Carter Page, a former adviser to President Trump Donald John TrumpTrump says he doesn't think he could've done more to stop virus spread Conservative activist Lauren Witzke wins GOP Senate primary in Delaware Trump defends claim coronavirus will disappear, citing 'herd mentality' MORE's campaign, said Tuesday that any information he gave Russian spies in an encounter several years ago was "immaterial."

“Any information I could give is, again, immaterial and all public information,” he told ABC News during an interview Tuesday at a New York energy conference.

The comments come after a report Monday that Page met a Russian intelligence operative three years before the 2016 race and passed him documents.

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He reportedly met with Victor Podobnyy, a Russian intelligence official whom the U.S. government later charged with acting as an unregistered agent for a foreign government.

The January 2015 charges were filed against Podobnyy and two others after federal investigators busted a Russian spy ring looking for information on U.S. sanctions and alternative energy efforts.

Page confirmed to BuzzFeed News on Monday that he is the person described as “Male-1” in the court filing, which states he encountered Podobnyy at a 2013 energy conference in New York City. The filing says Page, an energy consultant, then met with, emailed with and “provided documents to [Podobnyy] about the energy business” from January to June of that year.

During a Monday interview with ABC News, Page said he cooperated in the case.

"I didn't want to be a spy," he said. "I'm not a spy."