It's the NPR Politics podcast here to talk about a shooting that happened today at a congressional

baseball practice in Alexandria, Virginia, just outside of Washington, D.C. Five people

were wounded to remain in critical condition, including majority-wip Steve Scalice of Louisiana.

The shooter was killed by police. We are taping this at 4.42 p.m. on Wednesday. We will discuss

more when we come back for our regular Thursday roundup episode tomorrow. I'm Tamara Keith. I cover

the White House for NPR. I'm Jeff Bennett. I cover Congress. And I'm Susan Davis. I also cover

Congress. Yeah. And today covering Congress was different than many days covering Congress.

In a shocking day, a day that I think really reverberated across the hill. The thing that struck

out to me the most is just how deeply emotional lawmakers were in response to today's events.

What do you mean by that? How many people broke down crying? Like you were just talking to people.

Yeah. I mean, essentially in every interview I did in the hallways today with members of Congress,

all of them kind of started out the normal way, asking questions about the shooting. But when

members were asked to reflect about the baseball game or their colleagues or what happened,

just tears from everyone that I talked to. And it's just not, it's just really rare to see

members of Congress cry. They just don't tend to really do that. So when they do, it's kind of

jarring and sticks with you. Those Democrats and Republicans. Yeah. People were really upset by it.

And Jeff, you spent your entire day basically at the scene of the shooting, which is right

around the corner from where you live. Right around the corner from where I live. I spend most

of my Saturdays at that field because that's where I take my son who's five years old to soccer practice.

And so I got pretty close to the scene, but people who live nearby were telling me that they could

actually see bullet holes at the nearby YMCA and at the coffee shop across the street. And people

should know that this neighborhood, it's in the Del Rey section of Alexandria. It's a bedroom

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