years. they ve never completely been put to rift. to rest. here is drew griffin with more. reporter: for some of the people that know marco rubio like his former unpaid republican consultant chris ingram, the candidate s explanations are doing little to clear up the controversy. to me having known him and seeing him in action and seeing the pattern of behavior of his, the sense of entitlement, the explaining things away without taking any kind of actual accountability or responsibility for what he s done, blaming others and there s always an excuse. reporter: questions of marco rubio s spending on a republican party charge card first surfaced in his u.s. senate campaign in 2010 when the tampa bay times and miami herald were leaked these, two years of records from when marco rubio was a powerful state lawmaker in tallahassee. the records show lots of personal spending that include movie tickets, charges to a wine store, a family vacation and even $1,000 for damage to his mini va
reporter: rubio has been with holding them at least since 2010 when the same issue came up in the u.s. senate race. chris ingram says rubio could immediately resolve the issue by just releasing the records. i think number one, marco could certainly come up with them. he s admitted and acknowledged to me that he has the records, the american express statements for the period of two years. reporter: ingram shared this e-mail exchange with cnn that he had with rubio in 2009 in which rubio was trying to explain personal charges on his republican party card. it is virtually the same explanation rubio still gives today. any personal charges were paid by me directly and it s not a republican party of florida card. it is my card opened under the corporate division of amex using my personal credit. ingram says if he were advising rubio today, he would tell him the same thing he says he told hip back then, release the records and end the controversy. but chris ingram flatly says telling th
e-mail exchange that he had with rubio in 2009 in which rubio was trying to explain personal charges on his republican party card. it is virtually the same explanation rubio still gives today. any personal charges were paid by me directly and it s not a republican party of florida card. it is my card opened under the corporate division of amex using my personal credit. ingram says if he were advising rubio today, he would tell him the same thing he says he told them back then, release the records and end the controversy but chris ingram flatly says telling the actual truth is just not the marco rubio he knows. i think that maybe he doesn t see the real truth as being important and i think that he sees that his indiscretions are not really a problem. so why hasn t the senator released the records? has he ever given a reason? well, when first asked in 2010, he says he wasn t going to
credit card. senator rubio is dismissing the attacks has much to do about nothing. here is what he said on good morning america. it wasn t a credit card. american express charge card secured through me. the bills mailed to me at home. every month i went through it. if there was a personal expense i paid it, if it was party, they paid it. the republican party never paid a single personal expense of mine. allegations senator rubio misused the credit card have been following him for years and never completely put to rest. here is drew griffin with more. reporter: for some of the people that know marco rubio republican consultant chris ingram, the candidate s explanations are doing little to clear up the controversy. to me having known him and seeing him in action and seeing the pattern of behavior of his, sense of entitlement and explaining things away without