the investigation into the president's campaign ties to russia goes on. >> joining us senator ben carden from maryland ranking member on the foreign relations committee. let's get into that, senator. we appreciate you being here. given what you have seen so far in this indictment and statement of offense against papadopolous in the mueller investigation thus far, do you agree with that senior white house official who said look, the world is less safe as long as this mueller investigation is going on? speaking in the context of this leading up to the president's trip to asia. >> i can tell you the world will be less safe if we do not understand how russia operates and what they were doing in the united states and their efforts to infiltrate the trump campaign and the cooperation they received from the trump campaign. you know, there should have been red flags that went off when there was russians that wanted to meet with representatives of the trump campaign. that should have no place in american elebs, unless -- elections, but those meetings, in fact, did take place. the concern is we have to find