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Million twice with what the predecessors raised. that's significant. but what does samuel patton who pleaded guilty today to felony counts? what is his involvement in all of this? tell us where the mueller investigation is heading right now. >> well what's really interesting about some of the revelations that we saw in today's court filings is that mueller has been sort of going through this. but then referred it to the d.c. u.s. attorney's office. and now as jackie said patton has to cooperate. which the timing of course is really noteworthy considering paul manafort is about to go to trial w...

Fsb officer. we don't know that. all i know is she's got some pretty good gun handling skills for someone who was just an amateur gun proponent. but when that comes out, that's when you're goinging to see th espionage charges come up. >> she was charged by the d.c. u.s. attorney's office and not by robert mueller. what does that tell you? >> it tells me that mueller and his counterintelligence team in the fbi had indications that she was working on behalf of russia and instead of bringing it into their investigation, sort of like michael cohen, they'd toss it over to the district where the vio...

Maybe we would ask you to please add for purposes of the record your name please. miss curtis says thank you, your honor, good afternoon your honor, deborah curtis on behalf of the united states. this is new. we knew that mariia butina was not being charged and prosecuted by special counsel's office by robert mueller's office. we knew she was being tried by the federal prosecutor in d.c. we knew at the initial appearance while the case was still under seal, the prosecutor from that u.s. attorney's office who was leading the government's case was this is eric kenner son. but today they added an...

How big a deal is butina's arrest? >> it's a big deal for a couple reasons there, a couple key takeaways. number one is for the first time really, federal prosecutors, even though this is a d.c. u.s. attorney and not the mueller probe, they actually have a russian influence agent in their custody. as much as we would like to think that the 12 russians indicted on friday and the other russians indicted earlier this year for their internet troll factory will see the inside of a courtroom, they almost certainly won't. even though donald trump says it's a great idea to cooperate with putin on a jo...

Look, what we know is that there's some very serious allegations against him, and at the d.c. u.s. attorneys office didn't sort of reject those out of hand, they took this report and they're actually acting on it. they called in jim comey for an interview about these allegations. so that shows they're kind of seriously moving forward with this. now whether this will actually lead to andrew mccabe being criminally charged, it's just impossible to say right now. and i think a lot of people would say what did you expect the d.c. attorney's general office to do, just take the attorney general's fi...