i m john king in washington. thanks for sharing a busy news day. alec baldwin staring down charges. he will be indicted for involuntary manslaughter after the onset death of the rust cinematographer. we ll bring you details plus, brand-new cnn reporting. sources say questions about classified material and a special counsel investigation will not alter joe biden s 2024 campaign launch. the view in the west wing, the documents scandal. team biden says it s a beltway obsession and hope not much more and go to hell. a homeless veteran accuses george santos of a new low. swindling money from a gofundme intended to pay for a dying dog s lifesaving surgery. i don t want him to do it again. he took a piece of my heart when he did this. prosecutors in new mexico just last hour are announcing alec baldwin along with the film s armorer will be charged with involuntary manslaughter in that fatal shooting on the shoot of the western movie rust. let s bring in elie honig and crimi
august, john, and he was adamant the entire time of one thing i want to point out which i find so interesting, and maybe our experts can help. the d.a. saying with josh that we may never know how that live round got to set and that at the end of the day they believe due to the fbi forensics investigation and their report that alec baldwin, she believes, pulled the trigger. he says he never did. but when speaking to the legal team for the last year, their attitude is, well, there never should have been a live round on the set. alec telling me why didn t hannah gutierrez-reed recheck that bullet. why didn t halls obey her. why did he give me the gun? why didn t he check? why did he tell the crew it was a cold gun? it s what alec baldwin told george stephanopoulos. it s what alec baldwin told me. why was he handed a gun in the first place that was supposed to be a prop gun that he should have been able to fire that gun a hundred times and a live bullet should have never come out.
he also maintains that halyna hutchins told him, point the gun here, point it at me because they were in rehearsals in this church in new mexico and there was a breakdown in the chain of command on the set of rust, so, yes, alec baldwin being held responsible with these charges that we re seeing, you know, dave halls taking the plea agreement. hannah gutierrez-reed with these two charges of involuntary manslaughter, but how did that live bullet get on the set and why is that not being made a bigger deal here, because there are other people as josh pointed out that were responsible for those rounds being on the set. right, and the end result of this, the tragic death of a talented cinematographer who as you know said point it at me to get the better shot trying to do her job there so bernarda, interesting that there are dual charges, two counts of involuntary manslaughter that have some distinction under new mexico law. what is the legal aim of that?