about this. the bipartisanship, the hearing from lawmakers, what are you hearing from the return of steve scalise today? i was standing here a short time ago when congressman steve scalise when walking by here on crutches. we were told he was likely to take a scooter, there has been a tremendous outpouring of emotion from both sides of the aisle after seeing the g.o.p. whip return to that house floor. jennifer and i have been overwhelmed and it s given us the strength to get through all of this and get to this point today. it starts with god. an attack on you is an attack on all. we all came to this magnificently because of your strength. today we came to theloor when you weren t here, we were all am scalise and today we are team scalise. a number of lawmakers told me there was not a dry eye in the house chambers three and a half months after a devastating
on my cell phone. as soon as it was apparently safe to get up, i checked on everybody that was down. made a phone call to try to get the speaker on the phone and let him know what was going on. what do you know about the condition of those were they mr. scalise is in stable condition. there was a volunteer, former congressional staffer, probably the most seriously wounded, he s out of surgery and is i would say i m not a doctor. i don t know what condition to rate him. he does not appear to be in imminent danger. another staff person for roger williams was shot in the leg. i think he s out of the hospital. roger williams either broken his ankle or severely twisted it. he s in a boot, on crutches.
ankle or severely twisted his ank ankle. he s in a boot, on crutches, but he s okay. at least two of the officers were shot, and i m told that they re okay. and the shooter was shot and passed away. sir, so congressman scalise is stable is your that s you need to check with his office. i m told he s out of surgery and you haven t been able to talk to him? i have not. i have not tried to bother him, no, sir. will there be anything special tomorrow during the ceremony marking we re working on that. both at our level en atnd is the speaker pelosi level, so the short answer is we think so, but we don t have confirmation on that. congressman, now you re saying that you obviously want to find a better political climate to be around, but how can a better political climate
miserable conditions. and they only have been out for a matter of a few days. we re in an area near the airport which where people are living now, you can see the warehouses and the hangars behind me. that s where people are living in sub zero temperatures and you might be able to say see just on the roof there, the russian soldiers, the russians are in charge of securing this place. and we just have seen some russian doctors properating on some children. there are so many people here, in wheelchairs, on crutches, people missi ining limbs becaus they have lived amid a siege, amid a terrible siege. you can see even now when they have been freed from that, the desperation, the hunger, the hopelessness because these people are free from the siege, but what life do they have ahead? they certainly don t know at
unlike some other places where there are venues available for the pope to see the people and the people to see the pope, that s not happening here. when the pope comes out, traffic is stopped along here. i should tell you about an hour after the pope came back from the residence for lunch and maybe down time, there was a bus that came about 30 feet got off and went toward the residence. whether or not they met with the pope, we re not sure. we think they did. in addition, a bus with folks from the ronald mcdonald house, about 30 adults, 15 children, a boy on crutches, another with a surgical mask have gone through the security checkpoint. and then back on the bus. we are told that when the pope was about to come out that group is going to go over across the street and they hope have an opportunity to be seen and i m sure they hope to be blessed we did pope. kate? you re standing on the street there as close as you can get but there s a closer location to