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Secretly funnel money into a trump political even. carrie, how significant is this. >> ana, i actually think this is a significant development. its in the contours of a very limited plea agreement between mr. patton and the government. so he was only charged and pled guilty to one count of violation of the foreign agents registration act. whats interesting is in his plea documents there is another appraise labeled other conduct. and that other conduct, which was not charged, pertains to his faci...

Could lead investigators to more. why is that? >> john, i definitely think its significant. i think the most important paragraph in the plea documents that were filed today by the government is really the paragraph that pertains to other conduct. not the foreign registration charge he plelt plead guilty to, but the other that goes to what evan was describing earlier, which was the donation that was made to the inauguration committee through a u.s. person, unnamed u.s. person straw man. and thats...

The people thats of the special prosecutors thats going to cause great concerns of the president and his allies as well. whats worse for them is you look at the broad scope of this investigation, you have four offices within the department of justice that are now some way involved in this. you have the national security division and you have mueller and you have two u.s. attorney offices that are working of the investigation. theyre not leaving any stone unturned and to discredit them to continu...

You cant break the law in trying to become president. willful, knowing violations of the campaign acts are felonies. >> jack makes an important point. the white house points out correctly the president has not been charged with any criminal wrongdoing. he has not been indicted with any criminal wrongdoing. but in all the federal statements that were made when michael cohen pleaded guilty to those eight counts, especially to counts seven and eight, the federal prosecutors do say that the presiden...

Significant not just that bob mueller puts the date, july 27th, in the indictment, but even the time. they want us to know that this happened after donald trump made that speech and i think thats a pretty significant tell as well. >> so were lucky to have you, given your mastery of the timeline. viewers hearing you may think, okay, if they already had stuff in april which they were sharing, at least information about that, what exactly was different about what they were pursuing in july? >> well...

There were hacks of a number of different democratic institutions, and there was also a lot of thought and cave put into what is the best timeline to start releasing this material? one of the other interesting aspects, again, when you put this indictment together from what we know from the investigation and some of the other plea documents is you have that june 9th meeting in trump tower where the trump campaign at the highest levels offered derogatory information on hillary clinton. the many es...

Mueller puts the date, july 27th, in the indictment, but even the time. they want us to know that this happened after donald trump made that speech and i think thats a pretty significant tell as well. >> so were lucky to have you, given your mastery of the timeline. viewers hearing you may think, okay, if they already had stuff in april which they were sharing, at least information about that, what exactly was different about what they were pursuing in july? >> well, what weve seen is there were...

Make sure he didnt have any information that could exonerate flynn. but now weve seen what has been laid out in these plea documents, could it have actually been a potential trap for kushner to see if he would lie? >> well i dont know that the special counsels office would conduct an interview for the purpose of conducting -- sort of setting a trap, so to speak. but certainly the relevance of the flynn documents shows that a particular focus of the special counsels office is the december meeting...

The white house and i add as much as weve learned today, chuck, there is still so much we dont know. this is a among the slimmest plea documents ive seen, cooperation agreements. >> interesting. i was curious about that there. from what you have read in this, what clue does it give you about the direction where its going? obstruction of justice direction? or in the collusion direction or is this frankly, both paths and this takes him down both. >> could be both. difficult to know based on what w...

With flynn, who was a senior white house official. >> they cant distance themselves from president trumps national security adviser, who has acknowledged a crime. >> reporter: now, senior white house officials said the obama administration, quote, authorized flynns conversation with kislyak, but a former obama administration national security official just told me that that claim from the trump white house is, quote, laughable. as for the president, we are told he feels, quote, sorry for michael...