The New York City Republican had just walked away after the interview on Tuesday night in the Capitol building in Washington with cable channel NY1 News. He was asked about the arrest this month of one of his fundraisers.
With the camera still rolling, Grimm returned and confronted the reporter, Michael Scotto. He could be heard saying, ‘I’ll break you in half,’ and NY1 said he threatened to throw Scotto over a balcony.
Scotto, in a post on Twitter late on Wednesday morning, said the congressman had called him to apologize.
‘He said he ‘overreacted.’ I accepted his apology,’ Scotto wrote. The television reporter earlier said the congressman’s reaction took him by surprise.
‘I was not expecting that response,’ Scotto said in an interview that aired on NBC’s Today show on Wednesday.
Representative Grimm, of the New York City borough of Staten Island, had initially defended his reaction. He issued a statement late on Tuesday, saying the reporter had taken a ‘cheap shot’ by asking a question about a topic other than President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address, which the president had just delivered.
With the camera still rolling, Grimm returned and confronted the reporter, Michael Scotto. He could be heard saying, ‘I’ll break you in half,’ and NY1 said he threatened to throw Scotto over a balcony.
Scotto, in a post on Twitter late on Wednesday morning, said the congressman had called him to apologize.
‘He said he ‘overreacted.’ I accepted his apology,’ Scotto wrote. The television reporter earlier said the congressman’s reaction took him by surprise.
‘I was not expecting that response,’ Scotto said in an interview that aired on NBC’s Today show on Wednesday.
Representative Grimm, of the New York City borough of Staten Island, had initially defended his reaction. He issued a statement late on Tuesday, saying the reporter had taken a ‘cheap shot’ by asking a question about a topic other than President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address, which the president had just delivered.