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Conditions. how does this right now, this incident, highlight a larger concern here about safety measures on set, potentially, again we don't know, but maybe corners being cut? >> yeah, i think as you highlighted, we're obviously at a disadvantage. none of us were there. one of the big pieces we can highlight here is that, you know, corners are cut, people are brought in with little to know experience in these fields as you mentioned the ia recently was going ton strike, even had a strike authorization with one of the first in its history of over 100 years. and as we've seen as the streaming n...

And they've done so very safely for a number of years and those movies, out of all of them, have the largest budgets to be able to accommodate cgi. i think, again, the highlight here is that a number of safety measures were completely ignored. there's never an instance in any case where there should have ever been ammunition with a projectile, a bullet, on the set ever for any reason. >> okay, we're going to leave it there with marcus coolly and danny cevallos, thank you, guys. the virginia governor's race is days away and the candidates right now are neck and neck. but could a political hea...

The prop gun blamed for the deadly shot has misfired before. rust movie productions writing they were not made aware of any initial complaints concerning weapon or prop safety on set but added they will be conducting an internal review of their procedures. meanwhile, the 30 rock actor is cooperating with police and is in touch with hutchins' husband who is now speaking out. matthew hutchins writing her legacy is too meaningful to encapsulate in words. our loss is enormous. lindsey, kendis. >> thanks to emily right there. we want to bring in the production designer marcus coolly, and danny ce...

>> it's interesting. if you look back at the brandon lee case, one of very few fatal shootings on set in movie history. one of i would say maybe two. you have a situation there where a police investigation concluded there may have been many different people at fault spread among many different individuals with, again, those overlapping areas of responsibility. so an investigation may conclude that this was a failure of many different folks at many different levels. but the bottom line is, generally speaking, you should not have live ammunition on a set ever, ever, ever. so that alone, if true,...

Investigation, and they have the power to impose civil penalties even if the authorities don't tress charges to determine how this could have hatched, and i think when you're talking about waves through the industry, so many directors and fellow cinematographers now are calling for an end to all live guns on the set because accidents have and can happen like this. >> and, marcus, about that affidavit, the assistant director allegedly handed baldwin the gun and indicated that it was safe? is it common for others to handle guns? >> no, it's not common. we have guidelines and protocol in place to...