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( applause ) members of both political parties welcomed him back to congress with a rousing ovation, and with good reason. three and a half months ago, he was nearly killed, when a gunman armed with a rifle and a .9 mm handgun, ambushed the republican congressional baseball team. in his first interview since the shooting, joined by his wife jennifer, he explained to us in vivid detail how he survived. it's not been widely known just how close he came to death, the extent of his injuries, and what physical challenges are in his future, until now. >> steve scalise: it's a miracle. if you look at what happened that morning? you know, a gunman came out with a lot of artillery-- you know, just hell bent on-- on killing a lot of us. and we're just out there playing baseball-- sitting ducks. and he started firing away. if you would have said at the end of this, the only person that would be dead would be the shooter, nobody would believe it. >> o'donnell: it was just after 7:00 a.m. on june 14th, at a ballpark in alexandria, virginia, when a team made up of republican members of congress went from shagging balls to dodging bullets. ( gunfire ) >> has that guy been shot? is he okay? >> o'donnell: "that guy" was congressman steve scalise. he'd been hit in the left hip with a bullet from a rifle. this cell phone video was among the first images of him that day. the last was him being wheeled on a gurney to a helicopter, clinging to life. he spent most of the next four days unconscious. >> steve scalise: i found out later just how much damage was done internally. you know, i mean, my femur was shattered. the hip and pelvis had serious damage where the bullet went through and, you know, did some damage to areas that had to be shored up with steel plates, and-- then they did a phenomenal job of rebuilding, you know, kind of the, rebuilding humpty dumpty. ( laughs ) i mean, there were, there was a lot of damage inside that-- that had to get fixed. >> o'donnell: they put you back together again. >> steve scalise: they put me back together again. ( laughs ) >> o'donnell: you're known as a man who loves politics and baseball. have either of those things changed? >> steve scalise: not a bit. you know i love-- the job i have as a member of congress representing, southeast louisiana. and i love being the house majority whip. this is morally wrong. >> o'donnell: as the majority whip, steve scalise ranks third in the republican house leadership... >> steve scalise: read this bill. >> o'donnell: ...and usually counts votes, not balls and strikes. unless he's playing second base for the republicans. and that's where he was, at practice, the day before the annual congressional baseball game, one of the last bipartisan activities in a polarized washington. scalise was fielding balls when he heard what he thought was a tractor backfire, and then, he was on the ground. >> steve scalise: i knew i was shot. didn't know how bad it was. you know, in a weird way, your body kind of goes numb. you know, as bad as the wounds were-- and obviously, i know now how severe it was. at the time, i guess my body had been shutting down a lot of the real pain, and i was just thinking about, what was going on at the moment. >> o'donnell: did you see the shooter? >> steve scalise: never saw the shooter. >> o'donnell: the shooter was 66-year-old james hodgkinson. according to the f.b.i., he'd posted anti-republican views on social media and had "a piece of paper that contained the names of six members of congress." we've learned they were all conservative republicans. scalise was not on the list, but two of his teammates were. do you believe you were targeted as a republican? >> steve scalise: i think it was clear he-- he had-- a political agenda, if you want to even call it that. and it's a sick, twisted agenda. i don't think he could have been in the right frame of mind. but-- it was clear what his intentions were. >> o'donnell: when you were shot, when you were on second base, you-- you tried to crawl, right? >> steve scalise: well, when i went down, you know, my first instinct was to try to get away from the gunfire. so i started crawling. and you know, that's when my arms gave out. >> o'donnell: and then what did you do? >> steve scalise: at that point, i just went into prayer. and it, it gave me a calmness. it was a weird calmness, while i'm hearing the gunfire. you know the first thing that came to mind? i prayed, "god, please don't let my daughter have to walk up the aisle alone." that was the first thing that came to mind. >> o'donnell: that was the first thing? >> steve scalise: yeah. and obviously after that, i prayed that i could see my family again. >> brad wenstrup: i could see the fire coming from the barrel of his rifle. >> o'donnell: when the shooting started, congressman brad wenstrup of ohio was near the batting cages. he had one eye on an injured steve scalise and the other on the shooter. >> wenstrup: my fear was that he was going to get more people. and-- but i was also encouraged because we knew that we had somebody re-- to return fire. >> o'donnell: because of scalise's detail? the capitol police that were with him. >> wenstrup: exactly. correct. steve really took a bullet for all of us, because if he's not here, he doesn't get hit. but if he's not here, there might be 20 people laying out there. >> o'donnell: because he's a member of the leadership, he has security detail. >> wenstrup: correct. >> steve scalise: it wasn't just a shooter, at that point. it was literally a shootout going back and forth. and-- and i could hear it. you know, my-- my-- my, the sound was as clear as day. i-- i knew what was happening. and it-- it sounded like a lot of shots. >> o'donnell: your colleagues that were out there, they knew you were down, and they wanted to get to you. but the shots were still going on. >> steve scalise: yeah, while the shooting was going on-- you know, mike conaway from texas was playing first base, and he was able to get right behind the dugout. and he was the closest one to me, and i-- i just kept remember him whispering, you know, "stevie, don't worry. we're going to get you. we're going to get you." and he just kept whispering and it was-- it was really calming. i could just sense that the other members were in the dugout waiting. >> o'donnell: you remember that? >> steve scalise: till it was over. yeah. ( gunfire ) >> o'donnell: the shootout lasted about ten minutes, and around 100 shots were exchanged with the gunman. five people were injured. many of the details are still under investigation. the shooting ended when the two capitol police officers, joined by three alexandria police, mortally wounded the shooter. >> wenstrup: once i saw him drop, that's when i started running and making my way out to the outfield. >> o'donnell: so you ran from behind the bathrooms here, right through this gate to congressman scalise-- >> wenstrup: right. correct. yes. so-- and several people started running from the dugout, too, once they knew he was down. >> o'donnell: steve scalise was bleeding to death, but his prospects for survival were about to improve. brad wenstrup isn't just a congressman. he's also a combat surgeon and a colonel in the army reserve. as soon as the gunman was down, the cavalry came pretty quickly. >> steve scalise: yeah. it was-- it-- it just seemed like the true cavalry. i mean, you know, i heard the words, "gunman down." and brad wenstrup was, you know, immediately right there by my side, starting to actually administer care. >> o'donnell: as an iraq veteran, you've dealt with a lot of trauma. >> wenstrup: sure. >> o'donnell: when you saw the wound and you saw that it was essentially, what-- through the hip, and there was no exit wound, how worried were you? >> wenstrup: i was very worried, actually. it reminded me of a case in iraq-- where-- it d-- it didn't have-- a good ending. >> o'donnell: transpelvic gunshot wounds are known for heavy internal bleeding that's very difficult to stop. congressman wenstrup improvised a tourniquet out of a belt. >> wenstrup: and put pressure on the wound. and then-- later tourniquet came. we put on a regular tourniquet. i found a clotting bandage that we put into the dressing as well. and we waited for the helicopter, basically. nice to see you. >> richard krimmer: nice to see you, sir. >> wenstrup: under better circumstances. >> krimmer: absolutely. >> o'donnell: dozens of first responders rushed to the scene. one of them was paramedic rick krimmer of the alexandria fire department. he made the call to get congressman scalise onto the next available helicopter and helped load the congressman on- board. >> steve scalise: you know, the only time i really started to-- to worry was when they were getting ready to put me on the helicopter. and to me, it seemed like forever, and i know it was probably just minutes. but-- i think i told some of the paramedics, "don't let me bleed out on this field. >> wenstrup: i met the pilot of the helicopter later. he said, "i flew that bird like i stole it." ( laughs ) >> o'donnell: a seven-minute flight away, across the potomac river, the trauma team at medstar washington hospital was ready. dr. jack sava led the team. what condition was he in? >> dr. jack sava: well, when he left the trauma unit, he-- he did not have a-- blood pressure that anybody could find. so that's obviously sort of hovering on the border between life and death. >> o'donnell: to keep scalise alive, two minutes after he arrived, they began something called a massive transfusion protocol. dr. sava says it's a method of delivering blood that's been improved by hard lessons learned on the battlefields of iraq and afghanistan. >> dr. sava: the blood bank will just start sending blood in, in all the right combinations. the, the blood cells, the platelets, the plasma. it all comes in a cooler. and a cooler comes every 15 minutes till you call and say, "stop." so-- >> o'donnell: how many units of blood did steve scalise use in the first day? >> dr. sava: i think he got roughly 18 to 20 units of blood in the first day. >> o'donnell: how much blood is that? >> dr. sava: that's a lot. that's more than you have in your body. >> o'donnell: doctors operated to stop the bleeding, then employed imaging technology to find and seal the leaking blood vessels they couldn't get to in normal surgery. at what point did you think, "okay, he's going to make it"? >> dr. sava: i don't know that i ever thought in those terms. i think that there was a point in the first operation, when we got some semblance of control, when i thought, "you know, maybe this guy's got a shot." >> o'donnell: after 20 days in intensive care, and nearly six weeks in the hospital, he was transferred to an in-patient rehabilitation facility. there was plenty of work to do. he'd undergone seven surgeries in total. first to stop the bleeding, then to repair his upper left leg, hip, and pelvis. and finally, to fight infections dr. sava says are common with these kind of bullet wounds. >> steve scalise: it's working well. >> o'donnell: he'd lost 50 pounds, and at 51 years old, needed to learn how to walk again. >> meaghan minzy: nice job. >> o'donnell: to start the process, he needed the help of a special machine to hold him up. >> steve scalise: it feels a lot better. >> o'donnell: when he attempted some steps on his own for the first time, his physical therapist, meaghan minzy, was there to make sure he didn't fall. >> o'donnell: you're basically learning how to walk again? >> steve scalise: you really are. you have to build the muscles back up. the muscles really deteriorated. >> o'donnell: and, to be able to walk like this, it's got to be psychologically, like, a real milestone? >> steve scalise: it feels real good. i mean, you can see the progress. and it's something we've been trying to do for a long time and it's nice to finally be there. >> o'donnell: jennifer scalise thought so too. >> steve scalise: oh man. >> o'donnell: describe, like, what that meant to you, to see your husband on his own, walking. >> jennifer scalise: it gave me hope. ( laughter ) >> o'donnell: hope for what? >> jennifer scalise: it's hard not-- you know, seeing him not be able to do things on his own, and walk on his own. so when i saw that, it was just a huge sigh of relief, that he can do this. like, he's got this. >> i'm ready to go both. all right, we made it. >> o'donnell: after three and a half months in two hospitals... ( applause ) ...steve scalise made his return to capitol hill this past thursday, and with the help of crutches, walked back into the house and his role as majority whip. ( applause ) >> steve scalise: you have no idea how great this feels, to be back here at work in the peoples' house. >> o'donnell: he says his doctors are optimistic that he'll be able to walk without help and perhaps even run again. but, hundreds of pieces of that single bullet will remain inside him for the rest of his life. when he was shot in june, there was a lot of talk from members of congress of all stripes, calling for the kind of unity we witnessed thursday. so after his emotional welcome back, we followed congressman scalise to his office, and asked him if the appearance of unity could result in something more lasting. >> steve scalise: ultimately on some of these big issues, we're not that far apart. but when everybody goes into their separate corners, it's just real easy to-- to demonize the other side, instead of saying, "okay, how can we come together and figure out how to get done what's important for the country?" hopefully this might have pulled us a little bit closer together. it's easy for that to go away, but-- i would hope that we-- we focus on how we can achieve some of those things that we haven't been able to get done yet. >> steve scalise on little miracles. >> if one of them doesn't have a problem he's not here. >> at 60minutesovertime.com. sponsored by lyrica. before i had the shooting, burning, pins-and-needles of diabetic nerve pain, these feet... grew into a free-wheeling kid... loved every step of fatherhood... and made old cars good as new. but i couldn't bear my diabetic nerve pain any longer. so i talked to my doctor and he prescribed lyrica. nerve damage from diabetes causes diabetic nerve pain. lyrica is fda approved to treat this pain, from moderate to even severe diabetic nerve pain. lyrica may cause serious allergic reactions, suicidal thoughts or actions. tell your doctor right away if you have these, new or worse depression, unusual changes in mood or behavior, swelling, trouble breathing, rash, hives, blisters, muscle pain with fever, tired feeling or blurry vision. common side effects: dizziness, sleepiness, weight gain, swelling of hands, legs, and feet. don't drink alcohol while taking lyrica. don't drive or use machinery until you know how lyrica affects you. those who've had a drug or alcohol problem may be more likely to misuse lyrica. now i have less diabetic nerve pain. and i love smoothing the road ahead for others. ask your doctor about lyrica. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ the all new 2018 camry. toyota. let's go places. woman: for the holidays, we get a gift for mom and dad. and every year, we split it equally. except for one of us. i write them a poem instead. and one for each of you too. woman: cool. that actually yours... that one. yeah. regardless, we're stuck with the bill. to many, words are the most valuable currency. last i checked, stores don't take words. man: some do. oh. 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>> straughn: that's exactly what happens. it's sometimes many, many, many days of just staring at one part of the sky and allowing the photons to collect on your detector. >> whitaker: and this is what's revealed. >> straughn: and this is what's revealed. >> whitaker: but hubble was just warming up. that was 22 years ago. since then, hubble has stared deeper and longer into space with enhanced equipment. >> straughn: in this particular image, there are 10,000 galaxies. so every single point of light is an individual galaxy, its own little island universe. and so, this is a real visualization of the distances of these galaxies. so, sort of like-- >> whitaker: sort of 3d? >> straughn: --3d, like we're flying though. so we can make these images 3d because we know how far away the galaxies are. what hubble has essentially given us is the size of the universe. hubble has taught us that the universe is filled with hundreds of billions of other galaxies. >> whitaker: and now the latest analysis of hubble's data reveals there could be more than two trillion galaxies-- ten times more than previously thought. typical galaxies, like our milky way, have 100 billion stars. that means the total number of stars, or suns out there, is two, followed by 23 zeros. that's called 200-sextillion. to get some sense of how many stars that is, we went to adam riess, who won a nobel prize for his work on hubble. >> adam riess: this is more stars in the visible universe than grains of sand on the beach. >> whitaker: on earth? >> riess: on all the beaches on earth. >> whitaker: and hubble has shown us this? >> riess: it has. in many cases, it has allowed us to see what some of the most distant galaxies look like and how many stars were in them, and we've been able to add it all up. >> whitaker: hubble has been called a time machine, that it looks back in time. what has been the most astounding part of that for you? >> riess: i study explosions of stars called supernovae. it's like fireworks. it's only visible for a short period of time-- in this case, a few weeks. and that light has been traveling to us for ten billion years. it began its journey when the earth wasn't even here, and over those ten billion years, our planet formed. life developed. we built the hubble space telescope. we opened the aperture door. and in the last one-billionth of 1% of that journey that the light made, we opened the door just in time to catch it. >> whitaker: hubble almost didn't catch anything. the first pictures it sent back were blurry, because of a microscopic flaw in the mirror. the space agency launched a daring mission to fix it. ( cheers ) astronauts have made five trips to hubble to repair and upgrade its equipment. john grunsfeld, known as the hubble repairman, flew three of those missions, to a telescope the size of a school bus, orbiting 300 miles above earth. >> john grunsfeld: just about anything that we can easily change and upgrade and fix has been fixed. >> whitaker: the workings of the telescope, all of that has been transformed? >> grunsfeld: yeah. it is like a new telescope. >> whitaker: on your last mission, you come out of the airlock, and you've got this big smile on your face. >> grunsfeld: i thought, you know, i can't imagine anywhere i'd rather be than outside the space shuttle in my space suit next to the hubble space telescope. i was just so happy. >> whitaker: hubble has changed what we know about the universe: its structure, evolution, its age-- 13.8 billion years. hubble showed us the marvel and majesty of stars being born. >> straughn: this is a region of gas and dust that's churning up new baby stars. and now we've learned with hubble, not only stars, but also baby planet systems. >> whitaker: most of these stars have planets going around them? >> straughn: most stars actually do have planets. when i was a kid, we only knew of the planets inside our solar system, and now we know that the planets are absolutely everywhere. >> whitaker: astronomer heidi hammel specializes in hubble's work within our solar system. with the telescope, she saw huge fragments of a comet slam into jupiter, creating giant impacts. >> heidi hammel: when i first heard that a comet was going to hit jupiter, my reaction was, "eh, so what? jupiter's huge. comets are small. and so, when i saw the first impact site, and it was huge and dark, i was flabbergasted. this is where the comet has smacked into the planet, at such a high velocity that it's caused an explosion the equivalent of many, many millions of atomic bombs. the earth is the size of that ring. and so, if this event had happened on earth, it-- >> whitaker: we're gone. >> hammel: yeah, we call that a biosphere-changing event, which basically means we'd be gone. >> whitaker: hubble orbits high, outside earth's atmosphere, so it can see a wide spectrum of light our atmosphere blocks. beyond earth's protective layer, hubble's ultraviolet camera can spot dazzling displays like this glowing halo on top of jupiter. >> hammel: up in the northern hemisphere, what you're seeing is the glowing aurorae. an aurora happens when the planet's magnetic field has charged particles that interact with the upper atmosphere. what you're seeing there is actually charged particles from the sun. they get swept up in jupiter's strong magnetic field, and then it's mirrored in that shimmering that you see inside the aurora oval. >> whitaker: and you would not be able to see that with an earth telescope? >> hammel: you could never see those aurorae, because our atmosphere has an ozone layer that absorbs the ultraviolet light. >> whitaker: hubble also found a similar blue hue at the bottom of saturn. the telescope's most iconic picture is this: the pillars of creation, a stellar breeding place. amber straughn showed us what a difference hubble's upgraded infrared camera made, just two years ago. >> straughn: stars are born inside these dust clouds. and this is going to give you a clue on why infrared is so important, is because in infrared light, what you see is the stars inside, shining through. >> whitaker: you see the stars inside. how big is this cloud area? >> straughn: top to bottom, these pillars are about ten light years, which is about 60 trillion miles. >> whitaker: 60 trillion miles? >> straughn: yes. space is big. >> whitaker: "big" and miraculous, with constant celestial regeneration. straughn calls this "the everything picture," because you can see old stars blowing up; and new stars forming. >> straughn: any time you see these sorts of dark cloudy regions, you can imagine that there's stars being born inside there. >> whitaker: where are the dying stars? 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>> christian pulisic: it is intimidating at times. but i think, as you gain experience, and after i played more and more games, it just gets easier and easier. >> alfonsi: he certainly makes it look easy. christian pulisic was 17 when he scored his first goal for dortmund, the youngest american ever to score in the german pros. he celebrated like any teenager would: with a dab. how do you say "dab" in german? >> christian pulisic: "dab," it's the same. >> alfonsi: what makes christian pulisic special, and so fun to watch, is his explosive speed. his passing ability can seem clairvoyant at times, and he can shoot like a sniper. at 19, pulisic has scored as many professional goals as lionel messi, the world's greatest player, had when he was 19. do you feel like people are expecting you to be the next messi? >> christian pulisic: yeah, i think it's what american fans, soccer fans do, especially. they're looking for the next star, the next player to be the face of u.s. soccer, and all the stuff i hear every day. >> alfonsi: four million american kids play youth soccer, more than in any other country. but the u.s. men's team has never produced an international superstar, and never made it to the finals of the world cup. this year, the team is struggling to qualify. they were zero and two when bruce arena was named coach in november. one of his first moves was to unleash pulisic, and build the game plan around him. >> alfonsi: what did you think when you saw him play in person? >> bruce arena: first of all, you don't think he's an american. >> alfonsi: and that's a compliment. >> arena: it's a compliment. he looks like a natural on the field and he moves gracefully, he's strong for his size, his speed is incredible, his first touch is good. >> alfonsi: pulisic is a game- changer. watch as he dances around defenders and somehow finds a teammate for a goal. he has either set up or scored nine of the u.s.a.'s last 11 goals. >> arena: it makes you think that this is going to be perhaps the first american superstar in the sport. >> alfonsi: you're willing to say that? >> arena: i'm willing to say that. >> alfonsi: a lot of people are hedging. >> arena: you have to be hesitant about this, but this is a very talented young man. >> kelley pulisic: sometimes, i'm laying in bed at night and thinking, "wow, this is really happening," and you really don't feel like it's real. >> alfonsi: there was never a master plan? >> mark pulisic: no, there's no master plan. not even close. >> alfonsi: mark and kelley pulisic met at george mason university, where they both played soccer. >> get some distance! mark is a professional coach. kelley just retired as a phys-ed teacher. they have three children: chase, dee dee and christian, their youngest. >> kelley pulisic: everything he does has to be at a very high level. he doesn't like to fail. and he wants it to be perfect. when he was two years old, he would color. and he would color out of the lines and just flip out. and i'm thinking, "what's wrong with this kid?" and basically, i didn't want to color with him anymore. and what had happened was, i bought white-out for a two-year-old, and he would get the white out and go around the edges to make it perfect. i've never seen anything like that. i mean, i have two other kids, and i'm thinking, this isn't normal. and that's like his personality in a nutshell: at two years old he had to keep in the lines. >> alfonsi: he became obsessed with soccer, and before he started kindergarten had mastered one of the sport's most difficult skills: playing with both feet. he'd play for hours in the yard. when his parents finally coaxed him inside for dinner, he'd pass under this sign: confidence-- the one-word gospel according to mark. >> mark pulisic: he was always playing up against older kids, so i said there was only one thing you can never lose-- you always have to play with confidence. that you belong. so i wrote it up there. i did a spell check first, to make sure it would be spelled properly. >> alfonsi: so you would have full confidence! >> mark pulisic: because i knew it would be there. >> alfonsi: the boy wonder ran circles around older kids all over pennsylvania. >> kelley pulisic: he was really small. and i'd hear people going "oh, who brought their little brother? oh, they probably didn't have enough players, somebody's little brother is out there." >> alfonsi: isn't that sweet. >> kelley pulisic: and then the game would go on and he'd get the ball and do something, and i'd just kind of giggle, because they were like, "oh, look at that little kid! someone mark him, cover him!" >> alfonsi: by the time he was 12, pro scouts around the world noticed him too. >> kelley pulisic: we would get calls constantly. "oh, can christian play with us?" and we really had to find the balance of what was too much. >> mark pulisic: and i just think, what we just did differently was, made sure that we didn't put him in a structured environment all the time. he played for one team. he would practice twice a week and play a game on the weekend. >> alfonsi: that sounds pretty normal. >> mark pulisic: yeah. >> alfonsi: you hear the stories about these parents who are doing thousands of miles in their car, taking their kids everywhere, special coaches, special diets, backyard workouts. >> mark pulisic: doesn't work. >> alfonsi: you didn't do that with christian? you didn't keep him on a gluten free, fat-free diet? >> mark pulisic: no. after games, we were more slurpees and doritos, right? >> kelley pulisic: oh, yeah. >> alfonsi: the pulisics decided to see if christian could cut it in one of the most competitive leagues in the world. at 16, he signed with dortmund, a club that has a reputation for building stars. why do you have to come to germany to play? obviously, there are a ton of teams in the u.s. that would love to have you? >> christian pulisic: as a kid, i just always learned that if you want to be the best, you have to play against the best. >> alfonsi: pulisic's father moved with him and enrolled christian in a german high school. what was school like? >> christian pulisic: i remember going in the first day and the teachers would start talking to me in german. and then the other kids would say "he doesn't speak german," and then i'm thinking to myself, "how is no one aware of that?" >> kelley pulisic: he calls me after his first day of school, "mom, mom." "hey, what's up, christian?" "i went to school today. i sat in a class. i don't know what class it was." >> alfonsi: was he a little lonely at first? >> kelley pulisic: it was very lonely. >> alfonsi: and what would you say to him? >> kelley pulisic: i said, "christian, what do you want to do? do you want to stay?" i said, "because, believe it or not, it would be a lot easier for you to come home, on everybody." "no, no, no, mom, i don't want to come home." >> alfonsi: dortmund is a blue collar town with rusted steel mills and a pittsburgh feel, right down to the team colors. on match day, the exodus from the streets to the stadium is lubricated with beer and bratwurst. >> christian pulisic: before the game, even, you're still in the locker room and you hear them singing, "you'll never walk alone," and it kind of just goes throughout the whole stadium. and you feel it and it just gets you really pumped. ♪ ♪ ( applause ) >> kelley pulisic: overwhelming. i cried. just, when i saw his back, number 22, going onto the field, like, i can't even-- >> mark pulisic: don't cry. >> kelley pulisic: i can't describe it. >> alfonsi: because that's your little-- your little boy. pulisic has been embraced by the notoriously unforgiving dortmund fans. partly because he's become fluent in german-- it took him a year-- but mostly because he mastered their precise style of play. to sharpen his skills, dortmund uses this. the club's creation called "the footbonaut." it is german engineering at its most twisted. balls are fired as fast as 60 miles an hour. christian's job is to hit the randomly lighted squares. >> christian pulisic: my dad, there are times where he'll just be like, "stop being cocky. just shut up. stop being cocky, or you're not, you're not anywhere yet." >> mark pulisic: he doesn't like it when i say it, because i've been a coach my whole life and those players never succeed, you know? they're flash in the pans. >> alfonsi: mark pulisic did cave a bit on flash when his son, who earns more than $8 million a year, begged to fly from a national team practice in kansas city to join his friends at hershey high's senior prom. how'd you get there? >> christian pulisic: i took a private jet. >> alfonsi: a private jet? >> christian pulisic: looking back at it, it's a little weird. i can't believe i did that. >> alfonsi: you probably blew through your whole allowance, right? >> christian pulisic: yeah, maybe. i don't regret it, though. >> alfonsi: after partying all night, he flew back and scored his first goal for team u.s.a. ( applause ) >> the youngest american to ever score a goal! 17 years old! >> alfonsi: pretty good 24 hours. >> christian pulisic: yeah. it was pretty special. >> alfonsi: that goal ignited the hopes of u.s. soccer fans hungry for a world class player. we saw it this summer. we were with him in hershey. he was invited to sign a few autographs. this is the line that was waiting for him. there's no way he'll ever get through all these kids. >> kelley pulisic: he'll have to sign fast. >> alfonsi: pulisic was enjoying some of the benefits of fame, but his mother said, don't be fooled by his smile. what do you think this is like for christian? >> kelley pulisic: i think it's a lot for him. you know, sometimes i think he just wants to turn it all off and he just wants to, you know, go home and watch tv. >> alfonsi: what do you say to him before something like this? >> kelley pulisic: oh, i just, i-- i just, it's like, "get your game face on." because you know, he's got to go and he's got to play the part, and it's almost the same as i say before a game. so he's got to prepare for this. >> alfonsi: no soccer academy can prepare you for this. >> where am i going? >> alfonsi: remember, he's 19. really, he just wants to play. whether it's a pick-up basketball game, or showing up his teammates. moves like those, and his boy- next-door looks make him a marketer's dream. pulisic already has deals with nike, gatorade and, you guessed it, hershey chocolate. 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