Charges will be dropped against Alec Baldwin.

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The Hollywood actor soon to be cleared of an involuntary manslaughter charge after that

gun shot on a movie set killed his colleague but is Baldwin legally cleared for good and

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Welcome to the lead of Jake Tapper we start with big breaking news in our pop culture

lead prosecutors say that they plan to dismiss charges against actor Alec Baldwin after

that prop gun he was holding fired during movie rehearsals and killed the cinematographer

of his film that update is according to Baldwin's attorney who says that his attorneys

are now pushing for a quote proper investigation into what exactly went wrong on the set of

the film rust in october twenty twenty one let's get straight to see an ends of clovey

malas clovey what led to this decision well i mean look this is something Jake that

Alec Baldwin's attorneys and legal team have been pushing for aggressively we know that

a month ago after a court filing by Alex attorney luke nicos that the special prosecutor

due to a conflict of interest by for holding also a job in the house of representatives

due to new mexico state law you're not supposed to do both jobs she stepped aside then

the d a recuse herself so that sort of was the first you know red herring so to speak

and then you know before that Jake i want to point out that the charges were downgraded

so the fire enhancement charge was removed which meant that Alec Baldwin could only face

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