criminal charges against 20 individuals and entities. because accountability is coming one way or another. and they are scared and they are trying to undermine the investigation and to distract attention. now, i must say the basis of many of these questions that we are hearing today of mr. strzok by the majority, by the republicans, is the 11th hour interview with mr. struzok. i now call upon the majority to release that transcript in full today. this will show that this is the entire joint investigation is at best a partisan distraction from more important matters. but the witness before us today, mr. strzok, testified, not under confidentiality, not under confidentiality rules, but in private, for 11 hours, there is nothing that prevents the majority from releasing that transcript. selective portions of that transcript have been leaked by members of the majority,
the last two weeks. so it didn t shock me. okay. so who do you think realistically thinking would be first in the firing line? i am also looking at your report that manafort s realtor had to testify be every the grand jury this week? reporter: right, certainly there is a lot of urgency the story at politico talked about the testimony by his realtor. look at the time line under which all this went down. two weeks ago the realtor was called to appear before the grand jury, that s two fridays ago. he said he didn t want to appear, he had some confidentiality rules in virginia. they went to the judge. the judge took up the issue the following tuesday, the realtor was ordered to report last friday. so this is moving at quite an aggressive pace. you think about how things linger on in the court system and in the stleem, sometimes for years and years. this matter was resolved in a matter of days. the guy was put in front of the grand jury last friday. so you wonder if prosecutors
graduation speech i gave in july, but no meetings. did you meet sergey kislyak in clolveed and develand and dio him? i won t deny i did talk to him. so you did. i will say i did not meet him anywhere outside of cleveland, say that much. the only time you met him was in cleveland? that i may have met him, possibly, it might have been in cleveland. again, i m respectful to the organizers. i m respectful to confidentiality rules and whether it s in government or outside you re not going to deny you talked to him in cleveland? i do not deny that. that is carter page with chris hayes last night. he stopped with the campaign over a speech he gave in moscow criticizing american foreign policy and sanctions against russia. as for his meeting with the ambassador, gordon told the paper, quote.
bipartisan 9/11 style commission that could subpoena evidence and issue a report with recommendations. now as we have this growing number of people we find out have met with the russian ambassador, the white house confirming that carter page talking to our chris hayes. let me play what he had to say. did i meet sergey kislyak in cleveland? did you talk to him? i m not going to deny that i talked to him. i will say i never met him anywhere outside the cleveland. let s say that much. the only time up met him was in cleveland? that i may have met him possibly might have been in cleveland so again, i m respectful to the organizers, i m respectful to confidentiality rules, whether it s in government or outside you re not going to deny you talked to him in cleveland? i m not going to denythat.
i might have said hello to a few people as they re walking by me at the graduation speech i gave in july but no meetings. let s bring in usa today investigative reporter steve reilly and tim carney and the daley beast s betsy woodruff. steve, i want to talk about your exclusive reporting fronting usa today. we just watched the exchange between carter page and msnbc s chris hayes. what did you take away from that? did you learn anything from that? chris hayes interview with carter page tracked pretty closely to my own interactions with mr. page over the last two weeks. he repeatedly cited confidentiality rules or agreements not to speak about the nature of his interactions,