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Founded by paul manafort, these russian-backed ukrainian interests. patten was arranging some lobbying, some meetings with congressional staff for them in the united states and he had not registered to do. so and that's a felony, and he has admitted that. he also admitted was not charged with but admitted funneling $50,000 to a straw donor to donald trump's inauguration so that a ukrainian, his ukrainian client paid this $50,000 illegally so he and another person, a russian, could attend trump's inauguration. what's interesting about this case, it is was brought brought by the district columbi...

Ally, pleaded guilty to federal foreign lobbying charges and agreed to cooperate with robert mueller's investigation. today we're learning about this new character in the mueller saga, his ties to russia and an illegal donation he made to the president's inaugural committee. joining us ken dilanian, joyce vance, former u.s. attorney, and chuck rosenberg, also a former u.s. attorney and former fbi official. both are now msnbc contributors. ken dilanian, i want to start with you. who is this guy and what do we know about him and how he fits? >> sam patten is a long-time washington lobbyist and o...

Mueller. >> and how much does, that shannon, in your view, play into the president's -- i think you called it earlier in the hour a morning obsession that he has to get out of his system. it's simply not knowing. >> i mean, his lawyers do a good job, or at least they try to calm him down, to tell him everything's going to be okay, everything's going to be okay. you're fine here. but as each one of these new pieces come out and this new name today, sam patten, i was on the phone with rudy giuliani this morning when the headline came out. and i mentioned. i said oh, yeah, it looks like sam patte...

Chuck, i just want to get initially your take on this list that axios has put together. do you think that is a comprehensive list? >> not a chance. i think that falls into the category of the known unknowns and the known knowns. every time we see an indictment or a plea agreement out of the mueller team, we read it and say wow, i didn't know that. i never heard of alexander van der zwaan or mr. patten, or i had no idea that cohen did this or the russian military officials did that, every single time. so i presume that we have a tiny fraction of what mueller has. and even trying to guess at wha...

One way or the other. we'll see product ts of the mueller investigation going forward. we may see another patten. republicans are hoping that trump will keep his mouth shut on this. because -- i know. he had to laugh. the reason why is if you're talking about that 30 to 60 days that manafort is supposed to not do anything the campaign -- giuliani spokesperson role has to also kipd of keep a lid on it. >> what's a republican in a competitive race? dealing with trump coming out calling this investigation an witch hunt a couple weeks before election. what does the republican candidate do? thinkin...