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Gun? >> no. i am absolutely certain that it was a rifle. it was not a shotgun. but i did not ever get -- thankfully, i didn't get close enough to it to be able to identify the type of rifle that was being used. the only weapon i had was a baseball bat and that's not a fight you want to engage in. >> absolutely. you were saying that because of the repetitive fire. it seemed to you as though it were semiautomatic, obviously making this more dangerous. congressman, we have you on the phone. you survived the shooting at the gop baseball practice in virginia. for those just joining us right now, th...

Happened and how steve scalise how shot. a staff went out to help steve scalise with another member of congress who was a doctor who was trying to help with the wounds. help did come. fire it was exchanged. the gunman was taken into custody. we're now talking with the congressman about how many gunmen he saw one rifle and one gunman moving. did you get any type of description of the gunman, congressman? >> he appeared to be a white male. i saw him for maybe a second or two, perhaps maybe just a fraction of a second and then i decided i was not in the best position being one of the closest peop...

He was dragging his body from the second base infeed to the out field to get away from the shooter while all this firing was going on. so here we're seeing our colleague as we're under fire. he's lying on the ground. but there is not a whole lot you can do. so the situation is under control. so that was for us emotionally distressing to know the position he was in. but he was shot in the hip. i think it was not a life threatening wound, but i am not ady igs. i don't know how deal into the area the bullet went. there was no exit wound i could see. when we got out to steve, brad was trying to cu...

>> did you have armed officers with you here? >> yes. we did. steve scalise is the whip, so he has a security detail. two of his detail were shot. one african-american gentleman shot in the leg and i believe he's the one that brought the shooter down. he ran around for quite a while with the leg wound, returning fire. and then after i got out, i was the first out to steve and then brad and another member from ohio, who is a physician, came out and we applied the pressure on the wound. >> he seems okay to you? >> yeah. he was coherent the whole time. but, boy, he laid out there for at least ten...

I assisted. but there was another man helping me. i saw him cartered away before you called and the belt was still there being used as a tourniquet. so i'm happy that it was made to good use. >> congressman, listen, you did great there in the heat of this moment and in terms of what was happening and you didn't know. i mean, you were one of the first people to see the gunman and to hear the shots and open fire and trying to sort of figure out what was happening. you told us you believe there was something like 25 people all of you there practicing. this is one of your routine early morning pra...