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Deripaska, the guy whose sanctions will be the subject of the big showdown with the treasury department tomorrow in congress when steven mnuchin has to come to capitol hill. interestingly, though, "the times" later corrected its story to say kilimnik didn't give that polling data to deripaska. that was a mistake in "the times'" initial reporting. they corrected their story to say he had actually passed it on instead to two ukrainian oligarchs who are also known to have funded manafort's pro russia political work in ukraine. well, what did those guys want with internal polling data from an amer...

I mean, i should mention that one of those two oligarchs who reportedly received that polling data from manafort, he appears to be the same guy who was described in the indictment of sam patten. sam patten plead guilty a few months ago to working as an unregistered foreign agent. he admitted in his plea deal, in his cooperation deal, that he had illegally funneled foreign money into trump's inauguration. it was money apparently from this oligarch guy to whom manafort sent internal campaign polling data in the spring of 2016. so it's a small world, right? these guys all seem to be interconnecte...

Disclosure on the grounds that certain material is covered by executive privilege and that mueller has no right to release it publically. >> you bring up a good point. a lot of this drama will be quite public, too. the confirmation will be televised. he will be asked 100 different ways about what he will allow in the mueller investigation, what he wants to see. >> and whether and under what circumstances he would fire mueller, which remains an issue. and that will certainly be a big part of his confirmation hearing. >> who is sam patten? he's a lobbyist who is cooperating with the special coun...

>> he was about to be sentenced at the end of last year, and the special counsel's office filed a document that said, don't sentence him yet. he's cooperating. that had not previously been known, that he was an important cooperator. what does he know? and who was he dealing with? again, we don't know for sure. but the fact that patten is perhaps a much more major figure than we had realized is significant. and it is part of the nexus, the relationship, between the people affiliated with trump, paul manafort and his inaugural committee, the trump campaign and people affiliated with russia. in t...

Representing her dad coming to office, but it seems from the e-mails that she's representing her company, her family's company. >> you mentioned something important, which is that they -- obama and bush had both put caps on donations. $50,000 for obama. $100,000 for bush. still enormous but not like -- you can't write a $10 million check. >> right. >> do we know everything there is to know about who the donors are and where the money went? >> i don't think so. i mean, we already know from the public record that a ukrainian member of parliament successfully made a straw donation to the inaugura...