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Under vladimir putin. but he also acknowledged, don, meeting with other senior russian officials while he was there, saying he gave some valuable insights and suggested perhaps through some of his interactions that he gained some of those insights. and don, he also says that he had informed several senior campaign officials about this trip ahead of time, including hope hicks, now the communications director, corey lewandowski, then the campaign manager, as well as jeff sessions and. and when he ...

North korea. now to this, we follow along. will you need some, a member of president trump another foreign policy advisory committee said he told several trump campaign officials, including members of the inner circle, he was heading to moscow in july of 2016, carter page testified before the house intelligence committee last week, in an exchange with trey gowdy, trey said he e-mailed former trump campaign manager cory lewandowski, current white house communication director hope hicks and j.d. g...

Capacity. >> let me ask you this. >> its just kind of man on the street, you know. circumstances that true? >> no, false. completely false. >> i cant believe he lied to me. >> i know. i know. chris, this was a member in an interview. and we were able to corroborate a number of allegations in the dossier. so he in july 2016 met with the deputy prime minister of russia. he met with officials from gas prom and rosneft, energy businesses in russia. sam clovis asked carter page to sign an nda. and a ...

Really is possibly the most important player in this whole thing because that is where an obstruction of justice case would reside? >> exactly. i mean, the other thing scarier is mueller coming after kushner. >> thats right. >> other than family, this is the most perilous indictment for donald trump. >> julia, we need your speed reading assessments of the carter page transcript. this is a house intelligence committee interview conducted of carter page on thursday. what do we know at this point? ...

Highest paid people in the world. they have the security of working for the government. when they get word that your boss is not going to like it, do your job, dont worry about climate change, it can have a real impact. >> we all talk about the bureaucracy, because its there for a reason. >> and theres no up side for being great things, you just get punished horribly if something goes wrong. >> the man whose name was in consideration for the chief scientist of the u.s. department of agriculture,...

Carter page transcript. this is a house intelligence committee interview conducted of carter page on thursday. what do we know at this point? i know its hundreds of pages long. >> it is. luckily, i have the help of a lot of my colleagues here at nbc. we are all sort of piecing this apart and sharing the first things standing out and the first thing jumping out are how many people on the trump campaign knew that carter page was going to russia in july of 2016. so far that looks like corey lewando...

And the foreign policy front. >> and robert, you go back a bit with donald trump and this campaign. the axe i dont mean at the time in the early days was all the best people were gone. they were spoken for. they were hired. so a lot of the outer rings of the foreign policy intelligencea werent there. is that when the kind of russian cracks and fiz urs started appearing and this started seeping into the trump circle? >> thats exactly right, brian. i remember if the spring of 2016 i went to the tr...

Appearing and this started seeping into the trump circle? >> thats exactly right, brian. i remember in the spring of 2016, i went to the trump hotel, still unfinished trump hotel in washington with bob woodward to interview then candidate trump and we encountered one of these foreign policy meetings. sam clovis and others around the table meeting with the candidate, in kind of a ramshod way. it wasnt a formal meeting that you would expect out of a presidential campaign. people like carter page a...

Adviser, told us that he tried to block this page trip but that page went around to more senior officials, but he said he got approval from corwin lewandowski, who was the campaign manager, and sam clovis was also notified. as you mentioned, page testified that he was going with jeff sessions. while there he met with a deputy prime minister and he sent an e-mail to gordon to talk about the insight he had gotten from russians. he was clearly advising donald trump and they were cultivating page as...

Campaign had communications with the russians, is that what youre saying? >> i did not and im not aware of anyone else that did. and i dont believe it happened. >> in fact court filings undersealed this week shows george papadopoulos who pleaded guilty to making false statements to investigators, suggested in a march 15 meeting that trump meet vladimir putin. then later reads a trump surrogate adviser rejected the idea. sessions informed he was traveling to russia during a presidential campaign....