Scalise and four others were shot Wednesday morning during a Republican practice for the annual congressional baseball game.
"It's been much more hard than people even thought at the time", Trump said of the treatment of Scalise, the No. 3 GOP leader, who is in critical condition at the MedStar Washington Hospital Center. News4's Shomari Stone spoke with people who came out to support the lawmakers. Two officers were shot, as were congressional aide Zach Barth and lobbyist Matt Mika. "Some us probably still haven't quite processed that one of our colleagues was shot very seriously and about a dozen others were shot at in what could have been a massacre".
"The guy's down to a handgun, he dropped his rifle, they shoot him, I go over there, they put him in handcuffs", Conaway said, adding that if the shooter had "gotten inside the fence, where a bunch of guys were holed up in the dugout, it would have been like shooting fish in a barrel".
The shooting at a republican congressional baseball practice in Alexandria, Virginia is hitting a southern IL congressman hard.
In the end, the Democrats won the game 11-2.
But the winning team's captain gave the trophy to Scalise staffers to present to the congressman.
Right after Wednesday night's Late Show finished taping, it was revealed Special Counsel Robert Mueller is investigating Donald Trump for possible obstruction of Justice, Stephen Colbert informed his Thursday audience by way of explaining why he was getting to that explosive story a day late. They've been playing baseball together for a while. In a statement from the hospital released last night Scalise suffered a gunshot wound to the left hip from a high powered rifle.
They took to the field despite still reeling from the shocking attack that left number three House Republican Steve Scalise fighting for his life.
Just before the first pitch, members of both teams gathered in a huddle at second base, took a knee, and prayed. "It'll be a different game without him there".
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"The. ways they could do that is you've ever been treated by a mental physician or in a mental hospital, or you've been convicted of a felony, or have been convicted of domestic battery", said Wagner.
Lucee Laursen of La Crosse, Wisconsin, interning in the capital for a nonprofit, said, "It's showing that we might have differences in political spheres but we come together for a good cause".
The congressional game, which dates to 1909 and is a summertime tradition on Capitol Hill, is a rare example of bipartisanship in an increasingly polarized Washington.
More than $1 million has been raised for Congressional Sports for Charity, and more than 20,000 tickets have been sold for the game, the organizers wrote on Facebook Thursday afternoon.
The charities are the Boys & Girls Club of Greater Washington, Washington Literacy Center, the Washington Nationals Dream Foundation and, after Wednesday's shooting, the Capitol Police Memorial Fund.
Laura Ingraham, a popular, conservative radio host, said on Twitter: "Dems' wearing LSU uniform at Cong baseball game's a nice gesture".
But despite the applause, hugs and pledges of camaraderie, "there is definitely a somber mood", observed GOP congressman Steve Pearce, who was at the Republican practice when his colleague was shot.
Once a relatively cozy affair, played at a minor league ballpark in Maryland, the game has gone big time in recent years and has been played at Nationals Park, just a few blocks from the Capitol.
Other Republicans on the field included Sens.
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