Could be a bell weather special election for montanas seat. Body slamming ben jacobs. Here is the audio posted by the guardian. You know, you were waiting to make your decision about health care. It just came out. We will talk to you about that later. Im just curious speak with shane. Sick and tired of you guys. The last guy that came in here, you did the same thing. Get out of here get the hell out of here the last guy did the same thing. You with the guardian . Yes. You broke my glasses. The last guy did the same thing. You body slammed me and broke my glasses. Get the hell out of here. I would like to call the police. Can i get your names . He body slammed me. Moments ago the candidates spokesman issued a statement. 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 questions. Jacobs was asked to leave. You heard the questions he was asking about the Congressional Budget Office score. 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 away from greg pushing them both to the ground. The statement concludes, its unfortunate that this aggressive behavior from a liberal journalist created this scene at our Campaign Volunteer barbecue. You interviewed the candidate a few hours before this confirmation. How did he seem to you . This issue of the Congressional Budget Office thing, the reason its timely is because he had resisted making a public declaration about it until the cbo released their score. Thats why the reporter was asking about it. And i actually asked him the same question. I interviewed him three hours before this confrontation. I met with him, spent some time with him. He answered several questions. He did talk about health care. He said he needed to study the cbo score. He needed to look at the further details. This is a difficult dance for him. He seemed very willing to talk about it. I interviewed him about a month prior as well. His demeanor seemed similar today as it was a month ago. Certainly, he is under pressure. Its the day before the special election. His campaign is on overdrive. He is trying to hit as many spots as possible. That is certainly wearing on him. He didnt seem any different than he was a month ago. His demeanor very similar. You heard his voice, his elevated voice. That was his voice. He has a very distinctive, loud voice. That was certainly him on that audio recording. As far as whether or not he seemed more aggressive or any different, he didnt seem that way to me. We should point out the guardian published an article that basically stated that this candidate held i think more than 100,000 or something in investments in two index funds that were i guess heavily invested in russia or russia index funds. I guess did not like that article. You are about to interview the democratic candidate. He is the underdog in this race. Have they how are they responding to this incident . I went in to speak to his press person. She said that they were going to refrain from commenting on this right now. They really want to just see this play out on the national level. Here in montana, they dont its beneficial at all to have this sort of thing come in on the local level. We have gotten a statement from the dccc, the campaign arm of House Democrats and what the dccc is saying is that he needs to pull out of the race. Certainly, were not getting any indication that thats going to be happening. Rob quist is expected to arrive here shortly. He will meet with Campaign Supporters before the special election, before polls up at 7 00 a. M. Montana time. From the indication i got from his campaign, he is going to try to get through the day, try to be pleasant, get montana people to vote for him on local state issues. Its interesting that in the statement they that they put out, they said that this was a liberal reporter. Thats clearly not an accident they inserted that in the statement. We spoke by phone to buzzfeeds alexis levinson. Had a partial view. Here is what he had said. A reporter who was outside the room, she joins us now by phone. You were outside of this room. What did you see or hear . So we were all this was the Campaign Meet and greet. There was a main room where a lot of volunteers were making phone calls, we were waiting for a campaign event. There was a side room where a tv crew a local tv crew was set up to do an interview. John forte went in there. The door was half open. Ben walked in to listen in. So i had a half view. All of a sudden i heard giant crash, saw bens feet fly in the air. I want to read the statement from the campaign. I want to play you the audio so you can see if you think it jives. Tonight as greg was giving an interview, ben jacobs entered without permission, shoved a recorder in gregs face, began asking questions. You hear the question you will hear the questions. Theyre about the Congressional Budget Office. He was asked to leave. That seemed to happen. They were trying to brush him off. After asking jacobs to lower the recorder, jacobs s declined. Im not sure i heard that. Greg attempted to grab the phone in his face. Ye its unfortunate this aggressive behavior from a liberal journalist created this. You know you were waiting to make your decision about health care until you saw the bill and it just came out. We will talk to you about that later. Im curious speak with shane. Im sick and tired of you guys. The last guy who 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. You with the guardian . Yes. You just broke my glasses. The last guy did the same thing. You body slammed me and broke my glasses. Get the hell out of here. You would like me to get out of here. I would like to call the police. Can i get you guys names . He just body slammed me. You just heard that. It says after asking jacobs to lower the recorder, jacobs declined. I didnt hear any audio of that. I dont know if anybody at home did. I dont think you did. Greg attempted to grab the phone. That maybe happened. Jacobs grabbed gregs wrist pushing them both to the ground. Theres no video if they both ended up on the ground. Perspective from our panel. The statement, how does it jive with what you heard . It doesnt sound the same. Like you said, it doesnt sound like both people fell to the ground. The reporter is saying, you body slammed me and nobody is disputing it. Nobody is saying, thats not what happened. Theyre not disputing it. I will say that if the reporter forced their way into an office, thats inappropriate. That said, the response to that is never physical violence. I dont think that what the reporter was doing was overly aggressive questioning. It was asking a couple questions that seemed reasonable and should be answered. The rage that came back seemed a little disproportionate to what was happening. Matt . Yeah. I didnt really see how the statement in that audio we heard added up. He asked about the cbo score and tried to follow up when he was brushed off. Then to it didnt sound like there was a scuffle. It sounded like he was attacked. He immediately said, i was just you body slammed me. Thats not something you just come up with off the top of your head that you make up. I will say, the statement tries to politicize it right away calling him a liberal reporter. He is not. He is a well respected reporter for a well respected outlet. This should not be a partisan thing. On the hill, republicans and democrats are interviewed by us reporters constantly with our phones and recorders in their faces. I have never seen anyone react repomotely like that. It is inserting liberal in there clearly theres a reason they did that. There is a reason. He is running for congress. To call somebody a liberal who you just body slammed is probably one of the best ways to get out of it, i would presume, if theres any way to get out of it. He is a candidate who has embraced donald trump who wholehearted wholeheartedly. That means that he has embraced his health care package. The question was about how many the cbo score which showed 23 Million People will not have health care. Thats not a good question for him. His opponent, who by the way is an underdog and i would argue remains an underdog in this race, has embraced Barack ObamasAffordable Care act. Health care is kind of a hot button here, which is why the reporter was asking the question about it. It was a natural question to ask. I think that in the last hours of a race with this score coming out, you had a candidate who for whatever reason had no answer to that question. And the candidate should have had an answer to that question. It is you raised this point earlier of the environment now of this antipathy toward reporters and this license to just act out on it. I guess some people may feel. I think the fact that they put liberal journalist in the statement underscores that point. Theres something almost in the eyes of some Trump Supporters that socalled ly eed liberal journalists are somehow subhuman or something. I have been doing this for a long time. Theres always been this sort of sense of people maybe conservatives feeling journalists are too liberal. Its never been the way it is now. There is such anger and hostility and rage that is directed at journalists. This flows from donald trump. If this was a democratic candidate doing this to a conservative reporter it would be the same it would be as inappropriate. It would be of course. We would be saying the same thing. The story is not the politics of either side. Its the fact that this is a candidate i can almost guarantee there will be conservatives that come out and defend what he did. At this point in the election, with little time left, its all about getting out your voters. Montana is trump won by 20 points. Its quirky. Its a quirky state. It has a democratic governor, a democratic senator. If you are trying to figure out a way to turn this around, if you are trying to turn it around, you are going to turn it into some liberal journalist. 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 forth. Its more charged now. This physical altercation is the next level. For all donald trump said about reporters, to tie these two things together is unfair. This is really just so out of the norm. I will say, i dont see any way this helps the candidate. It sounds like somebody going from 0 to 60, somebody busting out in anger. We will obviously be interested in talking to the reporter and the candidate as well. Cnn has learned about something attorney general Jeff Sessions failed to mention during his security vetting, contact with a top russian diplomat and kislyak. What have you learned on this . Tonight the Justice Department is acknowledging that attorney general Jeff Sessions did not disclose meetings he had last year with russian officials when he applied for his security clearance. This is the laute elatest examp sessions not listing contacts with russian officials. He endured criticism from democrats after it was revealed he did not disclose these same contacts with the Russian Ambassador during his Senate Confirmation hearings. Sessions met with kislyak two times last year, including at the Republican National convention. He did not note those interactions on this form, which requires him to list any contact he or his family had with a Foreign Government or its representative over the past seven years. You remember that sessions failed to disclose those meetings during those proceedings that led to sessions recusing himself from all matters related to the russia investigation. How is the Justice Department responding to this tonight . Tonight the Justice Department says sessions met with hundreds if not thousands of foreign dignitaries. They said they were advised by an fbi investigator not to list those meetings given that he is a sitting senator. I can tell you that not everyone agrees with that interpretation. One legal expert we quoted in this story says he has advised our lawmakers to actually disclose all Foreign Government contacts. Even if it was done in an official capacity. Some republicans are even saying that given all the questions over russia, perhaps he should have disclosed even more than he did earlier this year. To be clear, it wasnt just that he didnt discuss close meeting with russians, he didnt disclose meeting with any foreign dignitaries. Thats pa thats an important detail. How is the fbi responding . Do we know . We asked the fbi for comment. They have not yet responded. They decline dod to comment. Capitol hill is ceasing on this, particularly democrats perhaps not surprisingly jumping on this, including the top Democrat John conniers who says its time for a thorough investigation into sessions. Lawmakers on the House Intelligence Committee had previously said its possible that sessions could be questioned about those meetings that he had with the russian officials during the course of the campaign. A big question for lawmakers as well that they have about sessions is his role over the firing of fbi director james comey, even though he recused himself from the russia investigation. That was brought to the Deputy DirectorDeputy Attorney general in these closed door briefings with house members last week. Anderson, he did not comment about Jeff Sessions role. That could be a question for bob mueller, the special counsel to look at. Expect those questions to continue Going Forward. Thanks. More on the larger russia investigation. Jessica snyder reports on how its aaffectiffecting the effor obtain james comeys memos conversations with the president. Lawmakers are waiting for the fbi to turn over documents, including one where the president allegedly told comey, i hope you can let this go, referg to the investigation into former naggal security adviser Michael Flynn. The House Oversight and Senate Judiciary committees demanded that Andrew Mccabe submit memos or tapes. Neither committee have received them. Capitol hill investigations continue to ramp up. Former Trump Campaign manager Paul Manafort submitted 300 documents to the senate Intelligence Committee containing speeches, calendars and notes from his time with the campaign. So far, Michael Flynn isnt cooperating. Flynn plans to invote hke his f amendment rights. His refusal prompted the senate Intelligence Committee to send two new subpoenas to businesses run by flynn with a may 30th deadline. If theres not a response, we will seek additional counsel advice on how to proceed forward. At the end of the option is a contempt charge. Ive said everything is on the table. Reporter while President Trump travels abroad, his legal team is assembling here at home. Ms he has retched trump for more than 15 years. He represents a russian bank and a russian business tycoon with ties to vladimir putin. The white house is resetting its sp for an fbi director after wide ranging dissatisfaction with the leading candidate former senator joe lieberman. All while paul ryan put forth a muted defense of fired director james comey. You know the former fbi director. Does it concern you the president referred to the former fb i director as a nutjob . I dont agree with that. He is not. Do we know what the appointment of Robert Mueller will have any affect on the memos. First off, we know that mueller has been briefed on these memos from james comey. They have not been handed over to congress. House oversight chair Jason Chaffetz said the fbi contacted his staff and said they would not be handed over today. That was the initial deadline. Its unclear when the memos might be handed over if at all. To that end, Senate Judiciary chair Chuck Grassly said he is considering calling a meeting with Robert Mueller along with senat senator diane feinstein. They want to know whether the investigators might keep the memos for their own investigation and not hand them over. Thank you. The panel weighs in. Have incidents done damage to u. S. Relationships with allies . We will explore that ahead. What . Whats Critical Thinking like . A basketball costs 14. Whats team spirit worth . cheers whats it worth to talk to your mom . Whats the value of a walk in the woods . The value of capital is to create, not just wealth, but things that matter. Morgan stanley what makesheart healthysalad the becalifornia walnuts. R . The best simple veggie dish ever . Heart healthy california walnuts. 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