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Director was injured, as alec baldwin rehearsed with what he believed to be a safe gun. let's cross over to la, our correspondent is monitoring this price. a fine and some strong words in this. yes. is monitoring this price. a fine and some strong words in this. yes, you may remember— some strong words in this. yes, you may remember this _ some strong words in this. yes, you may remember this tragic _ some strong words in this. yes, you may remember this tragic incident l may remember this tragic incident happened in october last year when alec baldwin had been rehearsing a scene on set in a...

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I didn't need to check it. good for george clooney, but i didn't need to do that. i just have to rely on what the armorer told me. if he's proceeding on assumptions and it turns out he has a duty to check that gun and mishandled the gun, he is criminally exposed. so i think there's a little bit of trying to clear himself from all liability. he couldn't even use the word negligent here, let alone gross negligence. >> joey i want to go to you for legal advice, but back to scott quickly. just in your expert opinion, was it irresponsible the way mr. baldwin was handling the gun in that instance of...

And she laid there kind of in shock? >> was she conscious? >> my recollection is yes. >> criminal defense attorney sarah ansari joins us, joey jackson, veteran hollywood armorer scott rasmussen. scott, let me just ask you, alec baldwin was saying he had the hammer of the gun pulled back as far as it would go without being fully cocked and then just let it go. isn't that how a gun is fired? you don't need to pull the trigger if the hammer hits the round. is that correct? >> well, on the type of weapon that's a single action, in order to get it to fire, you pull the hammer to the rear and then y...

As you pull the hammer to the rear the trigger engages on it and when you pull the trigger it disengages, allowing the hammer to fall forward and igniting the cartridge. if the hammer is to the rear and he's pulling the hammer back and let's go of that hammer, that's the only way that gun could fire is if the trigger is already to the rear. >> if he decided not to just let go of the hammer but to have slowly put the hammer back, the gun would not have fired, is that right? >> correct, yes. if you gently allow the hammer to fall forward, it will not set off the cartridge. >> so, sarah, as a cri...