sometimes people will finish what they re doing and leave early and he actually saw the shooter who spoke to him and said who are those guys? he said, that s the congressional baseball team and he said, what are they? republicans or democrats? he said they re the republicans and that was the conversation he had and it was only as he said he acted a little weird. we need to go inside. thank you. how long did the fire fight go on for? . all right. you ve been listening to joe barton. to put a fine point on it, he s understandably, mobile after everything he went through. he had two of his sons with him on the field and he actually saw on some of the video earlier today them walking through the capitol with him. you can imagine the emotion for his entire family. i do want to read this on the note coming from deidre walsh that all members are being
i see this every day. i see it in the gym, in the croakroom. we fight vociferously for what we believe. we re not going to back down. we understand the other point of view and try to get along. we laugh, we do those things together. what the america peopn people s the press conference is what i wish they d see more often. where does the blame fall? i m happy to take my share of it as someone who s worked on both sides. i thought it was incredibly powerful when congressman barton said his son had 25 dads this morning on the field. 25 of his friends and colleagues who would have protected him as he would his own son. why don t we see more of that? why does it take a tragedy? because why else would you report that? many times i if you came on any day and talked about feeling like your colleagues were all fauthers to your children, i would report that. why isn t listen, i m happy to take my share of the blame. i wonder what you think in your
thank you. jeff flake from the state of arizona who was on the field. as he said, he called steve scalise s wife soon after the incident. he didn t want her to hear it from the news. he spoke to vp mike pence as well as paul ryan. one interesting point of note, you know, when things like this happen, you really have to take a step back and give time to this because as jeff flake pointed out, he said that the man had dark hair, appeared to be in his 40s and 50s. yet we heard from a different eyewitness earlier, a woman who walked by the field and went inside the ymca to call 911 when she saw a man with a rifle approaching the field and what we heard was he had a white beard. it s going to take some time as so many people are processing this. you know, it wasn t just members of congress, some senators and their aides. to jeff flake s point, joe barton had his young 10-year-old son with him who they had hiding under the bench. i want to take you now to listen to a bit more. no, we lost
members that aren t on your committee. it s really a highlight on the calendar every year. it s a great, great, great event. and to be able to see it marred this morning in such a tragic way is really heartbreaking. david woodruff, a veteran congressional aide. thank you for getting in touch with us by telephone and telling us thank you brian. what you witnessed about this. we want to replay remarks by joe barton of texas who was interviewed after the shooting about what he saw and experienced. we were at batting practice, we have a congressional baseball game. we play every year. a shooter came out to practice, started shooting, he shot at trent kelly, our third baseman, he shot at steve scalise, our second baseman, he hit steve scalise. scalise s security detail and capitol hill police immediately
thank the security detail. because they saved our lives. reporter: how long did it last? five to ten minutes. there were dozens if not hundreds of shots fired. it was scary. reporter: did you take cover? of course we did. reporter: where did you take cover? some of us were in the dougout, some on the ground. i was behind the dugout. my son jack got under an suv. he was very brave. my other son was in the batting cage and he also was very brave. that was joe barton from the state of texas who we just learned was the manager of the team. he recounted the scene. he had his young son, 10 years old with him. joe was in the dugout at the time and they said they ran for cover but he said the heroes really were the capitol police. there were no fatalities because of that. the shooter who he described as a middle-aged man wearing blue jeans and a shirt, believed was