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Jacobs shoved a recorder in his face and started asking badgering questions. greg attempted to grab the phone that was pushed in his face. jacobs grabbed gregs wrists and spun away from greg pushing them both to the ground. its unfortunate that this aggressive behavior fortunately a liberal journalist created this scene at our campaign volunteer bbq. ryan zinke has left the seat vacant because hes works as secretary of interior. well speak to somebody who is the cops and courts recorder. let me ...

>> you would like me to get the -- out of here. i would also like to call the police. can i get your guys names? >> you got to leave. >> he just body slammed me. >> you got to leave. >> jacobs did end up caling the police. the sheriffs department eventually charged gianforte with misdemeanor assault. the court appearance has yet to happen, but it is affecting at least a trickle of some of the voters here. we spoke with the missoula county election administrator, and she said early in the morning...

>> the campaign offering a different version of events just after the incident, writing jacobs aggressively shoved a recorder in his face and asked badgering questions. jacobs was asked to leave. after asking him to lower the recorder, he declined. greg attempted to grab the phone pushed in his face. jacobs grabbed gregs wrist and spun away from greg pushing them both to the ground. it is unfortunate this behavior created this scene at our campaign barbecue. both the audio recording and eye witn...

Three from the two men when this started, shep. that is not what i saw. we were talking to gianforte right before an interview. our photographer, our field producer, we were all together in this relatively small room setting up for an interview that we planned. he came in. gianforte. we started talking about restaurants and things in bozeman specifically. about two minutes in, ben jacobs came in, said he was with the guardian. put his recorder up here, about standard location and started asking ...

Time greg gianforte has been seen in public after this event. he was taken in and questioned by police about this. he has not spoken publicly about it, but his campaign issued a statement shortly after this happened in which they basically placed the entire blame for this incident on the reporter ben jacobs. i would like to read you a portion of what the gianforte campaign says today. or last night. they wrote and i quote, tonight, as greg was giving a separate interview in a private office, the...

>> he called him in the statement a liberal reporter. listen, i asked you at home to listen closely, because the statement doesnt necessarily -- it doesnt justify what -- it doesnt match up, right? hes saying that its a liberal reporter and that he was shoving, what have you. heres what he said. "tonight as greg was giving a separate interview in a private office, "the guardians" ben jacobs entered the office without permission, aggressively shoved a recorder in gregs face and began asking badge...

A spokesperson says jacobs aggressively shoved a recorder in gianfortes face and jacobs was asked to leave. after asking jacobs to leave the recorder, jacobs declined and greg attempted to grab the phone pushed in his face slamming them both to the ground. its unfortunate that this scene created by a liberal journalist at our volunteer bbq. ryan young is there where the polls close at 8:00 p.m. local time. my goodness, what are voters saying today? >> well, you know, weve only bumped into a few ...

Shoved a reporter in his familiar and began asking badgering questions. jacobs was asked to leave? as asked jacobs to lower the recorder he declined. he attempted to grab the phone. pushing them both to the ground. it is unfortunate this aggressive behavior from a liberal journalist created this scene at our campaign barbecue. john, the problem with this statement is theres no semblance to reality. this is not what happened, and as a campaign -- somebody that runs campaigns, you have the alterca...

You were waiting to make your decision about health care until you saw the bill and it came out -- >> ill talk to you about that later. >> just curious -- >> speak with shane, please. just -- sick and tired of you guys. the last guy 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 glasse...

Jacobs grabbed gregs wrist and spun away from greg. as a result of this three of montgomerys largest newspapers have rescinded their endorsements of him. now, the candidate is expected to appear in court sometime between now and june 7th. thats the most specific they can get. but the reason were here, shannon, in montgomery is for the special election for the seat vacated by zinke when he was appointed to interior secretary for president trump. this is the election today. and polls close here at...