[ gunfire ] congressmen Steve Scalise, the third highest ranking republican in the house in Critical Condition in the hospital tonight where the president and the first lady just visited. Congressman scalise suffered injury to his internal organs and will require more surgeries. Our dr. Sanjay gupta will join us on the latest on his condition in just a moment. First, the hospital treating congressman Steve Scalise has released a new statement. He suffered a single rifle shot to the left hip. The bullet traveled fracturing bones, injuring his internal organs and causing severe bleeding. He was transported in shock to medstar Washington Hospital center, a Level One Trauma Center where he had surgery. He remains in Critical Condition. Hell require additional operations. I want to bring in now dr. Sanjay gupta, our chief medical correspondent on cnn. This medstar Washington Hospital center just released an update on his condition and it reads, the congressman sustained a single rifle shot
The future of our country and your community, even if none of that stuff moved you in the past, today, we all got one big fat new, very persuasive reason why we should run for office. You should run for office if youre nosey, because its the only way to satisfy an acute sense of nosiness. Only people who once ran for office and want a seat in the United States senate and got themselves onto the intelligence committee, only those people got to hear the really juicy stuff today. What do you know about the russian bank v. E. B. . Nothing that i can talk about in an open setting. Was the fbi able to confirm any criminal allegations contained in the document . Mr. Chairman, i dont think thats a question i can answer in an open setting. Is the not true mr. Flynn was and is a central figure in this investigation in the relationship between the Trump Campaign and the russians . I cant answer that in an open setting, sir. When you read the dossier, what was your reaction given it was 100 direct
Is the president secretly recording conversations . Ill tell you about that maybe sometime in the very near future. Oh, youre going to be very disappointed when you hear the answer. If so, what happens next . Two leaders of the Senate Investigation join me live in minutes, and the best political minds will be here with insights on another wild week in washington. Hello, im Brianna Keilar in for jake tapper in washington from the state of our union is pointing fingers. President trump is in a war of words with fired fbi director james comey, who accused the president of asking him to back off the Flynn Investigation earlier this year. Trump came out swinging, with a strong denial of the account. He did say under oath that you told him to let the flynn, you said you hoped the Flynn Investigation you could let, he could let go. I didnt say that. Well he lied about that . I didnt say that. I will i will tell you i didnt say that. And there would be nothing wrong if i did say it, according
500 feet long. Theres nearly 300 crew on board. As you can see, its sustained pretty serious damage. It got that damage when it collided tonight with this other ship. This is a japanese container ship. Its a special vessel. You can see the damage to the container ship is comparatively lighter. Its to the front left side to the japanese container ship, the port side of the bow. These two very large ships apparently collided with each other about 65 miles off the coast of japan in the middle of the night local time, 2 30 a. M. Local. 1 30 p. M. East coast time in the united states. Were not sure exactly why this collision happened. Things like this do not happen very often. Its a big ocean. And these are two immense and modern ships. But nbcs excellent pentagon producer whos been on this story since it first broke, she tells us the fitzgerald suffered significant damage as you can see on its right side, and the damage is apparently both above and below the water line, which is bad. Just
Table since being shot during that ambush at a Republican Baseball Team practice yesterday morning. We know that President Trump and the first lady visited Steve Scalise last night. The president calling for unity in washington and giving an update on the congressmans condition. Id like to take a moment to again send our thoughts and prayers to my friend and the friend of most of us in this room, Steve Scalise. And his great family, as he continues his very brave fight. Its been much more difficult than people even thought at the team. Hes in some trouble. Hes a great fighter and hes going to be okay, we hope. As for the gunman, he is dead. He was killed just a couple miles from us here in the district over in alexandria, virginia. We are getting a glimpse into the depraved mind of this individual. 66 years of age. He was apparently expressing his anger at President Trump and republicans, critical of Steve Scalise in particular. Along with scalise, crystal griner, one of the two Capito