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I gave him what he deserved, which is ridiculous. that's 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. >> there's nothing normal about this. even with the rhetoric being as charged as it is against reporters. we have all had tough interviews. we're used to being booed and having candidates berate us. that's part of the back and forth. it's more charged now. this physical altercation is the next level. for all donald trump ...

Reporter, and this is the most egregious use of numbers i've 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. he's the candidate running in that at-large congressional special election that is tomorrow. he's the republican candidate running against rob quist, the democrat. we played you audio of ben jacobs at this campaign event wa...

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. i've 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 cautiously defending him said this might make me question his character a little bit fwufl policy d...

Voters that say if this incident didn't 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 he's 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 they're not bothered by this, they still pulled the knob for him, and they think reporters can be too aggressive. that's not really how ben jacobs described what happened to him when he spoke to our colleague chris hayes last nig...

>> i'll tell you what it is, chris. it's 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 he's been focusing on this disastrous what he calls un-american health care plan. >> do you think -- i mean th...