Even with lawmakers' determination for baseball bipartisanship, they say competitiveness remains. His social media contained anti-Trump and anti-Republican posts.
The game raised more than a million dollars for charity.
"We're going to play, we need to play", he said.
Lawmakers who were there described a chaotic scene, with many members of the congressional GOP baseball team huddled in a dugout while Capitol police who were part of Scalise's security detail and local Alexandria police engaged in a shoot-out with Hodgkinson. "He is grateful for the courageous actions of U.S. Capitol Police, first responders, and colleagues", his office revealed in a previous statement.
The shooting prompted talk of improving security for lawmakers, most of whom are unaccompanied by officers in their normal day-to-day pursuits.
The president said he visited Scalise at the hospital and told the family that the entire country was praying for him.
"I'm not so sure this guy yesterday was Republican, Democrat", Williams told reporters.
Family members of Matt Mika say the MI native was shot multiple times in his chest and arm, and he remains in the intensive care unit in critical condition at George Washington University Hospital.
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi recounted candidate Mr Trump's comments prodding supporters to pummel demonstrators at rallies and said Republicans were being "sanctimonious".
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When that ended, Trump allegedly asked everyone to leave the room except for Coats and CIA Director Mike Pompeo. Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein appointed Mueller as special counsel shortly after Comey's firing.
The Congressional Baseball game was held on Thursday night despite gunfire at practice on Wednesday morning.
Scalise, a congressman from Louisiana who is the No. 3 House Republican, suffered injuries to internal organs, broken bones and severe bleeding after being shot in the left hip on a baseball field where he and other lawmakers were practicing for a charity baseball game.
He also praised the two Capitol Police officers who returned fire and were wounded after the shooter began shooting.
Scalise had been fielding balls at second base when he was shot and then dragged himself away from the infield in a trail of blood.
The president, whose administration has been dogged by allegations of ties between his 2016 campaign and Russian Federation, later wrote two tweets suggesting that Democrat Hillary Clinton, whom he defeated in last November's election, should be under investigation instead of him.
Some in Congress are asking for more security funding or to be able to use campaign contributions to pay for security when they're away from the Capitol.
The House majority whip was critically wounded Wednesday morning after a man with a rifle opened fire on Republican politicians as they practised for a charity baseball game in Alexandria, Va.
Rep. Jeff Duncan of SC said he had just left the practice and encountered the apparent gunman in the parking lot before the shooting. Democratic Rep. Gabby Giffords of Arizona was hit in the head and grievously injured while meeting with constituents at a supermarket parking lot in 2011.
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