It's Tuesday, July 9th, and these could be the most important 12 audience members he's ever faced. We start here.

The trial of Alec Baldwin gets underway in New Mexico.

That was definitely a win for Baldwin and his defense team.

There's already been a significant ruling ahead of jury selection.

Our team is there at the courthouse.

Some have suggested President

Biden graciously step away. This is his response.

The president essentially daring any Democrats to sort of challenge him in

any sort of nomination process.

Ahead of congressional meetings today, White House staff are taking up battle stations.

And ahead of a NATO summit, Russia bombs a Ukrainian children's hospital.

I mean, it's just absolutely unthinkable.

The attack that has sent shockways from Kiev to Washington.

From ABC News, this is Start Here.

I'm Brad Milkie. It's been almost three years since a cast and crew gathered in New Mexico to make a Western movie called Rust.

He said someone was shot.

Two people accidentally.

You probably remember what happened. In October of

2021, actor and producer Alec Baldwin was rehearsing a scene where he's holding a

gun, pointing it straight to camera. Now in this scene I'm going to cock the gun.

I said, do you want to see that?

And she said yes.

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