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People who we know have talked to robert mueller and the prosecutors. all the people we know are somehow involved in the special counsel's investigation. before today, this guy who just pled guilty in federal court, he was not on any of these lists. nobody knew that he was coming at the next defendant. his name is sam pat ten it, he's 47 years old. a public republican activist and political consultant. he was arraigned and pled guilty before the same judge who is hearing the paul manafort trial next month. the hearing happened at 11:00 a.m. eastern. it took less than an lawyer. it was a very f...

So there are two really interesting things. >> where have i heard this before. >> exactly. so these are areas that he might be able to discuss with mueller, for example. if mueller were to ask him how they did things and whether or not it was always kind of bob water. but it's interesting because we don't know whether or not he actually had any role with cambridge analytica in 2016. there's no evidence that he did, but it raises questions about why he would have stopped that work in 2015 going into the biggest election probably in his lifetime. >> one last question about your contact with him....

People who we know have talked to robert mueller and the prosecutors. all the people somehow involved in the special counsel's investigation. before today, this guy who just pled guilty in federal court, he was not on any of these lists. nobody knew he was coming. his name is sam patten, a republican activist and political consultant. he was arraigned and pled guilty before the same judge who is hearing the paul manafort trial next month. the hearing took less than an hour and it was a very formal

Part of that project involved hacking in, hiring israeli hackers to find dirt on their clients' opponents. >> where have i heard the before? >> exactly. so these are areas that he might be able to discuss with mueller, for example. if mueller was to ask about the operations, or how they did things, if it was above water. 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 contac...

We learned that there is a whole new defendant in the russia scandal who we didn't know was coming. i think the big bottom line here 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's 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 palestinian charge. this one comes with -- this one comes explicitly with a written robust cooperation agreement for this defendant. bec...