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These three, at least three types of potential charges on the table and prosecutors would have offered mr. patton in exchange for his cooperation this deal. and part of the deal was we'll only charge you with one of these crimes that you committed. we'll give you a pass on the other two. but the rules that prosecutors operate under require prosecutors to disclose all of that conduct to the court so that's why we heard this more fulsome conversation in front of the court when the judge took the plea. >> so they're required to say out loud, essentially, in print that they know he committed these...

That they know he committed these crimes simply because of the rules of the court, not becauses it's some strategic thing in's terms of them tryingo tell the public they're aware these crimes were committed. >> right. it's not public facing. it's actually an internal doj practice to fully disclose everything of that nature that you have included in their plea decision. if you were doing it after indictment, you might have a three-count indictment and you would go to the court and say, we'll permit mr. patton to plead just to count one and ask the court to dismiscous counts two three. but notco...

The trial due to start in washington, d.c. in a couple weeks. his co-defendant is not likely to turn up. he is russian borne. konstant konstantin kilimnik is the co-defendant. in addition to his work paul manafort, this guy also formed a company with a consulting firm with sam patten, the guy charged today. so that's another link. the leader he worked for and helped get elected in ukraine, there's no mention of victorian koefk in the charging documents related to sam patten but sam patten, according to prosecutors, was placing op eds

Their own whether or not congress wanted them to? >> the typical practice is for the body that wants to make that referral to let doj know about it because in really doj doesn't have an independent mechanism for assessing what's going on in all of these hearings up on the hill. perjury charges are very hard to make for prosecutors. so they're scrutinized very carefully. they're important cases to bring when the evidence is good, but they are difficult to make. >> and so other people who have been accused by members of congress of essentially having perjured themselves in testimony before congr...

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 be clear, it's the inaugural committee we're talking about here. take us through what we need to know about this, because this was a name ...