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Im sure shell leave at some point. sarah does a fantastic job. i dont think shes leaving. it didnt take long for the play of the day between the annual charity baseball game between the democrats and the republicans. first hit to first base and look who scooped it up. thats the house majority leader steve scalise making that play and making a huge comeback, one year after being shot and critically wounded on the practice field. >> i still need two crutches to really move around. i started to b...

Will ♪ but today i am still just a bill ♪ >> makes you smile, right? who can forget the first civics lesson for us when we were kids. we remember the musician and the man behind this. bob died this week at the age of 94. congressional republicans back on the baseball diamond today. its been ten months since a gunman ambushed their practice, wounding steve scalise and members of his security detail. just a day before their annual charity day with the democrats last year. this was the first ti...

There are still laws that we can put on the books. we need to close this bunk stock loophole so we dont see the kind of mass carnage that we saw in las vegas. we perhaps could have prevented it, had those bump stocks not been legal. so i think there is a legitimate debate. there is room for a dejit mat debate. i disagree with steve. i think the majority of the working people do. i am working with drapts and republicans crafting our own legislation to address this one specific question. but there...

Focused on and thats in particular the media. we were talking about what republican officials have, in fact been saying. they called on the president to tone down his rhetoric. my question to you given what we saw this weekend, another round of tweets against cnn how are members of his party reacting to that disturbing tweet? >> reporter: not favorably. this is following a few weeks ago we had a shooting on a baseball field, a practice field in northern virginia targeting members of congress. yo...

Dugo dugout. we had two capitol police in the dugout. they said youre putting your practice on hold, theres been a shooting. at that point we didnt know where it was, if they were coming for us, too. we waited about 40 minutes until they had a swat team come and clear the perimeter for us to return to our cars. we got together and said a little prayer as we started to read the twitter feeds that our republican friends had been hit. it was scarier for those who actually heard the gunshots at the ...

>> only for today. >> katherine: all right. never, ever smile. you dont know who is falling in love with your friends. >> who was editing that package? >> eric: monaco, probably. >> katherine: last night, politics and partisanship took a timeout during the annual baseball game in washington. tens and thousands of attendees turned out to honor the heroics of the capitol police officers who prevented a massacre and pay tribute to the wounded cosmic men steves or -- and the other victims of wednesd...

Maybe not every day, but when there are groups of you together. maybe that is a recognition of what our world is about right now. on that point, you know, you did have some beautiful moments yesterday in the response to this whether it was the democrats praying on their practice field when they heard about what was happening for you. paul ryan really just picking the right tone and the right points to remind everybody about who we are and what were about even in washington in moments of policy c...

And said come on youve got to come back on the boat. >> you talk about the heartache from yesterday at this practice field. ive been to the practice field with the democrats and republicans before covering as i covered congress. they take it seriously. these are these older members and they want to be in shape, they want to show their constituents, they want to show their colleagues that they still got it. they might not still have it but they want to show it. >> martha: thats the way men are, t...

We see them coming up to the field now. theres roger williams who youre going to hear from a just a moment, he broke his ankle as he went into the dugout running from the shooter. he is here tonight. the unity question, can it happen, can it make a differenc difference? >> you dont want to be pessimistic on a night like tonight when you want to be very optimistic. after 9/11, after various tragedies they say theyre going to come together. they come together for a brief time and then they go back...

Congressmans office and, obviously, everyone can imagine the concern of families and so forth at a time like this, and so information may not be as frequent as the news cycle would demand but were getting these updates. in addition, officer crystal griner, special agent with the capitol police, she is also here, a leg injury from her gunshot wound and then at another hospital, matt mika, who is also in critical condition. hes a former hill staffer who was helping out with the game was on the pra...