mr. patten's, i guess, dossier here, if we want to call it that. the senate intel committee put out an interesting statement that only raised more questions. here it is. we can confirm that mr. patten produced documents to the committee and was interviewed by committee staff. due to concerns about certain statements made by mr. patten, the committee made a criminal referral to the department of justice. while the charge and resultant plea do not appear to directly involve our referral, we appreciate their review of this matter. okay. >> that's pretty interesting. >> that's very interesting. >> you would think it would have been about the foreign lobbying but apparently that's not what it was. this guy was in business with a man named konstantin kilimnick who had ongoing ties to russian intelligence. all these figures appear to be linked. the question we don't know the answer to, was this all a conspiracy to funnel russian help to the trump campaign? >> but i also want to go back, this is the first known criminal referral from the senate intel commi

mr. patten, or i had no idea that cohen did this or the russian military officials did that, every singletion of what mueller has. and even trying to guess at what he has that we don't know about i believe is a fool's errand. >> joyce vance, what's your sense of what we may learn of all of these things that mueller has collected? how much of it are we going to see? and what of it do you think might be the most critical piece here? >> well, prosecutors don't have any kind of a political timeline. so i feel pretty sure, chuck can correct me if i'm wrong, that bob mueller didn't wake up this morning and look down at his watch at the calendar function and say oh, mix, it's almost lai labor day. i need to get a few things out of the way. prosecutors indict cases when they're ready to be indicted. they don't delay them, they don't rush them. so inch what we'll see in the next few weeks, could we see another indictment or a few more informations with cooperation agreements? absolutely we could, but not necessarily. what i don't have a sense of, though, is that we've gotten very close to the core

mr. sam patten saying that he sees that it caused the foreign money to be paid into the inaugural committeehat he is admitting to charges in a pre-agreement -- plea agreement filed in court. on patten has been charged friday with failing to register in the u.s. as a foreign agent for his work lobbying on behalf of a ukrainian political party. we are now hearing that he caused foreign money to be paid to the inaugural committee here in the u.s. we will get you more updates as we get them on this developing story. for now, let's get a quick check of the major averages. we are seeing u.s. stocks a little mixed at the moment with the dow falling 3/10 of 1%. the s&p 500 is also losing ground. the downhe fact that days for u.s. markets, we have seen a very strong august, which could be the best august since 2014. tech stocks gaining ground at the moment. deadline whenrade it comes to the nafta negotiations between the u.s. and canada. energy and financials are leading the losses on the s&p 500. take a look at auto stocks. they are underperforming the broader market. ford, which is her this mornin

mr. trump's ties on russia. also today, washinobbyist samuel patten pleaded guilty tof illegal lobbyi a ukrainian group. it included steering money to the trump inaugural committee. in eastern ukraine, the leader of russian-backed sepatists died today in a cafe explosion. russia accused ukraine of assassinating alexander zakharchenko to destabilize the region. kiev denied it. b zakharchenkoecame head of the so-called "donetskeople's republic" in 2014 after rebels overtrew a regional governmen loyal to ukraine.ed the untates has formally ended support for the u.n.en that helps palestinian refugees. the state department today called the program "irredeebly flawed." u.s. contributions make up 30% t-of the u.n. agency's bud nearly $300 million. rebels in northwestern syria blew up bridges today, hoping to slow a government offensive that appears imminent. war monitors reported bridges in idlib province were destroyed after rebels spotted government troops moving. avanwhile, russia's foreign minister, sergeiv, said moscow backs syria's right to attack an al qaeda-linked grp that controls much of idlib. >> (

mr. clark is set to return to court august 17th. >>> a bay area man police describe as a prolific auto burglar could soon be released from jail. back in april 21-year-old deshawn patten was indicted on 20 counts related to a string of auto burglaries in san francisco over a one year span. police say patten rammed some of the cars he burglarized including a police car with officers inside. he has been in jail since last november. now the sf chronicle reports patten agreed to plead guilty to most of the charges next week and a judge is expected to put him on probation and release him next friday. meantime the d.a.'s office said reports of car break-ins through june are down 20% from this time last year. it's believed to be due to increased media attention and more signs warning people to leave nothing in their cars. >>> we all know someone with a nightmare dmv story to tell, but you may not know about a secret dmv office, one that is just for lawmakers. we've learned the dmv office located inside the legislative office building in sacramento is not open to the public. it's also unmarked with a locked door. this revelation comes just two days after a request for an offi