welcome back everybody watching cnn newsroom live from los angeles john vause. isha sesay following the breaking news out of montana where fine fort is widening the lead in the check out the numbers on the screen gianforte has a 50% of the vote. democrat rob quist, 44.1%. with that that s 72% of the vote counted. it looks like it s narrowed that lead a little bit but we ll see. 17618 votes ahead. the election took a busy czar twist. listen to the audio recorder that came from ben jaks obsess interaction with gianforte. speak with shane please.