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But it's affected all of our lives in one way or another. steve: absolutely. in this last year as well. since the shooting, you guys were on that train to the greenbrier, the retreat, the republican retreat that hit the garbage truck and immediately people thought it was terrorism aimed at the republicans again. >> well, that's exactly right. and when you hit a truck in the middle of the road with a train going 70 miles per hour. that's another thing that makes you wonder if you are in the right place at the right time. steve: the day after he was shot, congressman, he went back to work. >> ye...

Made a tourniquet around zach's leg to stop the bleeding. i remember chuck fleischman was on the phone 911 to hurry and get here. jack barton's son joe, was in the dugout. we were taking care of him. a lot of heros today among my friends. it's something i will not forget. it seemed like it went forever. the police say they got here in three or four minutes. i'm sure that's the case. but it was a long time. they say 60 shots were fired. without our capitol police, who literally tack a step forward when they didn't have to, they could have stepped backwards, they stepped forward, they saved

I got jack. he crawled under a car outside the fence and he was under a car with the bleachers between him and the shooter. so he was in a very safe place. he would have been really hard for the shooter to know that he was there. so then you wonder when it's going to stop. you keep hearing the firecrackers go off. may have only been four or five minutes but seemed like ten minutes before they got the shooter down. while that's going on, i could see jack, see him under the car. i kept saying stay down, jack. stay down. stay under the car, stay under the car. and i finally saw one of the securit...

Obnoxious things and not feel it personally. we have family and we feel it. while we try not to show it, sometimes we do take it personally. >> very few opportunities to interact outside having our suits on. i've watched joe's son, jack, grow up. i always have this yearly banter with him trying to get a secret out of jack. tell me something that your dad is throwing that i don't know about. jack would say i'm not telling you anything. i'm not giving you any information. so when you know somebody's kid, somebody's spouse, played baseball with them, you see them at the gym, you talk to them ther...

Insult one another. it is -- lessens the civility. not just in politics but in day-to-day interaction with people that you see outside, too. so it's just a different era we're operating in that is a little bit tougher than the one we operated in prior to all of these changes. >> when my son, jack, was born, i was chairman of the energy and commerce committee. jack got as many presents from the democrats as he did from the republicans. he still has some of those. he's grown up. he lives in texas with his mother. we're divorced. but he's grown up in congress. he comes up every year. when he come...