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What a paranoid lunatic they said, 'Get off Twitter!' Yeah. The question at this point is how many Trump's people weren't spied on by the FBI. We know from Congressional testimony that Page spoke to Trump advisor, Trump campaign manager Steve Bannon while he was being spied on, meaning Bannon was likely spied on too. Suddenly it looks like the Obama administration may have spied on a significant portion of the Trump campaign team. Just how many people were surveilled and to what extent? Asking questions is a sign of disloyalty to this country. The very people that once told us that spying absolutely never happened are now telling us that spying was perfectly justified and normal. I, "would rather not have a paper trail," he texted in the oligarch's lobbyist. That story alleges just within the last year American intelligence agencies paid a spy -- apparently a spy working for the Russian government -- $100,000 in American tax dollars in exchange for unverified and possibly fabricated information about President Trump.

Carter Page, a former foreign policy adviser to President Trump’s election campaign, met Russian government officials on a trip to the country during the campaign last year, according to a Friday report. Page told The Times that he did meet with Russian officials, but said the meeting was “brief.” “I had a very brief hello to a couple of people. That was it,” Page told The Times. He also told the newspaper that he met with one “senior person,” but refused to reveal that person’s identity. Page also said Thursday he told House investigators that he told Attorney General Jeff Sessions, then an Alabama Senator and member of the Trump campaign’s foreign policy team, about his trip before it occurred. "Back in June 2016, I mentioned in passing that I happened to be planning to give a speech at a university in Moscow," Page told CNN. “ In testimony before the Senate in June, Sessions said he did not “recall” any meetings between campaign associates and Russian officials. Sessions also said at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing last month that he was unaware of any Trump campaign surrogates communicating with Russians. "I did not [have contact with Russians] and I'm not aware of anyone else that did, and I don't believe it happened,” Sessions said. Rep. Ted Lieu (D-Calif.) said Friday Sessions should resign from his post because he “absolutely” committed perjury during his testimony.

A dossier with some sordid allegations about President Trump is reportedly being investigated by Special Counsel Robert Mueller. Ned Price joins Alex to untangle these new threads of the Russia probe. » Subscribe to MSNBC: http://on.msnbc.com/SubscribeTomsnbc About: MSNBC is the…