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And, yeah, throws me down. my glasses break. he sort of, i think -- i'm pretty sure he's 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 it's just very strange and mortifying because, you know, i'm used to -- i don't 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. >> you've been covering this race. you've been there covering this race, and you tweeted the other day -- just to give you a context, that rob quist, who is the democratic ...

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. they've 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. what's happened is at a whole other level. earlier this evening, but not that long ago, a reporter for "the guardian" ne...

Anyplace else and say, look, the cbo has just said we're throwing 23 million people off of health insurance. you're an older worker, 63, 64 years old, your premiums are soaring. you're a woman. you have gone to planned parenthood for years. we're 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 there's also the budget, right? and the budget is -- >> that's right. >> the budget is interesting because it shares a lot in common with the acha, and all of it is very paul ryanism. it's wh...

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 it's okay to do something like that. >> what do you make of that? >> not raised that way. >> so, i'm just looking forward to doing whatever i can to help trump out and putting republicans in. >> i'm quite embarrassed actually that this is the state of american politics today. >> it didn't make me question my...

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 we've 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 guitar at campaign appearances and he's, you know, this candidate, republican, is feeling the heat h...