Immigration record and the administration s botched withdrawal from afghanistan. Now, the trump campaign previewed as much this week, essentially indicating that the former president would pursue those lines of attack against harris on the debate stage and presented with that. Harris aides and allies expected the vice president is going to paint trump as unserious and essentially describe his policies as unpopular. All of this to essentially avoid taking the bait. That includes one of those labels that the former president often uses. For harris calling her the border czar. Of course, the vice president was not tasked with border security, instead tapped to address root causes of migration. But she will be presenting that case on the debate stage today. All of this, anderson, really boils down to harris flipping the script here and using trump s own words and actions against him. All right. Thanks very much. We ll check in a little bit later. David axelrod, you have been with the presi
information on the russia probe relating to two campaign advisers. one described as the coffee boy and another dubbed a hanger on. we start with carter page, who met with the white house intelligence committee yesterday. the new york times reports tonight carter page, a foreign policy adviser to the trump presidential campaign, met russian government officials during a july 2016 trip he took to moscow, according to testimony he gave on thursday to the house intelligence committee. shortly after that trip mr. page sent an e-mail to at least one trump campaign aide describing insights he had after conversations with government officials, legislators and business executives during his time in moscow. according to one person familiar with the contents of the message. the e-mail was read aloud during the closed door testimony. in march page talked to msnbc s chris hayes about his trip, saying some people said hello to him there. you went to russia in the summer of 2016. yes. you gav
him there. you went to russia in the summer of 2016. yes. you gave a speech there. you were there for three days. the speech was one day. what did you do in russia? had some meetings with skarls and professors and students there. there were some people that showed up to my graduation speech and, you know, i said hello to some people, but no material discussions. you know, really international relations skol ars. did you speak to any russian intelligence officials. not that i m aware of. well, we also have a new report from nbc news about george papadopoulos, who has pleaded guilty to lying to the fbi and is cooperating with robert mueller s campaign. nbc news reports that papadopoulos repeatedly represented the trump campaign, like here in july during the republican national convention where he spoke on a foreign policy panel hosted by the american jewish committee.