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>> start with the gun, yeah. >> reporter: actor and producer alec baldwin facing the charges on the new mexico set for 2021. >> one me -- >> we're getting the guys treated. >> reporter: mary carmack said no safety protocols led to it. >> it was the totality of the circumstances that this was a really fast and loose set and that nobody was doing their job. >> reporter: after the lunch break david halls yelled cold gun and was and the scene calls

Unfortunate and heartbreaking that this had to occur but the fact you are going to criminalize this is problematic. you are an actor and you have to consider the context in which anything occurred before charging a crime. you are on a set, there are a lot of moving parts, you are on a team, you have the ability as an actor and you should be reasonably relying upon other members of the team to do their job, and so with that context in mind if you are an actor and someone says cold gun, to which you understand that to mean that it's certainly a prop that would not hurt anyone and you point it in...

Doesn't mean it's not criminal. go with me here. that's how a santa fe prosecutor is sizing up her decision to file charges against actor alec baldwin. she plans to charge him with two counts of involuntary manslaughter in the "rust" 2021, that shooting on the movie set that ended in the director's death. the cinematographer's death. film maker hanna gutierrez reid also facing charges. filmmaker halna hutchins was killed when she was struck by a live round of ammunition fired from a prop gun held by alec baldwin. the d.a. saying that she believes that "rust" had a, quote, really fast and loose...

Regulatory action has been taken. this is a criminal case. they want to send alec baldwin to prison for five years. they have to prove that he grossly deviated from a standard of care that he owed. i don't see how they can do that. they can't convince 12 people unanimously beyond a reasonable doubt that he owed a duty of care that he breached when he handed a gun, said cold gun, there are people responsible for that. i don't think a jury is going to find that. >> first of all, let's be clear, no one wants to see mr. baldwin go to jail, least of all not a defense attorney like me. but let's be ...

This off to the fbi, one of the best labs in the world, and they said someone pulled that trigger. here's what she said. >> the trigger wasn't pulled. i didn't pull the trigger. >> you didn't pull the trigger? >> no, no, no, i would never point a gun at someone and pull a trigger, ever. >> are you confident he pulled the trigger? >> absolutely. the fbi lab is one of the best in the world and we absolutely believe that the trigger had to have been pulled in order for that gun to go off. the trigger was pulled. >> what do you say to that? >> what i say to that is the d.a. is overstepping there b...