were up early practicing for their game tonight. lawmakers who suddenly became eyewitnesss poured in. here is what happened told by them. there was a gentleman that walked up to us and wanted to know if they were republicans or democrats. i told him it was republicans. he said, okay, thanks. it was about ten after 7:00. we knew it was a gunman wu didn t know exactly where it was. i heard a loud bang that felt like a construction site dropped a large piece of metal. my son was down by the third base side. i just kept saying stay down. steve scalise was shot, crawled into right field. we had a staffer down, matt mika was shot, and one of roger williams staffers were shot. zack barth who works for me and was shot.
let s bring in garrett hake live from ali alexandria. reporter: the fib believed hodgkinson has been in alexandria since early april. he lives in illinois. they don t know exactly why he came or a preplanned endefavoen. he s been livering in his van in this neighborhood. i spoke to a former mayor, bartender, a lot of people who recognized him around the area and who said he sort of struck them in strange as a way they couldn t put their finger on, a loner, kept to himself, didn t have a lot to say when he was out of the neighborhood. the fbi this morning is asking for help from anyone who can provide information on a couple of topics they re interested in. first, they want to know who hodgkinson may have spoken to about this. they want to know if there was anybody else potentially involved, anyone who knew what
to find out more information because as we discussed earlier, didn t hear much from coats or rogers during that senate intel hearing. it seems part of the attack plan, particularly from some of the republicans newt gingrich and others, has been to attack robert mueller and say he will have a tense relationship with the president going forward is an understatement. what do you think is at play between mueller and his president? as you say he may want to interview his close family and the president himself. the most important person in that dynamic is rod rosenstein. he s the person the president would have to go to to discuss whether or not he would be removing special counsel mueller. rosenstein has acknowledged he has confidence in mueller and people from the intelligence community have also indicated that. the president is not in a good place right now to say i don t have faith in mueller after everything that s happened between leaks and firing of jim comey. the relationship is