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These three, at least three types of potential charges on the table and prosecutors would have offered mr. patton in exchange for his cooperation this deal. and part of the deal was well only charge you with one of these crimes that you committed. well give you a pass on the other two. but the rules that prosecutors operate under require prosecutors to disclose all of that conduct to the court so thats why we heard this more fulsome conversation in front of the court when the judge took the plea...

That they know he committed these crimes simply because of the rules of the court, not becauses its some strategic thing ins terms of them tryingo tell the public theyre aware these crimes were committed. >> right. its not public facing. its actually an internal doj practice to fully disclose everything of that nature that you have included in their plea decision. if you were doing it after indictment, you might have a three-count indictment and you would go to the court and say, well permit mr....

The trial due to start in washington, d.c. in a couple weeks. his co-defendant is not likely to turn up. he is russian borne. konstant konstantin kilimnik is the co-defendant. in addition to his work paul manafort, this guy also formed a company with a consulting firm with sam patten, the guy charged today. so thats another link. the leader he worked for and helped get elected in ukraine, theres no mention of victorian koefk in the charging documents related to sam patten but sam patten, accordi...

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...

Reports today that doj lawyer bruce ohr was told by british former spy christopher steele that russian intelligence believed it had, quote, donald trump over a barrel. here to talk about all of this, ken dilanian and eric tucker, who broke todays news on that meeting between bruce ohr and christopher steele. ken, let me start with you on this question of patten, straw donations, the trump inaugural committee, i think i said campaign in the tease but let me be clear, its the inaugural committee w...

Perjured themselves in testimony before congressional committees looking at the russia investigation, im thinking about people like eric prince, donald trump jr., jared kushner, should they be more on alert if there were any problems in their potential testimony because of the way this came up in mr. pattons case today? >> they should be very nervous. of course mr. patton has concluded a cooperation deal with prosecutors. we dont know what he could have been charged with in this regard had that ...

Court, they said sam came forward with a proffer, with his formal offer on may 22nd of this year. what caused sam patten to come forward to prosecutors? on may 22? we dont know exactly but it may be helpful to note just before that, about a week and a half before that, abc news published this great and super important investigative piece about the trump inauguration before the the possibility of foreign money coming into the trump inauguration. you see the headline. exclusive special counsel pro...

Fact they couldn confirm that patton did talk to the senate about their -- senate committee about their investigation. and they said they did send a criminal referral on this guy to the justice department after he testified. my question is that: it doesnt seem like people get prosecuted very often for lying to congress. ifyi prosecutors want to bring thatse kind of a charge, do the need to get a criminal referral from thein senate, from whateve committee, from the congress in order to do it? or ...

Broke the law. why would they spell those things out in such detail in the charging documents but then not actually charge him with those thingsth at crimes. >> sure. so this ist a standard practic for prosecutors. when you work out a plea deal before the defendant is actually charged, which is what happened here. and so there would have been these three, at least three types of potential charges on the table and prosecutors would have offered mr. patton in exchange for his cooperation this deal...

Learned in the court filings that sam pattens former business partner is who m nener charged co-defendant with paul manafort in the upcoming sort of manafort 2 trial in d.c. later this month. so it didnt surprise me that the fbi and muellers investigative team casts a wide net. they are trying to see what kind of inroads they can make to witnesses not just cooperating witnesses who are americans or american citizens, but perhaps even more broadly than that, potential witnesses who are russians w...