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Signs tonight that robert mueller is nearing the end of his investigation, true? can you tell us? >> there are clues today that we saw in court where roger stone appeared. the u.s. attorney for the washington d.c. u.s. attorneys office here in the district spoke. he told the court he sort of took the lead here at the arraignment. the prosecutors from the special counsels office who were there said they would be trying this case jointly with the washington d.c. u.s. attorneys office. this could p...

For mueller explained to the judge today that muellers team and the d.c. u.s. attorney, they will be jointly trying this case against roger stone. so that was interesting. that was sort of the most interesting thing that happened today in court. on the deference side, roger stones defense lawyers entered a plea of not guilty on his behalf to the seven felony charges. unless that changes, that will mean that we should expect there will be a criminal trial for roger stone on the seven felony trial...

Their paperwork to the court, which would allow them to represent their client. it is not a great beginning for roger stones legal team in terms of the way they are screwing up the basic question of whether they are allowed to represent him just getting the basic paperwork in. when it came to the actual arraignment today, it was straightforward. they waived the actual reading of the indictment. the prosecution side of the isle included both attorneys from the u.s. attorneys office in d.c. and at...

Maybe the prospect of a long prison sentence is not something that was interesting to somebody who is young and 30 years old and has a whole life ahead of her. i think what is also interesting here is, you know, this case initially was something looked at by the special prosecutor, and my understanding is was then parcelled out to a particular u.s. attorney, in the michael cohen case, the southern district, and in the butina case to the southern district of colombia. as we saw in the michael coh...

Department as attorney general and head of criminal division, and then when he left office after bill clinton was elected, he was working in private practice and really just missed the mission of the justice department. so he came back to the washington, d.c. u.s. attorneys office as a line assistant, and that would be equivalent of being a general and signing up to be a private because you want to be there when youre storming the beaches of normandy. who does that but somebody with humility and...

Million twice with what the predecessors raised. thats significant. but what does samuel patton who pleaded guilty today to felony counts? what is his involvement in all of this? tell us where the mueller investigation is heading right now. >> well whats really interesting about some of the revelations that we saw in todays court filings is that mueller has been sort of going through this. but then referred it to the d.c. u.s. attorneys office. and now as jackie said patton has to cooperate. whi...

Fsb officer. we dont know that. all i know is shes got some pretty good gun handling skills for someone who was just an amateur gun proponent. but when that comes out, thats when youre goinging to see th espionage charges come up. >> she was charged by the d.c. u.s. attorneys office and not by robert mueller. what does that tell you? >> it tells me that mueller and his counterintelligence team in the fbi had indications that she was working on behalf of russia and instead of bringing it into the...

Maybe we would ask you to please add for purposes of the record your name please. miss curtis says thank you, your honor, good afternoon your honor, deborah curtis on behalf of the united states. this is new. we knew that mariia butina was not being charged and prosecuted by special counsels office by robert muellers office. we knew she was being tried by the federal prosecutor in d.c. we knew at the initial appearance while the case was still under seal, the prosecutor from that u.s. attorneys ...

How big a deal is butinas arrest? >> its a big deal for a couple reasons there, a couple key takeaways. number one is for the first time really, federal prosecutors, even though this is a d.c. u.s. attorney and not the mueller probe, they actually have a russian influence agent in their custody. as much as we would like to think that the 12 russians indicted on friday and the other russians indicted earlier this year for their internet troll factory will see the inside of a courtroom, they almos...

Look, what we know is that theres some very serious allegations against him, and at the d.c. u.s. attorneys office didnt sort of reject those out of hand, they took this report and theyre actually acting on it. they called in jim comey for an interview about these allegations. so that shows theyre kind of seriously moving forward with this. now whether this will actually lead to andrew mccabe being criminally charged, its just impossible to say right now. and i think a lot of people would say wh...