Page 7 - Za D News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Bring guns on an airplane. does that mean we abolish the tsa? no. the armorer is the checkpoint. dave halls, the first a.d., picked up the gun and out of habit yelled cold gun. that should have meant nothing to alec. alec knew that dave halls was not his armorer. it would be no different than the mail boy came up and yelled cold gun. you don't take the gun from that person. you take it from the armorer. he knows that. >> martha: we'll stay on this forry obviously. both individuals say they're not guilty of involuntary manslaughter. obviously they're both very upset about what happened. but now...

There are other producers on this movie. sometimes producers just give money and get their name on the credits. the question is what actually were his duties as a producer and did he breach those duties? there are plenty of people coming in now saying, producers don't do that. that's why you hire an e armore for. >> but in hollywood, this is what actors are saying. there was one last night who said, involuntary manslaughter charge against alec baldwin is outrageous. the assistant director and prop person are solely responsible. i have been in over 100 tv shows before -- i won't say which show ...

The way the carts were just strewn about. and that low budget show they cut a lot of corners and didn't have a lot of time and didn't hold themselves to the standards most of hollywood does. i think the changes that should come about is especially the first day insinuating himself. no first a.d. has ever done that. what's a royal, royal no. and when it said that -- when the prosecutor said that baldwin should have checked the gun, that is not the actor's responsibility. the actor puts trust in the armorers and prop department to make sure while we make it look as real as humanly positive we al...

Practices and the budgeting and the way they scheduled the show and the treatment of the crew and the seed that was planted that was a fatal moment is when somebody provided live ammunition disguised as dummies in a box. and nobody has any recollection in history of live rounds being sent mistakenly to a film set. so that seed germ inated and that armorer and the first a.d. who inserted himself in this process where he had no business being and any one of those things would have stopped this. so yeah, are these people negligent? certainly. but i would offer there are several more people up the...

Know that, according to alec, he did not have anything to do with hiring hannah gutierrez-reed or other individuals. there were other producers who were enlisted to do so, so alec has maintained this was just a tragic accident. >> steve, let me come back to you. i understand you may be able to show us what either actually happened or what should have happened once they gun was handed over to alec baldwin. >> and alec knows that dave halls is not a firearms expert. his message "cold gun" shouldn't have any more import than if the caterer said it. he knew who 9 armorer was. can you have the armo...