you can watch more of craig melvin s interview with vice president harris tomorrow morning on today . a new lawsuit has been filed over that deadly shooting during the filming of the alec baldwin shooting rust. an attorney for the movie s armorer making new allegations about how live bullets got on to the set. here s miguel almaguer. reporter: tonight the attorneys for hannah gutierrez-reed, the armorer on the set of rust, say they know the answer to the question investigators desperately want: how did the bullet that killed cinematographer halyna hutchins end up in alec baldwin s gun? in new court documents, pdq arm and prop, owned by seth kenny accused of supplying the set with real bullets the ammunition boxes failed to state a material fact. the contents contain both dummy and live ammunition which were deceptively sold the facts are a live round or multiple live rounds ended up in a box labeled as dummies. reporter: in their lengthy court filing, attorneys shifted th
the show all hour long. lawmakers are close, they ve been close for a couple of months now, the hard infrastructure package on the shelf getting dust while we have crumbling infrastructure across the country. we are staying all over this, democrats meeting with the president right now behind closed doors as he announces framework for a deal and urges them to get something done. we ll bring you any updates as we get reactions from inside that meeting. up next, how did a live bullet end up on the rust movie set? that one question investigators are digging into after the tragic shooting. we ll go live to new mexico for the latest. l go live to new mex the latest i don t know. i think they look good, man. mm, smooth. uh, they are a little tight. like, too tight? might just need to break em in a little bit. you don t want em too loose.
newspaper reports baldwin was seen outside the sheriff s office in tears. no charges have been filed, and more witnesses are being questioned in what looks now to be a tragic accident. nbc s jennifer bjorklund reporting. still a lot of questions including how a prop gun on a movie set was even capable of doing this. most prop guns used in movies and plays don t even accept live ammunition. it s not possible for this to happen. so that s a question investigators are looking at and also how the cinematographer tragically was killed and the director. they weren t actors in a scene, they were behind the camera. so a lot of questions in what the film company is calling a tragic accident. horrible. just horrible. we ll be following that and will keep you up to date on the latest. now to politics in washington, d.c. the house voted yesterday to hold steve bannon in contempt of congress for ignoring a subpoena
relationship between the two victims in the back of the truck with the suspect. we really don t know. i personally am very curious to know why those individuals were in the metro atlanta area. one of them is from california and one of them is from kansas. so why were they here and how did their paths all cross those three individuals? that is a question investigators need to find. bill: what was their relationship? two men in the bed of a pickup truck that was owned by one of the guys who was shot dead. what was their relationship? how did they come together? that s why the police are looking into the criminal history of the defendant and probably the criminal history, if there is one, of the victims. because as this crime was occurring, he had an open case in the atlanta area. i think it was in 2020, bill, he was at the atlanta hartsfield international
jeffrey epstein the millionaire financeer awaiting trial on charges of conspiracy and sex trafficking which he pleaded not guilty to was found injured in his jail cell. sources tell msnbc news that he was found semiconscious in the fetal position with marks on his neck. nbc s tom winter has covered the story from the beginning and joins me now by phone. thank you so much for being with me this morning. help us understand to the best of your knowledge what exactly happened in that cell. reporter: so that s really a great question, stephanie, and it is the question investigators have. what they know is that they found him semiconscious in that cell at mcc which is one of the facilities here in manhattan where people are essentially held awaiting federal trial or in between trials. it s a high profile facility that has held terrorists in the past, white collar defendants, paul manafort is there as an