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We are breaking news. we are hearing from the armorer on the film "rust". a statement has just been released. safety is hannah's number one priority on set. ultimately, the set would never have been compromised if live ammo were not introduced. hannah has no idea where the live rounds came from. the whole production set became unsafe due to various factors, including lack of safety meetings. not the fault of hannah. so the statement comes amid allegations that gutierrez had mishandled weapons on a previous project. >> now, 20 months after being launched, an insider trader investigation involvi...

Is empty or not filled with a blank and that actor may have never worked around a firearm in their lives. these protocols are lip service. >> there are a number of things in this statement from hannah guti gutierrez's lawyer that speak to what you're speaking to, which is cutting of corners. okay. and even some of these are maybe what you wouldn't have expected in earlier pictures. the lawyer says she was hired on two positions on this film which made it extremely difficult to focus on her job as an armorer. we also heard that there were safety meetings, but now her lawyer here says that the p...

She failed to do that. now she's at the center of the investigation. this morning, hannah gutierrez-reed, the armorer in charge of the props on set, breaking her silence. her attorneys releasing a statement overnight saying she's been falsely portray and slandered in the media, adding she fought for training, days to maintain weapons, and proper time to prepare for gunfire, but ultimately was overruled by production and her department. the whole production set became unsafe due to various factors including lack of safety meetings. with the set shut down and production halted on the movie, guti...

Hannah was -- has no idea where the live rounds came from, the whole production set became unsafe due to various factors including lack of safety meetings, not the fault of hannah. >> so this comes amid allegations that gutierrez had mishandled weapons on a previous project, something that this statement also appears to deny. let's talk about it with stu brumbaugh, serving as a key grip on a number of films. he's worked with hannah gutierrez and the assistant director on the "rust" film, david halls. stu, thank you so much for being with us. first, you worked with both of these people. tell us...

Just in to cnn, we're hearing for first time from the armorer who was working during the deadly incident on alec baldwin's film set "rust." attorneys for hannah gutierrez write in a statement, safety is hannah's number one priority on set. ultimately the set would never have been compromised if live ammo were not introduced. hannah has no idea where the live rounds came from, the whole production set became unsafe due to various factors including lack of safety meetings, not the fault of hannah. so this comes after investigators announced they're focusing their probe on gutierrez and the assis...