looking over showed that jeff sessions heard that carter page was going, of course, in passing. every conversation carter page had in the year of 2016 was in passing. if you look at some of these if you look at the interview that he had with the house intelligence committee. but it seems clear that a lot of these people, including people like sessions who said that they had no knowledge of anyone on the campaign ever talking to russians, it s clear that that s going to be a harder position to defend based on this transcript. and, gene robinson, this is one of those characters in this story that is hard to imagine, that fiction writers would have trouble coming up with this particular character, the one so strangely talkative in television interviews when everyone thinks he should be quiet and turns out he does have to adjust his story as things move along. yeah. he does.
contact with russian government officials. we are going on the air tonight and just released tonight. we ll have more tomorrow as we continue to plow through them. that does it for us tonight. thank you very much for being with us. see you again tomorrow. now it s time for the last word with lawrence o donnell with the great lawrence o donnell. we have a reporter studied the transcript. oh good. you know, what about what about say, you come over here and read carter page, i read trey gowdy. i haven t read them either. a cold reading for both of us. read it out? carter page, a good carter page. i want to marinate myself in all 243 pages before i decide which part i want to play. okay. but, you know, you have got carter page down. that is that is so good. it s the hair, i know. yeah. thank you, rachel. thank you, lawrence. well, a week ago at this hour we registered some real surprise that former national
he page insists he believes he was working in new york and shared only basic immaterial information on the energy policy. in doing so i provided him nothing more than a few samples from the far more details i was providing. you might be announcing your foreign policy advisor soon. we ve got carter page ph.d.. reporter: the russian spy was part of that same spy ring as another russian employment by v.e.b. bank, the state-sponsored russian bank whose representedive met with jared kushner at the request of russian ambassador. i want to go to mike quigley, member of the intelligence
a back channel of communication between trump and russia. there were people who had direct contact with russians known to u.s. intelligence. jared curb her, jeff sessions, manet forth, roger stone, j.d. gordon and carter page now and erik prince. jim sciutto is out front. jim, these are new meetings and the timing of some of these meetings is raising red flags, right? reporter: that s right. i spoeblg to a congressional intelligence source who told me there s a number of things. the time of them, during the transition in december and january. the number of these meetings, the level of the people tied to trump involved in these meetings but also a key question, the substance, what was discussed in those meetings and in particular, were u.s. sanctions on russia discussed and was the
quote, was working and he got scared, and that carter told him to get back in. and potentially the most damaging evidence, carter asked roy to delete the messages she sent him before killing himself. soon after his death, she tells a friend that if police quote, read my messages with him, i m done. if she really loved him as she said she did, why didn t she try to persuade him not to? every day you wake up and think, you know, why? why? why? reporter: in response, michelle carter s attorney says her messages are protected by free speech and claims that it was conrad roy who had attempted suicide before that got carter to endorse his plan. the government is banking on her saying when are you going to do it. what about all the times she said don t do it, don t do it. reporter: michelle carter, now 18, has pleaded not guilty