person one who's allegedly conservative political operative paul erickson in july maria bettina was arrested on charges of acting as a foreign agent without registering with the u.s. government russia though says her arrest is politically motivated. legal. human rights lawyer done kovalchuk says between his case was used to undermine the recent summit between presidents trump and putin. i think in order to bootstrap a pretty weak claim against they originally had the salacious kline's of her offering sex for employment which frankly would rise to the level what the case anyway. but frankly in order to destroy her reputation which they probably have an actively done at this point and outs of atlantic the case will be dismissed and there's nothing here i think this was a political gambit frankly to deal with the bigger geo political issues to try to ruin you know the outcome of the summit between trump and putin she's being used as a political pawn by the united states and the skating this she's charges will be dropped but in the meantime life will be destroyed right that's the news so far the

person one which allegedly conservative political operative paul erickson a court hearing. for later in the day. a human rights lawyer says but in this case has political overtones and he doesn't see any reason for her arrest. why not sure if they were ever caught with it i mean clearly this is a political case u.s. officials and even the press are trying to present her is some kind of spot when in fact there's not even an allegation in that regard yeah the sexual allegations and again you have the makings of a james bond not well it's unclear to me what this young woman has done wrong except maybe not register under the act i believe nolens been arrested ever laving that act which is rarely bogus. and i think in order to bootstrap a pretty weak claim against her they originally had the salacious claims of her offering sex firm chloramine which frankly would rise to the level of the case anyway. but frankly in order to destroy her reputation which they probably haven't fact really done it at this point and that's the news for this hour i'm calling brian moscow thanks for wa

with a political operative, paul erickson, was a sham, since she was offering sex to other people. now prosecutors are admitting that their understanding of that text was mistaken, and really, jim, today the judge expressed great concern that the prosecution had rested a lot of their case, a lot of these salacious claims, on really what was a text just joking around. >> and jessica, there is also some new scrutiny on former trump campaign adviser, george papadopoulos who friday was sentenced to 14 days for lying. what more can you tell us about that? >> really it revolves around george papadopoulos' recent disclosures to our own jake tapper, as well as other media outlets and drawing a lot of scrutiny from democratic lawmakers. so george papadopoulos on friday was sentenced to 14 days for lying to investigators. but right before that sentencing, he also went on somewhat of a media blitz, and papadopoulos told our jake tapper that he likely didn't tell anyone on trump's campaign team that he had been approached by a professor in a london bar claiming to have dirt on hillary clinton.