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>> once it was confirmed that we had a member of congress that was involved in the incident, we have taken the lead. however, this is a joint command, and this is a joint investigation with our state and local partners to include who has been at the microphone already and alexandria county and alexandria city and capitol police as well. >> reporter: all while back home a stunned friend tried to defend a heinous act. >> i just want to let people know that he wasnt evil, that he was i guess tired ...

Show up and the $600,000 that you hoped to raise im sure that number will go up significantly, as well. unfortunately, its all the result of a horrendous, horrendous shooting. congressman fleischmann of tennessee, thanks so much for joining us and good luck. >> wolf, thank you. wish you the best. >> wish you the best. wish everyone the best who was injured and everybody is shaken by this horrendous situation. i want to update our viewers right now. we are following the breaking news after a gunm...

You can certainly imagine as you have the republicans versus the democrats there. and the mens team is this very big production because it is there at nationals park. you are familiar with this event. not only is it this dozens members of congress who are playing. there are so many people who attend, staffers, members of congress, other washington officials. and it is a gathering that a lot of people look forward to in the summer. >> yeah. i was at the washington nationals game monday night, and...

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Starts. this is something really enjoy as they look forward to these games. but we have just heard from or spoken with a couple of republican members of congress. they were getting information developing as it was coming in. so we spoke with dave of virginia. he was certainly shocked and he had concerns where he was thinking about a number of these members who did ride their bikes to the practice. he was well aware that they were practicing and obviously very shocked that this had happened. the ...

Left before the shooting happened. youve been hearing, wolf, that this was a practice where everyone comes pretty much at the same time for the beginning of it and some people might stay for batting practice and additional fielding and bill johnson had left about five minutes before the shooting happened. he, right now or as of the last few minutes was talking to capitol police here in the capitol and filing a report of something he saw that at the time he didnt think much of and in retrospect h...

Indeed and fortunately, youre okay and these three members of congress. did they give you your names. >> they did. i dont think thats appropriate to share. >> fortunately, theyre okay, right? >> yeah. yeah. besides being shaken up, i think theyre okay. >> okay. good. >> thank you. >> thank you so much. thanks for the good work you did helping these three members of the house of representatives. >> lets go to capitol hill right now. our senior washington correspondent brianna keilar is on the sce...

Noting that this is working for republicans now while they have the majority in the house and the senate, but democrats are going to use this as a political wedge, i would anticipate, in 2018. democrats will be able to go out on the campaign trail and say, look, republicans didnt demand answers of the trump administration. they are not going to hold them in contempt of congress. we will. >> and its one of the examples of you can call it elections have consequences or you can say theres gambling ...

Recollection. if in fact some meeting he did not recall is eventually discovered. i think he very much tried to close the door on that today. his opening statement was unequivocal. he said, i did not have any private meetings nor do i recall any special meetings at the mayflower motel. members of congress asked him more about these meetings. he kept leaning on the recollection word. but i do think he was emphatic here about trying to clear his name and clear up the notion that in fact he could h...

Ambassador. listen, wolf, im -- im not sure that if there was collusion between the trump campaign and russia that the principals in that collusion were the senator from alabama and the russian ambassador to the united states, but i dont necessarily know that every member of that committee is going to believe that he didnt remember that meeting. those are pretty memorable meetings when we have them with high level russian officials like the ambassador. >> well, if there was collusion, who would ...