gordon, carter paige. >> carter paige. a brand-new name. who are these people? this new group of people. they seem to be operating between the west and the east and associated, somewhat, with trump. >> monomanafort is well known in ukraine. >> which side, good or bad? >> knowing to help russia and russian interests with the ukrainians in power at the time. he has a lot of money. we saw where he gave money to manafort. i believe the fbi is investigating. >> carter paige going over, doing graduation speeches in russia? they don't speak russian, do they? what's going on here? >> carter paige came out of nowhere. >> they have to be payoffs. >> a mysterious character who came out of nowhere. then the campaign threw him overboard, we never knew him, as soon as he started to be -- >> steve help us out here. i'm sorry. >> putin from the -- sorry. that's a russian oil company, state owned, closely allied with them. >> you talked about the piece you broke today. tell us about this code of people that seem to be in and out of moscow all the time. >> specifically carter pai

carter paige's name is announced publicly by donald trump. as a businessman than an foreign policy expert. he is an energy expert with ties to russia. he lived in moscow for three years while working for merrill lynch. during that time he work as an advisor to the russian controlled energy giant which is run by a former aide of vladimir putin in the 1990s. paimg came back to new york and founded his own company, global energy capital llc. he also started writing columns where he was critical of the sanctions and the obama administration with russia. he attended a meeting of foreign policy experts in washington. and according to the washington post, he stunned the crowd by praising russian president vladimir putin also saying the trump presidency would be good for u.s./russia relations. a month later he was in moscow for the new economic school. he was sharply critical of u.s. foreign policy. >> a failure of u.s. analysts and leaders to consider these principles has allowed washington to disregard proposed ideas that are actually not contrary

let's move on now to carter paige. carter paige was the founder of global energy. it's an investment fund. he has only one partner, and that partner is sergei -- who is the former executive which is a russian state-owned gasprom oil company. before that from 2004 to 2007 he worked for merrill lynch in moscow. in march of 2016 then candidate trump referred to carter paige as his foreign policy advisor to the washington post. the next day paige asserts his -- that he is an advisor on russia and energy. but then subsequently candidate trump says he doesn't know him. on september 26 he takes a leave of absence from the campaign and then paige publicly supports a relationship with russia criticizes u.s. sanctions, and nato's approach to russia, saying -- then subsequently says he is divesting his stake in gasprom in august. in 2014 he writes an article criticizing the u.s. sanctions in an article in "global policy." then rebuked the west for focussing on so-called annexation of crimea. in july of to 16 he gives a graduation speech at the new economic school, denies meet

fact, former policy advisor of some sort, carter paige, worked in russia for about three years, and travelled to russia over the summer while he had been named a close advisor to the president. then, that same month, carter paige spoke to ambassador kislayak on the sidelines of the republican convention. as you might know, republican senator jeff sessions was the first senator to endorse donald trump, despite testifying he never had any contact with russians during the campaign. michael cohen is president trump's personal lawyer, two facts about him, last month he met with a russian immigrant with connections to the mob, reportedly. and then there are the facts about long-time donald trump associate roger stone who communicated with someone known as guccifer 2.0 which was actually a front for the russian hackers. the ones we listed, they might be legal, they might be totally legal connections or nef far u you, the white house is saying -- >> reporter: the white house vehemently denied that today, they did not try and block her from testimony. but a review of the letters from her lawyers to th

it's in the pattern with michael flynn now carter paige. it looks funny. you are right, they should, if they want it to go away, come out and have everyone who had meetings say this. it doesn't yet have the feel of we have full disclosure out here. >> matt is talking about disclosures or qualifiers. sean spicer making the statement, then journalists said how about this meeting jared kushner had? the meeting jared kushner had with mike flynn in december took place at trump tower. we know, dur thag transition people went in the front door of the trump tower. the press pool was there. cspan aired it. they saw, they waved, they smiled, they kissed. you see the russian ambassador go through the back door. there are legal issues but ethical issues. from an ethics perspective, does this raise a red flag? >> the disclosures here are problematic. what's going to happen now, we can put up on the screen, just to be clear, jeff sessions stepping out. that means dana boente is in until rod rosenstein takes over as attorney deputy general. that is tuesday. he has a conf

when carter paige says we did talk about russia at the convention. all these things might add up to nothing. but don't you believe they are hurting the president by not jogging their memory and coming forward with it? >> they are a distraction more than harmful. no i disagree. he got elected about 118, 119 days ago. you still hear the democrats screaming russia every day. they have haven't shown any connection. many people are trying to redo the election results still. this man has been president for a while now and he is going to continue to just move forward with his agenda. brian: you don't think those four people hurt the president? >> i think the president knows why he is here and what he is doing with his agenda. look, again, there is a selectivity out there as to what really gets the coverage. and certain things that someof e news. other things that obviously are news worthy get covered. but, again, how is this the president -- i was the campaign manager until the end. and i was talking to people in mccomb county, michigan, not moscow. people

carter paige back from moscow, also attends the convention. rding to steele, it was manafort who chose paige to serve as a go-between for the trump campaign and russian interests. ambassador kislyak would later be expelled as a pie attends the convention and meets with paige and j.d. gorden. it was j.d. gorden that approved the trip to moscow. jeff sessions would deny meeting with russian officials during his senate confirmation hearing. just prior to the convention, the republican party platform is changed, removing a section that supporting the provision of lethal defensive weapons to the ukraine. an action contrary to russian interests. manafort categorically denies in altering the platform. the republican party delegate that offered the language in support of providing defensive weapons to ukraine states it was removed at the insistence of the trump campaign. later j.d. gordon admits the provision of the at the time it was being debated and prior to the time of it being removed. in later in july and after the convention, the first stolen e-

, and i have heard from carter paige personally on this, they're all dieing to testify to this committee get out there and get their story known in public. so i mean that's sort of not conspiratorial in nature, they want to get out there very much. so i think we need to make that clear. >> there are others as well, jeffrey. th there's a whole constellation of people. >> does the white house want these meetings to continue, and chairman nunes for reasons that are unexplained, cancelled the public hearing that was supposed to take place on fustuesday, an now they're saying after the april break, there will be more meetings. >> i believe not only should the folks on this side testify, but negotiation on the other side who were dealing with classified information that leaked, evelyn farkas, who was a former official in the obama administration, who went on television on another network earlier in the month and said in essence that she was helping to leak this information, she should be called, white house officials in the obama era, president obama himself. >> right now they're not calling a

. >> reporter: carter paige and roger stone are already under investigation with their contacts withlligence. now they'll go before lawmakers. paul man fort resigned amid questions about his previous lobbying for pro russia contacts in the ukraine. cam tan foreign policy advisor carter paige denied allegations that he secretly met with putin associates. he told the committee i would look forward in engaging with you in finally ending this rouge. and stone is anxious to talk. stone told cnn, i acknowledge i'm a hard ballplayer b was thing isn't in my bag of tricks, treason. former national security advisor michael flynn is also rnd investigation but his spokesman had no comment on whether he would make the similar offer. former acting attorney general ally yates and former cia director. the ranking democrat on the committee accusing the white house of meddling in the process. >> there must have been a strong pushback about the nature of monday's hearing. it's hard for me to come to any other conclusion. >> reporter: he want it is fbi director and national security agency director to c

let's move on now to carter paige.carter paige was the founder of global energy, it's an investment fund. he has only one partner and that partner is surgy, who is the former executive of russia state own gas oil company. before that from 2004 to 2007 he worked for merrill lynch in moscow. in march of 2016, then candidate trump referred to carter paige as his foreign policy adviser to the washington post. the next day paige -- he's an adviser on russia and energy. but then subsequently candidate trump says he doesn't know him. on september 26, he takes a leave of absence from the campaign and then paige publicly supports a relationship with russia criticizes u.s. sanctions and nato's approach to russia saying -- and subsequently saying he's invest his stake in august. and criticizing the u.s. sanctions an article in global policy and then rebuke the west for focusing so called annexation of crimea. in july of 2016, he gives a graduation speech at the new economics school, denies meeting with the prime minister christop

at the republican convention in july paul maniford, carter paige, says and trump himself, changed the republican party platform to no longer arm ukraine. so the same month that trump denied putin's role in ukraine, his team weakened the party platform on ukraine, and as we have and will continue to hear, this was the same month that several individuals in the trump orbit held secret meetings with russian officials. some of which may have been on the topic of sanctions against russia for their intervention in ukraine. this is no coincidence in my opinion. in fact, the dossier written by -- christopher steel alleges that trump agreed to sideline russian intervention in ukraine as a campaign issue, which is effectively a priority for vladimir putin. there's a lot in the dossier that is yet to be proven, but increasingly as we'll hear throughout the day -- this one seems to be as accurate as they come. in fact, there is also one pattern, i want to point out before yielding back, maniford, fired. paige, fired. flynn, fired. why? they were hired because of their russian connections. they we

carter paige, back from moscow, also attends the convention. according to steel, it was manafort who chose paige to serve as a go between for the trump campaign and russian interests. ambassador kislyak would later be expelled also attends the republican party convention and meets with carter paige and additional trump advisers. it was jd gourden wrdon who app the trip to moscow. sessions would later deny meeting with russian officials during his senate confirmation hearing. just prior to the convention, the republican party platform is changed, removing a section that supports the provision of lethal defensive weapons to ukraine, an action contrary to russian interests. manafort categorically denies involve by the trump campaign in altering the platform. but the republican party delegate who offered the language and support of providing defensive weapons to ukraine states that it was removed at the insistence of the trump campaign. later j.d. gordon admits opposing the inclusion of the provision at the time it was being debated and prior to its

. >> reporter: the administration has long dismissed carter paige, who visited moscow during the campaign, as just a bit player. and today roger stone, a notorious gop operative, demanded his chance to respond to what he calls smears at the hearing. he cut ties with team trump in 2015, but raised questions with his tweet last summer. seeming to predict a wikileaks hack aimed at the clinton campaign. >> i have a backchannel communications with wikileaks. >> reporter: to democrats it adds up to this argument, too many connections to be coincidence. to republicans, it's a witch hunt with the white house pointing to statements from former obama administration officials. >> but at the time, we had no evidence of such collusion. >> reporter: it could be years before the investigation's complete. until then its cloud hangs over the trump administration. the shadow of russia looming. hallie jackson, nbc news, washington. >>> all of this brings us to the subject of president trump's credibility, which is one of the most important things a president has, especially when a national crisis arises and

the chairman mentioned carter paige or paul manafort it's got to be done in a way where individuals,d others, there will be others, where we have the right questions to ask. tomorrow's hearing as the chairman mentioned will be the first in a series. i think it will be interesting because some of the techniques, which the russians use in the past election, really go to the heart of how our democratic process works. i was a technology guy before i was in politics. and the very technology that made our lives simpler can also be misused in ways to put false information for folks who

carter paige back from moscow also attend the convention. according to steele it was manafort who chose paige to serve as a go-between for the trump campaign and russian interests. the ambassador who resides over a russian embassy in which diplomatic personnel would be excelled as russian spies meets with carter paige and additional trump siadvisors. it was morgan who eye approved the trip to moscow. sessions would later deny meeting with russian officials during his senate confirmation hearing. just prior to the convention, the republican party platform is changed removing a section that supports the provision of lethal weapons to ukraine, an action that would be contrary to russian interests. mon manafort denies participation by the trump campaign, b. morgan admits to opposing the inclusion prior to it being debated and prior to being removed. later in july the first stolen e-mails detrimental to hillary clinton appears on wikileaks. a hacker claims responsibility for hacking the dnc and giving the documents to wikileaks. the leading privat

in terms of senator jeff sessions, the net is fairly wide with other trump campaign folks, carter paigeaw, jared kushner but as it pertains to jeff sessions, he met with the ambassador at the rnc in july and there was another meeting, a later, and as senator and then jeff sessions said there's a distinction. i mean, when he used the language as sometimes, i'm described as a surrogate, so are the meetings different when you are on the campaign trail versus a senator. perhaps few referral brows when you're meeting with the ambassador as a senator, avery? met with a lot of people. >> the fact that the campaign paid $2800 for jeff sessions to be here in cleveland during the convention and then another $223, it was a campaign surrogate. so if he wants to parse, that's awful for an attorney general but that's going to be his explanation. did he lie? i don't know. and no doubt about it. >> would it make a difference whether you are having this meeting as a senator or a surrogate of a campaign? >> that's a question of fact, fred. he was the first u.s. senator to support trump. he was his ardent

includes jared kushner, paul manafort, carter paige and roger stone, a long-time republican objective. all the details about the questions that are listed at wsj.com at the trump russia connection. the news continues after this. fun in art class. come close, come close. i like that. [ all sounds come to a crashing halt ] ah. when your pain reliever stops working, your whole day stops. awww. try this. for minor arthritis pain, only aleve is fda approved to work for up to 12 straight hours with just one pill. thank you. come on everybody. aleve. live whole. not part. >> shepard: president trump taking a sledge hammer to environmental regulations that president obama put in place. the president signing his latest executive order and doing a short time ago. it begins the process of dismantling some of president obama's most significant climate change policies. it tells agencies to stop trying to reduce the carbon pollution from electric, oil, gal drillers and coal mines. critics say it won't create more jobs. the approach will hurt the economy and democrats say the president is ignoring t

carter paige, j.d. gordon and -- met with him.eptember 2016 jeff sessions meets one-on-one with the ambassador in his office and december 2016 jared kushner and michael flynn met with the ambassador. he's known as top spy recruiter. why meeting with him? what is going on here? >> i worked as foreign policy adviser on three presidential campaigns, and i don't remember having these contacts with hostile foreign powers and goes beyond this. "new york times" reported that u.s. and dutch intelligence have found communications. if there's benign explanation i'd love to hear it. not hearing that. we're hearing the real problem in the leaks and this is mccarthyism, engaging in name calling and not explaining what is going on. this is serious. we need to get to the bottom of this, know what happened. this was attack on the foundations of our democracy going on by the russians at the same time that all these trump people were meeting with the russians. >> sometimes officials do meet with foreign ambassadors and agencies. >> of course. >> wh

carter paige, paul many fort, michael flynn. >> there's pressure on the lawmakers to bring these peoplefy to ask very specific questions. people want to know what type of communication was had with russian officials, who from the trump campaign proved some associates going to russia to speak. they'll also want to know what was involved in terms of hackers and fake news and things of that nature. >> all right. eugene scott, thank you so much. we appreciate it. russia's name keeps coming up in this intrigue surrounding president trump. want to see how it's playing out in moscow. we have senior correspondent nick payton walsh joining us from there. what reactions are you hearing from russians about the conversations being had here in the u.s.? >> the kremlin keeping the same distance from these accusations of meddling in the u.s. election. that persisted when the spokesman told us they weren't going to be watching the hearings on monday. they were too busy on other work in the kremlin. they weren't expecting to hear things from it. it was a broken record are futuristic songs. they keep hea

it was -- ambassador sergey kislyak attends the republican party convention and meets with carter paige and j.d. gordon and walid ferris. ambassador kislyak meets with the chair. the republican party platform is chang changed. manafort categorically denies involvement bit trump campaign in altering the platform but the republican delegate who offered states it was removed at the insistence of the trump campaign. j.d. gordon admits to the inclusi inclusion. later the first e-mails damaging to hillary clinton appear. the leading private cyber security firms including crowd strike, mannedion and threat connect review the evidence of the hack and conclude with high certainty that it was the work of apt 28 and 29 who are known to be russian intelligence services. the u.s. intelligence community also later confirms that the documents were in fact stolen by russian intelligence and gusifer 2 acted as a front. in late july candidate trump praises wikileaks, says he loves them and openly encourages them to hack his opponents and they will be rewarded. and in the middle of august, he creates with

former trump campaign adviser carter paige met with the russians. he worked for years in russia as an investment banker and gave a speech where he criticized the us for ideas like democratization, regime change in the soviet union and russia. paul manafort reportedly talked with the russians. intelligence officials say they have recordings with him on the phone. manafort denies it. he did political consulting work for trump and the ukrainian strong man victor yanakovich. he was wanted in ukraine for high treason. for sessions, we didn't learn of his talks until "the washington post" broke the story wednesday. john roberts is live at the white house this afternoon. tell us more about the twitter war between the president and the senator from new york. >> shep, good afternoon. these things used to be settled through debates or sometimes the odd duel. now it's moved to the twitter sphere. the good news is, some people committed career suicide on twitter. nobody dies these days. the president taking aim at chuck schumer finding a picture of him in 2003

i've also talked with another person associated with the campaign, carter paige who believes he was surveilled by the fbi and surveilled and he was frequently in trump tower and his office was behind trump tower. he had several meetings there. possible that his cell phone, if it was being surveilled, was at trump tower during some point. so that could be potential point of incidental collection. shep, the interesting thing about what nunes told us a short time ago, that this goes well beyond lieutenant general michael flynn and that several members of the trump transition team or campaign were unmasked. we don't know who asked for that unmasking. we don't know the names of those people. it's a felony to leak the name of somebody that has been unmasked in the fisa collection. shep? >> shepard: this would add new grits for the political mill if nothing else. they're playing the president's sound in about 15 seconds now. it's very quick. it's just a quick question and a question answer from the president. here it is. >> thank you very much. appreciate it. >> do you feel vindicated by chairman nun

sessions, who recruited carter page, the famous carter paige, who is under investigation, with no foreign policy experience except ties to russia was personally recruited by jeff sessions. tough look at him as a suspect, not a lawyer. >> how big of a problem is it for jeff sessions? >> a massive problem. the russian connection is the issue that engulfs the white house's first term. there are so many unanswered questions. so many bits of information. if carter hovers around the trump campaign, jeff sessions and the russian ambassador. the commerce secretary is the co-owner of the bank of sigh cress. the president's own son said the russians are big investors of his properties. how many pieces of information has to go on. >> then the bannon connection. jeff sessions predates the donald trump campaign. he's been steve bannon's bff since forever. he invited nigel of brexit to the breitbart townhouse of washington, d.c., back in 2014. this goes back a long, long way, steph. jeff sessions, if you like, he is the second.com knee, flynn was the first. they are all going to come tumbling down. in

mike flynn, carter paige and roger stone. >> we've not yet is not letters to individuals. i'm not sure that if someone wants to hide that letter will have an effect that it ought to, i think in some respects we're ahead of where the senate investigation is, and in some respects they're ahead of where we are. i do think, look, at the end of the day the real question where the rubber will really hit the road is as you suggest when we have to use compulsion to get documents that we need, to bring in witnesses. i hope the answer is going to be yes from the majority. i also do think -- >> right now you have not been given that authority. >> well, we haven't -- >> you haven't asked for it. >> to subpoena certain witnesses, but we will be. there are a lot of witnesses. >> devin nunes agrees with you on this? >> well, he'll have to -- >> which means he doesn't yet. >> i don't want to say that. we hammered out a very detailed scope of agreement that allows us to look into issues like collusion with u.s. persons with the trump campaign. >> adam schiff from the house intel, we'll be

. >> interviewed carter paige fry day night. one of the names that has come up.hen you meet the guy, there is a banality to it. sort of slipperiness to the way he talked to you. >> beyond slippery. >> but also, in -- >> here's what we don't have. we don't have subpoena power. we can't necessarily, the president, look, one of the missing pieces in this whole thing is the president's business dealings. >> that we don't really know. >> we don't have his tax returns. what are tax returns after all for some one president of the united states, but whose background for decade has been in business. essentially a -- a biography, deep biography an accounting biography of all his business dealings. we need to see that. i feel, you know as a citizen. we always need to see that in terms of honest accounting of who he is, has been, as a businessman throughout the campaign. look, we are six weeks into this presidency. look where we are. look where we are. candidacy began with the birther theory, the president of the united states on a saturday morning, waking up at 6:00 in the

campaign adviser saying he met with the russian ambassador during the gop investigation along with carter paige. we now know in december, that russian ambassador came to new york, went to trump tower, met with michael flynn and jared kushner. of course we know about jeff sessions having two meetings, one outside the convention in cleveland. how big of a deal is this? >> it's a big deal. i think as the day has moved on, erin, it is clear the recusal is not enough thchlt is the top law enforcement officer of the nation. this is the largest law enforcement bureau in the country, over 100,000 strong. the integrity of the law enforcement in the judicial system is really at stake here. look, everybody has heard, do you swear to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth? and he didn't. he withheld information. today, i had various meetings and as you and i know, most members of congress, whether in the house or senate, when we meet with somebody, there's staff people there. we learned mr. sessions, senator sessions was not alone, two staff people were there. >> that's what he said. >>

carter paige has lied about the relationship with russia. so a series of individuals have not told the truth. >> thank you, gentlemen. good to see you. >> good to be with you. >>> still ahead, iraqis are forceded to be human shields in booby-trapped houses while i sirks -- iraqi soldiers and civilians are killed. romisiiabi, on the largest, most advanced 4g lte network in america. (thud) uh... sorry, last thing. it's just $45 per line. forty. five. (cheering and applause) and that is all the microphones that i have. (vo) switch to unlimited on verizon now and get our best android smartphones for as low as $15 a month. oh, how waso good!en house? did you apply? oh, i'll do it later today. your credit score must be amazing. my credit score? credit karma. it's free. that's great! um hm. just whip bam boom, it's done. that apartment is mine! credit karma. give yourself some credit. how to brush his teeth. (woman vo) in march, my husband didn't recognize our grandson. (woman 2 vo) that's when moderate alzheimer's made me a caregiver. (avo) if the

his name is carter paige. he's the man that president trump described as his foreign policy advisor in the campaign. the white house dismisses paige. almost summarily as they put it, an unimportant person that never even met the president. congressional committees have asked carter page to preserve any and all materials related to the investigation. >> did you work with the russians? >> absolutely not. i did nothing that could even be possibly viewed as possibly helping them in any way. >> did you work with the russians to hurt the clinton campaign. >> absolutely not. >> were you paid by the russians? >> last year i was paid zero by the russians. >> were you paid monies that were through a third party that was connected to russia? >> in no way shape or form. >> shepard: a look at carter page and the other officials that could be on the hot seat on capitol hill coming up. with my moderate to severe crohn's disease,... ...i was always searching for ways to manage my symptoms. i thought i had it covered. then i r

look at individuals like carter paige, the senior foreign policy adviser to donald trump. month after it's revealed russia is attacking us with, with permission of the campaign, courter paige travels to moss cow. roger stone, another associate of the campaign, advising donald trump, he is intimating before the wikileaks report comes out. he was communicating with an online group releasing the hatched john podesta e-mail. you have individuals working with russia as the interference campaign is being run. >> all the things you are references are evidence or things we have heard in the past. do you believe adam schiff saying there was some level of evidence out there? there's something else we don't know? >> this is the first part of the investigation. as ranking member schiff says, there is a lot of circumstantial evidence. as a former pr and mr. schiff was, too, you can prove a case on circumstantial evidence. however, we think there's a lot of evidence like the guilt with jeff sessions. twice he met with the russian ambassador. he lied about it under oath, which shows guil

carter paige gave varying explanations but said it was a brief conversation with the russian ambassador at the rnc. although, frankly, i'm not sure what he was saying was true or not, because he's given so many multiple accounts. but 30 years in intelligence, what do you make of all these contacts? >> again, if it were a single incident, you know, it might be explainable, or even a couple of incidents, you'd say that was perhaps something that happened strangely and you just sort of say okay, it's the way things happen. but when you have this constant drum beat that probably is keeping donald trump awake at night as it gets louder and louder, there seems to be more and more data points that come out. and the only way we're going to get to it is if we have a really good investigation. and let me add another thing from my time at cia. there's an interesting side note that caught my attention when we talked about staffers and members going to langly to get briefings. believe it or not, there's a lot of back and forth in terms of who has more power in the room. where the briefings are done.

also jeff sessions along with carter paige who have had a shift their in their stories about contacts russian officials and what was in those meetings. are these mistakes in your opinion? >> look, i don't know what any of them did or didn't do. you know, obviously, you lie to congress, that's a problem. but the russian perception, this is what's critical. the russians look at the president being forced on the defensive, being forced to retreat. i remember russian officials using the word retreat. last week with respect to the firing of michael flynn, their position was you don't let go of someone like that. you find another position for them. our system works differently. but the overall perception is anything positive the president had in mind in terms of relations with russia, that's now blocked. tonight, the description of washington in america being in panic, being in cry i don't say as if we're about to have a revolution. so the russian media as flipped on this and they're now portraying the new administration as being hostile. >> i want to ask you about that. what do we know abo

that paul manafort has offered to be interviewed and fox news has independently confirmed that carter paige one time adviser roger stone have offered to cooperate. stone's attorneys sent this letter to the committee that reads -- >> catherine herridge, thanks. >> you're welcome. >> the white house says that we're nine minutes away now from a vote on repealing and replacing obamacare. will it happen? and if so, can it pass? live coverage on fox news channel next. fun in art class. come close, come close. i like that. [ all sounds come to a crashing halt ] ah. when your pain reliever stops working, your whole day stops. awww. try this. for minor arthritis pain, only aleve is fda approved to work for up to 12 straight hours with just one pill. thank you. come on everybody. aleve. live whole. not part. >> shepard: the vote is scheduled to begin in just more than five minutes on the republican plans to repeal and replace obamacare. clad pergrin is live on the hill. i've been reading the vote counts, chad. sounds like they have problems to the right and left. >> absolutely, this is the same probl

then carter paige, a business man. and schiff's position was that it's more than just connecting the dots. >> but it is also possible, maybe more than possible, that they are not co-incidental, not disconnected and not unrelated. >> one of the things i know will not be lost on you, dana, is that with this new information we have today, what it means is when we look back on that 2016 election, we had this extraordinary situation where we had the democratic nominee, hillary clinton, under fbi investigation, and we know based on director comey's testimony today that their investigation into possible collusion between trump campaign associates and russia also began in the summer of that same year. dana? >> dana: so a lot of the republicans focus today and the white house is focusing on who leaked this, in particular, about a former national security director, michael flynn. what are we learning about the leak, from your point of view? >> welsh that was the other main elment or dynamic in the hearing today was the leaking o

in addition to contact with russia during the campaign, both carter paige who the trump describabled as an informal advisor and j.d. gordon, national security adds visor met with the russian ambassador at the republican convention in cleveland last july. that's according to usa today. gordon has confirmed the meeting. and here's what page told my colleague chris hayes last night. >> did you meet him in cleveland? did you talk to him? >> i'm not going to deny that i talked with him. although -- >> so you did? >> i will say that i never met him anywhere outside of cleveland. let's just say that much. >> additionally, as nbc news reported back in november, president trump's former campaign manager, paul manafort, is being probed by the fbi for his ties to russia. the president fired his national security advisor, mike flynn, two weeks ago for misleading the white house about a call he had with russia in december. and all of this doesn't include the president's sometimes head-scratching defense of russian president vladimir putin or president trump's denials of u.s. intelligence on russi

the convention manafort was chosen as the go-between and ambassador kislyak who also meets with carter paige.d. gordon who approved paige's trip to moscow. ambassador kislyak meets with national security campaign chair and attorney general jeff sessions. sessions would later deny meeting with officials prior to his hearing. the platform is changed removing the section removing the lethal weapons to ukraine. ma ma manafort denies the platform and states it was removed at the insistence of the trump campaign. later j.d. gordon includes the provision. later in july and after the convention the first stolen e-mail detrimental to hillary clinton appear on wikileaks. there was a claim of responsibility for hacking the dnc and giving the documents for wikileaks. the leading cyber security firms review the evidence of the hack and conclude with high certainty it was the work of apt28 and apt29 known to be russian intelligence services. the u.s. intelligence community later confirms the documents were in fact stolen and was acted as a front and later in july president trump says he love wikileaks and

other trump associates and campaign staff, roger stone, carter paige and mr. gordon, all are reportedly under investigation for an intercepted communications and financial transactions with russia. stone admitted at least 16 contacts with gussifer 2.0, the twitter handle covering for russian intelligence that released the democratic national committee hacked e-mails. paige through strong financial ties with russia, admitted to meeting with the russian ambassador during the republican convention and traveling to russia during the campaign. the president's attorney general was forced to recuse himself from any department of justice investigation into trump and russia because he did not disclose to the senate foreign relations committee that he met with the russian ambassador during the campaign. and now the president's son-in-law and senior advisor is set to testify before the senate intelligence committee. he will talk about his contacts with the russian ambassador, a close putin ally who is head of a russian-owned bank. where does it stop, folks? where does it

why did carter paige lie about not meeting russians?amples that after a while, it starts to seem like a stretch to suggest these are just five, six, seven, eight, nine people who just co-incidentally lied about the same thing. >> that is what was so powerful about congressman schiff's speech. he said could they really all be coincidences? >> the thing that was so disheartening is the extent the republicans have no interest in this. they are members of congress. they are a co-equal branch with the presidency. yet they are acting like sean spicer, saying none of it matters, it's about the leaks. i hope we see more spine from republican senators and stand-up for their brand. >> really, i think we have all seen it. republican senators have actually shown a lot more spine and stepped out more whether it's sasse or lindsey graham. we had this hearing because lindsey graham starts raising hell last week. john mccain raising hell all the time. >> there's four people and that's great. >> no, there are more than four republicans. i have talked to

carter paige sent some letters saying because of his peaceful relationship with the russians he was the target of wiretapping around because his office was in trump tower and often in trump tower it may explain what the president was talking about in terms of wiretaps at trump tower. >> shannon: thank you. >> bill: katie pavlich a fox news contributor. good morning to you. >> good morning. >> bill: starting on the cia leaks where does this go if anywhere? >> the wall street journal said they'll look to contractors rather than government staff. specifically they're looking for edward snowden 2.0 and he left the country so this could be a saga to come and sure it will be. in terms of what the white house is saying on the issue as john roberts reported they're not specifically commenting on whether this is a valid leak. whether it's an authentic leak however, they're saying the leakers will be pursued and criminally prosecuted which means they're taking a hard stance now to prevent it in the future. >> bill: what are you suggesting not an authentic leak? what other possibility would there

it includes trump's son-in-law jared kushner, michael flynn and carter paige and j.d. gordon. >> i never had a meeting with russian operatives or russian intermediaries about the trump campaign. >> on thursday attorney general jeff sessions recused himself from any of his agency's investigation into the russian election interference because he met with kislyak twice last year. chuck schumer and other senate democrats want sessions to testify under oath about those meetings. in response, the president tweeted these photos friday, showing schumer and house democratic leader nancy pelosi with vladimir putin and dimitri indvedev suggesting they be adviser to the trump campaign denied any connection to russia in an interview with cbs news. >> it's a witch hunt. >> you think it is. >> i know it is. >> the president was asked directly last month if he was aware of contacts between his team and russian officials. >> how many times do i have to answer this question? >> can you just say yes or no on it? >> it's a ruse. >> the questioning continued on friday in which schumer said

and on thursday night carter paige said he also had contact with the russian ambassador. he spoke at the republican convention. >> i'm not going to deny i talked with him. i will say i never met him anywhere outside of cleveland. >> you have trump officials who have been shown to have given inaccurate accounts of their contact with the russian ambassador, so really no one is saying it's inherently unacceptable that they had these contacts or conversations. why were they giving accounts that just don't square up with the facts? >> reporter: now, kislyak has met with numerous lawmakers including senior democrats. he was spotted earlier in the week at president's speech to congress but the house sergeant of arms invites the entire diplomatic corps.. in fact, they set aside hundreds of seats just for the diplomats. norah? >> thank you. >>> there's no effort going on to see if there's any other meetings that needs to be disclosed. >> it's been a long time that a russian ambassador has been in the limelight like this. >> you were a correspondent then. >> yes. his suspicion is u

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