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Painting an upsetting picture. the damage done from this gunshot, and for mike, it was multiple gunshots. we want to keep track of that. garrett, what have you got? dw. reporter: we just heard from a neighbor that some of the congressional staffers have come back to pick up the congressman s baseball gear that was left here as everyone scattered yesterday during the shooting. we re going to go around the corner and see if we can check that out. we ll follow along with you as you do that. we ll keep track of where you are and come back to you if you have got something. hans, interestingly enough, the president commented on this in the course of assigning that he was scheduled to do yesterday adds part of a job promotion week. the sounds of bipartisanship have been coming from both sides of capitol hill in the last 24 hours. it has been interesting to hear ....
We survey the scene and it s horrific there is a sense of the members of congress about hu much more vulnerable they could have been. i will say and i know you feel the same. the level of composure that members of congress have shown in the direct aftermath as they re walking to the capitol still with their baseball gear on is truly remarkable. brianna, we ll get to brianna in a second and i want to get to congressman joe barton. he is the manager of the republican congressional baseball team. i want to play you what he s been saying. i am congressman joe barton and the republican manager and i have pat meehan with me who is our number one relief pitcher. our prayers go out to steve scalise and his family and others and the capitol hill police who got wounded and our volunteers who got wounded also. the heroes are the police ....
What are you hear something. the lawmakers on the field this morning seem understandably shaken up. they were in baseball gear preparing for an annual charity baseball event tomorrow night, which could raise in excess of $600,000 for a local boys and girls club and a literacy group. after the event, after the tragedy and the shock, there was a bipartisan call for unity. we are united. we are united in our shock, we re united in anguish. an attack on one of us is an attack on all of us. [applause] to my colleagues that hear me say something has he never heard me say before. i identify myself with the remarks of the speaker. we re not one caucus or the ....
Firing and firing. he had to have some type of an automatic rifle because it was a barrage of bullets. there was no question about that and we really feared that he was going to come into the dugout and no one was armed in the dugout and we were with the baseball gear and the like. it seemed like an eternity and there was, we heard return fire his way and then, of course, the backup came and apparently they subdued the shooter. you have no idea about possible motive of the shooter. we have been told that law enforcement has tentatively identified the shooter who is now in a local hospital, but you have no idea what possible motive, what could have possibly motivated the shooter to open fire on this republican baseball team? know? whatsoever. and our practices are very ....