It gave no means of tracing this back to the source, but it had a lot of information in it about things that had been happening in trump tower. And it appeared to be from somebody inside the transition or inside trump tower who was concerned about what this person was seeing. And a lot of whats written or conveyed in this letter has sort of come become true over time. Its taken a while for a lot of this stuff to surface, including this detail about this discussion over a back channel or a private channel of communications with moscow. Again i just want to im trying to sort of bend over to read this as charitably as possible. So i mean is it possible that they were setting up lots of different back channels with lots of different foreign leaders . Well, we dont i mean i suppose its possible. Clearly they were in communication and meeting with a lot of leaders, a lot of foreign leaders. Most of them, as you point out,
were coming through the front door, not the back door. The behavior he
categorically denied that happened and said the only aggressor was soon to be congressman gianforte, an assertion backed up by the audio of the assault. quote, it s unfortunate that this aggressive behavior from a liberal journalist created this scene at our campaign volunteer barbecue. that statement, which we now know was a complete and total lie, a fabrication, that was issued by a person by the name of shane scanlon, gianforte s spokesperson. that s shane right there. we asked shane to come on the show tonight, and we ve reached out to the gianforte campaign for comment with no reply. right now shane scanlon, as far as we know, has not apologized for his defamation. he has not apologized to ben jacobs for maligning him in public and lying about him, and he has not apologized to everyone who published or broadcast the fictitious
wrist and spun away from greg, pushing them both to the ground. both ben jacobs and another reporter who witnessed the assault, of course, categorically denied that happened and said the only aggressor was soon to be congressman gianforte, an assertion backed up by the aud yoeaudio of the assault. quote, it s unfortunate that this aggressive behavior from a liberal journalist created this scene at our campaign volunteer barbecue. that statement which we now know was a complete and total lie, a fabrication, that was issued by a person by the name of shane scanlon, gianforte s spokesperson. that s shane right there. we asked shane to come on the show tonight, and we ve reached out to the gianforte campaign for comment with no reply. right now shane scanlon, as far as we know, has not apologized for his defamation. he has not apologized to ben
tonight, as greg was giving a separate interview, the guardian s ben jacobs entered the office without permission, aggressively shoved a recorder in greg s face and began asking badgering questions. jacobs was asked to leave. you heard the questions he was asking about the congressional budget office score. the statement continues quote, after asking jacobs to lower the recorder, jacobs declined. greg then attempted to grab the phone that was pushed in his face. jacobs grabbed greg s wrist and spun away from greg pushing them both to the ground. the statement concludes, it s 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 it s timely is because he had resisted making a public declaration about it until the cbo released their score. that s why the reporter was
reporter: gianforte s campaign offering a different version of events after the incident. releasing the incident on aggressive behavior. writing, as greg was giving a special interview, ben jacob s entered the office without permission and started asking badgering questions. jacobs was asked to leave. after being asked to lower the recorder, jacobs declined. pushing them both to the ground. it is unfortunate the aggressive behavior from a liberal journalist created this scene at the campaign volunteer barbecue. i saw his feet. reporter: both accounts contradicting the events.