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Question she actually came back and said i see that as a red herring this idea of the live round. in her view that doesnt matter. thats not the most important thing because she looks at the totality of these practices on this actual movie set. one thing also interesting and if this does go to trial before a jury and evidence is laid out, is the d.a. told me that her team actually consulted with other actors including in her words a-list actors who told them that they always check the gun wheneve...

This warrant, however, outlines in detail the entire investigation that has been done to date with respect to "the r "rust" shooting. alec baldwin was issued his miranda warnings when first questioned by the police. you usually dont get miranda warnings unless youre considered to be a suspect in a murder case. or any kind of a criminal case. so thats unusual that they would have at that early date issued miranda warnings to him when they spoke to him. but it is full of other details as well. for...

Films armorer, hannah gutierrez reed recently telling savannah they believe someone deliberately sabotaged the set by mixing live ammunition into a box labeled dummy rounds. >> the person who put the live rounds in the box of dummy rounds had to have the purpose of sabotaging this set. theres no other reason you would do that. that you would mix that live round in with a dummy round. >> reporter: its a claim baldwin says he doesnt believe. >> thats an enormous charge to make that someone came in...

The bullet was planted? >> reporter: it was no accident on the set of "rust," thats the stunning and the explosive claim from the attorney representing hanna glee. >> are you suggesting that is case of about sabotage. >> reporter: the 24-year-old did check the revolver before dave hall gave the gun to alec baldwin. she could not tell the difference between blanks or the real bullet in the chamber. >> a dummy round looks similar to a round. euless, texas got a primer. >> reporter: the gun sat on ...

There is a new twist in that deadly shooting on the set of an alec baldwin movie. attorneys for the crew member in charge of guns making some shocking new allegations of sabotage we get more from miguel almaguer. >> reporter: it was no accident on the set of "rust. thats the stunning and explosive claim from the attorneys representing hannah gutierrez-reed, who suggest a live bullet was purposefully planted with dummy and blank rounds, resulting in the death of the films cinematographer. are you...

Explosive claim from the attorneys representing hannah gutierrez-reed, who suggests the live bullet was planted with dummy and blank rounds that resulted in the death of the cinematographer. >> are you suggesting this is a case of sabotage? >> the answer is unequivocally yes. >> reporter: she did check the gun for ammo but she could not easily tell the difference between blanks and real bullets in the chamber. >> dummy round looks very, very similar to a live regular round it. ooh is got a proje...

We know a lot more about the sequence of events. we still dont know the answer to that question which is how did a live ballistic round find its way on to a movie set. we do know that that should never happen. and what appears to be evident here is there was a terrible chain of custody on the set. and what you have to do is make sure that all of the weapons on the set and all of the ammunition on a set are accounted for, and so you have a stringent chain of custody to keep this kind of thing fro...

So in my experience, it not very common onset to have dummy rounds that have a hole but what they can do is drill a hole right through the side of it and lets people know that its a dummy round. so that would be duressed into the cylinder of the revolver. >> jeffrey, i have to go. what happens next? >> there will be three investigations. you have osha looking to see if safety regulations were followed. you have the criminal investigation and presumably, if the family decides to do so, there will...

Between a studio safety blank and dummy round, show us what you got. >> a studio safety blank might look like this and you can see this crimped end on the end of it and it looks almost like the end of a hot dog where its pinched off or a sausage. thats an unfired blank safety blank round and im going to show you next a fired safety blank round. you can see that its open. it been punched open and its very obvious and its about half of the weight because there is no powder. then ill show you what ...

About the legal angle. between a studio safety blank and dummy round, show us what you got. >> a studio safety blank might look like this and you can see this crimped end on the end of it and it looks almost like the end of a hot dog where its pinched off or a sausage. thats an unfired blank safety blank round and im going to show you next a fired safety blank round. you can see that its open. it been punched open and its very obvious and its about half of the weight because there is no powder. ...