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Aimed at members of congress and their staffs. >> i hear the big blam, and i thought it was a car backfiring until the i see the rifle barrel, and a white male taking careful aim at congressmen, staffers, whoever he could get ahold of. >> reporter: witnesses say the gunman identified as 66-year-old james hodgkinson appeared to be laying in wait with a long gun behind the dugout at this alexandria, virginia ymca baseball field. on the field, republican representatives practicing for the annual bipartisan congressional baseball game. >> all of a sudden there were multiple gunshots being fired. >...

And in the hallways and in meeting rooms today, members of congress asking, has the rhetoric gone too far? where are we now as a nation? abc's mary bruce also here on capitol hill. >> reporter: congressman steve scalise was looking forward to the big game. >> i couldn't even make my high school team. but, you know, kind of bloomed later in life. >> reporter: the louisiana lawmaker, a proud ragin' cajuns fan, calling his wife before heading into surgery. also hit, zack barth, a congressional aide from texas. posting that he was in the hospital but "okay." and lobbyist matt mika, one of the team...

Job, he wouldn't have made the situation as bad as it is. he may learn to sit back and listen to his wife and let the investigation run its course. and if he's done nothing wrong, he'll be exonerated in short order. >> you could argue that every step of this has been self-infli self-inflicted. >> it has. >> michael schmidt, thank you very much. up next, we'll bring in one of "the washington post" reporters who broke the story that president trump is under criminal investigation. also ahead, republican congressman rodney davis who was at bat when yesterday's shooting occurred. and congressm...

Laying their lives on the line to protect the people of this country. that's what the president did again today. listen here. >> many lives would have been lost if not for the heroic actions of the two capitol police officers that took down the gunmen despite sustaining gunshot wounds during a very brutal assault. melania and i are grateful for the heroism and praying for the swift recovery of all victims. >> senator rand paul has said because of the fencing there, that whole playing field could have turned into a killing field if it wasn't for the heroic action of the two police officers. you...

You, representative rodney davis of illinois. i take it, he was at that baseball practice. >> he was at bat when the shooting happened, actually. this is congressman rodney davis. you represent the 13th district of illinois, central and southwestern illinois. tell us what happened? you were actually at bat when this happened? >> i was batting. we heard a loud noise and felt like a construction site and somebody dropped a big piece of metal and someone on the field yelling run, he's got a gun. i ran into the dugout like most people on the field. >> the first base side dugout. and eventually wor...