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Carter Page Tells House Intel Panel He Spoke To Sessions About Russia Contacts

The disclosure from the former Trump campaign adviser increases the pressure on the attorney general ahead of a hearing scheduled for next week before the House Judiciary Committee.
Carter Page, former foreign policy adviser for the Trump campaign, speaks to the media after testifying before the House Intelligence Committee last week in Washington, D.C.

Former Trump campaign foreign policy adviser Carter Page told a number of his campaign colleagues and supervisors about his dealings with Russians, he told members of Congress last week.

One of them was Jeff Sessions, then an Alabama senator and early Trump endorser and now the attorney general. Sessions has denied he was aware of anyone in the campaign communicating or dealing with Russians who were interfering with the election.

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