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And the ukrainian businessman and patton attended the inauguration. >> taking aside of the question of what the trump campaign did vis-a-vis collusion, what does seem clear is that there are lots of kremlin-aligned interests at various stages constantly pinging and pinging and trying to get to the trump folks. >> the inauguration is an interesting moment where you can see that come together. we've done some reporting about just the unusually large number of russian businessmen, kremlin-allied folks who come together in washington to literally celebrate donald trump's inauguration and election....

>> there's also the straw donor issue. what was the scheme? >> foreign citizens can't make political contributions in the united states, not to campaigns, not to inaugural committees. patton was working for this ukrainian politician, oligarch, who wanted to come to the inauguration but to go to the inauguration you have to give money to the inauguration. he found an american willing to do that, and he was on the paperwork for $50,000 but the money came from the ukrainian businessman.

Order to buy four tickets to the presidential inauguration on behalf of a ukrainian oligarch. can't do that. and while patton's deal isn't with mueller, it does explicitly require him to talk to mueller. reading from the plea agreement, your client shall cooperate fully, truthfully, completely and forthrightly with this office, the special counsel's office and other law enforcement authorities. here to put this latest plea deal into perspective, rosalyn helderman from the "washington post." tell me who he is. >> a long time republican operative consultant. he worked for the george bush campaig...

He is a very talented candidate. the most cares mattic and the most people athleticic to run since an richards. but texas is not just red. it is blood red. he has a math problem in texas. he has to turn out many more democrats than typically turn out in an election like the and he has to hope that voters are turned off by ted cruz or donald trump or both. >> it was interesting to watch that block we just did. every time i go back to the republican primary, it is fascinating to watch republicans be honest about the just freakish awfulness that they see in this guy, donald trump. you watch perso...

That is what we're hearing right now. we have sam patton, we were talking earlier ability papadopoulus. how does this compare to the week before? >> this week is muddled compared to the week before. i think the president, he had a rally this week and i think the president does well in campaign rallies. we're also looking at the bloomberg reporting. that's definitely going to play into that and he's going to take an advantage over that. i wouldn't say this is worse than the week before but i think the president is trying to prepare for the midterms and we're seeing him be a bit more careful wit...