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Miscellaneous nbc political contributor. mark, this was someone who was quite successful from just out of nowhere essentially in weaving herself into the center of a lot of conservative politics. >> yeah. well, i think first todays plea deal is just stunning confirmation of what we at mother jones and many other news outlets have been reporting for a long time about the way that they so successfully were able to ingratiate themselves with conservatives in american politics, but especially leader...

Answer from trump that she wanted. if putin is sitting there and hes thinking whether or not to intervene in our election, right, because this is about the time that hes making that determination, donald trump is now just giving essentially the signal its not unlike when he said lets hack hillarys e-mails, hell say in that answer im get along with you guys. im the person you should bet on. >> mark, who else is exposed here? she had contact with a lot of people. shes a boyfriend whos a big republ...

For the first time that we know of, there is now a russian national cooperating with investigators about russian influence in the 2016 presidential election. maria butina pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy today for illegally acting as a foreign agent and agreed to cooperate with the office of the u.s. attorney for the district of columbia. even as butina hobnobbed in prominent conservative and gun rights circles, prosecutors say she was actually working with central banker alexander tors...

Hes thinking whether or not to intervene in our election, right, because this is about the time that hes making that determination, donald trump is now just giving essentially the signal its not unlike when he said lets hack hillarys e-mails, hell say in that answer im get along with you guys. im the person you should bet on. >> mark, who else is exposed here? she had contact with a lot of people. shes a boyfriend whos a big republican donor. where do you think this can go next? >> well, i think...

With the national rifle association. here to answer some of those unresolved questions, mark fullman and ben rhodes, former national security advisor and miscellaneous nbc political contributor. mark, this was someone who was quite successful from just out of nowhere essentially in weaving herself into the center of a lot of conservative politics. >> yeah. well, i think first todays plea deal is just stunning confirmation of what we at mother jones and many other news outlets have been reporting...

>> not at all. i have several people that i have not been able to get in contact with. >> im really sorry about whats going on. hopefully youll still hear from them. >> my prayers are out there. and my prayers are with the families of students that lost their lives today. its all love for me. all love from everybody in the community. we all come together as one to try to get past this incident. >> tough thing. thank you for talking to us. i appreciate it. chris, you know, there are still 15 peop...

We dont have the details about this young man. this profile exists in every country. there are disaffected deeply troubled young men in every first world nation. only here do they go to weapons of mass destruction to try to deal with their inner turmoil. some of that is because they have access to weapons here that you dont have access to other places. some of it is because of a celebratory culture of violence that yes, is endorsed by the united states congress when we dont take seriously our ob...

>> not at all. i have several people that i have not been able to get in contact with. >> im really sorry about whats going on. hopefully youll still hear from them. >> my prayers are out there. and my prayers are with the families of students that lost their lives today. its all love for me. all love from everybody in the community. we all come together as one to try to get past this incident. >> tough thing. thank you for talking to us. i appreciate it. chris, you know, there are still 15 peop...

We dont have the details about this young man. this profile exists in every country. there are disaffected deeply troubled young men in every first world nation. only here do they go to weapons of mass destruction to try to deal with their inner turmoil. some of that is because they have access to weapons here that you dont have access to other places. some of it is because of a celebratory culture of violence that yes, is endorsed by the united states congress when we dont take seriously our ob...

Editor steve jones of "the atlantic" "the atlantic." mark, its a depressing reality you have been on the mass shootings beat for "mother jones." its something you cover routinely. youve done really comprehensive analysis of mass shootings. as someone whos studied a lot of these, what stands out to you here? >> well, as you were just describing, chris, the confluence of possible motive here is really fascinating as much as this case is horrifying, that this may have been some kind of workplace vi...