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More popular in the state than he is the national average and that gianforte has hugged donald trump as close as he can and that rob quist, the democrat, has made health care a very big issue in this state. and there are a lot of people in the state of mt. nth wontana wh worried theyre going to lose their health care benefits. the question the reporter asked yesterday was about the congressional office estimate that 23 million people would be left without health insurance and that is the questio...

Now republican greg gianforte is projected to win a seat in the u.s. house of represent testifies from the state of montana. >> latest numbers for you. gianforte has 50.8% of the vote. rob quist with 43.4%. now gianforte apologized for his confrontation with the reporter. saying when you make a mistake you have to own up to it. >> the. >> the alleged assault of ben jacobs marks a new low in relations between the u.s. media and politicians especially republicansen a reporters. the cnn spelling sp...

Be a temptation to ascribe this to what happened last night. as you heard earlier, about 70% of the voters will have been cast before last night. so something else is going on. this is a district that donald trump carried by 20 points that has been held by a republican for to years. so there is a resistance to whats going on in washington. >> there are the new totals. i hate to cut you off, but let me -- >> no, go ahead. >> -- just put this up, david, then you can continue your thought. >> yeah....

Election. there they are. 49.4% for greg gianforte, and 44.8% for rob quist. greg gianforte, when we got this, was very close. lets discuss now. cnn political commentators, peter beinart, symone, sanders, jeff kingston, and kevin madden. jack, lets start with greg gianforte. although he lost three newspaper endorsements, rerosponse from t gop, far more per missive. wheres the outrage in this for someone whos accused of committing a misdemeanor assault? >> well, don, let met say this. we werent t...

The final results of this special congressional election in montana. and the race between republican greg gianforte and democrat rob quist is probably getting more attention than it would have for one reason. the body slam heard around the political world. deputies charged gianforte with misdemeanor assault late last night after a reporter from "the guardian" newspaper named ben jacobs, accused him of body slamming him. it started when jacobs asked him a question about the congressional budget o...

Was saying this that they accepted his apology that he is forgiven and that they do want him to be a representation of who they are in d.c. patti and at the end, you also heard them say that they will not be moving to washington, d.c., that they will be traveling back and fort. >> it was interesting. as you noted, after he apologized specifically to ben jacobs, he also said i am sorry to each one of you. that is not the person i am, and that is not the way i will need to. we have a lot of work t...

November. donald trump won montana by 21. the question is rob quist, can he improve enough on what hillary clinton did. here is the good news for democrats right now. you look at missoula, that is a college town. thats the university of montana. they need a gigantic number out of missoula. quist is winning that in the early vote by 27 points. thats probably the floor of what democrats want to see out of missoula. here is the question. same day voting. remember, its same day registration state. w...

>> but even before last nights staggering incident, there was a chance of a possible upset. democratic candidate rob quist is a cowboy hat wearing populist folk singer who polled shows within striking distance, at least in some polls. and then came last night when the guardians ben jacobs tried to ask gianforte about the cbo score of the gop health care bill at an event in bozeman. >> -- the cbo score because, you know, you were waiting to make your decision about health care until you saw the b...

Folks, college age, and older, liberal missoulans who are there in that crowd. again, early to be celebrating but they are. rob quist, 46.9% now. greg gianforte 47.3% of the vote with only 45% of the total in at this point. so thats one of our two breaking news stories. thats in montana tonight. plus, were reporting on jared kushner under fbi scrutiny in the russia probe. back with me now, mr. david axelrod. so, david, cnn has learned investigators are now focusing on the presidents son-in-law...

One team wins another team loses >> another question to ask the importance of health care in the race as we saw pivot altleefrt in the race rob quist ran. and we know obviously greg gianforte about feelings about hshlg when he was asked about it. does this lead to a sigh of relief for republicans who are going to have to vote on the facing midterm elections in 2018. >> i dont believe so yet. i mean again were 120 days whatever the numbers are that since president trump. >> is that all? >> seems ...