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Secretly funnel money into a trump political even. carrie, how significant is this. >> ana, i actually think this is a significant development. it's in the contours of a very limited plea agreement between mr. patton and the government. so he was only charged and pled guilty to one count of violation of the foreign agent's registration act. what's interesting is in his plea documents there is another appraise labeled other conduct. and that other conduct, which was not charged, pertains to his facilitating the payment from a -- the foreign person threw a strawman, a u.s. person who is not name...

Could lead investigators to more. why is that? >> john, i definitely think it's significant. i think the most important paragraph in the plea documents that were filed today by the government is really the paragraph that pertains to other conduct. not the foreign registration charge he plelt plead guilty to, but the other that goes to what evan was describing earlier, which was the donation that was made to the inauguration committee through a u.s. person, unnamed u.s. person straw man. and that's really, i think, the first time that we are seeing actual evidence in a court pleading of a forei...

The people that's of the special prosecutors that's going to cause great concerns of the president and his allies as well. what's worse for them is you look at the broad scope of this investigation, you have four offices within the department of justice that are now some way involved in this. you have the national security division and you have mueller and you have two u.s. attorney offices that are working of the investigation. they're not leaving any stone unturned and to discredit them to continue. they seem to be the only one out there draining the swamp as evidence. >> this is the first t...

You can't break the law in trying to become president. willful, knowing violations of the campaign acts are felonies. >> jack makes an important point. the white house points out correctly the president has not been charged with any criminal wrongdoing. he has not been indicted with any criminal wrongdoing. but in all the federal statements that were made when michael cohen pleaded guilty to those eight counts, especially to counts seven and eight, the federal prosecutors do say that the president of the united states was in effect an unindicted coconspirator. even though he wasn't formally ch...

Significant not just that bob mueller puts the date, july 27th, in the indictment, but even the time. they want us to know that this happened after donald trump made that speech and i think that's a pretty significant tell as well. >> so we're lucky to have you, given your mastery of the timeline. viewers hearing you may think, okay, if they already had stuff in april which they were sharing, at least information about that, what exactly was different about what they were pursuing in july? >> well, what we've seen is there were hacks of a number of different democratic institutions, and there ...