meanwhile, staffers for house minority whip steny hoyer were seen bringing pizza to scalise's staff onol hill. >> rodney davis who was at-bat told kasie hunt yesterday, it's time to put political differences aside. >> this rhetoric we see in today's society over policy differences has got to stop because if this is the reason why members of congress were shot at today, then today has to be the breaking point for both parties to say enough's enough. let's not ratchet up the hateful speech. you see stories about policies are going to lead to the death of people. that's addition that's political rhetoric that has run amuck and turned into hate. it may be the reason why we saw the senseless tragedy we saw today. if it is, this could be the first political rhetorical terrorist act we've seen on our soil. we can change that. only we can change that as americans. >> some wasted little time before blaming anti-trump rhetoric, particularly from the left, for the shooting and donald jr. shared a speech from a commentator which compares is to cesar. >>> newt gingrich was more blunt in his blame f

if you were alined with somebody she thought was your enemy, she kept steny hoyer's people out.hear her say she wants to pave the way for new leaders. but pelosi has kept leaders for her own survival. she has kept them from that. >> from passing sxlegs acting policy that's help a majority of americans. the problem is they seem incable of winning. the record speaks for itself. if you recall in the actual real world, the business world, even if we like and you say you've done a great job, you have to find ways to move people to positions they can perform better. the reality is miss pelosi is feet urtd in many of these ads. >>> what does that communicate? when they say pelosi and her values. we know it turns into a loss in. infrastructure and taxes and health care and favor things we democrats want, it is important to have the xofrgss need to take place. miss pelosi was as toxic among republicans. more came out and voted against jobl ossoff and what miss pelosi represented. i hate that's the fact and a reality. we can't run away from it and pretend it doesn't exist. the real losers

steny hoyer said he visited scalise in the hospital and had a, quote, good conversation with him.s upgraded from critical to serious over the weekend. the shooting took place, of course, at a congressional baseball practice last week as you can all remember. >>> let's get a check of your weather with nbc meteorologist bill karins. bill, you're following severe weather from the heat out west to flooding from tropical storm sindzy. >> yeah, that's just beginning now. now we're starting to get flash flood warning. every tropical system is a little different. some bring the threat of wind. some bring storm surge and some bring fresh flooding from rainfall. that's the concern of this storm. the only big concern is how much do we get and if in one area that could cause problems. the storm itself is not impressive. all of the heavy rain bands are well away from the storm. it doesn't even look like say tropical system but producing tropical force rains. it does weaken to 50 mile per hour winds. those winds won't do any damage along the coast. storm surge, one to three feet. minor issues w

joining me house whip steny hoyer. >> great to be with you. >> what are your thoughts about all thisld you, i'm one of the few americans that didn't have an opportunity to see the hearing. i saw clips of them. i think this is one step in what are very important steps we need to take. we need to keep in mind there are really two separate issues here. one is what did the russians do, who did they do it with, how were they trying to undermine our democracy and western determine k democracies generally. what did the president know, when did he know it, what has he said, did he try to convince the fbi director to drop interest in flynn? that's obviously another part of the equation. greta, i think there are going to be a lot of shoes yet to drop. >> today director comey was quite hard, as he should be on russia, and it seems -- i don't think anyone is disputing russia is trying to meddle in our election. >> yes. >> what can we do? we talk about sanctions all the time. are they really effective? or is that all we can do? >> i think sanctions are effective and i think they have been effecti

yesterday paul ryan saying that he was grabbing phones and techt and was visited by paul ryan and by steny hoyer, so he's talking and talking to family members and this sounds like at least good progress on the recovery. we know he has a series of surgeries and will continue an extended period of healing and rehabilitation. so good news on that. on all fronts. thank you so much, kristen welker, casey hunt. joining me now is brian shotts, who took part in that scavenger hunt that casey was on yesterday, tracking the senators as they tried to find the elusive republican health care bill. took you a couple of blocks away to the congressional budget office. what did you find? >> the cbo is the referee. sometimes you like the score that they give one of your bills, sometimes you don't. but they're nonpartisan, professionals, a lot of them are ph.d. economists and their job is to determine what is -- not just the budgetary impact but the actual impact on american lives. and that's why the first round with the trump care bill, the house bill died because people figured out that more than 20 million peo

you have had pelosi and steny hoyer and james clyburn there for quite a long time, and there's been youngt the chamber -- can i'm thinking about chris van hollen of maryland and javier becerra of california -- who were thought to be up and comers, and they actually left the house because they didn't have that chance to move up the ladder. that being said, the democratic party needs to address a message, how to put up competitive candidates in some of these swing districts. it's not just pelosi. if they get rid of pelosi, that's not the silver bullet. they'll need to do more to be competitive in 2018. gillian: that's a criticism i think we've been hearing ad nauseam since the general election; that the platform is stale, the messaging has not been what it should be in the presidential election and now in these special elections that we're seeing. do you think the recent defeat of jonathan ossoff in georgia is more a reflection of increasing support for president trump or more of a reflection of nancy pelosi and the democratic party writ large? >> i want to put the loss into perspective, th

steny hoyer if nothing else is a practical politician. wish-list. she would go, he take over. in year or two time we have open process. stuart: if the next election president trump stands again, if there is any way, nancy pelosi is leader of minority in the house, is there any way that you can vote republican. >> i disagree with donald trump. great respect for the man. disagree with him on issues like health care an budget, but disagree. that being said, i believe in bipartisanship, what i want, start, democrats and republicans on health care to come together to fix what is in place, as you say we get something done, rather than leave a flawed system. stuart: don't turn that against me. i don't want obamacare on steroids. that is what you guys want. >> no, sir, that is not what i'm saying. if democrats and republicans bargain constructively, the kind of personality you are, i like to think i am, if that happens, it is not obamacare on steroids. i think it's a whittled down version of obamacare that brings in more choice, potentially gets

i want to thank speaker ryan who nancysed show concern and pelosi and steny hoyer, because it required a bipartisan support and ed royce the chairman of the foreign affairs and the gentleman from california and the ranking member, elliott engel. in february of 2010, i led a .ipartisan of lawmakers at the same time nominating two s to persecuted two other be joint recipients of this prestigious award. and two others pushed for lee o'to get this important recognition which we had hoped would push the human rights agenda in china of the nobel peace prize agreed and awarded the peace prize to the ambassador for his long and nonviolent struggle for fundamental human rights in china. i attended the ceremony at the insritation of the family. it was a moving ceremony and now empty chair spoke volumes about the the abiding fear that human rights and democracy. there on the stage was this chair without the recipient of the nobel peace prize. after that, i held several hearings both in my human rights subcommittee and the china committee which i co-chair and we had a picture of the empty hair whe

after that vote, steny hoyer and kevin mccarthy spoke about what happened at the practice and tonight's baseball game. is house and indeed the nation was shaken by the horrificot

young: i thank my good friend from maryland, steny hoyer, for his support. it's going to take a lot of effort. there's a lot of naysayers out there. again, i believe so strongly that we treat every american equally. this is a civil rights issue, and they have voted 97% in favor of statehood. so i think it's time this -- i led this battle with your help in 1997. we had a vote and with your side i won by one vote. puerto rico lost, didn't go anywhere. i ask every american, think about it. let's make this the last colony, let's make this the 51st state. i do thank you and thanks for yielding. mr. hoyer: thank my friend. the speaker pro tempore: time has yielded back. for what purpose does the gentlelady from florida seek recognition? without objection, the gentlelady from florida is recognized for one minute. >> thank you, mr. speaker. rst corinthians 12:26 reads, if one member suffers all suffer together. i stand to show my support for my colleague, congressman steve scalise, his wife and his family. we pray for their strength, their courage and faith as they

. >> i'm reading a tweet from steny hoyer, he's the democratic counterpart to steve scalise. >> he's scalise and his staff. we're just starting to get this information as it comes down. this is a shot. this looks to be from twitter, helicopter arriving on the scene. >> our peter alexander, just a few moments ago, on our air, doing some reporter. kro congressman brooks was giving an interview, and recounted what appears to have happened. someone behind the third baseline, at this park in northern kvirginia, saw a rifle. and saw steve scalise, crawling into the outfield. he was bleeding profusely, according to congressman brooks. mr. brooks also telling us that the shooter appeared to have been hit by gunshots. there's a number of things we co-not know at this point. among the outstanding questions, is the suspect in custody? was the suspect shot and killed there? did he act alone? this is an area that appears to be -- the situation appears to be under control to a certain extent. >> we have somebody on the phone that can shed some light, charles hallaran. >> i came in the side door be

security that is given to anyone in congress is the two leaders of the minority party which would be steny hoyerld fire back, not protect not just steve but remembers of members of congress and other people who were at the field. brian: right. >> you have gatherings of members of the congress, large groups, there is no security there. thank god in this situation, the capitol police were there. they are here at capitol, so well-trained and dedicated. i know several of them as you have reported have been hit. our thoughts and prayers go to them. abby: as we reported one of those officers, after they were shot, then took down the gunman. steve: absolutely. abby: here heroes there. steve: he congressman, sounds a little suspicious, there was something going on because as we heard earlier from congressman desantis, we've seen reports from other members of congress who were there, a guy came up, apparently in running clothes before the shooting started and asked somebody, hey, are these republicans or democrats? sounds like they were members of congress who were being targeted. >> you have to know, th

. >> that's house minority whip, steny hoyer there. tom is still standing by in alexandria where again we expect to hear from police any moment now. tom, any idea what we might expect to hear from law enforcement when this news conference starts? >> reporter: we're expecting to hear from the capitol hill police chief, the alexandria police chief. we believe governor terry mcauliffe from virginia will be here as well and we may hear also from other members of federal law enforcement. we are hoping for some sort of an upgrade or update i should say on the conditions of the people who have been shot, most specifically, how those two capitol hill police officers are doing, as well as the member of congress's staff who is going to be -- who we understand has also been injured. when you have a shooting involving a member of congress and what at this early stage looks like it was a targeted shooting at members of congress, you can imagine the world's media have suddenly now come down on this very small point in alexandria, virginia. we've now