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Article snippet: The House Intelligence Committee on Monday night released more than 200 pages of transcripts from its marathon interview of former Trump campaign advisor Carter Page, sprawling testimony that contained a new details about the closely scrutinized foreign policy aide’s relationship to Moscow. The at-times tense interview — which took place behind closed doors last week — also highlighted an increasingly public partisan rift on the committee. Page, who throughout sought to characterize himself as a scholar whose name has been unjustly defamed, told lawmakers that he suggested to his fellow foreign policy advisers that Trump could make a trip to Russia during the campaign. “The idea there was bearing in mind MORE's speech as a candidate in Germany 2008. That was what I was envisioning,” Page said. In an email to J.D. Gordon, who was then running the campaign's foreign policy advisory team, and Walid Phares, another foreign policy advisor on the campaign, Page suggested that then-candidate Trump could take a trip that he had scheduled to Moscow in his place. "I got another idea," Page wrote, according to an email read out by the committee's top Democrat, Rep. MORE (R-Ala.), who was chairman of the foreign policy advisory panel. In “no, way, shape or form” did he try to convey to Sessions that he hoped to be helpful in Trump’s efforts to improve relations with Russia, Page said. He also “sent a note” to campaign spokesperson Hope Hicks and then-campaign manager Corey L... Link to the full article to read more