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I'm sure she'll leave at some point. sarah does a fantastic job. i don't think she's leaving. it didn't take long for the play of the day between the annual charity baseball game between the democrats and the republicans. first hit to first base and look who scooped it up. that's the house majority leader steve scalise making that play and making a huge comeback, one year after being shot and critically wounded on the practice field. >> i still need two crutches to really move around. i started to be able to walk without crutches, but don't quite have the balance to be able to move at a good...

Will ♪ but today i am still just a bill ♪ >> makes you smile, right? who can forget the first civics lesson for us when we were kids. we remember the musician and the man behind this. bob died this week at the age of 94. congressional republicans back on the baseball diamond today. it's been ten months since a gunman ambushed their practice, wounding steve scalise and members of his security detail. just a day before their annual charity day with the democrats last year. this was the first time back on the practice field. >> we never got to finish the practice that we started. and that's w...

There are still laws that we can put on the books. we need to close this bunk stock loophole so we don't see the kind of mass carnage that we saw in las vegas. we perhaps could have prevented it, had those bump stocks not been legal. so i think there is a legitimate debate. there is room for a dejit mat debate. i disagree with steve. i think the majority of the working people do. i am working with drapts and republicans crafting our own legislation to address this one specific question. but there are other things we can do as well. >> but if there is someone like a steve scalise who is a power...

Focused on and that's in particular the media. we were talking about what republican officials have, in fact been saying. they called on the president to tone down his rhetoric. my question to you given what we saw this weekend, another round of tweets against cnn how are members of his party reacting to that disturbing tweet? >> reporter: not favorably. this is following a few weeks ago we had a shooting on a baseball field, a practice field in northern virginia targeting members of congress. you know, the whole situation right now going up on capitol hill is one of anger and frustration, and...

Dugo dugout. we had two capitol police in the dugout. they said you're putting your practice on hold, there's been a shooting. at that point we didn't know where it was, if they were coming for us, too. we waited about 40 minutes until they had a swat team come and clear the perimeter for us to return to our cars. we got together and said a little prayer as we started to read the twitter feeds that our republican friends had been hit. it was scarier for those who actually heard the gunshots at the practice field, but again, what shocking developments. the last thing you think about when you pl...