and it will also influence public opinion, especially if there s drama and if there s a rather clear pattern of the president really trying to get rid of this piece, get rid of this testimony about flynn, i want this all gone. yeah. i have to ask you, eric, about more reporting that you have and get your response to this, about this tweet this morning from president about carter page. he said now it s reported that the democrats who have excorps rated carter page about russia don t want him to testify. he blows away their case against him. and now he wants to clear his name by calling the misleading testimony from james comey witch-hunt. what was the story. for months and months the white house distanced itself as much as it could from carter payment. he was a nobody. a hanger on.
much as it could from carter payment. he was a nobody. a hanger on. the president had never even met him. now the president is really doing a bit of a flip-flop and invoking carter page is an important figure in this in trying to debunk the charges from democrats that there is something to the russian collusion investigation. obviously, the presidencies now sees carter page as ammunition which for a long time he was he was a potential enemy. thank you, panel. i appreciate it. when we come back, that sizzling war of words between president trump and hillary clinton.
again on otwitter, and if we have the tweet, guys, throw it up on the screen where the president essentially this morning urging carter page to testify. and this is a name, carter page who has been talking a lot recently, but it is someone who, the white house has downplayed and one point they said that he was a hanger-on, david, and now they are saying i am just confused, because now it sounds like, and you are laughing burr u they downplayed the role so much, and now the president is asking for him to testify. i m confused. and now he is the defender in chief. and so, you know, this person that, remember how this all started, donald trump announced the foreign policy advising team to the washington post in an editorial page, and touted carter page as the team, and that is how he entered the lexicon of the 2016 campaign, and by all accounts he wasn t, but then the white house acted like once donald trump had taken over and thathe controversy
that, yeah. will you answer the biggest mystery of carter page for me? please. the president of the united states said your name, carter page, ph.d. he was talking to the washington post. there s a bunch of trump people who say this guy had nothing to do with this. he was a hanger on. an ancillary figure. i don t know who the guy is. at some point, carter page, ph.d. got onto a piece of paper that the president of the united states read. what was the conduit by which carter page ph.d. entered the campaign of donald j. trump? the favorite term i like that you use there was hanger on. i think the biggest thing which i ve been this year is hung on account of being a supporter, and that s in the end of the day my biggest i know that. i hear you out. i hear that you feel you ve been unfairly persecuted because you re a supporter. i get that. but there is just a factual question here, which is that someone put you in touch with from was some way that you joined the campaign a
they were asking you, did you meet with this person? did you meet with that person? in broad terms. again, i don t want to dig into specifics, but everything to a large extent was related to that, yeah. will you answer the biggest mystery of carter page for me? please. the president of the united states said your name, carter page, ph.d. he was talking to the washington post. there s a bunch of trump people who say this guy had nothing to do with this. he was a hanger on. an ancillary figure. i don t know who the guy is. at some point, carter page, ph.d. got onto a piece of paper that the president of the united states read. what was the conduit by which carter page ph.d. entered the campaign of donald j. trump? the favorite term i like that you use there was hanger on. i think the biggest thing which i ve been this year is hung on account of being a supporter, and that s in the end of the day my biggest i know that. i hear you out. i hear that you feel you ve been