Questions. Its premature for us to respond any further. In an hour and a half, well come back and answer what we can speak to, and perhaps answer some questions at the time. This is a stable situation at this point. There is no additional threat. We consider this incident to be a closed incident under investigation. Well be back in about an hour and a half. Thank you. The police calling this a stable and closed situation, but active investigation. Br brad garrett, what will they be doing next . The key here will be what was something beyond the shooter. In other words, what were his activities . What was in his car . How did he get there . Did he travel with somebody else . Im sure they have pulled the cell phone to see who he has talked to recently, and look at social media. As you and i talked a few minutes ago, they must be 100 sure he is the only guy, and so that is still immediate activity and thats why i think both Police Chiefs wouldnt give any answers because they dont know what they have here other than a shooting scene. Senator jeff flake is now joining us on the phone. Senator flake was there at the scene at the baseball practice. Senator flake, were glad you are okay. Early indications that congressman scalise will be okay. Some encouraging news there. Yeah. Good. Tell us what happened. Well, we were having batting practice. I was standing near the dugout talking to our manager, joe barton of texas, and we heard a loud bang, and it sounded like a shot near us, but until the second one came, and then the third and then a rally. We werent sure. There was pandemonium as you can imagine. He was near the third base dugout, and seemed to be firing indiscrimina indiscriminately. He had a lot of ammo. Steve scalise was hit pretty early, and he dragged himself out into the field. Several of us dove right into the First Base Dugout, and then the Capitol Police started returning fire from behind us, and it went from there. You were in the First Base Dugout. The shooter was behind the third base dugout . Around that area. He was outside of the fence, and then he came around, and by, you know, hindsight, i got a look at him then. He had a clear look into our dugout. There were about 12 people in our dugout on the ground, and he had a clear view n so in, so we to get back down. This went on for ten minutes at least with dozens and dozens and dozens of rounds of fire. I didnt know, because we cant tell if it was behind us or friendly, or if it was another shooter, and we didnt know if he should stay in the dugout. I wanted to get Steve Scalise, who was laying out there in the field, but while there are bullets flying overhead, we couldnt. And as soon as somebody yelled the shooters down, i sprinted out to steve, and he had a shot to the left hip, and he was bleeding quite a bit so, we put pressure on that for a while until the medics arrived. You saw the shooter and you thought he had a rifle and maybe some handguns as well. What else can you tell us about him . Size . He looked to be probably in his 40s. Dark hair and a blue shirt. We werent looking too long. Obviously, he had a clear sight to us, so we were trying to get down, and there was there were bullets, you know, going and whizzing around the whole time, and it was a horrible scene. A couple of Capitol Policemen were shot as well, those that were returning fire. The one that one was shot in the leg or by the ankle, and he kept returning fire. Can you hold for one second . One second. Certainly. Were hearing also now from congressman Gabby Giffords. She was shot back in 2011. She says, my heart is with my former colleagues, their families and staff and u. S. Capitol police. Public service and heroes today and every day. We know that the Police Returned Fire on that shooter. Senator jeff flake was just telling us that the shooter down, and Alexandria Police have said it is a stable, closed situation at this point. They expect to come out with more details in the next hour, hour and a half. Cecilia vega is on the scene for us at the white house. Reporter were told that the Vice President is on his way to the white house, and he had an event that was supposed to be taking place now, and that has been canceled. The white house is monitoring this situation closely. The Vice President has sent out a tweet extepidinding his thoug and prayers to Steve Scalise. He says his wife, and i, are hoping and praying for a speedy recovery. Our hearts are with them and their recovery. This is a very fluid situation, but george, the Vice President is on his way to the white house. We are waiting to hear from the u. S. Capitol police as well confirming this incident and beefing up the u. S. Presence around the capitol right now. We can expect that. Pierre, likely, around washington, d. C. Today. Reporter exactly, george. They have to respond because of the potential for copycats. What you are going to see inside the capitol, additional police, more dogs walking around. Bombsniffing dogs even, and Law Enforcement officials are pointing to the fact that in this case, we have yet another example of a shooting situation involving a man with a long rifle. This is a doistinctly american phenomenon that we see. They put out we average at least 16 of these shootings each year. One per month, and they dont make the head lines sometimes. Law enforcement is trying to get information out to their partners in the region. Sources are emphasizing, george, how the security detail that was with the congressmen practicing this morning saved lives today. That they were heroic in their response. You have heard reports of one officer being injured and returning fire. They have literally saved lives. There will now be questions about whether you need more security than that when that many congressmen are out in a public place. That will surely be part of conversation, but my sources are talking about how heroic those security personnel were today. Senator rand paul said it would have been a massacre but for those. We have seen those shootings at schools and workplaces. Now we have seen them at a park in alexandria, virginia. Members of congress practices baseball. That is the scene and police have closed down that scene. They say this is an active investigation. We want to go back, and we have another eyewitness who we were able to put on tape. Lets hear what he had to say. How long so there were two bits of gunfire, and how long did they last . Pop, pop, pop. There was return and then another bunch. It went on for a while. I would say at least four to five minutes starting and stopping. So it could have been someone who was trying to catch the guy that was shooting at him, or he was beginning to take out everybody, and im thinking that. You ran into the house and felt concerned and elaborate on what was going on in your mind. Youre mowing the lawn and there are shots up the street, you dont want to get shot just to mow your grass. Well, thats an understatement right there. I want to bring brad garrett back in as well. Fi confirming what we have heard right there from jeff flake. He may have had handguns in addition to rifles and the shooter was able to get off a large number of shots unmolested in a short number of minutes. Apparently not a good sho shooter, george. It doesnt take a good shooter to accurately shoot an ar15. Something was causing him not to shoot accurately. The timing we never know until after the fact, but the first initial shots, the Capitol Police then start returning fire, which then threw him off. What bolsters your point is when we heard from senator flake is in some ways the members of congress were basically sitting ducks this insiinside that dugo. That tells you the intent was to go after the adult players. They are in some form or fashion attached to the gop. The focus is not like talking about islamic extremists who will just shoot anybody in sight. This is what i call targeted shooting where they are going for a group or individual, and i think thats what you have today. Knowing because it was well known as we learned from other eyewitnesss the members of congress have been practicing there for several days. Exactly. The idea that virtually anybody could figure out where they might be at that point playing baseball. And there is a reasonable factor here about how much security can you have . You cant take 150 Capitol Police officers with you every time you go play a baseball game. Its just not reasonable, so as senator paul pointed out a few minutes ago to you, george, without those two officers there to at least deflect and or put down the shooter from the ability to shoot accurately, is literally what stopped this shooting this conversation would be probably about multiple casualties. How soon will they be able to start interrogating the gunman . Im sure they have already started. Alexand Alexandria Police, which this is their jurisdiction, probably have him at their shop. They will have Capitol Police, but the interview with him, i guarantee you started shortly after they got him into a car. Right away, and they did say the Alexandria Police would be coming back in about an hour or hour and a half. Were hearing from congressman williams who was at the game who said, he was not shot. This is from his office, a member of the congress was shot and is receiving medical attenti attention. Cecilia vega, were getting more reports from those on the scene who were wounded. So far, no independeications th of those are lifethreatening. Reporter thank goodness, and we saw Steve Scalise being wheelwhee wheeled out on that stretcher, and hearing from jeff flake who was there in his baseball jersey. Just hard to really frankly get your mind around these reports coming in right now. The white house is monitoring closely. The president and Vice President have both tweeted, we understand there has been a huge increase in Police Presence. Visible Police Presence outside the capitol there as these images come in from that baseball practice. Just viewers outside of washington, to say one more time, this is a suburb of the district. This is where a number of people live and commute into washington. Its about seven miles or so away from the white house, and this baseball practice was happening before a big game. It was to take place on saturday. Something that is celebrated near the democrats and republicans. George, i want to just reiterate to you some information that we have coming in right now. Some pretty incredible details from a congressman, ron desantis who is from florida, i believe, who was on that baseball diamond. He is describing the shooting at that practice. He says that that a shooter was walked up. This is an interview on fox news i want to say. A shooter walked up to us asking whether it was republicans or democrats out there. The congressman found that a little odd and the shooter walked toward all the area where all of this happened, and he was they did not see him to be carrying at the time, but again, george, just absolutely incredible. This is one congressmans account from that baseball field. He says that the shooter specifically asked whether there were republicans or democrats on the field. This was a republican baseball practice, and the shooter opened fire. One senator telling us that 50 shots fired would be an understatement. Some saying as many as 100, and four people were shot out there today. I want to bring brad garrett back in on that. This is one account from a congressman who was on the scene saying this he heard the shooter ask if these were republicans or democrats, and this bolsters your theory this was somewhat target. Clearly. Whatever his agenda with, it was focused on the republicans. Im going to guess, george, not anybody in particular. That this was sort of a global, im angry at this group or that group, and im going to go after that. This is a guy who probably didnt think a lot about this. As you mentioned earlier, he didnt show up with body armor, and he had a hand ggun in addition, and something set him off last night or this morning. These guys feel powerless. This stuff, at least temporarily empowers them and its like taking control of their lives. Granted, thats totally illogical. If you pull these stunts, youre not a logical person to begin with. You are saying this fits a profile . Yeah. Not knowing one more thing about hum, george, thats what you are going to have. Youre going to have a guy that has probably not been very successful in life or has had recent failures. Is blaming at least at this point the gop and whatever his issues are in life. They externalize their problems because their problems become our problems and they go after people they think collectively have harmed them, and i think that is what you have got with this guy. Brad garrett, thanks very much. We want to bring in Brad Westbrook on the phone as well as ohio congressman. Thank you for joining us. Congressman wenstrup, can you hear me . Yes. Tell us what you were able to do and describe what was happening on the scene. I was at the batting cage, and we heard a gunshot and then we heard several more, and saw Steve Scalise was down around second base. I was along the right field line, and everybody hit the deck and was scurrying for cover. Fortunately, there was security detail with mr. Scalise, or we wouldnt have been protected. He was crafty, firing toward third base, second base and then moved to the infield side of the dugout, firing and he kept mobile. And then he went around, behind a building thats behind home plate and was firing the same rifle tr there. And he went back around the building and at some point came out with a pistol, and thats when the security detail was able to take him down. When it appeared he was down, i ran onto the field with jeff flake to steve and did what i did in iraq and dressed the wounds and cut down the clothes and made sure you stopped bleeding and we were able to bandage him more appropriately, and started giving him as much fluid as we could, gatorade and water. He was losing a lot of blood. He was conscious all the time you were with him . Yes. Yes, and i was testing him. He would count to five. Things like that, to make sure steve, do you know where you are . Yeah. A baseball field. He was conscious the whole time. He was noticeably in pain, and we tried not to move him very much to prevent any further injury. We heard a report that congressman desantis said that before the gunman opened fire, he heard him ask, are these democrats. Reporter republican or re . Did you hear him say anything . I was too far away, but the report was that one of the congressmen left early, and someone approached him saying, are these republicans or democrats . These are republicans. That was the end of the conversation. A lot of people walk around this were ballpark and they are out exercising, and its not uncommon to have people gathering around. We werent expecting Something Like this. This is a place you have been practicing pretty regularly, right . Yeah. For years, this is where we practice, and its early in the morning. And we start around 6 00, 6 30 in the morning. You dont expect it to be like today. Today, it seems like anything will happen. Its a bad day. Its a sad day, and thank goodness, you were able to get there and treat the congressman so quickly. You mentioned your service in iraq. From what you can tell t way the shooter was maneuvering and shooting, did it seem like he had any kind of training . I dont know. Not based on his first shot. And the reports of his first shot. Just because his first shot missed. But i dont i dont know the extent of his training, but he certainly was well equipped. He had a lot of ammunition and he at least knew how to maneuver somewhat, but it was strange, george, at the end, that he came out in the open with his pistol. But im glad he did because thats when they were able to take him down. He had been taking fire when he came out into the open with his pistol . Oh, yeah. He had definitely been under fire, and you could hear the air coming out of some of the vehicles there. Many of us are on a bus to capitol hill, and we left our cars and equipment and whatever else we could. Have you received any other guidance from the Capitol Hill Police or the Speakers Office about things Going Forward . Yeah, we do. Were also getting prepared for such things, although you just its kind of surreal when you hear that first gunshot. You cant believe it is actually happening, but i think people amazingly, were brave and responded appropriately, and members had to maneuver too. Some were hiding behind trees when this guy had to move, they had to move. You saw them get to a more secure place. I think people did a great job. I can tell you first hand these policemen are extremely brave, and did what he was supposed to do to minimize any damage. He might have been in worse shape with the constant return fire, but he was in the laying position. He minimized the damage. How about the others that were injured . We have reports of the police being shot, and a staffer and l lobbyist. Do you know their condition . I dont know. But i know two others, Law Enforcement was injured. One staffer was injured and there might have been one other. People are contusions and abrasions from diving onto concrete and getting out of harms way. How many were out there . There were family members as well. How big was the group there . You have about 25 members of congress, and staff i would say were up between around 40 or so. So 40 people out there including children. Well, congressman, thank you for telling us what you were able to learn today and also for that big help you gave to congressman scali scalise. We are glad you are okay, and ewith know you are working your way back to the capitol. We want to go to Pierre Thomas. Our senior justice correspondent. A portrait of what may have happened on the scene. Reporter exactly, george. I just spoke to congressman peter king, who has served on the Homeland Security committee and he talked about just how fortunat