Schiff: Intel panel will ask Carter Page to testify

Rep. Adam Schiff said Tuesday that the House Intelligence Committee will ask former Trump policy adviser Carter Page to speak before the panel "at the appropriate time" as part of its investigation into ties between the Trump campaign and Russian officials.

"He's certainly a person of interest, and I think at the appropriate time, we are going to want him to come before the committee," Schiff (D-Calif.), the ranking member on the panel, told anchor Chris Hayes on MSNBC.


Page has become a focus of the congressional panel's investigation, with his midcampaign trip to Moscow to give a speech in July 2016 repeatedly mentioned during several of the committee's public hearings on the matter. Schiff, speaking on MSNBC on Tuesday, again cited the trip as cause for further inquiry.

In March, Page publicly offered to testify before the committee, telling CNN he wanted to "set the record straight."

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Schiff also addressed calls by congressional Republicans to investigate whether former Obama national security adviser Susan Rice sought to unmask the identities of Trump transition officials, including her predecessor, ousted adviser Michael Flynn, for political purposes.

"This is yet another attempt to distract attention from the Russia probe, which they obviously want to defer and deflect as much as they can," Schiff said, defending Rice against any allegations of wrongdoing.