Ben Cardin Can’t Say Definitively That He Did Not Meet the Russian Ambassador

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ROBERTS: "One thing that Donald Trump tweeted before the mccarthyism tweet about President Obama was that the first meeting Jeff Sessions had with the Russian ambassador was set up by the Obama Administration under education program for 100 ambassadors. I know that sessions has also used the proximity of being the senator and the committees that he sits on to give credibility to having a meeting like that. But the president now saying it was the Obama Administration under the education program for 100 ambassadors. Are you familiar with that, and is that something that happened for you?" 
CARDIN: "I am not familiar with that specific request. I do know that as a member of the Senate foreign relations committee, as a senator, I meet frequently with representatives of other countries. Many times in committee with other members of our — of the Senate. It may be at a public event. It’s rather strange, though, that this close to an election where there’s so much controversy concerning Russia that you would meet with the Russian ambassador. No other member of the armed services committee met with the Russian ambassador during that period of time. This was a private meeting in a member’s office. That’s different than a lot of these other contacts that are made."