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So that would indicate perhaps he had the rifle he used today as early as late march. what were told by authorities is he had two weapons, that he had an assault-type rifle with multiple ammunition clips or magazines and a hand gun. we dont know yet whether he fired the hand gun or not or whether all the shots fired today were from the assault weapon. authorities have obtained a search warm. theyre searching his house. neighbors say he had not been living in the house recently, and were told by ...

All go here and they interviewed every witness and asked for our account. >> congressman, how are you feeling right now? we were talking to members of congress and this didnt happen that long ago and how do you feel about what happened and what this means for the future? >> first of all, im very sad and im sad for my colleagues who got shot. im sad for my colleagues who got severely injured, and i feel sad today that when i went to baseball practice like i had for seven years in the past with my...

[gun shooting]. >> neil: bottom line here, what we can tell you, it could have been worse. the shooter is dead. those he shot at looked like theyll be okay. its anyones guess how this goes, especially out of a game that is back on tomorrow. the timing of this and what went down is still seemingly unfathomable in the washington d.c. area. garrett tenney with the very latest. hi, garrett. >> neil, it is remarkable that the shooter is the only one killed in this incident. its a very residential are...

I said okay, this might be where the congressional republicans were practicing. i talked to a couple aides that were involved in the game doing some research about the history of the game. i said that might be where that was. i was able to reach out to a couple sources and learned that multiple people had been injured and steve scalise, the whip, had been shot. i motored over here and saw the police activity. >> bill: chad, how would people learn or the killer, how would he know that they were h...

Attack on all of us. >> congressman scalise is a friend. a very good friend. hes a patriot and hes a fighter. >> this political rhetoric has led to hate and gun fire. >> i pray for all of you together. >> i never thought i would go to baseball practice for charity and have to dodge bullets. its got to stop and stop today. >> neil: and it could have been much worse. this is a video coming in here. i want to show this uninterrupted. this show whats went down and how -- you have a shooter with unli...

Hear -- we learned coming about bernie sanders and his campaign connection to the suspect. again, confirmed dead and the president. bernie sanders is saying in a statement, ive just been informed of the alleged shooter at the republic in baseball practice is someone who apparently volunteered on my presidential campaign. he is expected to speak to that in a little while. your thoughts? >> newt: first of all, you cant hold bernie sanders responsible for every volunteer who shows up in his campaig...

Out to steve and started putting pressure on it. and then we for about 10 or 15 minutes did that until the police arrived. >> how many members of congress were here. >> probably about 25. >> we want to bring in senator rand paul. he also was at that early morning congressional baseball practice and witnessed all of this unfold. senator, tell us where you were and what you saw. >> i was in the right field batting cage outside of the fence line and the first shot rang out and i grew up in the sout...

>> melissa: new details today about the gunmen that shot scalise at eight baseball practice. hodgkinson, the suspect who volunteered for a bernie sanders campaign. well have more on that in a moment. >> i was the shortstop at batting practice. i heard a gunshot. and i said, thats a gunshot. i think the initial shot just

The mayor of new orleans had of this to say a short time ago. >> we go to battle politically, but personally we are very expectable of each other and like each other and thats why an attack on one of us is an attack on all of us and importantly, an attack on the country. >> he has two children and his wife is said to be en route to the east coast to be by her husband. >> heather: we will have continuing coverage on this brutal attack on democracy at a baseball practice for a charity game tomorro...

The >> sandra: that was how his leadership addressing the house of representatives, nancy pelosi, paul ryan on the house floor. moments ago, paul ryan lead things off as a house adjourned it saying we are united. we are united and are shot, we are united in our english. an attack on one of us as an attack on all of us. nancy pelosi then took to addressing the floor saying i identify with the remarks of the speaker. i pray for donald trump, that his presidency will be successful and that his fami...