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that wraps up the hour for me. i'm jose diaz-balart. thank you for the privilege of your time. lindsey reiser picks up with more news right now. good morning. i'm lindsey reiser at msnbc headquarters in new york. and right now we're watching for a major decision set to come any moment now about the deadly shooting on the set of the movie "rust." it's been 15 months since cinematographer halyna hutchins was struck and killed by a live round fired from a prop gun by actor alec baldwin. now a new mexico district attorney is about to announce whether any charges in the case will be fil...

versus what lawmakers are willing to do. i'm going to talk to a key republican negotiator next. >> and the fbi stepping in after an overnight arrest near the home of supreme court justice brett kavanaugh. we'll have the latest on the shocking threat. >> plus, pro golfers putting their reputations on the line for a paycheck. some say is blood money. ready to key off with saudi arabia's new lead, ignoring the country's record on human rights and the murder of a "washington post" columnist. >> welcome to "the lead." i'm jake tapper. we start with the upsetting testimony describing the h...

It, can you dive a little bit more into these two charges and how different they are? >> these are -- the involuntary manslaughter charge against alec baldwin is the primary charge and then you have a firearms enhancement. that's not a stand-alone charge. it's something if the jury finds through a special interrogatory, when they're filling out the verdict, they get an additional question, in this case it will be, do you find that alec baldwin used a firearm in the commission of this offense? if they're going to convict him of involuntary manslaughter, it seems that that would be a foregone co...

Released a 63 page report taking issue with krasner's tenure highlighting issues which included a key declining correc race, firearms cases being withdrawn or dismissed and a high staff turnover and he sought to link those issues to the city's ongoing gun violence crisis. shootings and homicides were on the rise. criminals are emboldened by a lack of arrests and failing prosecutions. makes sense to me. i remember former philadelphia police commissioner john timdy documenting there is a revolving number of bad seeds who exit a disproportionate amount of crime and if you let them out they contin...

Defense. are your surprised by the jury's verdict here? >> first, i'm no longer surprised that a defendant in a high-profile case took the stand, only because in the last year we've seen it in virtually every single high-profile case, and not just firearms cases. there is a massive trend under way in high-profile cases, and defendants for the first time maybe in the history of our criminal trials are feeling confident about taking the stand. that doesn't change the fact that everything is about credibility. if this defendant wasn't credible, the jury would not have acquitted him. they must hav...