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This year. quote, a long time republican operative with ties to the controversial data firm hired by president donald trumps campaign team also has a nearly 2000 decade long friendship and business relationship with a suspected russian intelligence agent con stand tin kilimnik who has landed in muellers crosshairs. the washington based operative sam patten would not say whether he has been interviewed by muellers team as part of the investigation into russias election interference and potential ...

That they know he committed these crimes simply because of the rules of the court, not because its some strategic thing in terms of them trying to tell the public that theyre aware that 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 ...

The trump inauguration. of course, they are not illegally allowed to receive foreign money but patten has testified, has signed his name on court documents which say thats exactly what he did. its all so freaking shady. the whole trump inauguration. and all the finances around it have been so blatantly shady from the very beginning. if this revelation in the sam patten plea today is a sign of more shoes to drop to do with the trump inauguration, now that prosecutors have named foreign money bein...

Out today after mr. patten appeared in court and said in fact, they could confirm that patten 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 this. it doesnt seem like people get prosecuted very often pore lying to congress. if prosecutors want to bring that kind of a charge, do they need to get a criminal referral from the senate, from whatev...

English. they beak just read the document they had filed with the court. a very formal proceeding. but still, the defendant was present himself because he had to enter his own guilty plea. in court we did get to see him go through the serious nuts and bolts with the judge with him confirming to the judge that he understood that he was pleading guilty, that he understood the implications of that. he understood that this was a serious thing to which he was pleading guilty. we also got to see him c...

This was the guy who was going to turn up today having a starring role in the case at this point. natasha, thank you for being here. congratulations on being the early spotter here. why did you write about sam patten back in april for the atlantic? he is certainly not only a household name but not a name that has been on a lot of peoples radar at all in this case. >> i was researching konstantin kilimnik. he is a major player in the russia investigation, being as close as he is with paul manafor...

Trump inauguration and that he broke the law by lying to to know an obstructing the senate intelligence committee? why would they spell those things out in such detail in the charging documents but then not actually charge him with those things as crimes? >> sure. so this is a standard practice 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...

Committee earlier this year and said something about the testimony to the committee caused them on notify the justice department that he should be subject to a criminal referral. thats also new news. we didnt know that before today. but did that criminal referral from burr and warner, did that lead to this action today against sam patten? it kind of doesnt seem like it. its interesting. look at the actual language from the statement that burr and warner put out today. this is what they said. "we...

Profiles with sam particularly focused on his relationship with konstantin kilimnik and sam patten-s role in the former soviet political universe that started to come into focus in this investigation when manafort first got in trouble. you natasha was one of those judicialists who interviewed sam patten-this spring. her profile was not just about pattens relationship with the work in the soviet union. she also wrote about his work with cambridge analytica. theyre the data firm that was paid mill...

Also, paul manafort has a co-defendant in his next trial. the trial due to start in washington, d.c. in a couple weeks. his co-defendant is not likely to turn up in the courtroom though. his name is konstantin kilimnik, russian born. konstantin kilimnik is the co-defendant. he worked for years alongside paul manaforts firm and in addition to his work with paul manafort, this guy kilimnik also formed a company with, a consulting firm with sat patten, the guy charged today. so thats another link b...