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Therefore, i will accept the plea. and so sam patten today becomes the latest cooperating witness, and the latest guilty plea in special counsel's investigation. now, mr. patten has not yet been sentenced. he will not be sentenced until probably quite a few months from now down the road when the judge accepted his plea today will consider the information that she gets from prosecutors about how well sam patten has performed as a cooperator with them. she will take it into account, when she decides how long he will go to prison and for how long. in the meantime before he is sentenced, sam patte...

The trial due to start in washington, d.c. in a couple weeks. his co-defendant is not likely to turn up. he is russian borne. -- born. konstantin kilimnik is the co-defendant. in addition to his work paul manafort, this guy also formed a company with a consulting firm with sam patten, the guy charged today. so that's another link. the leader he worked for and helped get elected in ukraine, there is no mention of anakovich related to sam pattedep.

Coming up in a another couple weeks. but on that specific claim by prosecutors about the trump inauguration, that is fascinating for a bunch of reasons. for one, bluntly, this is the first time prosecutors have directly alleged that foreign money was funneled into any trump campaign entity. also the mechanism by which it was done is interesting. according to the statement of offense in the sam patten case, sam patten convinced some american, to write a check that was a $50,000 check that was supposed to look like an american $50,000 donation to the trump inauguration. that $50,000 donation obt...

They kept in touch over the last couple decades and they're really fond of each other. they found places to work together over the last two decades. that's what sam patten told me, anyway. when i was digging into this further, it made me real ties extent to which kilimnik, i was looking into him, how much he had ingratiated himself into american politics. he was a principle in the lobbying firm and the whole purpose of this company was lobbying for this very same client that paul manafort was lobbying for. so a whole bunch of these threads came together. and then you have the cambridge analyti...

Special counsel's office just today arraigned and accepted a guilty plea and a cooperation agreement from a brand new defendant, i think it is fair to say that mr. giuliani may have this thing ending by dawn. so again, i don't mean to seem caty about that but that's amazing that that is who the outside counsel on. given the special counsel's investigation ending tomorrow, it sort of tells you what kind of position the president is in in terms of representation. there's that. more substantively, it is clear this latest cooperating witness has very strong links to the president's campaign chairm...