Carter Page backtracks after telling ABC News he would appear before the House panel on June 6. | AP Photo | Pavel Golovkin/AP Photo Carter Page backtracks on House hearing date

Carter Page appears to have jumped the gun when he told ABC News he would appear June 6 before the House panel investigating Russia’s meddling in the 2016 presidential election.

President Donald Trump’s former campaign foreign policy adviser backtracked in response to questions from POLITICO, saying the hearing date was not yet finalized. Members of the House Intelligence Committee also declined to say that a firm date had been set.


“Details still being worked out,” Page said of his testimony next month. “We’ll see.”

Members of the House Intelligence Committee, which is investigating allegations of collusion between Russia and the Trump campaign, seemed taken aback when informed of the ABC News report, saying they had not heard about a hearing date being set.

“I know he was certainly on our list of requests,” said Rep. Jim Himes (D-Conn.), a member of the panel. “I hadn't heard that he had confirmed.”

A spokesman for Rep. Adam Schiff of California, the panel's top Democrat, said he could not confirm or comment on the hearing date.

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Rep. Mike Conaway (R-Texas), who is leading the investigation, twice declined to say whether Page would appear before his panel, saying: “I don’t talk about the details.”

Another potential witness, longtime Trump associate Roger Stone, said Wednesday that he “turned over all documents” to Congress pertaining to a “specific issue area” in the investigation.

“I reiterate my desire to testify in public before the Senate or the House committee,” he said while guest hosting a program on Infowars. “It’s time for the Feinsteins, the Frankens, the Warners, and on the House side, the Schiffs, the Swalwells, the Speiers, to put up or shut up.”

Ali Watkins contributed to this report.