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>> 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 inaugural with the help of a guy named sam patten, a government relations specialist. >> who has pleaded guilty. >> all on public record...

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 inaugural with the help of a guy named sam patten, a government relations specialist. >> who has pleaded guilty. >> all on public record now. i'd like to find out what more there is. what i've heard from people who worked the inauguration is that rick gates was making some strange asks of them. for example, would they be willing to take payment not from the inaugural committee but from a...

Patten, who has ties to paul manafort, pleaded guilty today to failing to register as a foreign agent. meanwhile, "the associated press" reports today that doj lawyer bruce ohr was told by british former spy christopher steele that russian intelligence believed it had, quote, donald trump over a barrel. here to talk about all of this, ken dilanian and eric tucker, who broke today's news on that meeting between bruce ohr and christopher steele. ken, let me start with you on this question of patten, straw donations, the trump inaugural committee, i think i said campaign in the tease but let me b...

Part. yeah, they're definitely a part of this. >> let me bring you in. i know you've written extensively on this topic. i think these names may not be new two and the inug gurl committee? >> we do know federal prosecutors have been interested in contrabugss on -- from the cousin of a russian oligarch who run it? '744 and this is turning into legal matters, criminal prosecutions. the other big thing that tom didn't 34e7ks is that in this plea deal sam patten admitted to lying to congress. he came before the senate

Just to count one and ask the court to dismiss counts two and three. but not necessarily here. since you're doing it pre-indictment. >> no indictment, just a criminal information, he pled guilty, he waived his right to a trial, got it. okay. >> exactly. >> here's my next one. among those items that prosecutors describe but they didn't charge him is when prosecutors say he lied to the senate committee. obstructed the senate intelligence committee in the investigation of the russia matter. the heads of that committee came out today after mr. patton appeared in court and said in fact they could c...