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Might be light because of the upcoming holiday weekend. >> i dont think so. i think now it is high. >> today the presidents first foreign trip takes him to brussels where events are just getting under way. the main focus is nato. candidate trump wants to disparage -- since taking office, he reversed that stance after nato made a few adjustments saying it is no longer obsolete. the president still wants other countries to contribute more. white house correspondent sarah murray joining us live fro...

Time. we should know one way or the other, eventually this evening. whitney, thank you. the race between greg gianforte and rob quist was already closer than people anticipated. especially for a state where president trump won by 20 points. gianforte has been trying to leverage the presidents popularity with this robo call. >> so get to the polls and vote for greg. thats greg gianforte. youll be very proud of him for years to come. >> lets get into this with cnn political commentator april rya...

Quist brought an bernie sanders. both candidates ran on outsider platforms. even before the incident, political watchers here told fox gianforte style could be an issue. >> the perception is that he is a little prickly. more than other candidates in the past. >> pulls in montana close at 10:00 p.m. eastern and we should have results soon after. >> bret: live in montana, alecia, thank you. we will have results here. the senate intelligence committee is giving its top two members blanket authoriti...

The republicans, you know. i think what its about is that theyre going to have to go back to the drawing board. i dont know how, if youre a republican congressman, you go home to montana or anybody else, anyplace else and say, look, the cbo has just said were throwing 23 million people off of health insurance. youre an older worker, 63, 64 years old, your premiums are soaring. youre a woman. you have gone to planned parenthood for years. were not going to allow you to do that anymore. so i think...

Jon ossoff at 51%, seven points ahead of republican karen handle. as we mentioned earlier, voters go to the polls tomorrow in that montana special house election. it will be an uphill climb for democrat rob quist. the president won the state by 20 points, but as politico reports, republicans are concerned the race is much closer than it should be. quist was campaigning with bernie sanders, and health care was at the top of the agenda. >> to my mind, in the greatest country on earth, people shoul...

And, yeah, throws me down. my glasses break. he sort of, i think -- im pretty sure hes on top of me wailing for a second, and then screams at me to get the hell out. and then his staffer comes in and its just very strange and mortifying because, you know, im used to -- i dont mind being blown off by politicians, and i also am always terribly uncomfortable being part of a story. and now it seems like i became the story. >> youve been covering this race. youve been there covering this race, and yo...

This is a race for a seat in the house of representatives where the whole state gets to vote in this election, and this race is between the republican candidate on the left side of your screen, greg gianforte and rob quist. before tonight you might have said both candidates have issues of different kinds. theyve each had their share of some embarrassing headlines. both have thrown considerable amount of money. we were planning on covering those elements of the race tonight. whats happened is at ...

Anyplace else and say, look, the cbo has just said were throwing 23 million people off of health insurance. youre an older worker, 63, 64 years old, your premiums are soaring. youre a woman. you have gone to planned parenthood for years. were not going to allow you to do that anymore. so i think that this is a disaster for the republicans, and i think quist is quite right in campaigning on this. >> so theres also the budget, right? and the budget is -- >> thats right. >> the budget is interestin...

No one i talked today told me they changed their votes because of what happened. most of the people, this incident last night only seemed to underline what they already fe about their candidate. take a listen. >> some people are pretty hard-pressed with their feelings and some people think its okay to do something like that. >> what do you make of that? >> not raised that way. >> so, im just looking forward to doing whatever i can to help trump out and putting republicans in. >> im quite embarra...

Pinned to a wall for daring to approach the fcc chairman and commissioner to ask a question after a press conference. i mean, this is not something that is normal, but weve seen a lot more of these and i think it is something to be concerned about. >> i think he feels sort of -- this candidate, this republican who is supposed to just breeze into this seat, he had $6 million spent against him, rob quist, the democrat, is not a practiced politician. he plays in a band and goes around playing his g...