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It's time for donkey other day. Democrat
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to being donkey of the day, a little
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bit of a mixed so like a dope the
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other day.
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Now I've been called a lot of my twenty three years.
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That donkey of the day is a new wife. Wow,
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donkey today for Thursday October to
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the assistant director of the movie Russ,
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David Halls. Now, if you haven't heard because
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you're busy, it's understandable. But
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there was a tragic, senseless murder on
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the set of the movie Russ when actor Alec Baldwin
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accidentally shot dead cinematographer
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Helena Hutchins. Okay, rest
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in peace to her, sending her family healing energy,
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and won't get the director on the
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set of the Western film Russ. Now, accidents
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happen, Tragic accidents
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happened, and this was a tragic accident. But when
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you find out these situations probably could have
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been prevented. But someone,
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namely David Halls, was irresponsible.
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Oh see, you heard
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Queen able to do They on the breafat Club last Hour and she
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spoke on the safety precautions and protocol that
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go along with checking a gun on set. Let's
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listen. But the reason why I don't have
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guns on my set is because during summer, the proper
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protocol was done. The director has to check
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the gun and so the armorer has
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it first. A D has it first, Assistant
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director. Everybody looks at and they bring it over to
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me to look at. And I remember looking at it
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was like, I don't even know what I'm looking I
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said, I don't and I and in that moment, I said, I don't
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know what I'm looking at. I can't keep this crew
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safe. I don't know what I'm looking at. I had to depend on other people
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to tell me if it's safe. Proper
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protocol is the director has to check the
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gun. She said, the a D has to check
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it. A D would be David Hall in
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this case, also the director would
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have to check it. I don't know if the director checked it because
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in this case the director got shot.
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But we do know, okay that
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in this case the checking of the gun did go to
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David Hall. Well, David Hall dropped
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the ball is clear. Not all safety
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protocols will follow it on set and David
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admitted to it. Let's go to see be see with sheperd
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spit report police assistant director
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who handed Alec Baldwin that loaded
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gun on the movie set, admitted
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to investigators that he didn't check the
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revolver carefully enough. Investigators
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say when they asked the armor about live
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ammo on the set, she responded,
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no live ammo is ever kept on set.
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But today the Santa Fe County Sheriff
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said it appears it was a
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real bullet in Baldwin's revolver
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that killed the film's cinematographer.
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It struck her in the chest, according to investigators,
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before hitting the director who was standing behind
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her. The district attorney says she will
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prosecute if there's evidence of
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a crime, but she says right now it's
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too early to determine whether anyone will
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face charges. New court documents revealed
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an interview with assistant director David
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Halls and armorer Hannah Gutierrez,
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who told investigators that on that day
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she checked the dummies referring to
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the ammunition and ensured they
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were not hot rounds. She described
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locking up the firearms and is safe during
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a break, but during lunch, she stated
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the AMMO was left on a cart on the
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set, not secured. Halls
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told investigators when Hannah showed him
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the firearm before continuing rehearsal.
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He could only remember seeing three rounds.
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He advised he should have checked all of
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them, but didn't and couldn't recall
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if she spun the drum.
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I mean, you know, one time is an accident, but this
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happened before. Guess what. David
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Hall was fired in twenty nine when he when he was an
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assistant director on the movie Freedom's Path,
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a gun unexpectedly discharged
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and during a sound crew member the production
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company Rocket Soul Studios told CNN
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that I remember when David said, she doesn't want
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guns on our set because he doesn't even know what she's
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looking at. Clearly, David Hard doesn't know
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what he's looking at either. Thank god the crew
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member wasn't killed. And at the time, David
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Hall was very remorseful for the events and
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understood the reasons he was fired.
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Well, clearly he didn't learn from that mistake two
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years ago. The best apology has always changed
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behavior. But two years later, David, what
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did you change? Okay, what did you adjust?
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If two years ago your negligence called someone
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to get shot in two years later, your negligence
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called someone to get shot and killed, And clearly
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you are not learning from the lessons life is teaching
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you. Okay, I want to know why is
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there live ammunition period on these sets?
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Like why why are there live
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ammunition on set at all? For what? Somebody please
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call me to the reasons why you know?
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I don't know. But David Hall, you
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got blood on your hands in a real, real way,
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al right. The fact you said you have showed the gun
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before rehearsal. You can only remember seeing
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three rounds, and you admitted you should have checked all
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of them but didn't, and you couldn't
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recall if you spun the drum.
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This is a prime example of when someone's irresponsibility
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becomes your responsibility because someone
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is dead, another is shot, and
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this isn't the first time. Is in the
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first time David has been a serresponsible and
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caused something like this to happen. I'm not here to
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judge, I'm not here to prosecute. I'm just here
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to remind you all of this quote by George
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Matthew Adams. Negligence
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is that the body of all DK and
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DKA always starts by showing little
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signs, all warnings. There is nothing
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quite so easy as to neglect, and
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nothing quite so difficult as
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to repair that negligence. Negligence
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always carries a high price. It
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costs nothing to avoid it. Please
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let me remind give David all the biggest he hare
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heha he ha. You
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stupid mother, are you dumb? All
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right? Well, thank you for that donkey of the day. That
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sad, sad case of events,
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very sad. Alright, it's the Breakfast Club.
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Good morning.
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