good evening again. topping the hour, he says he did not pull the trigger yet the gun still fired. alec baldwin breaking his silence on the shooting of the movie set rust that killed halyna hutchins and injured the director. he said he was blocking the scene on how to hold an antique revolver when the prop gun that somehow had a live round in it went off. this is the subject of a criminal investigation. we re going to discuss with our legal expert shortly as well as a movie armorer. first, alec baldwin talking the incident with abc s george stepha stephanopoulos. i said in this scene i m going cock the gun. do you want to see that? she said yes. she said, tilt it down a little bit like that. i docked the gun. i go, can you see that? can you see? can you see that? then i let go of the hammer of the gun and the gun goes off. i let go of the hammer of the gun and the gun goes off. at the moment. that was the moment the gun went off. it wasn t in the script for the trig
tonight, we begin with breaking news out of russia. a major twist in that country s war against ukraine. vladimir putin forced to confront a rebellion within his own borders. just hours ago, we learned that if guinea prigozhin, the owner and the head of the wagner group and mercenary force that has been fighting alongside the russian military and ukraine, halted his advance on to the country s capital. that announcement came shortly after prigozhin claimed he and his fighters had captured the city of rostov-on-don home to the russian military headquarters for its war in ukraine. since their invasion last year, moscow has become dependent on the back in a group to support the war efforts as they re dwindling russian forces struggle to make significant gains inside ukrainian territory. in december, the u.s. said it believed the group had an estimated 50,000 personnel inside ukraine alone. it made up of about 10,000 contractors and 40,000 convicts that were recruited from inside
so i feel very, i love being onstage. i love being in a live environment. i haven t been onstage, actually, for a couple of years now, five years, probably. but i m looking forward to going back and doing some more because it is, it s live and you have a control over the performance, which you don t on screen. is it true, that thing people always say about how you feel the audience when you re onstage? you can feel whether they re paying attention or slightly looking at their watches, thinking, am i going to make the last train home? yeah. you can? totally. the last play i did was a beautiful play by bill nicholson called shadowlands, which is a movie with debra winger and tony hopkins about cs lewis and his late flowering love. and it s shot through with great wit and humour about this very closed off man who finds love late in life, and then she dies. and it s really a story about the question that he asks at the beginning of the play is, if god is love, why does he allow s
shot down, we are getting new information on past incursions by china, including three during the trump administration. we are also getting new details on president biden s state of the union. now just days away. new developments in two major criminal investigations of the former president in new york city, georgia as well. we will take a look at the very latest there. and then a dire warning from a mental health professional in the state of utah who says a new law aimed at trans teens could literally cost lives. all of that, plus, in my next hour, a little girl gets a very big honor. i m going to talk to nine-year-old bobby wilson, her research on bugs caused a neighbor to call the cops on her but that incident has not led to a major honor for the scientists. a conversation you will not want to miss. we begin off the coast of south carolina, where navy divers are retrieving what remains of that chinese spy balloon after being shot down by an air force fighter jet. we are a
the broader stast the race and we ll look at where each candidate stands on the important topics expected to come up including the supreme court and immigration. let s get to it. and good afternoon to the spin room here on campus at the university of nevada las vegas. it s a stone s throw from the vegas strip which is some $200 richer thanks to my east coast generosity. you re welcome. it s here that the surrogates will speak with reporters after tonight s final showdown between trump and clinton. the face-off comes at a critical time. election day is less than three weeks away and some analysts say this could be trump s last best chance to win over undecided voters after weeks of appealing to his base or trying to. the upshot in this morning s new york times has the chance of trump win at 8%. clinton at 91%. analysts say he could gain some edge in tonight s debate if he just manages to shift the folk us away from himself and all his stuff and toward hillary clinton and h