that adviser carter page met with a russian intelligence operative named victor podobnyy who was later charged along side two others for acting as unregistered agents of a foreign government. a former campaign adviser met with and passed documents to a russian intelligence operative in new york city in 2013. the adviser met with the russian intelligence operative named victor podobnyy who was later charged with two others. quote, a court filing by the u.s. government contains a transcript of a recorded conversation in question he speaks with one of the other men busted in the spy ring, igor sporyshev. buzzfeed has confirmed male-1 is carter page. here's my favorite part. how did they confirm he's male-1? quoting from ali watkins' story, quote, carter page confirmed to buzzfeed news on monday that he is male 1 in the court filing and said he had been in contact podobnyy. so jared's in baghdad at the invitation of the joint chiefs. meeting with the troops, visiting u.s. embassy personnel. there's nothing too sensitive for jared to be involved in, let alone to be running in this new admin

victor podobnyy. so that background of carter page from that russian spy story, that's part of what adds to the strangeness around the trump campaign and their involvement with carter page. in march 2016, candidate donald trump was getting pressure in the media, pressure from his republican rivals for not having apparently any foreign policy advisers on his presidential campaign team. while he was getting that pressure, including from "the washington post" editorial board in an interview, he pulled this random name out of a hat. carter page. he volunteered that name. carter page. he's my foreign policy adviser. "the washington post" was pressuring him on this subject at the editorial board meeting and that guy was inexplicably one of the only foreign policy advisers donald trump could name. and just a couple years before, he had been recruited as a russian intelligence asset. and that is the background that brings us to tonight's breaking news. according to this remarkable leak to "the washington post

former policy adviser page said he met with victor podobnyy. and identified in these documents as male one and describing his efforts to recruit page as an intelligence source. male one said he's sorry he went to moscow and forgot to check inbox. page encysts he believed pvicto podobnyy was working for the government and he said in doing so i provided him nothing than sources in the far more detailed lectures i was preparing at the time. the white house tried to distance themselves from page even though he talked about the contribution in march 2016. >> you might be announcing your foreign policy -- >> carter page, ph.d. >> reporter: turns out the russian spy page communicated with was the same ring of the other man employed by the state sponsored russian bank whose chairman met with kushner in 2016 and at the request of russian ambassador sergey kislyak. >> now a top former obama official is speaking out. cnn senior congressional reporter manu raju is reporting for us. >> former questions about susan rice and her role in unmasking the names of

carter page met with a russian intelligence operative named victor podobnyy who was in fact, later charged by the u.s. government along with 24ths ftws for acting as an agent of a foreign government. funny story from that story from last week, the way buzzfeed confirmed that carter page was the intelligence asset in this story, the way they confirmed he was male number 1 is that, quote, carter page confirmed to buzzfeed news that he is male number 1 in the court filing. he flat out told them and he'd been in contact with this indicted russian spy. vuctor podobnyy. so that background of carter page from that russian spy story, that's part of what adds to the strangeness around the trump campaign and their involvement with carter page. in march 2016, candidate donald trump was getting pressure in the media, pressure from his republican rivals for not having apparely any foreign policy advisers o his presidential campaign team. while he was getting that pressure, including from "the washington post" editorial board in an interview, he pulled this random name out of a hat. carter page. he volu