and george santos speaks. let s start with president biden on the ground. and now in california. landing early on his first visit to see the huge amount of damage from those who have been affected by the storms in that state. our team is there live. also this hour, an interview you will see here first. the district attorney of santa fe talking with nbc news after her stunning announcement. what she is saying about charging actor alec baldwin with manslaughter in that deadly movie set shooting. plus, news from back here on capitol hill. george santos responding to a trifecta of stories that kind of don t seem to add up. we re talking drag queen, a military veteran, a denial over a dying dog. we ve got a lot to get to from here in washington and around the country. we ll get to some of the stories in a moment but we want to start with breaking news out of the supreme court. here is the headline. the court says it is not able to identify the person or persons, plural, wh
that dropped, it is what caused the discharge of the bullet. not him pulling the trigger. now, this is where the question is going to go back and forth, that the jury is going to hear over the course of this prosecution here, that alec baldwin s defense, that he did not actually pull the trigger, and the pros cution s belief that he in fact did. this is going to be a complicated case, going before the jury, not only for alec baldwin but for hannah guiterrez-reed, hallie. can you help us understand, vaughn, the conversations you re having with experts here, what a viable legal defense strategy might be for alec baldwin in this instance? right. alec baldwin is not only a veteran actor who has experience handling firearms and will make that case, but he says that he followed protocol, and when the assistant director went on set and said that that firearm was cold, he took him at his word. but then this is where there s going to be much debate over