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Operative with ties to the controversial data firm hired by president trump has a nearly two decade long friendship and business relationship. the washington based operative sam patten would not say whether he has been interviewed by mueller's team as part of the investigation into russia's election interference and potential collusion between trump campaign and moscow. but mr. patten says that his relationship with kilimnik, the former officer in gru who worked closely with deputy rick gates for over a decade, he said his relationship has been thoroughly explored by relevant government entiti...

When you talked to him? >> so that was the thing i was most interested in. i had wanted to know if he had been contacted by mueller. he had all these ties. and he told me that he had spoken to relevant government entities. i assumed that meant congress, maybe the fbi had reached out to him once or twice. he did not give me a firm answer on whether or not he had been interviewed by mueller. now we know he was. but he was very coy and he would not go into much detail about the work this company that he set up with constantin kilimnik. up it was on behalf foreign clients. did you have any domesti...

Formal proffer of information which eventually became cooperation. did he let you in on any of that when you talked to him? >> so that was the thing i was most interested in. when i reach out. i had wanted to know if he had been contacted by mueller. he had all these ties. and he told me that he had spoken to relevant government entities. i assumed that meant congress, maybe the fbi had reached out to him once or twice. he did not give me a firm answer on whether or not he had been interviewed by mueller. now we know he was. but he was very coy and he would not go into much detail about the wo...

Defendant we didn't know about. i think the bottom line with this new defendant who appeared in court today is that the special counsel's office has flipped another cooperating witness in the russia investigation. but there are other potential threads here to pull. i mean, rob mueller and his prosecutors definitely, we now know, they have obtained another guilty plea to another federal charge. this one comes explicitly with a written robust cooperation agreement for this defendant. because of who this defendant is though, i think there are a bunch of intriguing questions as to how he fits into...

Before? >> exactly. so these are areas that he might be able to discuss with mueller, for example. we don't know whether or not he had any role with cambridge analytica in 2016. there's no evidence that did he but it raises questions about yes would have stopped the work in 2015 going into the biggest election probably in his lifetime. >> one last question about your contact with him definitely he give you any indication that he was speaking with robert mueller? that he had been approached by the special counsel's office? that he had given testimony? we know because of the events, by the time ...