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Part of opposition bloc chief of staff yankovic if he is in fact unnamed official described in the documents. it should be noted that in the evidence that was introduced in the last paul manafort trial, that same guy, sergei lovochkin is the same pay master for paul manafort for all the work did he in ukraine. more than $40 million of the overseas payments that prosecutors funneled to paul manafort came from this guy, sergei lovochkin. so lots of linked to manafort. you may have heard when they ...

Particularly in the courts. just tonight, for example, after close of business, the u.s. attorney in washington, d.c. filed this motion in federal court in washington asking for a gag order to be imposed by the court on the legal defense team court on the legal defense team 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...

Sam patten worked at cambridge analytica in 2014, 2015. 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 u.s 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 so worth it, right? special ...

He was present to entry a guilty plea. we got to see him go through the serious nut sxsz boltds with the judge. confirming that he understood. that he was pleading guilty. he understood the implications, and it was a serious thing, we got to see him confirm in open court, that all of this happened to him today. because he has agreed to agree with prosecutors. is what the prosecutor just told me a true and accurate description of what did you in this case? the defendant, sam patten. it is, your h...

Foreign agent. lobbying for, representing the interests of the same pro russia, political party that paul manafort has been charged with today, and paul manafort, and his trial in a couple of weeks, charged with being called the opposition block. 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 chased back. they remade th...

In a court of law, and his strategy is 100% to discredit this investigation, attack, attack, and cloud peoples minds. >> im glad you brought this up. this new poll shows the strategy might not be working. >> its one of our first data points. this 63% of respondents said they supported the mueller investigation. 64% said jeff sessions shouldnt be fired. and 67% said the manafort case was justified. so clearly people -- the giuliani spaghetti at the wall facts are different this week than last wee...

Founded by paul manafort, these russian-backed ukrainian interests. patten was arranging some lobbying, some meetings with congressional staff for them in the united states and he had not registered to do. so and thats a felony, and he has admitted that. he also admitted was not charged with but admitted funneling $50,000 to a straw donor to donald trumps inauguration so that a ukrainian, his ukrainian client paid this $50,000 illegally so he and another person, a russian, could attend trumps in...

>> the president did something drastic, and we have every reason to think he might, it does help to have little pieces farmed out here and there. but remember, they can be farmd out subsequently too. there is a body of fax, there is a body of law, and there are investigations that exist, whether theyre within the mueller team or within the broader justice department. so does it make sense from a resource standpoint? absolutely. does it make sense perhaps as a prophylactic measure to protect the ...

District of columbia. that seems like it echos what he did as well with michael cohen sending cases to the southern district of new york. whats the rationale behind the strategy. >> a couple things. one it may be more sensible for the offices. what folks need to remember, though, kasie, its one district. a case can go to one district for one purpose and come back for another. this is a great example. the district of columbia handled the patt investigation apparently, but realize head had somethi...

Characterizing this as an attack on ohr and they argue that nothing he did was illegal, sandra. >> sandra: there are new developments on the manafort case. what are we learning there? >> you recall that the jury was divided on 10 counts in the prosecution and the judge declared a mistrial on those counts. special counsel prosecutors want more time to decide whether theyll retry those 10 counts. the other factor at play is the upcoming september trial. jury selection begins in this city on the 17...