Page declined to answer Tapper's questions about who originally recruited him into the Trump campaign, though he did reveal that it was not Paul Manafort, Trump's former campaign manager who is now expected to register with the Justice Department as a foreign agent due to his work for a pro-Russian Ukrainian political party.
The FBI investigated Trump campaign advisor Carter Page past year over worries he could have been working for Russian Federation, a major report said.
Three years before Page became Trump's campaign adviser, he had come to the attention of Federal Bureau of Investigation counterintelligence agents when they learned that Russian spy suspects had sought to use him as a source of information, the Washington Post reports. I have nothing to hide. He compared the investigations to the FBI and the Justice Departments eavesdropping on the civil rights king, Martin Luther King Jr.
Court records already in the public domain show that a man subsequently identified as Mr Page interacted with a Russian spook, who was posing as a diplomat, in NY in 2013 (Mr Page says only publicly available material was exchanged).
Page, an oil industry consultant who advised the Trump campaign about foreign policy, said "tons of false evidence" has been published suggesting that he had illicit contact with Russians who were recruiting him as a spy.
Lots of stories of late have reported that the FBI was investigating ties between "Trump associates" and Russian Federation, and now there's a definitive name: Carter Page.
And the White House has repeatedly attempted to focus attention on Trump's widely rebutted allegations of illegal surveillance of Trump Tower, or claims of politically motivated "unmasking" of the names of Trump allies in intelligence documents.
The intelligence community has already concluded that Russian Federation did meddle in the USA election.
Since the 90-day warrant was first issued, it has been renewed a few times by the FISA court, the officials said.
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Page has not been accused of any crimes, the Post points out. "Of course I wasn't acting as an agent for a foreign government", he said.
"It will be interesting to see what comes out when the unjustified basis for those FISA requests are more fully disclosed over time ...", he said.
The FBI began its probe, which also is examining whether there was collusion between the Trump campaign and Russian Federation, in July.
Sources tell TheDC that Lewandowski introduced Page to Trump campaign policy director Sam Clovis sometime in late 2015 or early 2016.
Page has said he sent policy memos to the campaign and participated in conference calls as well as gatherings that included Trump, but also said he never personally briefed Trump or was in "small meetings" with him during the election.
Page described himself in the past as a junior member of the Trump's campaign's foreign policy group.
Asked flatly if he could rule out the idea that he had discussed sanctions relief that could come from a then-hypothetical Trump administration, he conceded: 'Someone may have brought it up. What do you know about the case that was made to get this warrant for Carter Page?
It appeared to show that Russian Federation had assembled embarrassing information about Trump that could be used as leverage against him - including a report that placed him in a sexually compromising position with Moscow prostitutes.
As Donald Trump's Russian Federation scandal grew more serious late previous year, the Republican's team faced all kinds of questions, including whether anyone from the campaign was in communications with Russian Federation ahead of Election Day.
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