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by these firearms. and i would concur that that is unacceptable. i certainly support the bill. but having served in the united states army as a leader of soldiers on deployment, all of whom were issued at least one weapon, i wonder if it literally requires an act of congress to suggest that d.h.s. promulgate regulations to oversee the loss or theft of d.h.s.-supplied weapons. yes. over 200 weapons is horrible. yes, one life lost is horrible. but should there be an act of congress? because as i recall, as a leader in the army while deployed overseas, we had protocol for dealing with lost weapons, with lost sense of item, with lost things. we didn t need an act of congress to tell us to promulgate it. so while i support this bill, it began to make me wonder, and then think of a bible verse, matthew. why do you look at the speck of saw dust in your brother s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own? so, certainly it s unacceptable that over 200 weapons should be l ....
he is now in critical condition. the president calling this a brutal assault. what we know about the suspect and his motive behind the attack among our guest this hour, they were on the field during the impact. we have dan and tom the leg. the dow is closing a new record high for the second straight day. it wasn t a given. after janet yellen s remark it sent stock to session lows. oil tumbled to a seven month low we are watching that action but first to nicole on the floor of the new york stock exchange. nicole, what did janet yellen say that spooked the market. she basically is saying look, there could be further rate hikes. i think some people started to run wonder about the hikes after they got tepid economic news and recently, overall with the retail sales numbers, just showing a consumer that is a little more conservative. inflation is not going the way people think. people started wondering about further rate hikes. they are unchecked but what s interesting is ....
with a rifle and a handgun and then opened fire. [ gunshots ] . adam: witnesses later describe the terrifying scene to us. i was next in line to bat, standing next to the batting cage when the first shot rang out. second shot rang out within a couple of seconds. pretty obvious at that point, we had a shooter, i could tell from my perspective, from somewhere behind the third base dugout. i kicked into marine mode, went to a low crawl, crawled behind the first base dugout along with a couple of others, not knowing which direction the shooter was moving. adam: the gunfire wounded representative scalise along with a congressional aide, a lobbyist and a capitol police officer. when backup police arrived a few minutes later, we re told the gunbattle ensued. heard a bunch of what appeared to be shots, pow, pow, pow, pow, pow, seemed like return fire, pow, pow, pow, pow, pow, 30 to 50 shots that i heard. adam: the gunman identifd as 66 james hodgkinson was killed. fortunate ....
two capitol hill police officers who were shot according to our justice correspondent pete williams, and pete williams, those officers are expected to be okay. again, all of this unfolding just after 7:00 a.m. on the east coast in alexandria, virginia. this is just outside washington, d.c. the situation right now, though, according to law enforcement officials, stable. this is a situation that is under control. they believe they have the lone gunman in custody. a number of folks who were there at the field describing him as a middle-aged. we re told he was wearing blue jeans, a blue shirt, and he had a riechfle. we heard from congressman joe barton from texas a few moments ago. he said that it also appeared as if the gunman had a pistol as well. perhaps even a semiautomatic pistol, said that the shooting went on somewhere between five and ten minutes. a number of other eye-witnesses say at least 50 shots were fired. it would seem as if, as the morning has gone on, that ....
cancelled. major garrett is at the white house and joining us with the latest on that. it was a short agenda today. only one public event for the president, a a 3:30 speech at the department of labor to highlight his efforts to expand the workplace apprenticeships. that event has now been cancelled. and the white house is contemplating where and how and if the president will give remarks about today s tragic events. i can tell you that the president has telephoned house speaker paul ryan and is making other calls to members of the house republican conference and leadership and the white house is reviewing the president s schedule for the remainder of the day gathering more information and contemplating when or if the president will make public remarks on today s tragic events. one of the things we do not know what the motives were, but if this was terrorism, this is exactly the kind of impact that they want to have. they want to scare people, create disruption and t ....