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Get. they will bring down the number of doctors and nurses and techni to meet the patients before their arrival and be fully prepared for this event. it's not something they do on a regular basis, but they practice for a mass casualty basis like this. >> heather: i want to correct myself, to gunshot victims that were taken there specifically, one of them being one of the female officers tasked with protecting congressman scalise who was shot in the foot and we do have another account from another congressman there at the scene where it happened, rissman mel brooks who reportedly used a belt as...

11 were thwarted and didn't result in injury. congressman scalise is the ninth member to be shot. the first was in april 1905 when john pinkney. september 8, 1935, huey long was shot in baton rouge. long died two days later. he was the first sitting senator to be assassinated. on march 1, 1954, on the floor of the house of representatives, five members of congress were shot by armed attackers from the puerto rican nationalist party. all five congressman survived and the security apparatus in the house was forever changed. senator robert f. kennedy was campaigning when he was shot at the ambass...

These are truly american heroes. but for them being there, you have seen a lot more members of congress severely injured and shot by this gunman. >> jon: one of your fellow congressmen, we have the account just a couple minutes ago, one of your fellow congressman was departing the practice and apparently spoke to the shooter. he asked him who was that out on the field? he said it was a congressional baseball team, he said of the republic and for democrats, and it was shortly after he was told it was the republican team that the shots rang out. did you happen to pick up any of that conversation...

Capitol is here because above all, they love our country. >> bill: former democratic presidential candidate bernie sanders also weighing in on this condemning the shooting. the senator out of vermont said the suspect had apparently volunteered for his campaign last year. >> i am sickened by this despicable act. let me be as clear as i can be. violence of any kind is unacceptable in our society, and i condemn this action in the strongest possible terms. >> bill: so we have team fox coverage. their first-hand accounts are riveting. jack bergman says he was next in line at bat when the first shot...

I said okay, this might be where the congressional republicans were practicing. i talked to a couple aides that were involved in the game doing some research about the history of the game. i said that might be where that was. i was able to reach out to a couple sources and learned that multiple people had been injured and steve scalise, the whip, had been shot. i motored over here and saw the police activity. >> bill: chad, how would people learn or the killer, how would he know that they were having a practice in the morning? >> well, there are a couple of things that we've heard that some pe...