rust, alec baldwin described exactly what he thought happened. in an exclusive interview with george stephanopoulos, he said he never pulled the trigger on the gun he was holding. i let go of the hammer, bang. he recounted the rehearsal just moments before the g gun fired, saying she was i m going to cop the gun. do you want to see ta? she said yes. so i take the gun and start to cock the gun. tilt it down a little bit like that. i cocked the gun, can you see that, and i let go and the gun goes off. in the moments that followed, complete disbelief. everyone is horrified. they re shocked. it s loud. they don t have their ear plugs in. the gun was supposed to be empty. i was told i was handed an empty gun. i thought to myself, did she
by everyone who worked with her and admired. i m sorry. admired by everybody who, um, who worked with her. the trigger wasn t i never pulled the trigger. you never pulled the trigger. no, no, no. . i would never point a gun at someone and point the trigger. that s the training i had. you never point at someone and pull the trigger. you re holding onto the handle. how good that. do you see that, do you see that yeah, that s good. i let go of the hammer, bang, the gun goes off. everyone is horrified. they re shocked. it s loud. they don t have their ear plugs
it s loud. they don t have their ear plugs in. the gun was supposed to be empty. i was told i was handed an empty gun. nothing with a charge at all, a flash round at all, nothing. she goes down. i thought to myself, did she faint? the notion that there was a live round in that gun did not dawn on me till probably 45 minutes to an hour later. 45 minutes to an hour? she s laying there and i go, did she get hit by wadding? sometimes the blank rounds have a wadding inside, that packs like cloth that packs the gun powder. sometimes wadding could come out and it feels like a poke. nobody could understand. did she have a heart attack? because remember, the idea someone put a live bullet in the gun was not even a reality. did you go up to her? i went up to her and immediately we were told to get out of the building. we were forced to get out of the building. i stood over her for 60 seconds
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 trigger to be pulled. well, the trigger wasn t pulled. i didn t pull the trigger. so you never pulled the trigger? no, no, no, i would never point a gun at somebody and pull the trigger. that was the training. you just had the gun and you pulled. i pulled the hammer. i m just going, how about that? does that work? she said yeah, that s good. i let government hammer, bang the gun goes off. everyone is horrified. they re shocked. it s loud. they don t have their ear plugs in. the gun was supposed to be everitive. i was told i was handed an empty gun. nothing with a flash round at all, nothing. she goes down. i thought to myself, did she faint?
they don t have their ear plugs in. the gun was supposed to be empty. i was told, i was handed an empty gun. she goes down. i thought to myself, did she faint? the notion that there was a live round in that gun did not dawn on me until probably 45 minutes to an hour later. reporter: now, baldwin also described the incident as a one in a trillion episode and said accidents of this nature really rarely happen on film sets and he also said that he does not feel guilty about what happened, jose. guad, thank you. let s go to the president. in these times, a bipartisan cooperation is worth recognition. so i want to thank speaker pelosi and schumer getting this done. and i want to urge congress to use the time this bill provides to work toward a bipartisan