the protesters. at one point, one of the trump supporters spit in the face of one of the protesters. now, of course, it's not rare to see protesters at campaign vents. we've seen this before. the level of animosity, the level of aggression we saw tonight is a little bit out of the ordinary for an event like this, anderson. >> i understand you caught up with donald trump before the rally to talk about some of the comments he made about russia earlier today that have been, you know, getting some attention. what did he tell you? >> reporter: yeah, no surprise donald trump has managed to make waves on more than one issue today. he said earlier today there was really no way to say whether russia was responsible for shooting down mh-17. that's the commercial jet shot out of the air last year. i caught up with him today to ask him when u.s. intelligence points to pro-russian accept frost as being responsible for this, it seems like he's defending russia to some folks and i asked what he thought about that.