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Gun? >> no. i am absolutely certain that it was a rifle. it was not a shotgun. but i did not ever get -- thankfully, i didnt get close enough to it to be able to identify the type of rifle that was being used. the only weapon i had was a baseball bat and thats not a fight you want to engage in. >> absolutely. you were saying that because of the repetitive fire. it seemed to you as though it were semiautomatic, obviously making this more dangerous. congressman, we have you on the phone. you survi...

Happened and how steve scalise how shot. a staff went out to help steve scalise with another member of congress who was a doctor who was trying to help with the wounds. help did come. fire it was exchanged. the gunman was taken into custody. were now talking with the congressman about how many gunmen he saw one rifle and one gunman moving. did you get any type of description of the gunman, congressman? >> he appeared to be a white male. i saw him for maybe a second or two, perhaps maybe just a f...

He was dragging his body from the second base infeed to the out field to get away from the shooter while all this firing was going on. so here were seeing our colleague as were under fire. hes lying on the ground. but there is not a whole lot you can do. so the situation is under control. so that was for us emotionally distressing to know the position he was in. but he was shot in the hip. i think it was not a life threatening wound, but i am not ady igs. i dont know how deal into the area the b...

>> did you have armed officers with you here? >> yes. we did. steve scalise is the whip, so he has a security detail. two of his detail were shot. one african-american gentleman shot in the leg and i believe hes the one that brought the shooter down. he ran around for quite a while with the leg wound, returning fire. and then after i got out, i was the first out to steve and then brad and another member from ohio, who is a physician, came out and we applied the pressure on the wound. >> he seems...

I assisted. but there was another man helping me. i saw him cartered away before you called and the belt was still there being used as a tourniquet. so im happy that it was made to good use. >> congressman, listen, you did great there in the heat of this moment and in terms of what was happening and you didnt know. i mean, you were one of the first people to see the gunman and to hear the shots and open fire and trying to sort of figure out what was happening. you told us you believe there was s...

But two security detail, i think the woman was crystal is her name was shot i think pretty early and she went down and so the other gentleman was returning fire. >> so it was a female police officer? >> female, yeah, capital police officer. he was wounded and taken up there. >> was someone shot in the head? >> no. there was a gentleman by the matt that was shot in the chest. so he was taken off i think by ambulance. >> what do you make of this? >> what do you make of it? just have no idea. i hav...

Five. one of them notably the majority whip for the gop, steve scalise of indiana. were not sure if that injury is life injury. the congressman saw scalise being dragged in. he put a tourniquet on the leg of one staffer and went out with another congressman to help the whip steve scalise. they did have limited security there because scalise is in the chain of command. they exchanged fire with the gunman. police say the gunman is in custody and they say there is no continuing threat, but thats ha...

It is not a good situation to be in h. you know, i dont know what took our security detail as long as it took them to start exchanging fire. probably they were as shocked as we were. and it seemed hike a long time, but it may have just been seconds, might have been 10 or 15, 20 seconds. but the bravely they displayed. pistols against a rifles is not a fair fight. >> youre right about that, especially if the man had time. >> our security detail, i dont know their names. >> right, i got you. >> bu...

Obviously going to that batting cage. sure it was just pras tick, but it was better than nothing. you made your guy to the dug out where there were other staffers there. you are not sure how long this took, but youre saying you heard at least dozens of rounds before the security detail was able to explain fire. is that right. >> i would think 10 or 20 rounds from the rifle before i heard anything coming from our side, the first base side. but keep in mind, you know, i could miss some of those sh...