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Its been relayed to us by eyewitnesses. we are in the outfield over this practice was taking place. the republicans out on the field, congressman scalise, we are told, majority whip is playing second base. witnesses say that gunman was somewhere between that third base dugout in that blue backstop there when he came out shooting. according to one eyewitness with an assault rifle. the shots began right at about 7: 10 this morning. the fact that the majority whip was here proves incredibly signifi...

. >> it is so striking when you hear the members of congress that talk about this. they describe something that sounds like a battlefield scenario. you have scalise around second base. a staffer who was hit in the leg, there is nowhere to take cover in this scenario. you remember rand paul this morning describes on the other side of a fence watching two staffers playing in the outfield understanding if they had to lay flat or get up and try to run. this is what you hear about for a moment.

Scalise has been taken to the hospital, and will undergo surgery for his hip wound. i asked if they need to extract any shrapnel but it is unclear. i am told that there is also a female who is on this protective detail. since scalise is on leadership, he gets protection 24/7. but scalise was playing second base, and scalise was laying on the field heard

Standing on this field. i can tell you that the ymca, they also -- they had their windows shattered as a result of this gunman opening fire, and the last point here, broorks i want to show you is that when they did finally hear gunfire coming to the right of them, that was actually capitol police firing returned shots at the gunman. so that is the time line of exactly what happened in those -- in the several minutes as that gunman opened fire on those members of congress. >> thats the time line....

This is right behind the third base dugout, and i want to give you just that overview that is right around here. so he approached here and started to open fire. i can tell you representative scalise was right around here. this is the second base area, and you can see that he was right in the line of fire. we know representative scalise was shot in the hip and remains in the hospital. there were members here by the home plate, also by third base. they all scattered, and they were running towards ...

Cameras with his democratic counterpart to talk about the charity game tomorrow night. arizona senator jeff flake said he and fellow republicans this morning were sitting ducks on that baseball field when a gunman opened fire during practice. flake came on tv almost immediately describing the moment when he was able to reach the injured house majority whip, steve scalise. >> she was laying motionless out there. i wanted to get to him. there were still shots going overhead from both sides. so fin...

Presidential success, he gets security. senator flake is speaking right now. we are going to listen in congressman. hopefully you can hear as well. >> who was shot? >> steve scalise was shot. she was playing second base fielding balls. steve is okay. but he dragged himself about 15 yards off of there near second base on the field, laying motionless out there. couldnt get tohim until the shooter stopped. after time, another staffer ran in with a leg wound. he was shot in the leg. one of the staf...

It. its a big deal. its tomorrow night. he spoke to why is this game mattered so much to him. heres what he said. >> were competitive people by nature. when you get to go out in a major league ballpark and play a kids game, its a lot of fun. >> how important is that game to you, congressman? will you be playing? >> i plan to be on the field. steve and i shared second base. i just happened to be over on the shortstop side this morning. and theres tremendous camaraderie that exists between the rep...

The concern was that there was classified information on there and she knew that this information was classified. even though she didnt understand what she was sending or what she was looking at. in certain points during their interview with her. i can tell you this because ive interviewed numerous people connected to this investigation. and not only that, because the acting director of the fbi brought this up in his testimon testimony. and said there were people that were angry. in fact, i was ...

Bitter four-game series. baltimores machado did send the red sox a message. after the three-run blast over the green monster. ma chatted dough took his sweet time with this one. 30 seconds it took him. barnicle could have passed him. 6-3, baltimore wins. these teams will meet on june 1st. to chicago with the cubs. the cubs after trailing for the tenth time. lets go to the 13th inning to see how this one ended. >> ground bul, second base. hernandez for one at second and thats it. cubs win, cubs...