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To evan perez joins us with that what more can you tell us about this man patten and his plea deal? >> well, samuel patten is a lobbyist here in washington, and he pleaded guilty today in federal court in washington to essentially failing to register as a foreign agent. but there is a lot more to this story. he got paid over a million dollars or the representing a pro-russian ukrainian political party. and one of the people he was in business with is konstantin kilimnik that name rings familiar because the special counsel robert mueller has named him in the past in court papers as someone who ...

Lobbyist for a foreign party without properly registering with the u.s. government. >> there's also this straw donor issue, right? what exactly was the scheme? >> foreign citizens can't make political contributions in the united states, not to campaigns and not to inaugural committees. so patten was working for this ukrainian politician oligarch who apparently wanted to come to the inauguration. to go to the inauguration, you have to give money to the inauguration. so basically what patten did was working with kilimnick, he found an american willing to give or act as the straw donor and that a...