halna hutchins and he pulled the trigger. reporter: in an interview with cnn in august, baldwin blamed gutierrez reid and assistant dave halls who handed him the bullet. why didn t she check that bullet? why didn t halls obey her? according to osha, she said, don t give him the gun until i come back. why didn t he check? did the dac.a. get the charg right? joining me now, criminal defense attorney ken belkin, thank you both. so just very simply, i ll ask the question, did the d.a. get the charges right, starting with you? i don t think. i think this is a stretch and an overreach on the d.a. with respect to alec baldwin. i think the charge against hanna gutierrez reid is stronger. the reason is that what she has to prove here, i don t think she can prove. you know, this is a criminal negligence case. this isn t simple negligence like in a lawsuit. that s been done.
i met her last year, she had an aggressive form of ovarian cancer and couldn t get the chemotherapy medication she desperately needed. you know, you feel like you re in a fight with one hand tied behind your back. we just at the time said let s go with what we have and see what happens. and the cancer pretty rapidly recurred. that was just this past november. and renee, unfortunately, did pass away. she never was able to get another dose of doxil. her can specialist and renee s twodaughters, michelle and nicole, join me now. i m so sorry for your loss. you know, i talked a lot about your mom, michelle, after that program because i thought a lot about that. can you can you tell me a little was she able to get any other treatment after that? she did. she was on another form of chemotherapy. but it didn t work like they had expected it to. she had some complications from that chemotherapy and got sicker and sicker. and then she went into hospice care about a month ago.
that the cold war ended more than two decades ago. wolf blitzer is off today. i m gloria borger and you re in the situation room. captions by vitac www.vitac.com the average price for a gallon of regular gas today is about $4. make that $3.92. our new poll shows nearly half of americans expect that price to hit $5. that s $5 this year and most blame the oil companies. president obama tried to hitch a ride on those sentiments today. chief white house correspondent jessica yellin is here. jessica, is the president going after big oil? again. believe it or not, it really felt like today was let s play politics with gas prices day in washington. the president played his part from the rose garden. think about that. it s like hitting the american people twice. he called on the senate to pass a bill that would have eliminated billions in tax breaks for oil companies. american oil is booming. the oil industry is doing just fine, with record profits and rising prod