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Trump campaign granted aide Carter Page permission for Moscow trip, where he made controversial speech in July

Former Donald Trump campaign national security adviser Carter Page had the Trump campaign's permission for his controversial trip to Moscow in July. Page confirmed he asked the campaign for permission in June, which was granted on the condition that he act as a private citizen and not a representative of the campaign. Trump's campaign has spent months distancing itself both from Page's role as an adviser and from his controversial speech in Moscow where he criticized American sanctions against Russia. Ref. USAToday.

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Carter Page, a former foreign policy adviser on President Donald Trump's campaign, declined repeatedly on Wednesday to confirm or deny the FBI had interviewed him yet.

"I have nothing to say about any ongoing investigations," Page said on CNN's "The Lead with Jake Tapper."

Page's CNN interview came a day after the Washington Post reported the FBI had received a warrant to surveil him in summer 2016 as part of the federal investigation into potential collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia to influence the presidential race.

Page denied on Wednesday that he was a foreign agent, and said the report, if true, was a "Real game changer." Ref. CNN.

Carter Page History & Civil Business Politics

FBI releases FISA records on surveillance of former Trump campaign aide Carter Page. It was the first time the government had ever made public copies of top-secret orders seeking wiretaps of an American under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. Ref. USAToday.