has never intentionally engaged in this kind of conduct. republican congressman joe barden of texas who has been in hot water since photos in a statement he said it s time to step aside. lewd images and suggestative messages shared during extra he has not been accused of sexual harassment. the big election less than two weeks aa-roy moore taking time out for a twitter war with jimmy kimmel. that started when kimmel sent one of his writers to an alabama church where moore was speaking. moore saying kimmel firing back. quote, sounds great, roy, let me know when you get some christian
senators were at a baseball practice. tomorrow there is a bipartisan baseball game scheduled and this was the republicans practicing. police responded. two officers engaged in open fire, according to the alexandria police chief. they re interviewing witnesses, they re working with the capitol police and the fbi. they did tell us and confirm that five people, five people were transported in ambulances to the hospital. we have confirmation that congressman steve scalise is one of those people, an aide and two capitol cops and we re being told, joe, that there will be an official press conference in about 90 minutes. joe? also being told that steve scalise and the two police officers at least are in stable condition. just to get a feel for the level of chaos there, senator jeff flake said that gunfire was ringing out, as many as 50 to 60 shots ringing out. at one point he heard more shooting start and while he was down started screaming, are you
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
he s a person who had strong political views. he didn t hike the republicans or the president. he didn t like republican tax policy. he s been a prolific writer of letters to the local paper for the past decade or so. how much of this had to do with today s event, we are still waiting to find out. i think it s safe to say the investigators don t know the answers to those questions yet either. thank you so much, pete williams. the fbi is the lead on this, because it was the victims include, of course, steve scalise, a federal official. the manager of the team representative joe barden of texas, whose 10-year-old son was ran into the dugout and was kept hidden jumped under the bench there among other members was being protected as best they could during the exchange of fire. joe barden, still in his red republican baseball uniform, returned to the hill and talked to the press.
works for tyson foods. he helps out with the game. what do you do you think this was targeted? i don t know if any specific members were targeted, but it s hard to imagine he didn t know what he was doing. you said you got a glimpse of the gunman. what did he look like? i would say he had a blue shirt on, dark hair, and looked to be 40s probably. but i wasn t looking too long. we were within line of sight so we were trying to get down. joe barden had a 10-year-old boy here and he made it into the dugout. we were trying to keep him under the bench. anyway. all right. but you re doing okay? yeah, i wasn t hit. have you talked to representatives? i called steve scalise s wife after we got off the field just so she wouldn t hear it somewhere else. so i talked to paul ryan this morning already, vice president pence and others.