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Sam patton, you're right, is a new name. but you dig a half inch and you all of a sudden get a second mention of names we have heard before. >> right. >> some of them david just mentioned. but it begins to tie together very closely. let's just talk about the inaugural committee. that's what trump put together with his biggest money men. names we have heard before like elliot and sam. rick gates runs the operation and they take in record amounts of money and don't seem to have spent it on very much at all. that's a whole problem. but in general, we are now zeroing in on the money people who are...

Foreign agent while lobbying on behalf of a ukrainian political party launched by manafort. patton is cooperating as part of his plea deal. he also admits to helping two foreign nationals make an illegal $50,000 donation to president trump's inauguration. as the washington post reports, mueller has been probing whether foreign money flowed into the coffers of trump's inaugural committee that raised more than $100 million. the first evidence that it occurred. this revelation comes on the last business day before labor day as many in washington braced for the possibility of more indictments stem...

Wrong. the policy, which is more of a guideline is that you don't take overt acts that would influence a particular campaign. nothing about an investigation. you would expect mueller to completely continue with his work. and indeed donald trump isn't on the ticket, so really it is not even clear if any of it would apply. but that's what he was saying. and of course it may have backfired because now by his own terms it may give rise to an expectation that mueller won't do anything for these 60 days. 60 days from now, the landscape looks very different. we know whether or not the democrats have ...

Key things here are the donations that he admitted to making through, you know, straw men sort of phony donors from ukrainian sources. we know that federal prosecutors have been looking at the trump inauguration committee for perhaps taking in foreign money, which is not supposed to. it is illegal to do that. and here is the first evidence that it happened. mother jones reported a long time ago that the cousin, an american cousin, but a cousin of russian oligarch was -- gave $100,000 to the inauguration, too. so there is a lot of things to examine. the other key thing is, and it hasn't gotten ...

Wrong. the policy, which is more of a guideline is that you don't take overt acts that would influence a particular campaign. nothing about an investigation. you would expect mueller to completely continue with his work. and indeed donald trump isn't on the ticket, so really it is not even clear if any of it would apply. but that's what he was saying. and of course it may have backfired because now by his own terms it may give rise to an expectation that mueller won't do anything for these 60 days. 60 days from now, the landscape looks very different. we know whether or not the democrats have ...