hours there and see you back here state side. >> thank you. let's bring in democratic congressman david cicilline of rhode island, member of the house foreign affairs and judiciary committees. good to see you. >> good to see you. >> i've got to start with "the washington post" explosive report. russian intercepts claim jared kushner wanted to set up secret back channel communications with russia. do you think that this is russia duping those listening in as they have been known to do or do you have reasons to believe that this is actually true? >> well, i don't think we know. obviously if this report is true, it's very problematic. it either means that jared kushner was incredibly naive and dangerously so, or something else is going on. but when you look at this reporting coupled with the fact that there were 18 contacts between the trump administration and the russians that have gone unreported and that jared kushner in filling out his form for the security clearance did not tell the truth and did not include these meetings at all in december, taken in that context