maria: wow house majority steve scalise made an emotional return to congress this past thursday for the first time since he was shot on that virginia baseball field back in june. the louisiana congressman also thanked members of both parties for their support during his recovery before casting his first vote, since the shooting, for a bill that would in part extend tax benefits to hurricane victims. texas congressman was there to welcome back his colleague and he joins me now congressman good to see you. wow that must have been really emotional watching from here. i m getting the chills how was it in that room? well it s emotional watching him from here. it was such a moving event because so many of us had played and i didn t know the president was coming to the hospital that first night i was there about 10 minutes before he got there, but to stand beside the president and first lady as the doctor said that night, president was trying to put a happy spin on it and well you know, b
so looks like this is a good sign and the doctor said i ve put a tremendous amount of blood in him today i m going to put a tremendous amount of blood in him tomorrow if he makes it through the night but we don t know. i m going to be on pins and needles. to pray so fervently for his recovery and to see him back in the chamber was just overwhelming and steve is such a modest guy, but one of the hardest working guys. it s just a triumph of answered prayers and of someone really, its been tremendous amount of work. people don t realize to get to that point where he is is taking enormous work in addition to the answered prayers and a lot of people don t know. i haven t heard this in the media because it was told to me privately. congressman from georgia was in a position behind the fence behind the home plate as the shooter was moving from the third base dug out around toward
services committee chairman jeb hensarling of texas coming up and then an emotional scene on capitol hill this past week. house majority steve scalise returning to congress for the first time since being shot in june at a baseball practice game. what was the mood like inside that chamber? i ll talk with his fellow congressman as we look ahead right now on sunday morning futures. and republicans are making their push on tax reform after the latest healthcare failure the stakes are high. this new plan tries to simplify our complicated tax code. consolidated the number of tax brackets from seven down to three, sitting individual tax rates at 12%, 25% and 35%. the president describing it as a rocket fuel for the economy saying it will de live a middle class miracle. joining me right now is president trump s chief economic advisor and director of the national economic council gary cohn.
first where he was going to be able to shoot and they were lying on the ground in the dug out, the first base dug out and barry says i m about to be exposed and i m looking around theres no place for me to run no place to go and he saw crystal g riner, capitol police firing shot in the ankle and she was trying through tremendous pain to shoot and he realized that i m about to be wide open exposed he says a prayer and he sees david bailey, capitol policeman at that moment come out from behind his cover, the suburban. he s completely exposed, yells twice, drop your weapon drop your weapon and the guy shoots at him twice and as soon as he says drop your weapon the second time, he fires twice and takes him out. david bailey as steve said in the chamber saved his life. he is the ultimate hero and between the efforts of crystal and david, they saved lots of lives probably two dozen or so
of the republicans out there and i was also gratified to hear maryland democrat honorable man say that this was a hate-filled shooter and that you only hear people from the left normally say we had a leftist full of hate shooting but the president knew that the very night, the very day he said there are problems on both sides after charlottesville because he had been there when he knew steve sc alise nearly didn t make it because of the hate of someone on the left. but its just been an emotional ride. thank god and jennifer, steve s wife has been amazing. she has been really a testimony of what people ought to be going through such things. maria: you re right. there really are a lot of heros here and certainly david bailey and officer griner, they really are our heros, as are all the first responders and police everywhere, but let me ask you.