shortly after, if i can get to my wallet and backpack and stuff that i need to vote on the house floor later today, hopefully they let me get through but we have this yellow tape. but that s my way back to the capitol. congressman, i know this has been an awful, awful situation. i understand that there was security there. there was a protective detail from the capitol police because steve scalise is a leader, the majority whip in the house of representatives. otherwise, i m told there wouldn t have been any police there; is that right? if we didn t have that security detail, we would have been at the mercy of the shooter and he had a lot of ammo. in my judgment he shot at least 50 times. i don t know how many times that the capitol police shot back. it was substantial once they were in position where they could engage him. but for the capitol police and the heroism they showed, it
shooter, is that right? i didn t. i saw where the shooter was shooting from. so it looked like they were shooting from a little snack shop or dpug out in that area. i saw the officers of security were shooting back at. the police were able to get there and then more people were shooting, but it seemed to go on more five or ten minutes. they were laying on the ground pretty helpless. we saw people running, trying to get away as soon as they were able to see where the shooter was at. i was sprawled out on the ground trying to record video that hopefully will be worthwhile. after it was done, all the shots stopped and they were able to get up and realize what just happened. and you have given your video over to police. i assume they are collecting evidence from as many people as they can at this stage and we will be hearing from police at this stage within about an hour
together we have to think about it going forward. it s unfortunate, but that s the world right now. what i hear you saying, when you have a town hall or any of your colleagues, democrat or republican, when you have a town hall they ll have to have significant security there and i don t know if you need metal detectors and a lot of folks just walk in and they want to participate, but you ve got to have some security, i a sime. after this event, that s going to change the calculation. in retrospect, you can see it more clearly. when someone sneaks over the white house fence and flies planes over the white house lawn or whatever. we should be thinking through ahead of time, but now our sergeant at arms and we ve got great professionals and they ll ratchet it up and give us good guidance and counsel back home and we have our state sheriffs and police back in our counties and they show up at the town halls and do a great job and if