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Probes into trump from the beginning which is did people get anything exchanged for money, for favors, for other things they sent into the trump organization, into the trump campaign. >> this inauguration was far more expensive than any inauguration in history. more than obama's in 2009, more than bush's in 2005. i want to hear what bush's committee chair said when he heard how much money trump spent. >> so they had a third of the sta staff and a quarter of the events and they raised, what, at least twice as much as we did? so there's the obvious question where did it go. i don't know. >> no i...

Course still looming large, steph. >> what's the significant of the subpoena? >> sure, sure. i think it tells us a couple things. the inquiry is in the initial stages. >> anybody who thinks mueller's finished this is separate? >> we want to make cheer abolea this. this is led by the southern district of new york. however, mueller's name has come up in an investigation tied to this inaugural committee. sam patton, who pled guilty, we found out about this individual the day before the labor day weekend in august. in his statement of the offense and the criminal information associated with his gu...

Go and what could that have gone to. i think there are some questions not only on money coming in but perhaps money going out. where did it go? how wases it accou it accounted? obviously here we might be in a situation where either they're going to ask for or maybe they already have received the bank records for this committee. also the involvement of the chairman of this i think raises some interesting questions as well. i've not seen where he's publicly commented on this. >> i don't think he has. joyce, tom hits on fascinating points. key players in the mueller investigation who were tied in...

Being done with respect to this committee. and so one of the things you look at, as he just said in that sound, was hey, you've got, you know, this was a scaled down inauguration. i remember talking about that leading up to it. you have massive expenditures. what did this all go to? rick gates said at the paul manafort trial that he had some financial improprieties as far as how he accounted for certain things he spent with the inaugural committee. as we know, he's been cooperating and continues to cooperate according to court documents. what things does rick gates know about as far as how thi...

Whether they should move forward. we already know an important detail about this investigation from patton's plea in the district of columbia. he acknowledged he arranged for donations from ukrainian and a russian to the inaugural committee knowing that this was illegal. and it's very unlikely that he kept that knowledge to himself since he filtered at least one of these transactions through a cypriot bank. there will be somebody on that side who would be aware of the illegality as well. >> a bank in cyprus. remember who's closely tied, wilbur ross. matt, how hard is it to prove a quid pro quo...