When all in starts right now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. On the eve of the special election in montana, which was already way too close for comfort for republicans there, we have breaking news at this moment. From bozeman, montana, where the republican candidate for congress has reportedly assaulted a reporter covering the race. Greg gianforte is the republican candidate for montanas lone at large congressional seat running in tomorrows special election against democratic candidate rob quist. Guardian reporter ben jacobs has been out in montana covering that race. And just after 7 00 eastern, jacobs tweeted the following. Greg gianforte just bodyslammed me and broke my glasses. Ten minutes later, jacobs tweeted, there was a local tv crew there when gianforte body slammed me. Audio is posting soon. Naturally we reached out to jacobs, confirmed this was not a joke. Weve also reached out to the Gianforte Campaign to get their version of events. We await a response. There
And the Washington Post scoops that russian disinformation may have inspired comey to intervene. It makes me mildly nauseous. When all in starts right now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. On the eve of the special election in montana, which was already way too close for comfort for republicans there, we have breaking news at this moment. From bozeman, montana, where the republican candidate for congress has reportedly assaulted a reporter covering the race. Greg gianforte is the republican candidate for montanas lone at large congressional seat running in tomorrows special election against democratic candidate rob quist. Guardian reporter ben jacobs has been out in montana covering that race. And just after 7 00 eastern, jacobs tweeted the following. Greg gianforte just bodyslammed me and broke my glasses. Ten minutes later, jacobs tweeted, there was a local tv crew there when gianforte body slammed me. Audio is posting soon. Naturally we reached out to jacobs, confirmed th
And how the senate will calculate the distribution of kaks credits which are expected to be more generous than the house plan. Already some republicans are expressing frustrations. I cant imagine quite honestly id have the information to validate and justify a yes vote within a week. Are you satisfied with the process . Of course not. Reporter whatever the phenyl draft, aides tell cnn leaders want President Trump to stay far away from the negotiations, describing the earlier meeting a, quote, kind of a disaster. The senate has nlt yet endorsed the senate bill but sounded hopeful last night. I said a plan with heart. Obamacare is dead. Reporter the Congressional Budget Office is expected to score it as soon as tomorrow. It will follow with debate from the senate next week. Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell wants this past vote at least by the july 4th recess giving little time for republican lawmakers to read this registration or even amend it. Suzanne, President Trump taking a victory la
From hurricane irma. Lets go to leyla santiago. She is in san juan, puerto rico. Leyla, whats the latest from there . Reporter chris, this is becoming just ferocious. I mean, these are winds that are taking down debris. Take a look around me. You can see limbs of trees that have come down, parts of roof that have come down. I want to take you up a little bit so you can see these palm trees that are being stripped of their leaves. Let me take you a little further north so you can see these buildings. That is an apartment complex. And you can tell those windows will not sustain these winds and this rain. I can hear i can hear the roofing of buildings here in san juan coming off. As i look in the distance, it is hard to see beyond several feet in front of me. But, you know, one of the things that is very telling, we are surrounding right now at this hotel by First Responders. And i asked one of them if he could compare this to others. He was here for georgina, here for hugo. He said he ha
Of 15,000. More than the number of troops in afghanistan. Youre talking about 10,000, maybe 15,000 active duty to the border, more than we have fighting isis in syria . Its very important. We have to have a wall of people, very highly trained people, terrific, dedicated patriots. Thats what they are. You have cough caravans coming up that look a lot larger than isser reported. Im pretty good at estimating crowd size and they look a lot bigger than people would think. Despite holding more than 60 votes to repeal the Affordable Care act, including one followed by the celebration in the white house rose garden last year, the president continues to make claims like this tweet. Quote, republicans will protect people with preexisting conditions far better than the dems. A complete lie. In illinois, former Vice President joe biden responded. You have the president of the United States saying we guarantee you or whatever his phrase was everybody is covered with preexisting conditions is covere