funds for my businesses. and i have been fully transparent in providing all requested information. >> all right. get some reaction from democratic senator ben cardin of maryland who joins us from baltimore. senator, what do you think? jared kushner's public declaration. we did not collude with russia nor know anyone among the trump associates who colluded with russia? everything he did he says was proper? >> certainly he hasn't been transparent. these meetings came out after the fact. he didn't volunteer that information. there is many questions that still remain. the clear point was that he did meet with russians, the russian officials, with the russian lawyer during the course of the campaign in which the meeting was scheduled in order to get information about hillary clinton. these are very troublesome meetings. we need to know the substance. his comments today were basically trying to put a