president trump keeps talking witch hunt in the russia probe keeps finding broom sticks. john berman here is in for anderson. one more guilty plea and one more cooperator for robert mueller, he's samuel patton, business ties to the nationals. he pleaded guilty to a charge of failing -- he calls foreign money to flow into the trump's inaugural committee. what he got to offer as a special counsel? remains to be seen. what he represents is clean. what the president calls a rigged witch hunt continues to bare fruits which may explain the president's tweet storms.

his last several days attacked the attorney general and his threat which he retweeted on the storm last night. >> our justice department and our fbi at the top of each because inside they have incredible people. our justice department and our fbi have to start doing their job and doing it right and doing it now. because people are angry. people are angry. what's happening is a disgrace. at some point i want to stay out but at some point, it does not stay out properly. i will get involved and i will get in there if i have to. >> the whole world gets it. what the whole world gets seems to be something different than

the message gives. 63% of the washington survey supports the mueller investigation, only 29% oppose it. record high disapproval more on the president on the job. more on the revelation by one of the president's boogy man, bruce ohr. we got new reporting on what he said steele told him of how much leverage i should say, the russians believed they had over donald trump. the phrase he used "over a barrel," they thought the presidential nominee over a barrel. that's coming up. more though on the patent three and what it could lead to. ed perez is joining us. what more can you tell us about this man and his plea deal. >> senator patton is lobbied here in washington and he pleaded guilty to failing to register as a foreign agent.

there is a lot more to this story, he got paid over a million dollars for representing a prorussian ukrainian political party. one of the people he's in business with -- that name brings familiar was robert mueller named him in the past and in court paper as someone who's expected to be russian spies. patton has agreed as part of the plea deal to cooperate as prosecutors. it was referred over to prosecutors in washington d.c. one more interesting thing about this, john, you nopknow, patton admits that he helped ukrainians funnel money into the trump's inaugural committee. what will they did was used someone else to buy tickets to the trump inauguration so that he could take this ukrainian

with him to the trump administrati administration. what this case does really, what it really does is shows the special counsel and the prosecutors are very much keen on trying to figure out whether foreign money made it into the trump campaign or the trump inauguration. we expect there is more to the story that we'll learn later. >> it is interesting. it does draw a line between foreign money and ukrainian money and the trump political machine. there are more than a few people who wonder if on this friday or late, there will be some perhaps bigger news. while this charge is something, it is that bomb shell expected and there are those who wondered if robert mueller is about to go quiet for months before the midterm elections. i think a lot of people are assuming because there has been this practice at the justice department.

it is not a written policy that you do observe a period of silence not to affect an upcoming election. in this case we know that special counsel robert mueller plans to say a lot in the next month. we know he's got testimonies that he's going to be taking from witnesses. we expect and we'll see a lot more from robert mueller and more shoes to drop if you will between now and october. there may be a period there, where he'll go quiet for the election because it is something important to observe. we don't expect that to happen right now. >> maybe not yet. >> maybe. >> who knows? >> robert mueller does what he knows. as for the president's team, rudy giuliani, weighed in on the latest conviction, what did he say? >> that's right. what rudy giuliani basically called attention to the fact that there is no mention of donald trump in this plea deal. take a listen to what he had to say.

>> it turned out to be this irrelevant indictment where mueller has turned into the private prosecutor. what does it have to do with president trump? not a single thing. had nothing to do with collusion and some guy who donated to the inauguration? my goodness, 500,000 people donated to president trump. the prosecutor is going to do it. >> rudy giuliani can minimize this plea deal today but the fact is this is the first time we are seeing on paper that the prosecutors have been examining any foreign money that went into the trump's inauguration. we know from our previous reporting that there were witnesses who were asked of russian money, ukrainian money that made its way into the campaign and the inauguration. it is something we know and very much of the focus of mueller and his investigators. it is a matter of time that we find out the rest of the story.

as we mention, patton, has agreed to cooperate with prosecutors as apart of his agreement. >> this could be the beginning of patton's role of this story. ed perez, thank you very much. al foreign power could hold such sway over an american candidate that they can believe, they have him quote, "over a barrel." that's what a justice department lawyer told the member of the house judicial committee this week. that person that testified is bruce ohr. the president of the united states made him the target of his online iron and calling him for firing. now, he's the senator of quite a story. cnn's sarah murray has it. what are we learning what christopher steele who he would ohr about this? >> he said he was at a breakfast

in jewel of 2016 and christopher steele was there. he was this ex-british spy who co compiled the dossier. russian intelligents believed they have candidate trump over a barrel suggesting that whatever reasons russian intelligence believe they hold something on candidate trump. this is what came out in his testimony and you know it does line up of course with the allegations that we previously heard from christopher steele through the dossier that he compiled. the many salacious part are unfounded. the broader notion that russia was trying to wave thive this campaign to interfere in the election. that's something that the u.s. intelligence agreed now. >> did we know if bruce ohr passed it along? >> his superiors were not aware of the extent of the contact he

was having with christopher steele. this is a guy that spent at the justice department for a long time. he's no longer doing that. he was removed from the position and stripped of the responsibilities and part because his boss were uncomfortable once they found out of the extent of the contact of christopher steele and they were not aware of it of the entire time. >> as we know, does this new information support their theories that ohr was involved in collusion against the president? >> it is hard to say if it tells you anything about the president's vendetta and his allies decided to wage around bruce ohr. part of him trying to do legitimate research and legitimate investigation but anything that bruce ohr does at this point with christopher steele looked -- bruce ohr was

all apart of this. >> sarah, thank you. >> more on the legon this. joining us josh campbell who also works as a special assistant to mueller. by the way, happy birthday josh. and with us, cnn global analyst, matt boots. welcome. >> matt, what kind of insights could he provide or interest could he be of the special counsel. >> this is investigation 101. you start with the lower level crime and work your way up. the violation we are talking about is registering as a foreign agent. he was operating in an orbit of

the people that's of the special prosecutors that's going to cause great concerns of the president and his allies as well. what's worse for them is you look at the broad scope of this investigation, you have four offices within the department of justice that are now some way involved in this. you have the national security division and you have mueller and you have two u.s. attorney offices that are working of the investigation. they're not leaving any stone unturned and to discredit them to continue. they seem to be the only one out there draining the swamp as evidence. >> this is the first time we have seen formal charges by the government related to a foreign donation to trump's election related events, the inauguration. you think this is a big deal and could lead investigators into more, why is that? i think it is significant. the most important paragraph in the plea documents that were

filed booy the government is th paragraph that pertains to the other conduct. not the one of the foreign charge that he pled guilty to but the other conduct that is not charged that described what evans was describing which was the donation that was made to the committee through a u.s. person unnamed, u.s. person, that's really the first time we are seeing actual evidence in a court pleading of a foreign donation that has made its way to a trump campaign entity. so it is the inauguration committee and not the actual campaign donation but i think it does show that if the individuals that have been drawn into the investigation were able to so readily set up a strong man to a foreign bank account that it indicates that investigators would be looking for foreign money whether or not

they find it, they find out and it indicates they are looking for it >> the new york times the reported that the inauguration ticket that patton purchased were for a russian political operative that believed to have ties to russian intelligence. when you hear that, does that raise any suspicious to you? >> of course. the number of contacts between the trump campaign and the russians is off the charts. according to the center for american process, we now know about 87 contacts between the trump campaign and the russians and they reported none of them. they didn't call out the fbi in all of them. we are seeing the substance of some of those coming out. now, we are seeing a lot of the people around trump who are close and suspiciously connected to the kremlin. of course, manafort, rick gates and his department, sam patton was another one who was filing money to trump essentially of russians interest and he was

close to the russian intelligence agent who was close to paul manafort and to rig gates. i mean we hear this constant reframe from rudy giuliani, no collusion, no collusion, well, actually we see a lot of evidence of collusion. we have not seen the absolute proof presented yet because robert mueller is building his case methodically and he's not going to show his cards before he has to. the building blocks of collus n collusions are there along with the course of obstruction of justice which the president continues to commit in plain sight with his attempt to intimidate sessions and mueller and along with other crimes including the fact that trump's lawyer pleaded guilty to violating campaign laws of the direction of donald trump. the case against donald trump, these are small building blocks that we have seen. the overall case is getting very, very strong. >> in terms of patton, just to be clear. it is clear that samuel patton was extremely close to the trump

campaign per se. he appears to be close to this ukrainian figure. >> he funneled money to the trump's inauguration. >> he admitted to that. that's significant. if you are funneling money. foreign money went into trump's inauguration. >> we'll have to see. josh, in terms of bruce ohr, we know steele and bruce ohr had a number of meetings. we know that ohr was told by steele that the russians had trump over a barrel. does this surprise you that ohr did not go back and tell his superior of what he was learning. >> we don't know of that exchange right now to make a fair assessment. he had a history of being involved in investigating russian organized crimes. he was serving for the

government to provide the information. what i am afraid that if we continue to chase these lines from the president where he tries to attack team. the main focus as we talk about steele is people are trying to make him out to be this boogy man that he's going to campaign to destroy the president. what i think is important is we stop and think who he is. this is a former and retired officer with the british security service who was retired and was investigating on behalf of the client, whether or not donald trump had connections with the kremlin. he took that information and he was so concerned of what he found that he first took it through the fbi and he didn't think they were doing enough with it. we decided to make it public because of the time crunch running up to the election. he's a collector in the intelligence business. they'll provide to analysts and they'll discern whether the information is true. we never got that benefit. a lot of people tried to look at the steele dossier and

discredited. that's one aspect of a larger document that's claim thing tha the president is compromised by the russians. eight of them turning out to be two and two of them turning out to be false. you don't discredit everything they tell you. you look at it with greater skr scrutiny. i don't think we can say that what christopher steele what he provided was false. the more time passes, he continues to not ridicule putin and acts opposite against the united states, he's helping us corroborating in that dossier. >> i want to stress out outrageous it is that donald trump, the president of the united states, the justice official who are hardworking servant and there is zero

evidence that bruce ohr are doing anything wrong. and in a tweet, you know, miss ohr speaks russians. this is supposed to be something that's damming? this is maccarthy in action tha we overlook how outrageous that the president is hanging career civil servants out to drive for doing their jobs and trying to keep our country safe. >> bruce ohr was told that the russians believed they had a candida candidate over a barrel. >> it is the friday before labor day. the season kicks off officially after labor day. while the patton indictment, the patton conviction is interesting today, it may not be the major development or shoe that drops or some people expecting to provide before things get political in a few weeks.

do you think he would be resistance to come out with more indictment as we get closer to election day? what do you take to the fact that rudy giuliani says he has not heard from mueller in three weeks. >> the policy or the unwritten rule of not affecting an election normally that was have pertain in the justice department. the public corruption case would be conducted in the general guidance and the justice department would not want to take any steps elated to that investigation that would be interpreted or be able to affect an election's outcome. in the special counsel situation, it depends on the particular charging activity may be. so if there is somebody that's maybe more of a minor player and they pleaded to something that may happen. it would be a judgment call that the special counsel in in consultation with rosenstein would need to make if they had a

major new charging decision to make. >> i will note. president trump not on the ballot in november. >> thanks so much for being with us. i appreciate it, josh, have a great birthday. the president's polls number and what they could have. david axelrod is joining us live and also remembering john mccain and remembering aretha franklin and so many others can a rhegal sendoff for the queen of soul ahead on 360. "anderson cooper 360" brought to you by hainan airlines.

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polling from abc news from the washington post shows this difference of opinions concerning the president's dispute over the attorney general over the russia probe. only 22% side with the president here. as for his job approval stands for 36%. on impeachment, americans are spli split, 49% believes congress should begin proceedings. we have plenty to talk about when our obama's senior advisra, david axerol.

this deal comes tough after paul manafort found guilty. >> that may be apart of it. every poll can have certain unique procedures that have to be discounted. when you aggregate the most recent poll, you see a drop in the president's approval rating. he has been sort of low 40s and now it is running around 40. this poll is lower than that. it stands to reason after the week, a couple of weeks he has had that his numbers. so there is really no good news for the president for this poll relative to thisrating. if you are a republican candidate, this has to be very concerning. >> let's talk about that. what do they do about this? i do not think you will see many

republican candidates trying to distance themselves against the president. >> i had a conversation today with a high up republican operative and yes, i do have friends on both sides of this. and, what he said was look, there is a real concern about turn-out and this individual members of congress have going to inspire people to come out in large numbers. the one guy could inspire the basic come out is donald trump. the problem is he has a negative impact on swing voters and independent voters and so you know it is really a tough choice and in these swing districts, they'll probably will try to distance themselves. let me tell you something, it is hard to distance yourself from a president of your own party. that really ever works. and, so you know i think they are battling down the hatches

for a stormy november. in this poll. the president only had a 70% approval rating among republicans. that's low for the president in terms of where he has been with republicans in his own polling. that's interesting if that trend continues. it will be really problematic for him but we don't know yet. >> there is another factor of the polls that i have seen. the number of people declared themselves as republicans dropped by a few points. you have some segments of republicans now identifying themselves as independence because they don't want to identify themselves as republicans in trump's party. so he's yes, his numbers has dropped a bit among republicans at least in this poll. he's commanding a smaller base there. all of these things are concerning. you know listen, donald trump has five conventions and wisdom in the past. someone has to offer the disclaimer. no one can feel good about this

poll if you are sitting in the white house or if you are running on the republicans, taking around the country. >> what about the impeachment of 49% says they would support congress to begin the proce proceedings the more than what they say. i don't hear democrats jumping into impeachment all that wi willingly on the campaign trail. >> if you vote for democrats you will see impeachment. >> you and i talked about this before, john. you know as i mentioned before, the republicans are concerned about turn out among their base and their base is motivated by trump. if they feel that trump is in some extensionial situation here, they'll come out to vote. that's what you hear steve bannon and others are talking

about. democrats are hesitant in part because swing voters are not necessariily signing up for immediate impeachment. they want over sight and they want congress to exercise its constitutional responsibilities. >> they want to make sure this is not a political food fight. you are going to see many democrats continue to be muted and i think they should properly muted because mueller has to report and when he does, they have the opportunity to judge that. but for republicans, this is a turn out for them. >> david axelrod. thank you for being with us. >> good to see you john. >> mccain's casket at the rotunda today. members and family members and

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any new visitors but anyone already in line will be permitted to going into the rotunda. today the current vice president and mccain's congressional colleagues spokespoke. >> reporter: john so many touching moments and moving moemoe moments on capitol hill. the wi one that i want to highlight, the wife of john mccain went and visited john mccain's death one last time. he handed the white rose and handed them to cindy mccain acknowledged all the time he spent away from his family during his time in washington. >> the skies are opening up and

rain pouring down just as mccain's casket was brought step by step into the u.s. capitol for the last time. the senator's 35 years career on capitol hill. >> this is one of the bravest souls our nation has ever produced. >> the capitol rotunda filled with mccain's colleagues from the house in the senate. >> yeah, i remember thinking more than once that yeah, he does really talk like a sailor. you see with john, it was never fame disagreement. the man didn't feign anything. he real lished tlished the figh. >> depending on the issue, you knew, you knew john will be your star ally or your most stubborn

opponent. >> in the absence of the president which was mccain's wish. >> in every generation there are those who put our country's first who pride service ahead of itself, john mccain was such a man. >> vice president mike pence speaking on behalf of the white house. the president asked me to be here. on behalf of a grateful nation. >> as was mccain's wish as well to send a final message of bipartisansh bipartisanship, he wanted to break protocols and having democrats and republicans in both chambers to lay wreaths together at his casket. >> his 106 mother continued their good-byes.

sam johnson, of p.o.w. shared the prison cell with mccain there to honor him. >> what will be next of this? >> reporter: first, senator mccain's body will lie in state over night here at the rotunda u.s. capitol. they'll keep watch throughout the night of his body. in the morning tomorrow he'll be driven to the national cathedral for the service there. the hurst will pause briefly at the vietnam veteran memorial and his wife cindy will get out and lay the wreath and to the national cathedral and that's where he'll hear speeches from his two formal rivals, barack obama and george w. bush. he asked them personally to deliver these speeches and on sunday, the u.s. naval academy and where he'll be buried in

indianapolis, maryland. >> thank you so much for that report. >> he and the senator had a lengthy personal and professional relationship and often met at the hype of the american war. i spoke with general petreaus this week. >> the warriors are the best i believe at making peace. the warriors understand the difference between a false peace and real peace. to those who accused him of wanting wan wanting endless wars. you have no idea what you are talking about. he wanted sustainable peace and understood the consequences of not seeing it through.

>> do you agree with that description of john mccain? >> very much so. he spent a lot of time with us as you know of every recess, he and senator graham and senator liebermann. the three amigos were out there with us. they experienced a lot of memorial ceremonies and they participated in a number of events. there was one, for example, of six months into the surge, it has been tough. we had a ceremony that featured a citizenship swearing in. about 600 soldiers reenlisted the ceremony and the moving piece was followed by empty chairs. now we are going to get citizenships in the country for which they have been fighting, except some of them have been killed in the week proceeding

that actual ceremony. we had their picture frames on those chairs and understandably senator mccain was moved about it and he wrote about it in his final book. >> you have mentioned that he kept oncoming back to see you and interact through those years in afghanistan, in the war zones at all times. he was a huge fan of yours. you are speaking in indianapolis on sunday. >> yes. >> i am sure he did it to you on purpose. >> he called you one of the great military leaders in america's history. he stood by you during some tough times for you politically. what does it say about what kind of man he was? >> he's extraordinary loyal to his friends, to those who he's been with through tough times. the surge was a very, tough times. he was a grind and experience and, it was a grinding

experience for him because he put so much on it. he was really the champion of the surge. he had criticized his party's president for not taking action in iraq prior to the surge. he was the biggest supporter against liebermann and graham of the three amigos. he famously said he would rather lose an election than a war, perhaps a bit of his support for the surge, he did lose that election. and ironically, the victor, senator obama when he became president was helped enormously by the resort of the surge. it gave him an opportunity to do what he had wanted to do which was to draw down in an orderly fashion which was what it was for three or so years. >> always a pleasure to speak to you. >> thank you so much. >> as family and friends and colleagues and all americans honor the life and legacy of john mccain, we would like to

take a moment to talk about his mother. it is not often that someone lives long enough to bury her 82 years old son. nothing about mrs. roberta mccain's life has been particularly ordinary. >> roberta mccain is the original maverick. with her husband gone for a long period at seas, roberta raised her two sons. >> roberta mccain gave us her love of life and deep interest in the world and her strengths and believes that we are all men to use our opportunities to make ourselves useful to our country. i would not be here tonight but for the strengths of her char character. >> the two were very close. to roberta, he was simply johnny. the neighbors liked him and everybody liked johnny. >> roberta mccain was born in

1912, when william howard taft was president. her independent streak kicked in early in life. she was 19 when she met her future husband, a sailor on the uss oklahoma. roberta's mother ban niched him from the home because she did not want her daughter to marry a sailor. >> what did roberta do? >> we eloped. >> she often takes her children on trips. she had an answer for that.

>> when her trip was over, she shipped that car to the u.s. and reportedly drove it out west. if there is any truth to the story, her son told about her on the campaign trail, she probably got there pretty fast. senator mccain like to tell the story of his mother being pulled over for going at 112 miles per hour. >> all i have to say is that miss repooberta, if she was captured by the north vietnamese, they would have surrendered. >> a friend of ours said, roberta, we saw two planes shut down and we didn't see any objections. we are sure that johnny is gone. >> when she heard that her son had been taking as a prisoner of war. >> can you believe that's the

best news that i have heard in my life? >> depends on where you are standing and how things affect you. >> years later when senator mccain ran for president, roberta joined him at the campaign trail. >> at her age, she always imagined her son would out live her but instead this week, he's burying him. a pillar of strength once again for the mccain family. >> randy kay, cnn, new york. >> be sure to tune in tomorrow morning, remembering a hero, the funeral senator john mccain, coverage begins at 8:00 a.m. eastern time. up in the case, the spectacular tribute to another great american, aretha franklin. we put the dynamic music of motown that the queen of soul left for all of us. on monday, the cnn's film,

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