Carter Page, the former campaign adviser to President Trump whose surveillance by the FBI has upended Washington, is doing a media tour. On Tuesday, he appeared on ABC's Good Morning America to discuss the controversial memo compiled for House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes (R-Calif.), which purported to reveal Page's improper surveillance. Trump believes the contents of the memo demonstrate anti-GOP bias in the agency, therefore tainting the FBI's investigation into collusion between his campaign and Russia.
"There was no basis [for my surveillance]," Page told ABC's George Stephanopoulos, claiming that the Constitution had been "shredded." Stephanopoulos pointed out that wiretapping warrants usually require a fair amount of vetting: "You actually had been on the FBI's radar for working with Russia for several years," he said. "You gave … documents to [a Russian who the FBI] charged with espionage." Page insisted he'd only given the Russian agent "notes" about a class he was teaching at New York University.
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