people like carter paige, it is important to know that carter paige is viewed as someone who had little or no influence. he's one of several trump's advisers detected in contact of russi russians investigation. >> it is still going on with the fbi and investigators continue to analyze human sources and financial records. they found suggestions of possible collusions between trump campaign associates and russian officials. we are told that there is not enough evidence to show or prove that crimes were committed according to our sources. the problem here, anderson, for investigators is that they lost the opportunity to conduct this investigation. after those reports were told, those people that the u.s. was monitoring then changed their behaviors and that made it more difficult for the fbi to monitor them. anderson. >> the only name right now that you have learned from being believed is carter paige. you said there may be other advisers. carter paige was a big concern starting last summer when he made that speech in moscow and the concerns is that the russians could be trying to cozy up w

i want to talk about carter paige for a moment. the trump team can say, well, he was only part of the trump campaign for a brief period of time. carter paige, himself, changed his story a few times in 2013, did he or did he not meet with a russian informant? i want to share a conversation he had with chris hayes. >> did you meet sergey kislyak? did you talk to him? >> i'm not going to deny i talked to him. >> you did talk to him. >> i will say, i never met him anywhere outside of cleveland, let's say that much. >> the only time you met him was in cleveland? >> i may have met him, poib what might have been in cleveland. >> i mean, what gives here? that conversation was obviously whether or not he met with russian ambassador during the rnc, but, what here is actually the smoking gun? we know it's bizarre. we know they give answers and change those answers and spin those answers. what, here, is the real, real issue? >> i think the real issue is that we are learning, day by day, extensive contacts between trump associates to people rel

we heard from carter paige today. so, let me break it down. e was loosely associated with the trump campaign as a foreign policy adviser, but paige now admits that he was in contact with at least one russian spy back in 2013. now, the russian he corresponded with was eventually charged by the fbi for his actions as a spy, but paige released a statement saying that he simply shared research with the russian who he understood to be working in moscow's united nations office. paige stressed that the information was immaterial and amounted to lectures he gave at nyu on policy. but whether he knew it or not, it turns out that russian spy was part of the same spy ring as another russian who worked for the bank veb. if that name rings a bell, that's because it's the same bank whose chairman met with jared kushner in december during the transition. it's a state-run, russian bank, and the meeting with jared kushner was set up by russian ambassador sergey kislyak. so, this is a display of back-channel meetings and efforts by the russians to meet with trum

this is not the left you'll hear of these carter paige meetings. go through the campaign timing meetings with russians, they're going to be looking at that extremely closely. >> i had a senior administration official say to me the russia story for them is death by 1,000 cuts. this is probably one of the deepest, though, because the notion that carter paige, okay, he may or may not have been really close with the campaign. we don't know. >> they used his name. >> when they didn't have anybody else that would vouch for the president. they put it on the letterhead. that happens a lot. we understand that all covering campaigns. but the notion that this guy was on the letterhead, who the president did tell "the washington post" that he is an adviser was actually recruited to potentially be a russian spy? i mean, if this was just in a vacuum, it will be wow. the fact that it's up against all the other questions about the president's ties or alleged ties to russia -- >> it only partway matters that he may have had no idea and none of these trump officials

you have questions about carter paige as well.her questions do you have, about manafort and people like carter paige who have been associated with this administration. or at least with the campaign? >> i would want to know what manafort's involvement was with ukraine. we saw from a reuters article, involved with payments to the ukrainian government, and at this point it is fair to say the fbi would want to sit down and clear up some of the stuff if it is true that, that, carter page says today, on the show. he wasn't involved in any kind of clandestine activity. well then some of the actions need to be explaned. a -- be explained. in addition to travel to russia and connections that they had. man of us working in those circles have met with foreign dignitaries including intelligence officers but we have not been part of a fisa warrant application. >> thank you, everyone, thank you, nita. appreciate it. when we come back, tension between the president and chief strategist. will steve bann toon be pushed of the white house? we'll sp

carter paige confirms he met with a russian intelligence operative, but denies sharing any information. his role on a counter intelligence case reported last night by buzz feed, we want to bring in jim sciutto to explain what is going on here. jim? >> reporter: we have to look at this in the big picture. we have jared kushner meeting with the head of a russian bank that was currently under and still is under u.s. sanctions. and you have this other meeting brokered by people from the united ar united arab emirates. so you have more than one taking place and some of these during the transition. the fact is, you know, all administrations, democrats and republicans will do back channel negotiations. it was actually a back channel negotiation with iran that led to the iran nuclear negotiations. the thing is, one, you want to keep it secret if it is meant to be a secret back channel. two, you wait until you are president as opposed to during the transition period and that's raised some objections about this idea one president at a time. were things being offered? were discussions being had b

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. >> did carter paige put in policy papers? do you know? >> carter page never met president trump. e with president trump. >> in the case of mr. paige and mr. gordon, some others, i've spoken directly with the president and other senior officials about this. he doesn't know these gentlemen. >> obviously there's been discussion of paul manfort who played a limited amount of time on a limited basis. le. >> i loeflt that one for the last. why are they doing this? >> because they are pre-emting the possibility that the investigations by the senate and house intelligence committees or the fbi finds more evidence of interaction between these figures and russian intelligence that was actively trying to disrupt the u.s. election. they are kind of trying to create more distance between the president did -- but when you get to the point saying paul manfort was not important, you've jumped the shark, yeah. >> he's always going to do things incredibly different. it's so disruptive to us as the press because we're used to people following a certain protocol and how they do with -- >> a factual p

cart carter paige is kind of an adviser to candidate trump with was a target of the court surveillance warrant. according to the washington post, the fbi convinced the court that there was probable cause to believe paige was ak g acting of a russian in power. >> i was so happy to hear that further confirmation is being revealed. it shows how low the clinton/obama regime went to destroy our democracy and suppress dissidents who did not. >> the document that's false which could represent another crime. that was carter page. it was dominated by a number of other stories including sean spicer apologizing for his controversial about hitler in the holocaust of jewish people around the world are celebrating pass over. mr. sean spicer says this about bashar al-assad. >> we did not use chemical weapons in world war ii. you had, you know, somebody as despicable as hitler, who did not think of using chemical weapons. you have to if you are in russia, ask yourself is this a country that you and your regime want to align yourself was. >> reporters requester quick to challenge his claim. when asked

carter paige revealed he was a target of russian spies. two sources said that blackwater founder eric prince, the brother of secretary of education bes betsy devos repped trump at a russian envoy. then the relief for mr. trump and the republican party on health care. the white house revives talks with republican critics, but some withinhe party are pouring cold water on a new deal being floated by the administration. they left a closed door meeting saying there is no deal and paul ryan was quick to tamp down expectations. >> we are throwing around concepts to improve the bill. we want to make sure when we go, we have the consensus we have been looking for. >> a group of house republican leaders are expected to meet with vice president pence and a few others with more talks. the revival may give them some cover. it doesn't change the big picture that they are divided in both chambers like the russia cloud. it's a headache that is not going away any time soon. i am joined by mike lee of utah who told me on "meet the press" two sundays ago he

team, washington post reports that fbi obtained a fisa warrant to watch over communication from carter paige >> i have nothing that i want to hide, and the more that the truth comes out, the better. reporter: former trump campaign adviser responding toal gayses tha allegations he was. >> to get a surveillance warrant, fbi has to have solid evidence. so how do you, plan explain it. >> we'll see, there was a tremendous amount of false evidence. reporter: compiled by christopher steel, a former british intelligence officer. >> there is various reporting about where it may have come from. reporter: in a speech, fbi director james comey said it is a high legal bar to monitor an american citizen. >> those applications are off often as thick as my wrist or bigger, it is a huge pain in the neck to get permission to bug someone in the u.s. u.s., thaunited states, that is the way it should be. >> if a warrant has been issued it isaryius. seer seriou. reporter: page's name surfaced in the probe. >> according court documents allegation is that you passed energy documents to a russian intelligence operat

carter paige, general flynn, to shape the president's view. this is what's most dangerous about it is the white house probably isn't aware, probably didn't do any vetting. and the reason there's no documents to turn over is they never had documents o begin with. >> and that lack of vetting yourself is essentially creating a keyhole that the russians can insert a key into and do whatever they want. that opens a line of attack for them. >> i can't imagine any other republican candidate going into the election last year that would see flynn appear at an rt event and speak would bring them inside their administration. it's hard to fathom. >> thank you for helping us understand this. you have a value perspective on this. thank you. >> thanks, rachel. >> we have a story with cheerleaders and baton twirlers and tens of millions of unaccounted for dollars. that's next. stay out front with tempur-pedic. our proprietary material automatically adjusts to your weight, shape and temperature. so you sleep deeply, and wake up feeling powerful. find your excl

fbi and justice department based their application to the fisa court in part on two things, one carter paige'sravel to moscow while he was a campaign adviser and second and more interestingly on the dossier compiled by chris steel, the former mi 6 operative. that to me suggests the justice department and federal judge found there was probable cause to believe aspects of that dossier was accurate and opens the aperture into what the investigation will show. >> which could be explosive because the dossier was filled with all sort of unproved accusations. >> there were numerous things and some things we know to be accurate like the fact that russia tried to effect the election in 2016, there was also an interesting report from reuters also featured on msnbc last night, about the basis for that consensus view of the intelligence community on the russia assessment, basically saying that putin ordered an internal think tank to develop a program to undermine confidence in the american election system to undercut trump's opposition, also to throw around this idea of fake news and to inject the concept

is that just something donald trump came up with on his own, or did people like carter paige and paul manafort and others have influence. we do know that at the republican national committee, there was a fight over how to deal with ukraine and whether the republicans should call for the u.s. arming the ukrainians who are fighting russian bagged separatists in the eastern ukraine and we know that that debate was settled in a way that broke with what most of the republican establishment wanted. so those are the things as this investigation goes on, you would want to know to really get a sense of whether page had any influence and whether frankly as crazy as this sounds, the russians successfully infiltrated cam pain and affected policy. >> it's so interesting, that what phil said, even if he didn't have influence, he could give information even unknowingly about whether he did have influence, who the players were on russian policy, all the kind of inner workings, and not even know whether that evaluation would be of value to them. >> he's a way into the trump campaign and subject to man

a former trump campaign adviser carter paige telling buzzfeed that he met with a russian diplomat namedtor -- i can't say his last name -- back in 2013 in new york. this diplomat was later charged in 2013 as working with a secret agent. he tells buzzfeed, mr. carter, that nothing was sinful there. this is just another point of contention hanging out there for them. >> we're at least advising trump during the campaign at certain points and russians. now, it does show the risk of having what was an unformed, i suppose you could describe it, campaign structure where you had people with varying degrees of qualifications, frankly, and even also closest to the candidate himself who were meeting, at least claiming to be speaking for trump or claiming to have access to him through this campaign. and that shows you one of the risks of having what was a largely unformed operation even as you got into the transition period where you have a guy like eric prince doing the representation or even a son-in-law, right? this kind of thing, it makes sense to have people with experience and to have a struc

this new information comes as former trump foreign policy adviser carter paige provides confusing andflicting stories about contacts with russian intelligence. he has denied he was a foreign agent. >> this is such a joke it is beyond words. >> reporter: page told cnn's jake tapper when he visited russia last july he never discussed easing sanctions on russia. >> did you talk with anyone there about maybe president trump if he were elected, then candidate trump, would be willing to get rid of the sanctions? >> never any direct conversations such as that. i mean, look, it is -- >> what do you mean direct conversation? i don't know what that means, direct conversation? >> i'm just saying no, that was never -- never said, no. >> reporter: but interviewed on abc news this morning, page could not provide a clearance. >> well, i don't recall every single word i ever said, but i would never make any offer or intimate anything that -- >> but it sounds like from what you're saying it is possible you may have discussed easing of sanctions? >> something may have come up in a conversation. i have

one of the names mentioned in any story is carter paige. mr. paige joins us now.u on "new day." what do you make of his asse assessme assessment? >> it is a glass half full perspective, chris. if you look at it from the opposite viewpoint, consider the complete lack of information and the complete lies that have been out there throughout the first 100 days of this new administration all based on false evidence, complete lies back to the dodgy dossier. >> you like dodgy dossier. that's a catch phrase of yours. you know the history here. cnn talked about the disclosure of the dossier, not the contents thereof. but over time we have seen some of it has not stood up yet and others have, such that you were a beneficiary of what is true in that dossier, according to a federal judge who found it as probably cause to have you surveilled. so it is not completely dodgedy, right? >> every word in there about me, whether it's me actually dealing with paul manafort, someone who i have never even talked to, every allegation in there, all the people i have met, each of which are

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when you look at the russian context, when you have paul manafort and carter paige and all of this happeninge fact that it is trying to be identified as an isolated incident as though it is totally separate from everything happening with the russia investigation -- >> by the way, the base part of, you know, trump's support, they love the fact he blames obama on this. >> sure. >> and they believe it. >> i'm sure, right. >> let's talk about what is going on capitol hill with healthcare. do you think there will be a vote, perry, on this mcarthur amendment, this compromise healthcare legislation, compromise within the conservatives and moderates within the republican caucus by saturday? >> no. i think they've been honest they're not sure they have it. i think paul ryan said we'll have a vote when we have the votes. that's probably the right way to do it, way they should have done it the first time as well. what i haven't seen yet is we had about 30 to 40 no votes before, some from the freedom caucus but some from members who are more moderate or from districts hillary won in 2016. the freedom ca

one source tells us it includes mike an flynn, carter paige, roger stone and trump's son-in-law.embers have been told to spend more time in washington as the investigation moves into a more labor-intensive phase. with the committee's republican chairman recusing himself, intelligence agency are back sharing documents with the committee. there's no word on whether nunes froze them out. >> congressman, this new reporting that the list of witnesses for your investigation includes michael flynn, carter page, roger stone, jared kushner, are you able to confirm that is the fact in this case? >> anderson, i can tell you the witnesses are relevant ones and the documents that we are reviewing have expanded since mike conoway has come on to lead the investigation for the republican side. we are back on track and i tink it is a good thing. >> based on our reporter, the witness list is, quote, extensive. can you give us a et abouter idea of what exactly that means? are we talking ten people, 20 people? >> i can tell you, anderson, it will be a long summer here in washington. even during rece

you're reporting the fbi obtained an fisa warrant on carter paige, a trump campaign adviser. what more can you tell us about that? >> yeah. basically, you have to understand the context and basically over the summer the intelligence community was getting information about russia trying to mettle in the presidential election and they were, you know, as we learned last month, comey, the fbi director, had initiated a counter intelligence investigation in july. and based on our reporting and interviews with multiple officials, law enforcement and otherwise, what the fbi did was obtain an fisa warrant to basically monitor the communications of carter page identified by trump in march as a foreign policy adviser and from there that warrant that typically lasts 90 days was renewed at least once if not multiple times. >> and in order to do that, one would assume that there must be information to renew it because if no information was found you would assume they wouldn't continue to renew the warrant. >> yes. they had to establish what's known as probable cause. >> okay. >> that they

>> so carter paige worked for the trump campaign for about six months last year.e was kind of an informal foreign policy advisor. we interviewed him twice in the last two weeks in history is very consistent. he told fox that he never worked with the russians to help the trump campaign and he never worked against the interests of this country. but here's the thing, there's so much daylight between what carter page assange on the record in these anonymous sources who allege that he was some how the campaign point of contact for russia. it's very tough to reconcile these two stories. >> dana: i was find it surprising that he it continues to it agrees to do interviews on the record. is he not worried about the advice of counsel? >> he said he is not worried and is happy to tell his story because you have to give them credit for going on the record. you have to give some weight to the fact that he's going to answer some of these tough questions because we didn't throw him a lot of softballs today. but on this issue of a surveillance warrant, i wanted to say one thing.

. >>> at the republican convention in july, paul manafort, carter paige and trump himself changed the republican party flat form 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. this is no coincidence in my opinion. >> that is andre carson, a member of the house intelligence committee questioning james comey and nsa chief michael rogers last month in the first public hearing on russia. congressman carson is joining me now. let's get right into it. do you believe really that the president was so closely involved as to be changing his party's platform in russia's favor? >> listen, i think that the president is a great showman. i think there is some question bable activities as it relates to his society yassociates from campaign and the administration. he's a showman. a pt bar numb of sorts. he has an interesting way of reading people and generating excitement and news coverage. we're talking about him now. but the greater truth alex is flynn, manafort and other soes ya associates and their connection

but we have that backdrop always of carter paige and the washington post report this morning and theinvestigation of the trump relationship with russia. >> and that's something we're going to be talking about later on in this block. but ambassador, what is rex tillerson at his hotel right now, what is he saying to washington. you've been in these meetings with sergey lavrov. what is he telling them? >> he's probably saying as expected this was a tough talking meeting, a lot of lecturing on both sides. we're at the beginning of figuring out whether there's a way forward here or not. i don't know what the game plan was going into this. it doesn't clear to any of us given the different scripts from the admistration of the different voices. >> speaking of the mixed messages, there's been an interesting shift in tone from rex tillerson. i want to play something he said yesterday. >> russia failed in its responsibility to deliver on its 2015 commitment. it is unclear whether russia failed to take this obligation seriously or russia has been incompetent. but this distinction doesn't much ma

carter paige, reportedly met with a russian intelligence and documents with the energy business.ing. it happened years before paige was aligned with the trump campaign. paige confirmed to buzz feed news, he was the so-called male one identified in court transcripts that included a colorful transcript in the recruiting of paige where they refer to him as an idiot. he says it did not have anything sensitive. >> male number two would have been degrading. he was male number one. >> was an idiot. >> thing one and thing two. >> that information is made public. the russian spy ring was seeking information on u.s. sanctions and american efforts to develop alternative energy. >> i want to ask real quick, we have been doing this since '47-'48. the kids came back from the war and we did this. before that, i missed the rand paul interview. >> oh! >> what happened? >> he went golfing with trump and trump smothered him with love. he sounds like a trump surrogate now. amazing. >> i'm serious, he did not say, as i'm hearing -- >> he got rolled. he did. >> he did not say that proves -- >> he call

and we have carter paige who worked for seven years as an investment banker at merrill lynch. his biography said took him to london, new york and moscow for three years in the mid 2000's before trump last year listed him as a foreign policy advisor in response to a question from "the washington post." paige has regularly espoused views at odds with much of the foreign policy community in washington, in particular questioning the u.s. approach toward russia and calling for warmer relations with the two countries. he has expressed views in support of russian president vladimir putin and harshly criticizeed u.s. policy. he has -- he is frequently quoted on russian television as a famous american economist. in september, 2016, u.s. intelligence officials investigated alleged contacts between paige and russian officials subject to u.s. sanctions, including ig or second. paige rejected the accusations, said he would take a leave of absence from the trump campaign. in january, 2017, paige's name appear repeatedly in the leaked donald trump dossier containing intelligence from the ope

unseemly relations with russia, including michael flynn, jeff sessions, roger stone, paul manafort, carter paige. my community has watched the intelligence investigation lapse into confusion, obviously at the behest of the white house. last month they cancelled public hearings which would nclude the testimony of former acting deputy attorney general sally yates. this alternates between -- the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. mr. beyer: trump-russia is a hoax. mr. speaker, i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from arkansas seek recognition? >> i ask unanimous consent to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman is recognized for one minute. >> i thank the speaker. today i rise to recognize the boy scouts of america which for the first time was recognized by the boy scouts as a journey to excellence program as a gold level council, the highest award possible. the journey to excellence program is designed to encourage excellence and rewards success at all levels of scouting. mr. hill: measu

carter page. the papers the government had reason to believe that paige was acting as a russian agent. he is one of the trump associates under scrutiny as russia's involvement is being investigated. paige denied having any improper ties to russia. >>> and 5:26 is the time. the fox news commentator bill o'reilly is taking a two-week vacation in the middle of a sexual harassment scandal. it comes two weeks after "the new york times" reporter that o rely and the network paid $13 million to five women to settle sexual harassment cases. since them, dozens of companies pulled their commercials from the o'reilly factor tv show. he said the vacation was planned before "the new york times" report was published. 24 century fox launched an internal investigation into the sexual harassment complaints. >>> a bank robbery suspect in oakland arrested in minutes. how a security guard and a brand new oakland police officer made it happen. >> and coming up, we'll have a look at the commute in the north bay and the westbound 80 corridor. in the meantime, stopping at the golden gate bridge. ab update is c

advisor carter page as early as the summer of 2016 and because page is an american citizen, the fbi request went to a special national security court and the bureau had to make the case that paigeas acting on behalf of russia. this morning, the senior democrat on the senate intelligence committee said the fbi probe into alleged contact between russia and the trump campaign is ongoing. >> if the fbi director has said there is enough evidence that he can open an investigation, i cannot comment on specific investigations. i cannot comment on fisa board, but if a fisa warrant has been issued, it is very, very serious matter. >> and a statement to fox news, carter page said "i'm excited the truth is coming out -- referring to "the washington post" that first broke the story. i've done nothing wrong, he said. i have no concerns. i was an obvious target because no one has been more thoughtful and methodical in their criticism of the clinton and obama administration foreign policy." he said he stood behind his statements in a march 28th with fox. did you work with the russians to help the trump campaign? >> absolutely not. >> did you work with the russians to hurt the clinton campaign?