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This year. quote, a long time republican operative with ties to the controversial data firm hired by president donald trump's campaign team also has a nearly 2000 decade long friendship and business relationship with a suspected russian intelligence agent con stand tin kilimnik who has landed in mueller's crosshairs. the washington based operative sam patten would not say whether he has been interviewed by mueller's team as part of the investigation into russia's election interference and potential collusion between trump campaign and moscow. but mr. patten says that his relationship with kili...

That they know he committed these crimes simply because of the rules of the court, not because it's some strategic thing in terms of them trying to tell the public that they're aware that 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. patten to plead just to count one and ask the court to dismiss counts two and three ...

The trump inauguration. of course, they are not illegally allowed to receive foreign money but patten has testified, has signed his name on court documents which say that's exactly what he did. it's all so freaking shady. the whole trump inauguration. and all the finances around it have been so blatantly shady from the very beginning. if this revelation in the sam patten plea today is a sign of more shoes to drop to do with the trump inauguration, now that prosecutors have named foreign money being illegally funneled into the inaugural committee, honestly, that would be great for us just under...

Out today after mr. patten appeared in court and said in fact, they could confirm that patten did talk to the senate about their -- senate committee about their investigation. and they said they did send a criminal referral on this guy to the justice department after he testified. my question is this. it doesn't seem like people get prosecuted very often pore lying to congress. if prosecutors want to bring that kind of a charge, do they need to get a criminal referral from the senate, from whatever committee, from the congress in order to do it? or is that something that prosecutors could purs...

English. they beak just read the document they had filed with the court. a very formal proceeding. but still, the defendant was present himself because he had to enter his own guilty plea. in court we did get to see him go through the serious nuts and bolts with the judge with him confirming to the judge that he understood that he was pleading guilty, that he understood the implications of that. he understood that this was a serious thing to which he was pleading guilty. we also got to see him crucially confirm in open court that basically all this happened to him today because he has agreed t...