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Democrats say, look, donald trump won this state by 21 points last november in this election, it looks like a seven-point margin, a seven-point victory for the republicans. so, democrats will say, hey, we ate into the trump margin. this is progress. if we could cut 14 points off the trump margin everywhere, well be in great shape in 2018. of course, republicans would say, hey, this is was an open seat race, different dynamics. if democrats were going to win this thing in montana, number one, the...

Tonight, as greg was giving a separate interview, the guardians ben jacobs entered the office without permission, aggressively shoved a recorder in gregs face and began asking badgering questions. jacobs was asked to leave. you heard the questions he was asking about the congressional budget office score. the statement continues quote, after asking jacobs to lower the recorder, jacobs declined. greg then attempted to grab the phone that was pushed in his face. jacobs grabbed gregs wrist and spun...

Hour about the allegations against the montana campaign -- candidate for house allegedly assaulting a reporter. >> right, the story broke on the air. my reaction was sort of no big deal, dont make a federal case out of it. i think i was wrong. this is a big deal. if the facts are as the reporter alleged which is he asked a question and the response from the candidate was to body slam him, thats a matter for law enforcement. thats a serious thing. i regret making light of it. >> on this other sto...

Supporters, soft supporters got up this morning, saw it was snowing out w all this craziness, i might stay home. that would be the thing that would tilt this race to rob quist. its not a fast counting state. it might be a long night tonight before we find out exactly how this whole thing plays out. stephanie? >> what by a different reaction? did you speak to anyone today that maybe wasnt thinking about voting but after seeing something like that said, ive got to raise my hand and get out there a...

>> the democratic candidate, rob quist, so far declining to comment. one other thing worth noting, the sheriff, brian gutkin, has confirmed he gave gianfortes campaign $250 but says it will have no bearing on his investigation. early voting has been under way for weeks, and hundreds of thousands of absentee ballots have already been returned. to be clear, more than 250,000 votes have already been cast in this election. you could expect anywhere between 350,000 and 500,000 total votes in this ele...

I gave him what he deserved, which is ridiculous. thats the best spin he could put on it. it may motivate some of his people to come out and vote. quist is trying to get his voters out there. it could motivate his. you never know what happens in the last hours of a campaign. >> theres nothing normal about this. even with the rhetoric being as charged as it is against reporters. we have all had tough interviews. were used to being booed and having candidates berate us. thats part of the back and ...

Reporter, and this is the most egregious use of numbers ive ever seen in my entire time. >> all right. jennifer rubin, and steve ratner, thank you both. i want to do some updating on the breaking news story out of montana that we brought you at the top of this hour. ben jacobs, reporter for the guardian, who was in montana covering that was at an event with greg gianforte. hes the candidate running in that at-large congressional special election that is tomorrow. hes the republican candidate run...

That statement last night. and based on the voters i was talking to today, that strategy might actually work for him. we spoke to vote takers polling place in bozeman that i would say was probably more friendly to rob quist, the democrat in this race. ive talked to probably two dozen voters, admittedly not a very big sample. but nobody told me they were changing their vote. some of the quist people said they were pumped up. they felt like they had to defend montana. but even those who were more ...

Voters that say if this incident didnt change their mind, it has juiced the whole thing a ltle bit. i talked to one supporter of rob quist who said he wished he could have voted 12 times. another one said hes embarrassed this is a view of montana that the rest of the country is getting because of this incident. but i also talked to supporters of gian fforte who said theyre not bothered by this, they still pulled the knob for him, and they think reporters can be too aggressive. thats not really h...

>> ill tell you what it is, chris. its health care. in montana, if the republican health care plan goes through, not only will 23 million americans lose health care, but 70,000 people in the state of montana, and that is a real concern for older people in america, in montana, premiums would soar. people would lose access to planned parenthood. 2.5 million women. and medicaid would be cut by over $800 billion. so i think rob quist, by the way, is running a great campaign, and i think hes been foc...