get the hell out of here. >> he grabs my recorder. >> the republican candidate for congressional seat in montana earning an assault charge. >> voters need to pay attention. temperament does matter. >> jeff sessions not disclosing meetings he had with the russian ambassador. >> american people deserve the answer. >> irritation at the leaks coming out from americans. >> we shouldn't see these pictures. i hope this doesn't break cooperation with britain and the united states. >> this is "new day" with chris cuomo and alisyn camerota. >> welcome to "new day." we have breaking news. the republican candidate in the race for montana's open seat in the u.s. house is now facing assault charge for allegedly body slamming a reporter.

the campaign blaming the reporter before some stunning audio tape of the incident came to light. that election is today. so will this assault charge change the outcome? we will speak to someone who witnessed the confrontation. >> that is key. there were witnesses. this lawmaker or potential lawmaker's story is going to fall away. what is the overall implication? we will discuss. overseas, multiple uk medias are reporting british police will stop sharing intel with the u.s. because the details in the manchester terror attack leaked to the press and they are blaming the u.s. is the trust of america's allies now in jeopardy? let's go first to kyung lah live in missoula, montana. boy, that is the site of the really ugly situation. >> reporter: ugly and talk about a dramatic turn of events. voters heading to the polls in just two hours.

that is when polls here in the state of montana open. they have to consider the frontrunner. the republican. they have to consider that he is now being considered by local law enforcement as someone who committed a misdemeanor crime. congressional candidate greg gianforte charged with misdemeanor assault the night before the special election after body slamming ben jacobs at campaign headquarters. >> he body slammed him. >> reporter: captured in awudio recording. >> you were waiting to make your decision about the bill and it just came out. >> we'll talk about it later. >> there is not time. >> speak with shane, please. i'm sick and tired of you guys. the last guy that 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 are the guardian? >> yes. you just body slammed me and broke my glasses. >> get the hell out of here. >> you would like me to get the hell out of here, i would like to call police. >> reporter: jacobs received x-rays on his elbow. >> he grabs my recorder. throwing me down. my grasslasses break. he is on top of me and screams at me. >> reporter: gianforte's campaign offering a different version of events after the incident. writing, jacobs aggressively shoved a recorder in his face and asked questions. jacobs was asked to leave. after asking to lower the recorder, jacobs declined. he grabbed the phone that was pushed in his face. it is unfortunate that the

aggressive behavior from the liberal journalist created the scene at campaign barbecue. the accounts contradicting gianforte's defense. a team from fox news in the room recounting that gianforte grabbed jacobs by the neck with both hands and slammed him to the ground. gianforte began punching the reporter. the eyewitnesses stressing they did not see jacobs acting aggressi aggressively. >> is there anything you want to say? >> i think that is more for law enforcement to understand. >> reporter: his supporters certainly were willing to talk to us. we spoke to several of them. they call the audio disgusting and they are hoping it is going to boost democratic turnout this morning throughout the day and until the polls close. this is very tight here.

and something else to consider. 7 out of 10 voters in the special election have already voted by absentee ballot. alisyn. >> let's bring in buzzfeed's alex alexis. she was at the campaign headquarters when the altercation took place. good morning, alexis. >> good morning. >> what did you witness? >> so i was in a campaign meet and greet and press availability. i was standing in a campaign office and there was a little side office with a closing door off to the side. i was in the room with a lot of volunteers. candidate's wife, people making cell phone calls, get out the vote stuff. greg gianforte walked into the side room. there was a camera crew in there. we didn't know who the camera crew belonged to. i stayed there.

ben had originally been standing with me walked into the room to listen in on what the interview was about. i was really paying attention until i heard a giant crash. i saw feet fly in the air. the door to the room was about half open. i could not see the whole thing. i heard the crash. i saw him fly in a way when they are ending up on the ground. >> gianforte's campaign said ben was pushing a recorder in the candidate's face. did you see anything like that? >> i couldn't see anything that was happening in the room. i didn't hear anything before the crash. after the crash, there was very audible yelling that everyone heard on ben's recording. >> that was coming from the candidate? >> it was. the very odd scene of stunned science. everyone heard the crash. everyone heard the yelling. there was an awkward, oh, gosh.

what do we do now. >> you never heard aggression or him snap before this? >> i only been here since tuesday. this was my fourth campaign attending of gianforte's. this was very exceptional. >> alexis levinson, thank you for your eyewitness account. it helps us better try to understand what happened here. thanks for being with us. >> no problem. also, new this morning, uk media outlets reporting that officials are stopping intelligence sharing because information was leaked to the media. we have cnn's clarissa ward live in manchester. what do we know? >> reporter: chris, we heard from prime minister theresa may. she will be raising the issue with president trump when she sees him in brussels later today. it was 24 hours ago we heard from the uk home secretary amber

rudd. she said the leaks need to stop and they were irritating. they have been coming out consistently from u.s. officials since the terror attack took place. there is a recognition that the u.s. has a rather large national intelligence bureaucracy. maybe it is lower level officials disseminating the information. the thing that has caused concern and anger and frustration is the decision to public the photographs in "the new york times" that appear to show the bomb that was used in the attack from the looks of those pictures it does seem that the bomb was certainly quite powerful. potentially sophisticated. that has authorities here concerned that there is a bombmaker potentially still at large. they don't know if he would be here or in libya. these are the questions they are trying to drill down on and they

want leaks to stop while they investigate. >> thank you, clarissa. now to a development in the story that cnn brought you on friday. the justice department says that attorney general jeff sessions did not disclose his meetings with the russian ambassador last year on his security clearance form. cnn's joe johns has the latest. >> reporter: good morning, alisyn. his critics say he should have known better under the circumstances, but the attorney general's office was advised against listing foreign contacts with dignitaries on the cle clearancleasecurity clearance forms. attorney general jeff sessions under scrutiny. this time for not disclosing meetings he had with the russian ambassador when he applied for security clearance. the justice department saying he was instructed by the fbi

employee that he did not need to disclose those meetings. >> because the intense scrutiny he knew he was going under. over sharing is better than under sharing. >> reporter: sessions failed to disclose the same contacts during the senate confirmation hearing. >> i have been called a surrogate at a time or two in the campaign. i did not have communications with the russians. >> reporter: that revelation sparking criticism that led to sections recuse al from the investigation into the trump campaign. john conyers calling on the committee to launch investigation allowing sessions showing a troubling pattern of behavior that demands careful review. jared kushner and michael flynn also submitted incomplete security forms. flynn failing to properly disclose payments linksed link

russia. flynn refused to cooperate with previous senate intel requests. >> it is my hope we will subpoena shortly both his testimony, documents and businesses to make sure we use every avenue possible to get the information on the investigation. >> reporter: this after cnn reported u.s. intelligence officials intercepted russian conversations detailing how they could use the relationship with flynn to influence trump and his team. "the new york times" adding russian officials targeted paul manafo manafort. the former campaign manager. all of this as former fbi director james comey failed to turnover memos documenting the interactions with trump to the house oversight committee by the deadline. including a memo alleging the president attempted to pressure comey to shutdown the

investigation. >> nobody has actually seen the documents. i have not seen them. i want to see it myself. >> reporter: and updating more on james comey. he was scheduled to testify in front of the house oversight committee yesterday. that hearing was postponed so he could speak with robert mueller first. comey is expected to testify before the senate intelligence committee after memorial day. alisyn. >> thanks, joe. >> let's bring in our panel. reporter and editor chris cillizza. counter terrorismr ambassador t russia, thomas pickering. cillizza, let's talk about our brother getting body slammed by the hot head in montana. you know withhat i hear? silence. what is the gop party? where is the president who made robocalls for this guy? why do they let him stay in? the assault is clear. >> yeah. he has been charged with a

misdemeanor assault. this is not just he said versus he said at this point. i don't know, chris. at some level this happened around 7:30 or 8:00 p.m. eastern time last night. all three newspapers in the state that endorsed gianforte have rescinded endorsements. i e-mailed i think everybody did the national congressional committee last night. the arm of the party that runs the campaigns. said did you say anything. they referred to the gianforte statement. the gianforte statements is a classic making things worse, not better. there's audio. there are witnesses. who have no vested interest either way that directly contradict the statement. i don't know what they do. look, here is what i can tell you. if this was a week ago, my guess is they probably would come under huge pressure to walk away

from gianforte and say he is our nominee, but we cannot condone it. it is election day today. >> chris, i hope that's not true. i hope the idea of compromising ability to get a seat makes them forget what it is to be a human being. the guy assaulted somebody. he has to go. he has to go. >> i don't disagree with you. he is on the ballot and voters in a couple of hours in montana voting. i'm talking from a logistics perspective. not right or wrong perspective. what can you do? he can't go today because today is election day. >> something like 7 out of 10 people already voted. >> they didn't know the guy they were putting in there picked someone up and threw him on the ground. >> let's say he wins. that is a possibility. alisyn said 70% of the votes are in. >> and the seat is republican and the state is republican. trump won by 20 points. >> you know the guy charged with

assault of a reporter is now the next seat holder there. how do you handle it? that is almost as intriguing. the truncated nature of this happening literally ten hours before polls open. it ties their hands. they can say, don't vote for him. we disavow him. it still may not matter given what happened. >> we need to move on. there are so many top stories that we need to address. ambassador pickering. let's talk about intel leaks and intel sharing. the u.s. two close allies. britain and israel are angry with the u.s. because of intelligence leaks. threatening in the manchester investigation, they will not share intel anymore with the u.s. what does this mean? >> two aspects to this, alisyn. one is obviously the damage it could do us.

particularly in defense of homeland. information of that sort is critical. it comes from all around the world. if we begin to shutdown the sources and people who are cooperating with us, then that makes a real difference in our ability to defend ourselves. this is dangerous and should not be played with fast and loose. the second point is our relationships with both countries are large. we provide them information as well. sharing goes on. they protect information. we seemingly are unable to protect the information they give us for whatever the motivation. that clearly argues for a change. it may argue for slower movement. we have seen prime minister netanyahu say things are okay. israeli intelligence people say things are really not okay. theresa may will be seeing president trump in brussels shortly. british police have shutdown on their own.

whether or not that continues depends on whether the president can give commitment that we will not play fast and loose with the information and when we exchange it, we will protect sources and methods. it will be done through intelligence professionals and hopefully we can tighten up. we get into the particular episodes time and time again. obviously the world is losing faith in its capacity to protect security and affecting our ability to protect our own people at home and abroad. easy. >> phil mudd, your take and also your take on the news about attorney general jeff sessions and his lack of disclosure on his form. his team says they were advised by a legal expert they did not have to put the russian meetings down there. what is your take? >> on the first one. let's look at the flip side. british should shutdown intelligence sharing. if they find something that links people to the united states. e-mail or phone call. they cannot pass that. over the course of the days and

weeks, intelligence sharing will restart. i guarantee it. threat always unifies security services. if that threat leads back to libya that trained or advised the individuals. they will turn back to the united states and say can you help us develop those threats in libya? this is a 50-year marriage. there are fits and starts. there will be intelligence sharing in the future. on sessions, there are two piece, chris. let me clear something with you on the air in public. i frequently did not declare on that form contacts of foreign nationals. >> why not? >> because i met people all day every day. you pass them in starbucks. i talk to them in a restaurant. i saw them in the cafeteria with the fbi. if i declared that, i would never have a job. one job you have is a close and continuing contact. the issue here is context. it is other members of the campaign did not declare contact. you saw michael flynn had relationship and conversation inappropriate. it is not that one individual

didn't declare the kinds of contact that i probably would not have declared. that is doing 62 in a 55 zone. it is a violation. it doesn't look like a problem without context. >> that is very good context for us. that's exactly what attorney general sessions is saying. he had casual incidental contact that did not rise to the level of disclosure. >> the context it is the same type of meetings he did not disclose in other contacts involving russians and people in the administration seem to make the same choice. >> that's right, chris. >> panel, thank you very much for all of the news this morning on the busy news day. is the white house withholding information? senate democrats have sent a letter to the white house with some details about this. one senator behind the letter joins us to tell us what they need to know. what they think the white house is blocking. next. customer: we can't drive this car. tech: ...they wanted it fixed right. so they scheduled with safelite.

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senate democrats accuse the white house of intentionally withholding information from members of congress on issues like the russia investigation and national security. these democrats sent a letter to president trump reading if part if at the instruction of the

white house information is being intentionally withheld on a partisan basis, such actions would be simply unacceptable. joining us now is one of the democrats who signed that letter. senator ron widen of oregon. good morning, senator sgrchosen. >> good morning. >> what information are you not getting? >> i have been willing to cut a new administration a little slack. this is a pattern of non cooperation. the white house is rewriting the separation of powers. we have a duty to do strong oversight. i have been concerned about the chinese trademark issues where it looks like the president and family are getting a special break. this goes to the heart of the separation of powers. they seem to be rewriting the law and not cooperating. >> what are you asking for that they are not giving you? >> we are asking for the kind of essential information we need to

do to do vigorous oversight over programs. for example, within the last couple days, i have been concerned of the administrator for the medicaid and medicare services possibly telling the insurance companies they will get cost sharing money if they back this deeply cut house health bill. we asked questions about that. we are talking about the essential responsibilities of the congress which is to do vigorous oversight and pattern of non cooperation with the white house. >> hold on. you asked about the centers for medicaid and medicare. then what happens? >> first of all, this is a recent letter. that's why i brought it up. i think it is a very current example. we want to know first of all since they are denying there was such a linkage where they in effect held hostage the vital program for something that would

involve political support. we were asking for specifics about what happened since they denied it. >> what response are you getting? >> i indicated we just sent this. i can say we sent a host of letters. one involving the chinese trademarks. it is a complete stonewall. we get nothing. >> you send a letter and you never hear a response. you never encountered this? >> i have never seen a pattern like this. i'm always prepared to cut a bit of a break for a new administration. you have new people coming in. they are getting their footing. we have never seen anything like this from a democratic or republican administration. this pattern of completely shutting down a response to congressional oversight. >> while i have you here, i want to ask about the cbo which scored the house health care plan to replace obamacare.

the cbo says 23 million people will lose insurance in the next ten years. the republicans say the cbo has gotten it wrong before. >> first of all, they said in the past on health care that they were going to wait for the cbo score when we were talking about democratic efforts. look, here is the bottom line and the most telling section of this budget report involves the millions of people with pre-existing conditions. we established a guarantee of air tight protection for those people. the republican plan from the house rips a huge hole in that guarantee of protection and congressional budget office says point blank if the state exercises protection, the insurance for the people could go out the window and they could pay more for less. >> and as you hear, you senators

will go back to the drawing board and start over? >> understand that the senate republicans are not going back to the drawing board. they are staying with their basic frame which is hundreds of billions of dollars in cuts in programs for the vulnerable. vulnerable seniors that depend on nursing home care and hundreds of billions of tax breaks for the fortunate few. they may make cosmetic changes and try to drive this through the senate on a wholly partisan basis. they are sticking with the basic frame. huge kicuts in medicaid. two out of three people who get medicaid work in the country and millions of tax breaks for the wealthy. they are sticking with that. >> let's talk about the budget. you are fair to say not a fan. you tweeted this. you said this is where the trump budget belongs.

you are filing it in the circular recycling file. what is your big problem with it? >> this is a budget you write if you think working people and vulnerable seniors have life too easy. this is again just very skewed. it is clear the most vulnerable people. people who are going to food banks. meals on wheels. i was a volunteer there. they will feel the brunt of this and the fortunate few just get to go about without making any sacrifices at all. >> senator ron wyden, thank you very much for taking time today. the cbo came out with the score in the gop health care plan. one senator has a test of his own. we will ask senator bill cassidy

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health care bill is out. it estimates 23 million more people would be uninsured in 2026. the federal deficit cut by $119 billion during that time. republican senator bill cassidy has a different test. he discussed a couple weeks ago with jimmy kimmel. >> the jimmy kimmel test is no family should be denied care because they cannot afford it. can that be the jimmy kimmel test? is that oversimplifying it? >> you are on the right track. if that works, that would be great in government. it is a challenge to pay for it. all of the middle class families paying $20,000 for more for coverage, we have to make it affordable for them too. >> joining us is senator bill cassidy. senator, does the house gop plan pass the test? >> depends. if you are older and sicker, not really. if you are younger and

healthier, yes, it does. that is important. young folks need affordable coverage. it is a mixed bag. >> if you are pulling money out of the medicaid portion of this and the test was about those who cannot afford health care not being denied it, how does it pass the test? it seems like the answer is no. >> it depends. first, consider your first point. if you take $800 billion out, clearly something falls off. absolutely. latest report did not go into medicaid as much because it focused on the private insurance market. what you are saying is true of those who would be covered under medicaid. >> it is reflected in the budget. this is a value proposition. you want to pull money out of the system. it is in line with the tax reform bill and savings are shown in the cbo score. there is a tradeoff. it seems your party is not honest about the tradeoff. what do you think?

>> again, first, it would become affordable for those younger and healthier. that is a group which struggled with affordability under the affordable care act. those paying $20,000 a year for healthy, would see a decrease in premiums. that is a good thing. on the other hand, we have to if you will, fulfill president trump's campaign promise. to cover all those with pre-existing conditions. eliminating mandates and lowering premiums and the latest plan doesn't address that. one more thing. that is yesterday's news. now it is on to the senate. the senate has to, if you will, fulfill the campaign pledge. that is the issue. >> so the word that the senate is doing, working off the existing model and playing with it. that's not satisfactory by the measure you are setting. is that true? >> i think there is a consensus

we need lower premiums. not just relative to obamacare. under obamacare, premiums are going up 40% per year. insurers are leaving states. we want to lower premiums significantly. not 35% over 40% with obamacare. if we take that. pass the jimmy kimmel test and lower premiums in a real way, we will be some place where the american people like us to be. >> here is the problem and you know this and the american people are learning it. you can't make it work if you don't have the healthy people in the plan. that's the fundamental truth of insurance. it is a pooled coverage. if you don't have the people who are easy to cover, it will be really expensive to cover the people who need a lot of help. you remove the mandate which sounds good to a lot of people because you shouldn't be able to insist somebody buy something although the supreme court said this was a legal legislation.

legal. not illegal. this was legal to do. you remove the mandate. sounds good. how do you get the healthy people in the pool and make the system work? >> the bill that susan collins and i have introduced. we used a mechanism called auto enrollme enrollment. we do that with medicare. you turn 65 and you are on medicare. we do the same easy enrollment in the plan in the patient freedom act. that is getting currency from the senate colleagues to eliminate mandates, but keep people in the pool to provide them insurance and also lower the costs for those sicker. >> you know that the younger people won't do it unless they have to. we saw that before the aca and we saw it during the aca. they don't want the careme. they don't need it. >> that is the nice thing about auto enrollment.

you have a credit for the annual premium. a portion does go to subsidize the overall pool. if the young person gets in a car wreck, they are covered. subject to deductible, of course. if we do easy enrollment with medicare with premiums sufficient, we can have a large and robust pool. >> you acknowledge the 23 million people on the lower income spectrum going to lose care, that's relevant. isn't that something you have to address? >> totally. that's why i say the house plan is yesterday's news. if we do the easy enrollment as we propose. a lot of the folks are back in. they anticipate 14 million people dropping off next year because of no mandate. if we had auto enrollment, they could still be in the pool. that is the beauty of the easy enrollment i like to say. >> let me ask you the question.

in montana, the lawmaker did not like what the reporter was asking. the best thing for greg gianforte is the reporter may have grabbed his wrist. we do not know that to be true. the man was charged with assault, gianforte. given the best reckoning of facts. what do you think your party should do about the man running for congress in montana? >> i just heard about that walking in today. i didn't know the portion about the grabbing of the wrist. >> i don't know that is true. that is just what the lawmaker's staff said. the witnesses do not corroborate that. it is not clear from the audio tape. i'm giving him that as a gift. the police charged him with assault. what is your take? >> i don't know anything about the situation. let me point this out. good policy is good politics. americans have been voting for politicians who promised to repeal and replace obamacare for eight years. they clearly don't like obamacare. if we in the senate come up with repeals and replaces that

fulfills candidate trump's pledges, that is good politics and we don't have to worry i about misdemeanor charges. >> quickly if the guy assaulted a reporter, should he be sitting in congress? >> i don't know anything about that. i read the headline on the way in. as you present it, probably not. since i don't know anything about that story, it is hard for me to comment. >> i hear you. i don't want you to talk without the facts. i appreciate you being on the show. you are welcome to discuss that health care bill anytime. >> thank you. a wisconsin woman goes to pumping gas to stopping a carjacker. the amazing video we have to show you next. cientpr car and administrative paperwork... your days of drowning people are numbered. same goes for you, budget overruns. and rising costs, wipe that smile off your face.

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alisyn. >> chad, thank you very much for the forecast. president trump is in brussels heading to the first nato summit. at this hour, he is at the working lunch with the french president macron. you remember, president trump called nato obsolete on the campaign trail. now it is not. an official tells cnn that sean spicer is fuming he did not get spicer is a devout catholic. eagerly anticipating meeting the pope. we have some video. this woman fighting back after a carjacker tries to steal her suv at a milwaukee gas station. the woman jumps on the hood. the guy puts on the wipers. the old use the wipers to get me off the hood trick did not work. he slams on the brakes twice. melissa smith refuses to budge.

>> he looked at me and laughed at me which really irritated me. >> and that was his mistake. the carjacker jumped out. got away. he made off with her purse, wallet and phone. smith kept her car. able to jump in the driver's seat before the suv rolled into traffic. >> oh, my gosh! >> this i find to be impressive, by the way. >> what is not impressive? >> jumping on the hood is not impressive. now the guy is gone. i have my car back. it is rolling into traffic. there had to be so much inside of her saying this is going to be really bad. run away. instead, she jumps in and saves her car. >> after the first time he jams on the brakes to send her flying, i would get off the hood and reconsider my strategy. >> you would never have been anywhere near the hood. >> you are right. >> you would be pumping gas. >> i don't get out of the car. that is why this would never happen to me.

i like full serve. just kidding. i can't believe she was brave enough to stay on her car and hang on to the wipers and make him run out. >> yes. >> i didn't think it would go that way. >> very, very impressive on one level, but again, why do they tell you not to do these things? think about what could go wrong over a car, a purse, a phone? if she fallen off, he could have run her offever. a gop candidate has made headlines just hours before the special election in montana. how will republicans react to his charge of assault? we debate that next. it runs up to 45 minutes on a single charge. the ego power+ string trimmer. exclusively at the home depot and ego authorized dealers.

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a republican candidate from montana's house seat is facing an assault charge this morning after this confrontation with a reporter. >> the cbo score. as you know, you've been waiting to make your decision until after it comes out. >> we'll speak about that later. >> i'm sick and tired of you guys. the last time you came in here, you did the same thing. get the hell out of here. get the hell out of here. >> yes. you just broke my glasses. you just body slammed me and

broke my glasses. >> can i get your guy's names? he just body slammed me. >> how will republicans respond to this? let's bring in rick santorum and an anna. rick, is there any doubt in your mind about what happened here? >> it doesn't sound like it and i have seen some reports of people who were there, who witnessed it that doesn't make it sound any better than what the audio sounds like. the fact of the matter is that reporters get up in your face and harrass you. i've been there many times and on occasion i maybe felt like doing what that congressional candidate did. but you don't do it. it's not behavior that is

acceptab acceptable. i'm disappointed that he did what he did. >> rick, one more minute on you. the election is today. so what should republicans in his state and what could president trump do about this? >> i don't really know. if the election is today and you say it is, i don't really know that you can do anything. the people of montana are going to be hearing this and reacting to it. obviously, you have the audio. you have some eye witnesses. but as bill just said, a lot of that is still just trying to be worked out. how that works, i don't know. >> go ahead, anna. >> look, i actually agree with rick on this one. today is election day. i think it is up to the people of montana to make their decision. there is plenty of evidence out there. i woem ke up this morning and thought, man, it is really lucky

it wasn't chris cuomo he took on. >> so we all agree, it is not acceptable in just the human course of interaction. but is it incumbent upon president trump, who had made calls for this guy to condemn it? >> i don't know if president trump -- he's out there on a foreign trip. but certainly i think congressional leadership should put out a statement and condemn this. at this point if this guy happens to lose the election tonight which may or may not happen, they don't have to blame it on trump. they don't have to blame it on the health care bill. they don't have to blame it on paul ryan. they can put the blame square on this guy for his unacceptable behavior. you just do not want to hire somebody to go represent the people of montana that is incapable of behaving like a civil adult. if you think getting questions from reporters is hard, wait until a constituent gets in your

face and asks you tough, pointed questions, which we have seen over and over in the last few months happen in town halls. point their fingers and ask questions harshly. that is what an elected official is going to have to put up this. this guy simply does not have the temperament to do it. it's a special election. and, what, 12 months we'll have another one, another election and you can actually put up a republican that is scene, civilized, has evolved from walking on fours to walking on two legs. >> 12 months is a long time, rick. what if he wins today. >> he will be saddled with an assault suit that will obviously preoccupy his time. this isn't a good situation. >> should the republicans intervene today? should they say we're pulling

our endorsement? >> the people of montana will make that decision. i don't think anybody rushing to judgment now is actually going to have an impact one way or another. i think let the people of the montana. they're going to hear all about this. i'm sure this is front page story news and on every media outlet in montana and they will make a decision whether this is acceptable or not. >> the problem is there is early voting in this district. 7 out of 10 people have already voted. maybe they regret their vote now that they hear this story. but they have already voted. >> you are talking to someone who is not for early voting. this is another great example why early voting is not a good thing. early voting may sound great to allow people to have the opportunity to vote early, but it doesn't take all the information that you need on election day. so another good reason. >> what do you think should

happen today? >> look, i'm not sure that republicans saying anything is going to make a difference. i'm old enough to remember when republican leadership came up against donald trump because of his access hollywood tapes came out and it didn't make much of a difference. yes, republicans should come out and condemn this. but number two, the personal responsibility is upon the people of montana. there is plenty of evidence for them to look at, to listen to and to make up their minds. is this the type of person you want representing you in congress? is this the type of example you want for your children? is this the type of person that you want to go and see when you have a problem, a constituent problem? those are the questions they need to ask themselves. at this point it is too late to make a difference. it is absolutely up to the voters of montana and even though there has been a lot of early voting, turn-out, election

day still matters. if you are in montana, get yourself up out of bed today and go vote and go make your voice heard because if not you are going to be saddled with this guy for a long, long time and you are not going to get a do-over for another 16 months. >> thank you very much. we should let everyone know we will speak to that reporter who had the confrontation with te congressman in just minutes. so let's get right to it. >> i'm sick and tired of you guys. get the hell out of here. >> the republican candidate now facing an assault charge. >> hoping to give a basic statement. next thing i know i'm being body slammed. >> we're living in an environment that donald trump helped create. >> jeff sessions did not list meetings that he had with the russian ambassador. >> it is yet another