Breaking overnight, the Trump Administration disclosing previously secret documents detailing why the fbi thought a Trump Campaign aide was working with the russians. Theres been such a complete firestorm based on this completely false narrative. The target of that warrant carter page will be here exclusive to respond. Next, taking on donald trump, he tells us who he wants to battle for the next four years. I dream about biden. But is biden the way to go . Seth molton weighs in. Hello im jake tapper in washington where the state of our union is still reeling from that trumpputin summit as trump continues to deal with the backlash, and just overnight the Trump Administration released a heavily redacted version of the previously top secret application of surveillance for former campaign aid carter page. And the fbi believes that page has been collaborating and c conspiring with the russian government. The warrant itself of course has been the subject of a very partisan fight in the house intelligence committee. And theres little doubt that the department of justice and the fbi misled the courts, witch hunt, rigged, a scam, in fact that tweet itself is a scam. In fact the fbi did use information from the steele doz y dossier, it noted that steel had been a reliable source of information in the past. Lets talk to former Trump Campaign advisor carter page now. The fisa application says, quote, the fbi believes that carter page has been collaborating and conspiring with the russian government. Theres probable cause that such activities involve or are about to involve violations of the criminal statutes of the United States. The document accuses you of being, a, quote, agent of a foreign power. Were you . Jake, this is so ridiculous, its just beyond words, you know, its youre talking about misleading the courts. Its just so misleading, going through those 400plus page documents and it only continues, its really sad. Were you ever an infoan agen a foreign power . No, i have never been an agent of a foreign power by any stretch of the imagination. I may, back in the g20 when they were getting ready to do that in petersburg, i may have participated in some meetings that people from the Obama Administration were sitting in on in geneva, paris, et cetera, but i have never been anywhere near whats being described here. So you have advised the kremlin in the past, that was 2013, that g20 meeting, i believe . There were experts from around the world talking about Energy Issues and i was one of countless companies, you know, myself and a lot of academics, and Business People who were involved in these area you discussion sessions. But it was nothing. But you did advise the kremlin, i just want to make it clear, you did advice the kremlin back in 2013, or 2012, somewhere in there . Jake, its really spin. I sat in on some meetings, but to call me an advisor i think is way over the top. Except in a 2013 letter you wrote, it says, quote, over the past half year, i have served as an advisor to the kremlin in preparation for the g20 next month where issueEnergy Issues be a Prominent Point on the agenda. This is really nothing and just an attempt to distract from the real crimes that are shown in this misleading document. You know, page 8, it talks about disguised propaganda, including the planting of false or misleading articles, which is exactly what this is. So thats kind of the pot calling the kettle black by mr. Comey and co. One thing thats interesting is that the documents make it clear that they were relying on information from Christopher Steele, but not only investigation from Christopher Steele, on fisa renewals assert that youre an agent of an foreign power, and then it was signed off, the fisa application and then three renewals, by four judges all of them appointed by republicans. This isnt just Christopher Steel or james comey, this is many, many people over four administrations, over and over believing that you were an agent of a foreign power. How do you respond to that . Actually it would be a good question for them, jake, is whether they believe that what they did was appropriate now. You know, again, they were misled and if people are giving them typically when the department of justice is giving a court information, i think its reasonable for a judge to believe that thats true. Im hoping that the judge will the fisa is just the first part, lets see what they do in Southern District of new york to try to correct the record. Most of the material has been redact redacted. But some of the information in there says carter page has been the subject of recruitment by the russian government. In violation of u. S. Criminal law. It says that the russians were trying to recruit you. We know you said that you went to russia in the summer of 2016 to deliver a the commencement address, was it not a possibility that russians were trying to recruit you even if you didnt take the bait . It seems to me like that would be your job and you worked with trump, and you had worked with the kremlin in the past, that would be a reasonable thing for them to do. Thats totally misleading and it actually referred to testimony that eric holder and preek barara talked about that prior case. A lot of that is incredible spin. That individual, a young diplomat in new york, i talked with him about my class. We had coffee one time. I met him at a conference, we met once for coffee and i gave him some of my class notes that my students at New York University were looking at and it was in one ear and out the other, he never asked me to do anything. Its just so preposterous. This is about spin. If you would just answer the questions that would be great. It says you established relationships with russian officials including russian Intelligence Officers, youre telling me they pulled that out of the air . You had no relationship with russian Government Officials . You have already told me that you were san advisor to the kremlin in 2013, you do have relationships with russian Government Officials, right . Lets see what they are referring to specifically. As you correctly noted, theres a ton of information thats blacked out. If you read mr. Clapper and cos d nrk dni report of january 2013, theres this sputnik Propaganda Network agencies allegedly were influencing the elections. Now we know through these documents that the defamatory article in september 23, 2016, was used as a Central Source of this. So really, its another situation of the pot calling the kettle black, and the fact that you have this 500 million plus a year broadcasting board of governors funding this ridiculous smear campaign. Carter, you have relationships with russian Government Officials, true, yes . Lets see what theyre talking about. Im just asking you a straight question, do you have relationships with russian Government Officials. I can tell you i dont. But again, you lived in russia, youre an academic, you worked in energy in russia, you went there in 2013 and delivered a commencement address, do you have relationships with russian Government Officials. Jake, if you read through these 400 pages, theres two men that i have never spoke with, communicated with in my entire life. You have never spoken, the application says you spoke with igor satchen, it charges that you guys discussed in 2016, quote, prospects for an associated move to lift ukraine sanctions against russia. So youre saying you never in your life spoke with igo satchen . Kellyanne had to answer these questions, you had a very good interview with her on september 25, 2016, asking her about a range of campaign issues. And since it was put on the table two days earlier, that friday, you know, it was a question you brought up asking about these things. And you know, kellyanne was someone who recently joined the campaign, i never had any relationship, i have never spoken with her in my life. Its just a real misinformation and, you know you had a good you were very fair in terms of asking the questions but it really put her on the spot and its just really a sad state of affairs with this Election Interference Campaign by the democrats. You still havent answered my question whether you have any relationship with any russian Government Officials. You said you dont have a relationship with igor as tr at. Totally false, and, dpen, th again, thats directly from the dodgy dossier, its absolutely preposterous. Did anyone at any time, any russian Government Official at any time in 2016 talk to you about either lifting the sanctions or compromising the material that they had on Hillary Clinton . On compromising material, not one thing. I was hearing about things when you were hearing about things in the main stream media. When i was there in july of 2016, a few people brought it up in passing, but, you know, again, its a Major Economic issue and so, you know, there may have been a loose conversation im very careful in terms of making sure that theres a clear record. There is nothing in terms of any nefarious behavior. So you did discuss the sanctions with individuals in russia. Did you ever hear from a russian, not from the media, from a russian anything about compromising material about Hillary Clinton . Never. Never . Never. All right, carter page thank you very much for coming this morning and taking our questions, we appreciate it. After a painful week of walk backs and denials on russia, is anybody buying the denials. Your society was led by a woman, who governed thousands. Commanded armies. Yielded to no one. When i found you in my dna, i learned where my strength comes from. My name is courtney mckinney, and this is my ancestrydna story. 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Carter page, im not claiming that hes james bond, hes not 007, but this is a guy, even before the campaign, this is not trump related. Even before the campaign, this is a guy who went around bragging about his contacts in russia. Then you see the guy hanging around the leading campaign and so then the fbi said we got to look at this guy, by the trump campai campaigns own admission, carter wasnt a big player. The fact that they were looking into carter page doesnt prove anything about collusion or anything. Carter page was one of these guys we never would have heard of him before all of this, but he was a guy who was on their screen before the campaign, and when he comes in the near orbit with the campaign, they put that together with whats happening with russian interference, thats when they looked at him. I dont think theres anywhere broader plot to interfere in our elections by the russians. So you think the fisa warrant was justified . They laid out the evidence, there was a lot of reasons unrelated to the dossier why they wanted to look at carter page. And carter page was not a member of the Trump Campaign, and the Trump Campaign has said that. Plans are in the works to bring Vladimir Putin to the white house for a meeting in the fall. Whats your reaction, and do you think if putin comes to town, he should also come to capitol hill . My understanding is the president always wanted to meet with putin in america first, he didnt want to go to moscow first, he didnt want a third country first, he didnt want the meeting to be on the sidelines of any other engagement. He agreed to helsinki, but he wanted the first meeting with putin to be on his home turf, in trumps home turf. No ones been tougher on putin and interference than i have been. But i dont have a problem with the president interacting with the president of the russian federation, they do have nuclear weapons, but we should be clear eyed about who putin is, hes not interested in better relations with the u. S. , i think he walked away from that a long time ago, hes interesting in gaining the upper hand to his benefit. You have suggested in the past that you think putin might be responsible for war crimes, not just in syria. I know he has. Do you have a problem with him coming to the white house . Meeting with him is one thing, but coming to the white house is another. The symbolism is one thing, people could make the argument about it. There is no doubt in my mind that putin has authorized war crimes. And he does have nuclear weapons, so its kind of one of these situations is, if he was a dictator of a third world country, we would treat him differently. But geopolitical reality means we have to deal with him. This is the guy who shot down that malaysian airliner, this is a guy who took crimea, this is the guy who bombs aid convoys in syria and helps the Syrian Regime gas people by covering for them at the united nations. This is who we are deal with. As long as we know that. Does President Trump know that . He calls him very strong, i cant imagine youre very happy about the way that President Trump behaved. Donald trump has not spent his whole life in d. C. Doing all these things, in his mind, if i can interact with this guy over a period of time, we may be able to get some things done together. But because hes not a political creature, he doesnt realize that putin is not one of our allies. I think they i dont have any doubt that President Trump is aware of the things Vladimir Putin has done. Im not sure his rhetoric reflects that, but his policies do. Dont you think youre being remarkably forgiving in your criticism of trump . If a democratic president has done those things, i cant imagine that you would be really outraged. I think the difference is, i have interacted with donald trump for two years, three years now, and i have a sense of who he is. Ultimately i look at the poli policies anding thats what im trying to influence, the rhetoric matters the policy matters even more. Just as we sent additional aid to the ukraine. If we keep doing those things, hopefully the rhetoric gets better on it. Look, i am concerned any time you undermine or say at a press conference that you agree with putin over our Intelligence Community and thats why im glad he came back the next day and walked that back. Sort of. It was certainly better than the impression left after helsinki. After his press conference, President Trump said it was an incredible offer for russian official s cooperate with american officials. In her statement rejecting it, press secretary sanders said it was a proposal that was made in sincerity by president putin, does it bother you that this was ever taken seriously . I dont believe it was ever taken seriously. I dont think they were going to do that. He said it was an incredible offer. In the white house, i dont think at any point anybody was ultimately going to say lets do this, once it was analyzed and look at. It was a choice of words, i remember wednesday or thursday morning thinking they should rule this out completely. I want to play the moment when president putin appeared to side with putin over the Intelligence Community and helsinki. Dan coats came to me and some others came to me and said they think its russia. I have president putin, he just said its not russia. I will say this, i dont see any reason why it would be. Now, 27 hours later, after two Television Interview where is he didnt say anything, but five tweets where he didnt say anything, then President Trump after being told by pompeo claims that he meant to say that he did