Exclusive: Carter Page testifies he told Sessions about Russia trip
Source: Manu Raju and Jeremy Herb, CNN
(CNN)Former Trump foreign policy adviser Carter Page privately testified Thursday that he mentioned to Jeff Sessions he was traveling to Russia during the 2016 presidential campaign as new questions emerge about the attorney general's comments to Congress about Russia and the Trump campaign.
During more than six hours of closed-door testimony, Page said that he informed Sessions about his coming July 2016 trip to Russia, which Page told CNN was unconnected to his campaign role. Page described the conversation to CNN after he finished talking to the House intelligence committee.
Sessions' discussion with Page will fuel further scrutiny about what the attorney general knew about connections between the Trump campaign and Russia and communications about Russia that he did not disclose despite a persistent line of questioning in three separate hearings this year.
Page's testimony was one of the more highly anticipated events in the congressional Russia investigations ................
Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2017/11/02/politics/carter-page-testimony-russia-trip/index.html
Updated 7:28 PM ET, Thu November 2, 2017
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BumRushDaShow
(129,096 posts)msongs
(67,420 posts)murielm99
(30,745 posts)commenting on the Russian connections. She said in a blog post that they had met many people over the course of her father's Presidency, but never all the Russians that 45 and his family seem to rub elbows with.
Being connect to Hollywood and politics, she has a right to comment on the number of famous and powerful people she has met. This is not current news, but I think about it once in a while. So many Russians, so little time.
YOHABLO
(7,358 posts)C Moon
(12,213 posts)It's getting to the point that it's no longer shocking to hear this stuff.
But then it hits me every now and then, and I get so pissed off about how much these asses get away with.
INdemo
(6,994 posts)George Papadopoulos points to Sessions,and now Carter Page connectred Sessions to the Russian Connection.
It is a set up to fire Sessions and get another AG to fire Mueller...Thats my bet
murielm99
(30,745 posts)Things happen on Fridays. Will 45 try to get someone to fire Mueller while he is overseas?
L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)And, if public opinion and trust has anything to do with it, Mueller should be the next AG.
Sessions is likely to get indicted and everyone knows it. He needs to be removed. You can't have one of the crooks running law enforcement. Think about it.
At this point, Trump is in such deep trouble he won't be able to appoint another co-conspirator to run law enforcement as a sub-domain of his criminal brand. Any pick has to get past the Senate.
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tableturner
(1,683 posts)and such an appointee would not need a second confirmation.
The_jackalope
(1,660 posts)But it's from Page's own mouth.
Louise told us the story in April, over 6 months ago.
Sources with links to the intelligence community say it is believed that Carter Page went to Moscow in early July carrying with him a pre-recorded tape of Donald Trump offering to change American policy if he were to be elected, to make it more favorable to Putin. In exchange, Page was authorized directly by Trump to request the help of the Russian government in hacking the election.
Of course she never implicated Sessions in perjury over it, so she was obviously wrong...
ffr
(22,670 posts)Spiranthes
(17 posts)Trump and his criminal crew may not come back to the US from this trip. Arent Jared and Ivanka traveling to Saudia Arabia this weekend?
Motley13
(3,867 posts)why he would ever go on CNN, MSNBC or any legit news show is beyond me,
I can't even understand why the Russians would bother with that imbecile, but I guess they thought we are imbeciles & I can't argue with that after electing the moron