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🗓️ 28 June 2019
⏱️ 57 minutes
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0:00.0 | Early on the morning of June 14, 2017, Steve Scalice was practicing for the annual Congressional |
0:08.7 | baseball game, Republicans vs. Democrats, when a crazed gunman armed to the teeth opened |
0:15.2 | fire on him and his teammates. |
0:18.0 | Scalice was badly wounded, his life only saved by two heroic police officers who took out |
0:23.4 | the shooter. |
0:24.4 | It was a shocking event, a brazen attack on members of Congress, and earned Scalice |
0:30.4 | sympathy and prayers from across the aisle while he recovered in the hospital. |
0:35.4 | To make me feel like it wasn't just me but the whole country had been shot at, I would |
0:39.9 | get to see a nation unified, to see different people from all different backgrounds, rooting |
0:45.4 | and praying and working for me to survive. |
0:48.9 | Scalice wrote in a book about the experience entitled Back in the Game. |
0:53.2 | Now, two years later, Scalice's House Minority Whip, number two in the GOP leadership, |
0:59.3 | during a period Washington seems more divided than ever. |
1:03.3 | How does Scalice square the lofty bipartisan sentiments he expressed in his book, with |
1:08.2 | the current state of all-out political warfare on Capitol Hill? |
1:12.6 | And how does he explain the unyielding loyalty that he and his GOP colleagues have for President |
1:17.9 | Trump, no matter how divisive his rhetoric and his policies? |
1:22.2 | Well, Scalice, and we'll talk to one of our Yahoo News colleagues, Jenna McLaughlin, about |
1:27.2 | our big scoop about a U.S. cyber attack on Iran on this episode of Scalice. |
1:33.7 | Because people have got to know whether or not they're President of the crop, well, |
1:43.2 | I'm not a crop. |
1:44.2 | I told the American people I did not trade arms for hostage. |
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