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Misdemeanor assault after allegedly attacking a reporter at campaign headquarters. >> greg gianforte is running for an open seat. this confrontation happened a day before voters head to the polls. according to jacob and witnesses it started with a question about the republican health care plan. there are no images but jacobs says says he has the audio and here it is. >> the cbo core, because you know youve been waiting to make your -- >> we will talk with it. >> speak with shane, please. im sick...

Just heard, started asking about the cbo score. mr. giaforte verbally said later. and then jacobs kind of kept going. and thats when gianforte put both hands -- i saw both hands on his neck area, grabbed him, kind of pulled him and slammed him to the ground, jumped on him and started punching him two or three times saying, im sick and tired of this. something to that effect. finally jacobs scrambled away and he grabbed his glasses and said, you broke my glasses and you body slammed me. he said h...

Out. craig? >> garret, quickly here, did we ever get an answer to the question that ben was trying to ask? i mean do we know where he stands on the new health care bill since the cbo score came out? >> no. in fact, we dont. in fact, the only thing weve heard from the gianforte camp today or really last night was that statement, essentially pinning the blame for this entire incident on jacobs. they have not said a word and cans ltds several other interviews that they had scheduled around election...

Shoved a recorder in gregs face and began asking badgering questions, jacobs was asked to leave. after asking jacobs to lower the recorder, jacobs declined. greg then attempted to grabt phone that was pushed in his face. jacobs grabbed gregs wrist and spun away from greg, pushing them both to the ground. its unfortunate that this aggressive behavior from a liberal journalist created this scene at our campaign volunteer bbq. then the fox news crusade that jacobs walked up to gianforte and put a m...

And said something about his glasses being broken. he asked us or names. gian for say looked at the three of us and repeatedly apologized. fox news reporter here went on to say, at no point did any of us show any physical aggression towards gianforte who left the area after giving statements to local sheriffs deputies. jacobs was examined at the hospital and released. the sheriff did donate $250 to the gianforte campaign. so far state republican party officials have yet to comment. mark halperin...

Neck and slammed him to the ground. we watched in disbelief as gianforte punched the reporter. he yelled something to the effect of, im sick and tired of this. jacobs scrambled to his knees and said something about his glasses being broken. he asked us for our names. in shock we didnt answer. jacobs then said he wanted the police called. gianforte looked at the three of us and repeatedly apologized. at that point i told him and scanl scanlon, who was now present, we needed a moment. she said at ...

Reporting party, meaning this is the person who called it in. >> dispatch audio for the police trying to get the interview with the person being x-rayed -- this is not the way we usually spend the eve of an election in this country. allegations of a politician assaulting a reporter are not how we do politics anywhere in america. within the past few minutes the greg gianforte campaign has released a statement with their version of what happened. i will read it to you in full. tonight as greg was ...

. >> shepard: now the candidate that flipped out and body-slammed a reporter. theres audio that im getting youve heard. happened in montana where a sheriffs office has cited a congressional candidate for assault. it happened hours today before the special election there and in front of a fox news correspondent that will join us in just a moment. the candidate is republican greg gianforte. the reporter, ben jacobs of the guardian. jacobs tweeted yesterday, greg gianforte just body slammed me and ...

Sick and tired of you guys. the last guy that came in here did the same thing. get the hell out of here. get the hell out of here. the last guy did the same thing. are you with the guardian? >> yes, and you just broke my glasses. >> the last guy did the same thing. >> you just body slammed me and broke my glasses. >> get the hell out of here. >> you would like me to get the hell out of here. i would like to call the police. >> can i get your guys names? he just body slammed me. >> you got to lea...

Introduced himself and chitchat about bozeman in general when ben jacobson placed his recorder right up to him about here and started asking him questions about the cbo report on the republican healthcare bill and you heard what happened from there. i myself was standing about two feet d jacobs when it happened. there was a table in between. i saw the whole thing when he grabbed him by the neck both hands, slid him to the side. body slammed him and got on top of him and started punching and yell...