angelo saxen, saying originally the shooter shot at the third businessman, trent kelly but the shot he got off was to steve scalise. he s in surgery right now. his office put out a statement. the president put out a tweet saying though steve is seriously injured, he s expected to make a full recovery. joe barton talking about this extraordinary event taking place this morning saying that the shooter got off dozens, maybe even hundreds of shots. but a tragedy, a true tragedy averted because of all of the security that was there. there were no fatalities and they were able to address the chaotic scene. an open playing field. malcolm nance is with us via phone. clint, when you re hearing from the team manager, joe barton, it puts into perspective the kind of security needed, dozens of
for 100 years plus, this baseball game between democrats and republicans. i think the capitol police are going to focus more towards ramping up their security moving forward for additional games. while it s not confirmed that it s an ar-15, eyewitnesses across the board have said they believe based on the sound of the shots it was an automatic rifle. congressman barton is speaking now. she started shooting, shot a her third baseman, shot at steve scalise, our second baseman. he hit steve scalise. the security detail and capitol police immediately began to return fire. and alexander police also immediately came and began to return fire. they shot the shooter and i think the security detail saved
you know. and he would oh. i think we re losing your audio. mr. mayor? but i said all right. okay. i m sorry. i think your audio is dropping in and out. we thank you so much for spending time with us. we re going to dip into a press conference with congressman williams whose staffer was one of the victims of the shooting. as far as my ankle and feet, but that s the injury i have. it s an ankle leg injury that they have gotten me going to where i can move around and be okay tomorrow at the game and then i ll go home tomorrow night to get fixed. but everybody did what they needed to do. a lot of brave people serving in the united states congress. yes, sir. can you elaborate on your staffer s condition? representative barton said he s been released from the hospital. he has been released from the
from joe barton and got an even more detailed account, it sounds like the shooter had not one but two weapons. what do you believe the response will be around heightened security? malcolm, can you hear me? yeah, i can hear you. i they the response certainly from capitol hill to the heightened security is it s going to be much more visible. the easiest way to stop a lot of these shooters is to actually put security out in their face and make them think twice about what it is that they intend to do. we often see these gunmen will come out with a long weapon and they ll have the tactical pistol strapped to their leg to have that look which gives them what they think is totem strength to come out and carry out these murders which they obviously attempted to do today. but it s important for us to see
of our great capitol police folks were injured saving our lives because we were sitting ducks in that dug out. i realize there was blood all over the place and it was not a good place to be. there was a child in the dugout. congressman barton s son. children come out to to the practices because this is supposed to be a safe and wonderful place and just a terrible day. so you got out of the first-base dugout and where did you go? after we were told that it was all clear and it felt like it took forever to subdue the shooter and then they came and took us. who is they? the police? law enforcement did. how much time do you think passed? five minutes? we were told to go to a basketball court adjacent to a baseball field and they put up yellow tape and they said you