the lynchpin your word on whether or not to bring charges. do you have a sense tonight on what those charges could be or at least what part of the criminal code might apply? no, not at this point. i think it s a little too preliminary to to start focusing on what the criminal charges will be because we don t even know who who, if anyone, would actually be charged. um, you know, certainly, we have been looking at our our criminal code and look looking at unintentional killings which in in new mexico is called involuntary manslaughter. um, but we don t know that we ll be able to to get to that point. we just can t make that determination, yet, until the investigation is complete. and and, madam district attorney, who on the set i mean, is it clear to you at least who on the set of the movie had the ultimate responsibility for the safety of the gun? i think that s probably a question more for the investigators, for the sheriff. we we don t necessarily know
gun and hot gun. a cold gun means that the gun is empty. it cannot fire. there might be dummies in it. but it cannot go bang. a hot gun means that it is ready to fire with blanks loaded up into the gun, and those callouts happen just before and after each one of the sequences on set. so a hot gun blank isn t necessarily dangerous if it is used right but it s still a hot gun because something can go bang in the gun. that is correct. my friend anderson has a couple questions for you also. larry, even if it is a dummy round as you said, it s there is no projectile coming out but it does make, you know, a flash, it does make a loud noise. just so i m clear, if somebody has a dummy round in and the gun is very close to them, could that potentially injure somebody? no, no, let me let me be clear. the dummy cartridge is totally inert. it s the blank cartridge that makes the smoke and the muzzle
that, yet. i think that with the with the further interviews that the sheriff indicated they are trying to do, we might be able to come get a clearer picture of that. sheriff, you mentioned today that there were additional rounds found in the gun that you believe alec baldwin fired. do we know if those were live bullets, as well? or were they blanks? right now, indication are are they were dummy rounds. so, they were not similar to the bullet that was fired. they were not similar. the casing was similar but the but the primer was not. so, we believe that those were dummy rounds that were in that were also in the gun that mr. baldwin fired. sheriff, has anyone explained to you at all why there would be a a a bullet a live round on a movie set? no one s offered an explanation to that question. again, we are hoping to get follow-up interviews with the three individuals that handled
allow them to be close? yeah, and thank you for saying that but we are professionals in this industry. and we work very hard at creating those illusions. they are done with either long lenses or what we call blocking the shot. where we re actually off access, we are not pointing a gun directly at someone but we are, like, pointing it six inches off their shoulder so they re not in the direct line of fire. there is, also, the ability to create a physical barrier in in our case, we use sheets of a clear material so you can separate the blank fire from another actor. and those are all safety implements that we use depending on the specific scene we re filming. yeah. well, gary, larry, i really appreciate it. thanks so much. appreciate it. coming up next, a parade of smat senators line up to accuse the attorney general of writing a memo they say target school parents as domestic terrorists. just one catch and it s a big one and they could have found the truth with just their eyes,
the united states. but the pentagon suffer ed a major blow last week when its latest weapons test failed. thank you so much for being with us tonight. i m kate bolduan. ac 360 starts right now. good evening. we begin tonight with the apparent confirmation of perhaps the darkest possibility in the fatal shooting of cinematographer halyna hutchins by alec baldwin on the set of the movie rust. authorities say she was killed and director joel souza was wounded by a bullet. in other words, a live round the one thing that should not be anywhere near a movie set was in the gun s game cher when bald pulled the trigger. we believe that we have in our possession the firearm that was fired by mr. baldwin. this is this is the firearm we believe discharged the bullet. we also believe that we have the spent shell casing from the bullet that was fired from the gun.