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Source materializes is quite another question, because remember, mueller was never able to come up with indictable offenses that linked to the president when indicting manafort. so its really a mystery as to how close this gets to the president. >> its interesting because more and more people become part of the country as well. catherine, weve learned that a member of the obama administrations general counsel, greg craig, is also under investigation for involvement in ukraine lobbying, and appar...

Federal court. the deal he signed with prosecutors orders him to and we quote cooperate fully, truthfully and forthrightly with the government in any and all matters as to which the government deems the cooperation relevant. you may recall president trump was sympathetic to manafort during his first trial, praising him for not breaking under pressure from the feds. >> one of the reasons i respect paul manafort so much is he went through that trial -- you know they make up stories. people make up...

$14,000 on an italian family vacation. $11,300 at costco, $2,000 on steelers games, $1500 on video games. these are the things president trump doesnt want -- >> "riverdance" tickets. thats a separate indictable offense. >> thank you. these are the things that president trump doesnt think the justice department should be looking into. >> right, we have seen the president has a bit of an elastic rule in terms of what he is willing to tolerate on ethics abuses. witness the case of scott pruitt and ...

Principal without the attorney general? i did, your honor. the judge, and now there is a written statement of the offense which i take it you and your lawyer have gone over carefully? yes, your honor. the judge, are you the one who signed it on the last page where it says defendants acceptance indicating it was true? the defendant, yes, your honor. the judge, do you understand if i accept your guilty plea in this case, could you receive a maximum sentence of up to five years incarceration for th...

Russia and vladimir putin? sam patten worked at cambridge analytica in 2014, 2014. he pled guilty today. today after appeared in court for his arraignment and to plead guilty, christopher wylie, that whistle blower. breaking. sam patten just charged by fbi after mueller referral. this guy was responsible for cambridge analytica in the pus involved testing putin attitudes. i know theres more to come. so bottom line. thank you for watching the news on friday night before a holiday weekend. it is s...

Because you are guilty and for no other reason? the defendant, i am, your honor. the judge, is there anything you dont understand about this proceeding or about your plea in this case? the defendant, no, your honor. is there anything you want to ask me or your lawyer before i ask you for your final decision in this case? the defendant, no, your honor. the judge, are you ready now to make a decision about whether you want to enter a plea of guilty or whether you want to have a trial? yes, your ho...

Their own whether or not congress wanted them to? >> the typical practice is for the body that wants to make that referral to let doj know about it because in really doj doesnt have an independent mechanism for assessing whats going on in all of these hearings up on the hill. perjury charges are very hard to make for prosecutors. so theyre scrutinized very carefully. theyre important cases to bring when the evidence is good, but they are difficult to make. >> and so other people who have been ac...

Foreign agent. to be more specifying, prosecutors charged when i am being an unregistered foreign agent, recommending the same pro russia political party that paul manafort has been charged with being a foreign agent for for his trial thats due to start in a couple weeks. sam patten today and paul manafort in a couple weeks, theyre both charged with being unregistered foreign agents for something called the opposition bloc which is what forms had ukraine after manaforts pro russian victory was c...

Court on the legal defense team thats repmag -- representing maria buttina. to try on influence the 2016 election on behalf of the russian government. maria butinas lawyer has done lots of interviews and made lots of appearances. prosecutors are asking for the judge to put a gag order on her lawyer so he will be restricted to only pleading her case in court rather than on tv. she of course remains in jail tonight awaiting trial. the judge in her case refused to allow her out on bail after prosec...

Linked to the manafort case for sure. also, this is another unregistered foreign agent case for the special counsels office. also, for the first time, there case raises the possibility of prosecutions for people lying to congress. about the russia investigation. # and for the first time congress is zeroing in on the trump inauguration describing illicit foreign funds being funneled into trump entities for the first time. tell me more. but to my mind, most intriguingly, i think, for the first tim...