those applications are often as thicker than my wrist, it is a huge pain in the neck to get permission to bug somebody in the united states, and that s the way it should be. reporter: the senate intelligence committee senior democratic is fully briefed. i can t comment on thefifisa warrant, but it is a serious matter. reporter: from 2013, the fbi investigated efforts by vladimir putin s government to recruit americans. page s name surfaced, identified as male dash 1. according to these documents, u pass energy documents to a russian intelligence operative. is that what happened. it was the same energy, quote-unquote energy documents that i gave to my students at nyu. did the russians try to recruit you? i was never asked by anyone to do anything untoward or otherwise. page said he had no contact with trump campaign chairman,
those applications are often as thicker than my wrist, it is a huge pain in the neck to get permission to bug somebody in the united states, and that s the way it should be. reporter: the senate intelligence committee senior democratic is fully briefed. i can t comment on thefifisa warrant, but it is a serious matter. reporter: from 2013, the fbi investigated efforts by vladimir putin s government to recruit americans. page s name surfaced, identified as male dash 1. according to these documents, u pass energy documents to a russian intelligence operative. is that what happened. it was the same energy, quote-unquote energy documents that i gave to my students at nyu. did the russians try to recruit you? i was never asked by anyone to do anything untoward or otherwise. page said he had no contact with trump campaign chairman,