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might not have ended up in the film. he began to cob the gun, let go of the hammer, but insisted he did not pull the trigger. some folks, one specific person, the attorney for the chief lighting technician, is disputing the allegation by alec baldwin that he did not pull the trigger, saying as producer of the film, baldwin is responsible. but baldwin said he wasn t involved in budget discussions. he added his production responsibilities on this specific film were strictly creative. he said the only question that needs to be resolved is how that live round ended up on set. a big question. lucy kavanagh, thanks so much. here with me now, prop master patrick story. he s worked on homeland and the latest scream film. patrick, i want to play some of interview where baldwin describings his account of what happened that day. and i want to get your reaction. have a listen. in the scene i would have cocked the gun.
this business, they said don t take a gun and go click, click, click. you implement the firing of the gun. don t do that. reporter: baldwin doesn t blame himself for what happened. he said he believed the weapon was safe. he did not typically check the guns for safety himself. saying, quote, an actor s responsibility is to do what the prop armorer tells them to do. he stressed multiple times he once answered how a live round ended up on the set. take a listen. the there s only one question, where did the live round come from. someone put a live round in the gun, a bullet that wasn t even supposed to be in the property. where did that bullet come from? somebody brought live rounds, plural, onto the set of the film, and one of them ended up in that gun. reporter: now, baldwin also attacked the two people who have filed civil lawsuits so far. those are script supervisor mammie mitchell and the chief lighting technician. he said he found it unsettling