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Been told over and over again that the outcome would have been drastically different. chad, thank you so much and will check back with you. >> jon: a bit of good news. we are hearing that one of those who was shot was zach barth, a legislative aide to representative williams of texas. we are told that he is receiving medical care, he is doing well and is expected to make a full recovery. that according to a tweet from the representatives office. reportedly had been shot in the chest, so it sound...

Joe and i talked. we decided that were not going to let incidents like this change our way of life our daily routines. were going to go ahead and play the ball game. players on both sides want to do that. they think its the right thing to do. i did tell joe that i love him before the game and i love him after the game, but during the game, were going to play to win and i know joes team will do the same thing. charities will benefit. our thoughts and prayers are with the two officers. had steves ...

Attack, matt mika. works for tyson foods for government relations. hes in critical condition with multiple gunshot wounds. thats according to the mika family who is on their way here from michigan to be with him. one of the capitol police officers who was hurt, david bailey, did not get shot. hes expected to be okay. the other, crystal griner shot in the leg or foot and is expected to recover. zach barth works for roger williams. that congressman said that barth is doing well and will recover, t...

One of his aides and to capitol hill police officers, that gunman is dead, identified as james hodgkinson of illinois. chuck fleischman joins us now. its my understanding that you were there today as this whole tragedy unfolded. >> yes, sir. where the conclusion of our normal practice. it was a routine day and then a single shot rang out and then multiple shots. it was a horrible, horrible day. >> jon: jeff flake described hearing roughly 50 shots, does that sound about right to you? >> yes. we ...

>> at this point, the gunmans reloading, there is probably been about 50 or 60 shots. we cant really see him that well, but my gut feeling was, ive got to decide to stay or run in at this point, i think he is advancing towards us. people are moving behind different buildings. most everybody is closer to the gunman then i am. im at a distant point, but the staffer that made it over the fence, we are trying to decide to stay or go and at this point, the capitol police began returning fire. i do be...

Get. they will bring down the number of doctors and nurses and techni to meet the patients before their arrival and be fully prepared for this event. its not something they do on a regular basis, but they practice for a mass casualty basis like this. >> heather: i want to correct myself, to gunshot victims that were taken there specifically, one of them being one of the female officers tasked with protecting congressman scalise who was shot in the foot and we do have another account from another...

11 were thwarted and didnt result in injury. congressman scalise is the ninth member to be shot. the first was in april 1905 when john pinkney. september 8, 1935, huey long was shot in baton rouge. long died two days later. he was the first sitting senator to be assassinated. on march 1, 1954, on the floor of the house of representatives, five members of congress were shot by armed attackers from the puerto rican nationalist party. all five congressman survived and the security apparatus in the ...

These are truly american heroes. but for them being there, you have seen a lot more members of congress severely injured and shot by this gunman. >> jon: one of your fellow congressmen, we have the account just a couple minutes ago, one of your fellow congressman was departing the practice and apparently spoke to the shooter. he asked him who was that out on the field? he said it was a congressional baseball team, he said of the republic and for democrats, and it was shortly after he was told it...

Capitol is here because above all, they love our country. >> bill: former democratic presidential candidate bernie sanders also weighing in on this condemning the shooting. the senator out of vermont said the suspect had apparently volunteered for his campaign last year. >> i am sickened by this despicable act. let me be as clear as i can be. violence of any kind is unacceptable in our society, and i condemn this action in the strongest possible terms. >> bill: so we have team fox coverage. thei...

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...