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All right. welcome back. i'm poppy harlow in new york. you are looking at images of monday morning there in boston. this is overnight, david ortiz, legendary baseball player, big papi, arriving at a boston hospital after being shot in the dominican republic. a red sox team plane picked him up from santa domingo and flew him in last night. you will remember, ortiz was shot in the back sunday after a gunman ambushed him at a bar. we're covering the story from the dominican republic and boston where we start with alexandra field. what do we know about his condition this morning? >> poppy, he's in...

Look, this was a serious surgery he underwent in the dominican republic. as you point out, he took a bullet in the back. that bullet traveled into his stomach. the doctors rushed him into emergency surgery where they were working to repair his intestines, his colon, his gallbladder. they initially pronounced he was out of danger and stable. it was at that point the red sox were able to send in a plane to bring him back to boston. we understand when he woke up from the surgery, poppy, he said he wanted to see his family. he wanted to see his doctors in boston. also his wife who was in boston at...

Fine steven mnuchin. i assume you would hold that also for the irs secretary. yes or no -- >> correct. >> would you throw steven mnuchin in jail? should he be confined? >> i think when you do that, you run into a lot more sort of practical problems. once you start fining someone $25,000 a day, i don't have $25,000 even for one day. so i think you get someone's attention, even someone as stinking rich as steven mnuchin. >> congressman brendan boyle, appreciate your time. thanks. >> thank you. so just a day after being shot, boston red sox legend david ortiz is now back in the u.s. for treatme...

Even passing over jackie robinson and willie maze as other teams integrated. the team was accused of having, a quote, anthony anti--negro policy in 1984 the world series drought finally ended with the help of big papi ortiz and manny ramirez, the duo that propelled boston to two world series titles. this week a racist incident at the home of the boston red sox, fenway park, has forced the city to confront its checkered racial history again. center fielder adam jones was berated with racial heckling, including the "n" word, while a bag of peanuts with hurled at him. he said he had endured racis...