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>> things didnt go much better after her lawyer, family friend and medical-malpractice attorney william ginsberg, got involved. >> monicas then counsel is not a criminal-defense lawyer. >> he was going on tv, i think five times on one sunday, saying preposterous things. and when youre in the situation were in, you want to negotiate with somebody who actually knows the territory. >> and the news from [chuckles] lewinsky headquarters was, "were never going to cooperate," et cetera. >> the prosecut...

>> things didnt go much better after her lawyer, family friend and medical-malpractice attorney william ginsberg, got involved. >> monicas then counsel is not a criminal-defense lawyer. >> he was going on tv, i think five times on one sunday, saying preposterous things. and when youre in the situation were in, you want to negotiate with somebody who actually knows the territory. >> and the news from [chuckles] lewinsky headquarters was, "were never going to cooperate," et cetera. >> the prosecut...

This new cooperator. in the plea agreement that prosecutors entered with the court, they said sam came forward with a proffer, with his formal offer of information to prosecutors 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 that 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, about the possibil...

After her lawyer, family friend and medical-malpractice attorney william ginsberg, got involved. >> monicas then counsel is not a criminal-defense lawyer. >> he was going on tv, i think five times on one sunday, saying preposterous things. and when youre in the situation were in, you want to negotiate with somebody who actually knows the territory. >> and the news from [chuckles] lewinsky headquarters was, "were never going to cooperate," et cetera. >> the prosecutors grew frustrated. the indepe...

>> things didnt go much better after her lawyer, family friend and medical-malpractice attorney william ginsberg, got involved. >> monicas then counsel is not a criminal-defense lawyer. >> he was going on tv, i think five times on one sunday, saying preposterous things. and when youre in the situation were in, you want to negotiate with somebody who actually knows the territory. >> and the news from [chuckles] lewinsky headquarters was, "were never going to cooperate," et cetera. >> the prosecut...

>> things didnt go much better after her lawyer, family friend and medical-malpractice attorney william ginsberg, got involved. >> monicas then counsel is not a criminal-defense lawyer. >> he was going on tv, i think five times on one sunday, saying preposterous things. and when youre in the situation were in, you want to negotiate with somebody who actually knows the territory. >> and the news from [chuckles] lewinsky headquarters was, "were never going to cooperate," et cetera. >> the prosecut...

Is speak to him, government attorneys can speak to him. they can have him in front of a grand jury. they can him in trial. its really open ended. its toward the bottom of the plea agreement is that paul manafort has already offered, either he or his attorney has given a written proffer that means that paul manafort or his attorney has already told the mueller team, hey, this is kind of general sense of what i have here. thats typically what those written proffer agreements bring. that was on tue...