VietPress USA (Nov. 2nd, 2017): Today on Thursday Nov. 2nd, 2017, a former campaign adviser to then presidential candidate Donald Trump has testified before before the House Intelligence Committee and told that he informed then-U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions about a trip he made to Russia during the 2016 presidential election when Jeff Sessions as the Foreign Policy Adviser to Trump's campaign.

President Trump’s former adviser Carter Page said he told Jeff Sessions about an upcoming trip to Russia during the presidential campaign.

Page appeared before the House intelligence committee for six hours on Thursday and later recounted the conversation with CNN, saying he traveled to Moscow in July 2016 to deliver a speech at a university.

Page reportedly mentioned the trip to Sessions during a group dinner in Washington, and said it was unrelated to his foreign policy role in Trump’s campaign.

Sessions, who recused himself after failing to disclose two meetings with Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak, previously told Senate he did not know of anyone from the Trump campaign who made contact with Russians during the elections. 

Rep. Mike Conaway (R-Texas), who is leading the House committee’s probe into Russia’s interference in the 2016 elections, told CNN, “I don’t make anything sinister out of it. If I were Sessions, I wouldn’t have recalled it either.”

“It was just in passing. He was walking out of the room. A guy he had never met before grabs him, ‘Hey, I’m out on the team. I changed my travel plans to go to Russia,” Conaway added.

Page also recently appeared on MSNBC and told Chris Hayes he may have exchanged emails with George Papadopoulos about Russia.

“It may have come up, yeah,” Page said.

Former adviser Papadopoulos has been charged with lying to FBI agents about the nature of his interactions with “foreign nationals.”