to vote. even though they have had setbacks in some places i still worry the trend lines are there that today s republican party the core base of it still wants to rewrite the rules in their favor. miles, you look you re on a hollywood set. what are we looking at behind you? this is the beautiful zion national park, i would encourage
it s hard to win. it should not be prosecuted. we have a lot more to learn before it all goes to trial, again, these charges have not yet been been filed they are going to be. but between us lawyers, obviously here, we ve all had to handle a gun in a courtroom, as part of the evidence. and we have a marshall who will hand it back to us and show you that it s clear and there s the expectation that that marshall says to you, before you handle it, it s clear, it s been zip tied in some way or whatever, i do wonder, just how many of us have gone back and checked that and looked to see if there s anything in the chambers. i know that this is going to have repercussions in a lot more industries than just in hollywood, and when it comes to gun safety, for good reason. thank you both. thank you. thank you. we have a lot more to cover income on this hour, on the charges against alek bowman. as well as the armorer on the set of rust, next, why the screen actors guild calls the charges wr