Sen. Davis plea for unity

Senator Rodney Davis was at the Alexandria shooting and thinks he knows what caused it.

Transcript

00:00This hate and this rhetoric has got to be toned down.

00:14We've got to stop. We've got to come together as Republicans and Democrats.

00:18This political hateful rhetoric that's going on, be it social media or in the news cycle,

00:22where it seems as though Republicans and Democrats don't get along out here, that's just not true.

00:28And what that rhetoric and that hatefulness has led to is members of Congress, I believe,

00:34having to dodge bullets today at a baseball practice for a game that we play for charity

00:38that raises over $600,000 for local D.C. charities.

00:41This should never happen. And we, as Republicans and Democrats, have to come together and say,

00:47as a team and as members of Congress in the greatest country in the history of the world,

00:53that this hate and this rhetoric has got to be toned down.