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Possibly provide. >> reporter: nbc news has obtained a plea agreement that we expect to be filed in court today. maria butina is going to plead guilty to conspiring to violate the law. she's not being charged as a spy. she was a russian agent of influence. she came here to essentially infiltrate republican party circles and the national rifle association to try to burnish russia's image, to build ties between republicans and the russian government and to help influence the trump administration, and so there's a couple of interesting -- this is not a robert mueller case. this preceded the muell...

>> especially when you leave the white house to work on the campaign and know people in foreign governments. even if they're your friends. the difference between this story and russia story, with russia, it was an adversary. you should know better. the israelis are obviously allies of our government. you do not take favors, work, consultancy, from a foreign firm. >> that's right. i think what we're going to find in mueller, there's been an interesting bread crumb trail here about emeratis, saudis, colluding with trump before and after to service his ends. i think we're going to find it's not j...

Him well, would you have heard about that? >> it's impossible and outrageous. it is such a stretch to even like him to her. she was in college while we were in high school. we were a close knit private school community. she was in a public school 35 minutes away. >> laura: was there any cross-pollination with gaithersburg high school and he went to holy child, a great school, he went to prep georgetown prep, did you guys hang out together, run in the same circles? >> not at all. >> laura: i thought it was weird for a college student to hang out with a bunch of high school students in beach wee...

Me too. if that had occurred, you knew him well, would you have heard about that? >> it's impossible and outrageous. it is such a stretch to even like him to her. she was in college while we were in high school. we were a close meant private school community. she was in a public school 35 minutes away. >> laura: was there any cross-pollination with gaithersburg high school and he went to holy child, a great school, he went to prep, georgetown prep, did you guys hang out together, run in the same circles? >> not at all. >> laura: i thought it was weird for a college student to hang out with a b...

Separate issue. making it convoluted and all this cross-pollination is very difficult, frankly, for some of us to keep track of sometimes. i don't even know if it is strategic specifically but the general unpredictability may sometimes lead to positive outcomes. >> bret: what the president says and tweets, behind-the-scenes, you have the secretary security traveling to mexico, meeting with officials, dealing with security on their southern border, so things are happening outside the sound and fury. >> actually this is working. the idea that the president goes out mostly on twitter but in other...