Investigated. Congress calling for unity after the senseless attack. The Charity Baseball game is going on as scheduled. The Washington Post is reporting that special Counsel Robert Mueller is investigating President Trump for possible obstruction of justice. Any tone of conciliation ends right there. The president tweeting this morning saying that this is a phony collusion with the russia story. They found zero proof. Now they go for obstruction of justice on the phony story. Nice. We have it all covered. Lets begin with Alex Marquardt live in virginia. Alex. Reporter good morning, chris. This immediately became a federal investigation because it was members of congress targeted. The fooibi is taking the lead. We are learning more about the attacker james t. Hodgkinson from belleville, illinois. Particularly with the past brush was the law. In 2006, arrested on multiple charges. Including two counts of domestic battery and discharge of a firearm and criminal damage to a car. And hodgkinson was firing into a tree with a shotgun and Police Called in march. That is the same month that Law Enforcement say he drove from illinois to here in alexandria, virginia. The chilling sound of gunfire captured in the cell phone video. [ gunshots ] reporter 66yearold james t. Hodgkinson, critic of President Trump, unleashing a hail of bullets on republican lawmakers practicing on the eve of the Charity Baseball game. The Congress Member targeted on the field scrambling to take cover. Somebody saying run, hes got a gun. I ran into the dugout like most on the field. East of monroe. Shots being fired and people running. Possibly victims involved. Reporter the lone gunman armed with a rifle and. 9 millimeter handgun exchanging fire with Capitol Police officers there to protect Steve Scalise. Local police join in the firefight to take down the attacker. We have one in custody. One shooter. There is also a victim down in the baseball field. Reporter scalise was on second base when he was shot in his left hip. He dragged himself after being shot from near second base 10 or 15 yards in the field to be further away from the gunman. Reporter four others also wounded in the attack. Witnesses now praising the heroic actions of Law Enforcement in preventing further casualties. I saw two of them going toward the shooter. They were putting their lives in the line of fire directly. It was the Capitol Police that saved us all. Reporter the gunman drove from illinois to virginia in march and living out of a white cargo van. Hes asked me if this team was the republican or Democrat Team practicing. I responded it was Republican Team practicing. He proceeded to shoot republicans. Take that for what its worth. Reporter attackers online posts show a hate for donald trump and republicans. He writes trump is a traitor and trump destroyed our democracy. It is time to destroy trump and company. A month earlier, republicans are the taliban of the u. S. A Family Member telling the New York Times he came to washington to protest trump in recent weeks. Also liking a cartoon suggesting scalise should be fired. It is not known if scalise was specifically targeted in the attack. The Capitol Police officers are hailed as other aheroes for pre a potential massacre. We know crystal griner is still in the hospital. The other agent david bailey was lightly wounded. He has been released. If they had not been there to protect Congress Member scalise, this could have been worse. Alisyn. No question, alex. We have to keep calling out if it were not for griner and bailey. Who knows. Steve scalise still in Critical Condition hours of surgery. He is facing a lot more. Last night, President Trump and first lady visited scalise in the hospital. The president sat by scalises bedside and spoke with the family. Tweeted that Congress Scalise is in tough shape, but a real fighter. We have chief medical correspondent dr. Sanjay gupta joining us with more. Bullet to the pelvis. He was dragging himself away. A lot of that was adrenaline. He spoke to his wife . They called him stable and in good spirits. You saw the video. What sounds like happened, he had a transport from the field to the hospital. By the time he an arrived at the hospital, he was in Critical Condition. Not critical, but stable, but just critical. A significant deterioration if you will over that few minutes of time. It sounds like significant blood loss. Went to the operating room and in the operating room several hours. Went back to the operating room to control blooding and still in Critical Condition. A hip injury. How serious can it be . It can be serious as evidenced here. You fracture the bones and injured internal organs in the be an do meabdomen and severe b it looked on the stretcher taken away and it looked it was worse than what his colleagues were saying. It must have been adrenaline getting him through the initial moments and shock that keep you functioni functioning. Where do you think this leaves us . There is always priorities in trauma care. You want to make sure someones air way is open. Breathing is okay. Circulation. That is the primary concern is the bleeding. A twopronged approach. You want to stop the bleeding. That may involve going to the operating room and replacing whatever blood has been lost. Blood transfusions which he received throughout the day. These types of injuries because they are talking about a rifle injury, it causes significant blast injury to that part of the body. It will involve several operations after you address the immediate concerns. You know, as you have talked about it, i think people say he is expected to do well ultimately. It will be a long road. Make no mistake in terms of how long he can bear weight and any idea of getting out of the hospital. He is not out of the woods yet. Sanjay, thank you for all of that information. So the president and lawmakers from both sides of the aisle were calling for unity in the wake of the violent attack. Cnns Suzanne Malveaux is live on capitol hill with more. Suzanne. Reporter good morning, alisyn. It is eerily quiet this morning. It was this time yesterday morning the news was breaking and you could see the expression on the faces of the lawmakers change as they became shocked and expressed fear and frustration. I was with al franken and Kamala Harris and poised to talk about the russia investigation and the partisan climate. They got the news and upon hearing the news, they dropped everything and went to a prayer breakfast. That was demonstrative and reflective of the day here as hearings and votes were canceled and replaced with calls of unity. We are strongest when we are unified. When we Work Together for the common good. We are united in our shock. We are united in our anguish. An attack on one of us is an attack on all of us. To my colleagues, you can hear me Say Something you never heard me say before. I identify myself with the remarks of the speaker. Reporter one of the ways they say they will try to at least lower the temperature and toxic rhetoric with discussion and debate here is make sure they are resilient and unified. Part of that is making sure the game continues or goes on tonight. Chris. Suzanne, you have what is bringing them together and other top story is what is taking them apart. The Washington Post reporting that Robert Mueller is investigating President Trump for possible obstruction of justice. We have athena jones at the white house with more. We remember james comey, the fired fbi director, saying in his testimony im sure that mueller is going to look at obstruction. He was right. Reporter hi, chris. According to the report, comey was right. This is the headline that President Trump has been trying so hard to avoid. You remember it was just last week that he and his legal team were saying he had been completely and totally vindicated. Pointing to comeys testimony telling the president three times he was not personally investigated. This was while comey was still in charge of the fbi. Which is now over a month ago. According to the latest report, that has changed and that is a very big deal. A Bombshell Development with Robert Muellers russia investigation. The Washington Post reporting that mueller is now investigating President Trump for possible obstruction of justice. The president s firing of james comey propelling the expansion of the probe. When i decided to just do it, i said to myself, i said, you know, this russia thing with trump and russia is a made up story. Theres no doubt that its a fair judgment. It is my judgment that i was fired because of the russia investigation. Reporter this development coming after Deputy Attorney general Rod Rosenstein suggested tuesday that special counsel may be looking into comeys firing. I can assure you if director mueller believes that is relevant to the investigation, he has full authority to investigate that and make any appropriate findings. Reporter sources tell cnn mueller is planning to interview several top intelligence chiefs. Including the director of National Intelligence dan coats and Admiral Mike Rogers and richard ledgett. Ledgett wrote a memo to encourage the fbi to lift the cloud of the investigation by President Trump. Neither rogers or coats would discuss the conversations with the president in the Senate Hearing last week. Why are you not answering in. It is not appropriate. Reporter coats made this comment about the career as head of the nsa. I have never felt pressure to intervene or interfere in any way with shaping intelligence in the political way or in relationship of the ongoing investigation. Reporter President Trumps personal attorney in a Statement Last night did not deny that the president is under investigation. Instead focusing on leakers. Writing the fbi leak of information regarding the president is outrageous, inexcusable and illegal. The statement is identical to a bullet list of talking points issued by the republican party. Obtained by cnn. President trump has already expressed his willingness to talk to moolueller. Would you be willing to speak under oath . 100 . Reporter we will see if and when that sitdown with the special counsel ever takes place. In addition to interviews mueller is set to have with top intelligence chiefs, he met with the chairman and vice chairman of the Senate IntelligenceCommittee Richard Burr and mark warner to talk about the investigations and special counsel probe. Signs the separate, but overlapping investigations are ramping up. Chris, alisyn. Thank you. President trump is blasting the special counsel widening investigation. He tweeted moments ago. He said quote they made up a phony collusion with the russia story. They found no proof. Now they go for obstruction of justice on the phony story. Nice. We have Michael Smerconish and paul callan. Michael. That is not the message that many were hoping for this morning. I think it raises the question whether or not there can be a russia investigation simultaneous with attempt at political unity from democrats and republicans or if those things are completely mutually exclusive as the president s tweet suggests. You are right to focus the issue that way. Yesterdays shooting was horrific. It comes among the poisonous Political Climate which has been building for years. It is important to rein in bad behavior among politicians and talking heads and a host of folks. At the same time, not to conflate behavior over the top from the partisan standpoint with the legitimate investigation. This is legitimate investigation. I would say mueller is derelict of his job if he did not investigate obstruction of justice. He then asked him to let go of the Flynn Investigation and fired him and boasted to the russians he relieved pressure. I dont know how he could not determine if he would run an fo afoul of obstruction of justice. Language is carefully chosen, paul. Possible obstruction of justice. Trump bashing the investigation is the wrong thing to do. It is special counsel. His guy picked the special counsel. It should play out. It is all politics. Legally, not easy to get a president for obstruction of justice in this context. No. It is extraordinarily difficult. You have to be able to establish that the president had a corrupt purpose in terminating the fbi director. Which he is allowed to do and he could cancel the probe. Absolutely. The president also has the right as the head of the Justice Department as president and head of the fbi as president. He has the right to say this is a waste of money. Theres nothing here. This is not legitimate inquiry into criminal behavior. That is the defense he would mount if impeached on a charge like obstruction of justice. Remember, he cannot criminally be charged with obstruction of justice. He can only be impeached. Explain why. The president is immune from criminal progresssecution while president of the United States. If he were impeached and removed by congress, then he could be prosecuted. The other thing i wanted to mention being lost in the shuffle here is that muellers decision to start by interviewing the intelligence chiefs is totally logical even if he is not investigating obstruction of justice. After all, the whole investigation has to do with did Trump Campaign operatives communicate with the russians and collude in an illegal way . Who might know about that better than the intelligence chiefs . If im running the fbi, i have a bunch of reasons i want to talk to them right at the beginning of the investigation. Can they invoke executive privilege or if it is in an investigation is that null and void because you are trying to get to the truth of the probe . They can invoke executive privilege. The history of the courts has been this. The courts will allow you to keep that executive privilege if you made the prosecutor making a good fifaith effort to get the information elsewhere and this is the only place they get it. If this is the only place to get it, they can take the executive privilege away. Michael, to your point earlier of have you have unity. To use callans word, what is conflated here is what russia did and why they did it and how to stop it should be completely bipartisan. The president has made a practice and now many of his surrogates of conflating that investigation with any potential collusion or obstruction issues. That is the problem, isnt it . Chris, that is a great point. When i entertain phone calls on my Radio Program from people who think this is fake news and bow g bogus. I say does it bother you if the president played a role in the election. That is the 64,000 question. How could someone say hell, yeah, that bothers me. Some stammer just to cross that precipice. I think that is the critical issue. What flows from it is whether the probe of that investigation was obstructed. I agree with everything that paul said. I would just say, paul, that the evidence of the president s intent might be asking the Vice President and the attorney general to leave the room before he according to comey, leans on him, to let go of the flynn probe. The reason you ask the intel chief what is they know of the situation is because if, in fact, they say the white house leaned on us to try to get the fbi to quell this probe, then that is a watergate apples to apples comparison. Michael, lets engage in role reversal here and look at it from the president s point of view to try to engender understanding on the morning of unity. He obviously is angry and frustrated that this continues. He thinks he has done nothing wrong. Every day he wakes up to new threads and new leaks and new articles. What should he do . Stay quiet about that frustration . So you are right. Lets be fair to the president. What is his take on this . I imagine his take on this is to say i was elected to do a job and restore jobs to the middle class, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. This is bogus. Nobody colluded. I did not obstruct justice. When i said to comey, let it go, i was saying that because flynn is a good guy. Flynn wore the uniform of the country. I think flynn has been wronged in the process and suffered enough. Let me get back to bringing jobs to middle class americans. Sure, thats the president s posture. The problem is, paul f y, if were advising him as counsel, dont disrespect the institution. Thats part of the leak stuff is about. You know, when they want to spread leaks. Nothing leaks like this white house. That would be your advice. Stick to your being upset. You are right about this. The thing that astounded me. He came in as an outsider and elected as president. He has great political inn stik stingts you w