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>> 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 ben's 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 ente...

There's a lot the public need tols know. but there's serious questions of obstruction of justice and the special counsel is going to look at that. >> we have breaking news from the campaign trail. alleged violence at an event in montana. ben jacobs, a reporter says on twitter he was body slammed by greg gianforte. a reporter for buzzfeed joins us now by phone. alexis, what did you see or hear? >> this is a campaign meet and greet at greg gianforte's headquarters. there was a main room where a lot of volunteers were making phone calls. there was a side room where a tv crew, i guess a local tv c...

And gianforte went into a room with aides. everyone kind of went behind closed doors. there were a lot of aides coming and going. gianforte went out. i didn't see him for a while. my understanding is i think he might have been talking to the police. there was the police -- the emt guys said someone was talking to the police. they didn't specify who. he disappeared for a while. i started to go back inside and saw that gianforte was in the passenger seat in a car with two of his aides. i asked the aides what was going on. they didn't answer, and got in the car and drove away. the sheriff's depar...

Something the guardian had written about the race previously or done about the race previously. and then gianforte went into kind of a side room off this little area where people were making calls. there was a tv crew set up in there, a local tv crew. ben kind of walked in as we all do to kind of listen in on everyone's interviews. and i wasn't really paying attention. all of a sudden, i heard this huge crash, like really alarming. this is 15 people in like a small kind of room. and i saw someone's feet fly in the air. then i heard yelling, and it was pretty clearly gianforte a voice from what...

Is a side room which a local tv network had set up, a short of shoot for an interview. when ben went in that room, was in just ben and gianforte in there or were a bunch of other people in that room? >> i believe the tv crew was in there. they were in there when i saw before. >> so people saw this? >> ben sort of -- it was sort of like a -- you know, we all do this when tv crews interview a candidate. you sort of like stand there if you c -- so you can get the audio as well. they tend not to want to give endless interviews on the same thing. the door was wide open. so -- >> he doesn't even duc...