response. he should have said, no, i ve had enough. the next thing i know i m being body slammed. and he is on top of me for a second, my glasses are broken. the strangest moment in my entire life reporting. does he scream and raise his voice while he does it or just body slams you. the audio was talk to my communications person and he grabs my recorder and phone, but the audio should be up right now on the guardian. throws me down, my glasses break. i m pretty sure he s on top of me for a second and then screams at me to get the hell out. and, yeah, his staffer comes in. just very strange and mortifying because i m used to i don t mind being blown off by politicians and i am always terribly uncomfortable being part of a story.
been talking about that he d been holding off his opinion on health care until he saw the cbo score. but went up and asked him about it and sort of said you know, just followed up and said, you ve been talking about this. just wanted to get your response. and then he sort of said, no, i ve had enough. and next thing i know, i m being body slammed. and he you know, he s on top of me for a second. my glasses are broken. it s the strangest the strangest moment in my entire life reporting. you walk into the room, and you say, i d like to get your i want to get your response to the cbo score. yeah. mm-hmm. does he just do does he scream and raise his voice while he does it, or he just body slams you. the audio says i talked to my communications person. he grabs my recorder, and the audio should be up right now on the guardian.
i just followed up and said you ve been talking about this. just wanted to get your response. and then he should have said no, i ve had enough and next thing i know, i m being body slammed. and he is on top of me for a second. my glasses are broken. it s the strangest the strangest moment in my entire life reporting. it was certainly a strange interaction as captured by the audio we played. now the gianforte campaign has a new statement out. they allege that basically this reporter, jacobs, was being aggressive and badgering. let me read you that quote, tonight as greg was giving a separate interview in a private i was, the guardian s ben jacobs entered the office without permission, aggressively shoved a microphone in greg s face. he was asked to leave after jacobs to lower the recorder. jacobs declined and greg then attempted to grab the phone that was pushed in his face. jacobs grabbed greg s wrist and spun away from greg, pushing
just to hear this out. this is worth it. i am glad you are back, obviously. i am very happy to be here. nbc s chief foreign correspondent, you have spent your entire life reporting in places people do not understand well. can you just tell us logistically where you were and how it started. so this map shows the border between turkey and syria. the yellow line, everything above that is turkey. this is the gate, the crossing between turkey and syria. and we crossed through bab al hawa, we were heading into this. we were traveling in this area. a rebel-friendly area. we came down and we were heading into this area in the center to meet with a rebel commander.
worth to stop what you re doing just to hear this out. this is worth it. i am glad you are back, obviously. i am very happy to be here. nbc s chief foreign correspondent, you have spent your entire life reporting in places people do not understand well. can you just tell us logistically where you were and how it started. so this map shows the border between turkey and syria. the yellow line, everything above that is turkey. this is the gate, the crossing between turkey and syria. and we crossed through bab al hawa, we were heading into this area in the center to meet with a rebel commander. and we were traveling with well-known people, it was set up.