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I've never been an agent of the foreign power in any owe by any stretch of the imagination. you know, i may have back in the g20 when they were talking about that in st. petersburg. i might have participated in a few meetings that a lot of people, including people from the obama administration, were sitting in on in geneva, paris, et cetera. but i've never been anywhere near what's being described here. >> carter page is back in the spotlight after the fbi released heavily redacted documents related to the electronic surveillance of the former trump aide. page denies he ever worked as an agent...

Equation. on the merit. i think, this is not a complicated or difficult question. >> joshua, the focus of your book. steve bannon, you write a lot about jeff sessions he was important during the campaign? >> he was the heart and soul of trumpism. before trumpism existed. sessions was out, 10, 15 years ago fighting against immigration reform. it points in 20913 bipartisan immigration reform effort, sessions was sometimes the lone vote in favor of immigration amendments. so aggressive that people like ted cruz couldn't support him. so this guy is, is the heart and soul of what trump believes. an...

>> reporter: so, the question is, are the new jobs related to something tangible the president has done, like roll back in regulation, or just a sense of optimism because they have a proponent in the white house as opposed to an adversary? the people out here in coal country from university experts to miners to people in the center of town say it's all about the optimism. melissa. >> melissa: interesting. mike tobin, thank you. stocks trending down today. you can see there, the dow down about 37 points, as hel companies react to the cuts in medical research president trump has proposed on the ...

In that case, to make the numbers balance, he would need to cut every other dhdomestic s program, medicare, medicaid, all by 50%, huge cuts. >> it sounds good to the conservative base of the republican party, but in reality, trying to get that through is -- >> you can't make those numbers up. >> -- is less likely than what we're seeing proposed by the president. give us sort of your take on where you think the president's budget is going, because you heard what ed markey said. we'll have to see what the republican leadership is going to do. but boy, the battle lines are really drawn. i don't t...