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that cia director william burns made a secret trip to ukraine to brief president volodymyr zelenskyy and share u.s. intelligence on russias next moves in the war. actor and producer alec baldwin now faces criminal charges in the fatal shooting of a crew member on the set of the film "rust." our legal experts are weighing the evidence and whether the involuntary manslaughter charges will stick. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. im wolf blitzer and ...

That youre pressing it and you pull the hammer back and release it, the gun will also fire. and i believe that thats why he is saying he didnt press the trigger. >> reporter: baldwins attorney says he will fight the charges, calling the decision a miscarriage of justice, and mr. baldwin had no reason to believe there was a live bullet in the gun or anywhere on the movie set. he relied on the professionals with whom he worked who assured him the gun did not have live rounds. an attorney for gutie...

There were three people, that if they had done their job that day, this wouldnt have happened. that is david halls, hannah reed and alec baldwin. >> halls has already pleaded guilty to negligence of a weapon. baldwin has repeatedly claimed he pulled back the guns hammer as far as he could without cocking the gun and released the hammer, telling cnn and others -- >> the trigger wasnt pulled. i didnt pull the trigger. >> you never pulled the trigger? >> no, no, no, i would never point the gun at a...

Felony. fireworks that cause a death. that could be invol manslaughter. the other way is to do a lawful act. lets just say using that gun in that scene was lawful, but doing it without proper contemplation and caution. and thats where the strength of the states case is going to go. even though theyre aggressive charges, theyre going say, look, a gun is a dangerous instrumentality. we know that, and you have to presume that its loaded. and if you didnt do everything you should have done, thats no...

With a knife. and were supposed to do this, and i rely on professionals. thats going to be the cornerstone of their defense. but under the law, like she said, even an actor, you have to have that caution, that circumspection to make sure if youre going to have a gun in your hand, an undeniable weapon that could cause injury, you have the personal responsibility to be cautious with it, not to rely on somebody else. >> neil, you have worked in the industry for a long time. does it make sense that ...

First place. but he believes that that is where this all should start, and also dave halls, the assistant director, who took the plea deal telling him that this was a cold gun. so alec baldwins attitude being, well, you know, if the gun goes off, there never should have been a live round in the first place. also, anderson, maintaining with me in august and still mai maintaining that he never pulled the trig, although the d.a. does not believe that. >> mark, just from a legal standpoint, can you ...

You noted, wolf, they dont believe there would be negotiation. this is responsibility for lawmakers. they understand where house republicans stand on things but after 10, 11, 12 years after these type of negotiations, this type of effort to use this issue as leverage, they plan to hold firm on where they stand and try to put a stop as one official said earlier today is negotiating with a gun to your head. >> maggie, what do you see as viable options here for the house speaker mccarthy? is there ...

As far as he could without cocking the gun and released the hammer, telling cnn and others -- >> well, the trigger wasnt pulled. >> so you never pulled the trigger? >> no, no, i would never point a gun at anyone and pull the trigger. that was the training i had. >> reporter: the district attorney disagrees. >> every person has handled a gun has a duty to make sure if theyre going to handle that gun, point it at someone and pull the trigger, that it is not going to fire a projectile and kill some...

Assistant director who handed him the gun and sured him the safe, if you go back to the person at the center of this whos the armorer whose job it is to make sure all weapons are safe before theyre handed to an actor, it appears they are. and as elliot said, alec baldwins dual role as the actor who pulled the trigger after being reassured the gun was safe, but also as a producer. as a producer youre kind of an owner, a manager of everything that happens on that set. >> let me follow up with you,...