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Some of the reasons that i explained there. and there has been previous reporting, six months or so ago, about federal investigators looking into the possibility that foreign money might have gotten into trump's inaugural funds. that came up, for example, in the indictment of sam patton, one of the lower profile indictments in which he was accused of setting up american straw purchasers so that a foreigner could actually spend a bunch of money and go to the trump inauguration. but what you guys are talking here is a federal investigation not into the money coming into the inauguration necessar...

Your reporting, working the story for us. let's talk about all the breaking news. joining us congressman eric swalwell. congressman, thanks for coming in. let's talk first of all about this new investigation, preliminary investigation into the trump inaugural committee. you saw "the wall street journal" report saying it's a criminal investigation right now. the committee raised 1$107 million and they're investigating that some of that money was misused. some of it was brought in to try to influence the incoming administration. >> it's looking more and more, wolf, that donald trump was a part...

>> that's actually a typical agreement. you agree to come clean about anything and everything. you can't say, whoa, whoa, that's not something i agreed to talk about, because you never know the things that might become relevant at some point. no doubt in the coming weeks they'll sit down with him and confront him with e-mail messages, documents, the testimony of other witnesses to try to probe the depth of his knowledge on all of these things that they're looking at. the other significant thing, i think, to keep in mind is that robert mueller has spun off to other u.s. attorneys' offices like ...

Special counsel robert mueller. we think it was the transcript of sam patton's interview with the intelligence committee. he turned up in court in conjunction with this case. he pled guilty, he had spoken before he pled guilty. the senate approved giving the transcript of that testimony to mueller's office. can you shine any light what that might mean? >> i find it very interesting, because the resolution says not only are they going to turn it over, but it's in relation to the case of united states versus paul manafort. i think sam patton is an intriguing figure. he worked with the person pur...

The intelligence committee to special counsel robert mueller. we think it was the transcript of sam patton's interview with the intelligence committee. he turned up in court in conjunction with this case. he pled guilty, he had spoken to senate intelligence committee before he pled guilty. the senate approved giving the transcript of that testimony to mueller's office. can you shine any light what that might mean? >> i find it very interesting, because the resolution says not only are they going to turn it over, but it's in relation to the case of united states versus paul manafort. now pendin...