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Accused obama associates to spy on him. that is not what happened. they were targeting russians and russian officials and others and as they did that, they picked up conversations between russians and advisers during the trump campaign. >> and there were ambiguous comments today as well. >> at best, confusing, at worst, conflicting, when he spoke to jake tapper yesterday, jake asked him did you as you met with the russians did you bring up the idea of easing sanctions, for instance, and keep in mind he was advising the campaign. trump identified him as a foreign policy adviser, to jake tapper ...

Treaty. sections were lifted back in 1996 under president clinton at the time. in 2014, rather 2016, i remember, no, 2006, i apologize. july 4th, i was on the air and they fired seven ballistic missiles. all of these threats come obviously. now they see we mean business and we're going to to go in th. at what point to the united states go and strike north korea? easing sanctions, that hasn't helped. >> chris: north korea is probably the second behind maybe somalia, the second or third worst place in the world. there are 20 million human beings who live in north korea. they are starving to deat...

And britain. carter page provides a confusing, even conflicting story acts his contacts with russian intelligence. >> it's just such a joke that it's beyond words. >> reporter: he told jake tapper he never discussed easing sanctions on russia related to the seizing of crimea. >> did you talk to anybody about he would be willing to get rid of the sanctions? >> never any conversations such as that. i mean, look -- >> what do you mean direct -- i don't know what that means. direct conversations. >> i'm saying no that was never said, no. >> but interviewed on abc news this morning, page could not ...

Were picked up as incidental collection during routine surveillance of known rush arean targets. the u.s. and britain are part of the so-called five eyes agreement along with canada, australia and new zealand which calls for open sharing among member nations of a broad range of intelligence. this new information comes as former trump foreign policy adviser carter paige provides confusing and conflicting stories about contacts with russian intelligence. he has denied he was a foreign agent. >> this is such a joke it is beyond words. >> reporter: page told cnn's jake tapper when he visited russi...

And once you get those, let's say there were contacts that you aren't comfortable with, and there was discussion of easing sanctions. then what? >> well, first of all, we should be able to get these transcripts as part of our oversight responsibilities, and in addition to our investigative responsibilities. if those transcripts show evidence of illegality by flynn or others, that's something the fbi ought to be investigating and pursuing. and if there are other issues, other actors within the white house that are undermining u.s. policy or acting at odds with our u.s. national security interes...