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>> that's right. we saw last year in august sam patton pleaded guilty and said he was a straw purchaser so a prominent ukrainian oligarch could attend the nomination. that's one part that started to come out. >> an interesting development, rebecca is a reporter for the "wall street journal." still ahead, why some of the intelligence professionals responsible for briefing the president say he's endangering the nation by ignoring them. stay with us. save you money. save up to 10% when you bundle with esurance. including me, esurance spokesperson dennis quaid. he's a pretty good spokesperson. e...

Now. nice to meet you so people who don't know what is a "fast & furious" scandal? . >> program that the federal government through the justice department 2009 through 2010 and decided it was a good idea to allow people who are trafficking guns to the mexican cartel to buy thousands of firearms at gun shops like in arizona about what happened the straw purchaser who purchases again for someone who cannot purchase a gun either an illegal immigrant somebody lives in mexico or has a felony. so they would purchase thousands of guns and etf told them they were tracking the firearms that the america...

To this day, that full and clean accounting remains a total mystery. now, however, according to a scoop tonight in "the wall street journal," there is a new and different kind of accounting going on. this is the headline tonight in the journal. quote, trump inaugural spending under criminal investigation by prosecutors. rebecca o'brien, one of the reporters behind the scoop tonight. miss o'brien, it's great to have you here. you guys have been doing great work, you've had a lot of scoops lately. >> thanks so much. thanks so much. >> we've been interested in this inaugural funding story for a l...

The president, huge supporters this, is a total mess right now because this is when they were going through the transition period before the inauguration happened trying to figure out who was going to take what position and even people around for the darkest days of the campaign say the transition period was one of the worst because it was such a mess. it was so all over the place. they say that period it was so chaotic and contributed to a lot of the problems that they are having now with people like michael flynn and michael cohen. >> mueller has been probing the inaugural committee, and the...

Anything, about how cambridge analytica operated and then what did he tell donald trump, if anything, about what cambridge analytica was doing. that is crucial because then that ties into -- back into the russian efforts. you know, this is an important little dot being connected here, i think. >> and then we have to remember that kilimnick is also charged in the same case as paul manafort now in the two witness tampering charges. but that gets you -- that gets you back to russian intelligence. and then this guy, patton, basically one of the charges in there that i guess he didn't plead guilty ...