top of the hour here on cnn newsroom. good to have you along. i m victor blackwell. i m alisyn camerota. the family of the cinematographer killed on the set of rust, said they support the criminal charges that will soon be filed against actor alec baldwin. today the district attorney in santa fe announced that baldwin and the armorer, hannah gutierrez reed will each get two counts of involuntary manslaughter. in october, 2021, baldwin was holding a prop gun when it fired a live round hitting and killing 42-year-old halyna hutchins. a prosecutor says baldwin is being charged for pulling the trigger, and as a producer of the film. i think it was the totality of the circumstances that this was a really fast and loose set, and that that nobody was doing their job. there were three people that if they had done their job that day, this tragedy wouldn t have happened. that s david halls, hannah gutierrez reed, and alec baldwin. if they had done their basic duties, we wou
Pick up coverage next in the Situation Room. Welcome to our viewers here in the United States and around the world. Im wolf blitz her in washington along with erin burnett in new york. Were following major Breaking News on the vote a short while ago to remove Kevin Mccarthy as speaker of the house of representatives, the first in the history of the u. S. Congress. An incredible day. Mccarthys ouster led by Congressman Matt Gaetz, joined by other gop hard liners. It was sealed by democrats who could have stepped up to save mccarthy, and they refused to do it. Extremely historic and dramatic, indeed. House business, for all practical purposes, is paralyzed as the chamber faces the very difficult and divisive challenge of choosing a new speaker of the house. Were standing by for a meeting of House Republicans this hour. This is a Special Edition of the Situation Room. We begin on capitol hill where our chief congressional correspondent, manu raju, is covering it all, speaking to everyone
Scalise . Who do you think might have the votes to lead your party and the house . All three of those would be Excellent Choices and i think they can do an excellent job. Theyre honorable men, to me at least, and theyve never openly mocked me, anyway. They sure as heck have always kept their word to me. Theres several others that have whispered in my ear during all of this. And of course i dont want to out them, i understand that they have to keep their secrecy about them. But there are several Milling Around that are very interested in doing this. Mark green from tennessee is somebody that people have been talking about. So theres several out there that people are talking about. Im sorry, but i just find this so shocking. What exactly did he say to mock your faith, sir . It really doesnt matter. It was just the fact that i publicly stated on your station, i think, this morning that i was praying about it and i had two paths to go, either go with my friend or go with my conscious, and
assessed and agreed it was thorough, but that many changes still need to be made even though they haven t found the leaker here. that includes several changes like restricting who gets those drafts. we saw it was 80 people, restricting the email distribution list for digital copies, and crucial here, limiting access of sensitive documents on mobile devices because this leak, of course, happened in the midst of the pandemic. so the court marshal is acknowledging here that there were, in fact, some gaps in security protocols that did emerge when people worked from home. so alisyn and victor, you know, this leak really has drastically changed the way that this court operates and will continue to change the way it operates, but the takeaway today, is that almost nine months after this leak, the person responsible still has not been identified. they may continue to investigate if more pops up, but it s possible we may never know the identity of this leaker. guys? all right. some changes l
21,000 people are impacted. it happened with the credit card information and send to the wrong email distribution list. the marine corps is notifying close impacted. following backlash, a college course or moving donald trump from office, getting a name change. the original class was called trump impeachment removal or conviction was inconsistent with its contents so they are dropping the word trump from the title. the only required text for the course is not changing as it is this book called the case for impeachment that examines ways that donald trump specifically could be removed from office. that is the only required material. foxbusiness alert, one day after cutting ties with papa john s, the nfl has a sponsor.