lobbyist samuel patton pleaded guilty today to various counts.he allowed a russian political operative and ukrainian oligarchs -- he helped them purchase inauguration tickets. foreign money, you are not allowed to do that. the fact -- so that in and of itself sort of shows the -- the lengths they go to to get close to the president. in addition he is cooperating with prosecutors as a part of his plea agreement. so we don't know what he is saying. but he could -- he- mueller will be able to ask him about the -- about what he might know, what some of the inner workings are, were there contacts with people in the trump orbit and russian -- and russians and the ukrainian og arcs. it is significant. >> and what's significant, also laura jarrett is we know the trump inauguration committee they raised a record $106 million twice with what the predecessors raised. that's significant. but what does samuel patton who pleaded guilty today to felony counts? what is his involvement in all of this? tell us where the mueller investigation is heading right now.

long-time lobbyist samuel patton in court for failing to register as a foreign agent and he helped funnel foreign money to the trump i inauguration. today they called the indictment irrelevant. >> what does this have to do with president trump? not a single thing. it doesn't have to do with collusion. >> he joins a growing list of people from trump's orbit that have reached a deal with prosecutors. these are real investigations resulting in real charges. yet trump's legal team is working overtime to try to discredit robert mueller's investigation. cnn learning tonight that rudy giuliani is now crafting a report which will attempt to rebut mueller's potential findings. an investigation that the president already calls illegal as well as this. >> look, i say it, i say it again, that whole situation is a rigged witch hunt. it's a totally rigged deal. >> a democrat-inspired witch hunt. >> the repeated attacks and threats by this president do not seem to be working with most americans, according to a new "washington post" abc poll. 63% of americans now support robert mueller's investigation. a

>> well, samuel patton is this operative here in washington who pleaded guilty today in federal courtgn power. so he allegedly got paid over a million dollars over the years working with the political party in ukraine. as part of what he was pleading guilty to today, the court documents say that he helped secure tickets for the presidential inauguration of donald trump, that he took a ukrainian oligarch with him to the inauguration, wolf. >> the charge was that he didn't register as a foreign agent, is that right? >> that's right. he's pleading guilty to failing to register as a foreign agent, which is the same -- which we now know is one of the things that the special counsel robert mueller has been focused on in his investigation. by the way, this case, wolf, began over at the special counsel robert mueller's office. he referred it over to the u.s. attorneys here in washington. >> very interesting. several developments. evan, thank you very much. amidst all of this, we are also remembering senator john mccain today as he lies in state at the u.s. capitol rotunda. you're looking at p

w samuel patton pleading guilty in federal court in d.c.ent he could face five years of incarceration and three years of supervised release and a fine up to $250,000. >>> and a new study by the university of iowa finds that about 10% of u.s. children, aged 4 to 17 are diagnosed with adhd or attention deficit hyperactivity disorder an increase from 6% in 1997 and 1998 but adhd was considered one of the most common conditions among children you are up to date the news update this hour back to you melissa. >>> thank you no deal yet with the canadians among reports of some of president trump's off the record comments upended no objection negotiations as the deadline approaches. pu there are billions of dlarts on the line michigan, texas, omni, all export more than shh 18 billion north of the border per year this trading relationship be salvaged joining us now, an economic policy analyst and c nbc's credibilitier ron insana with us jimmy, starting off with you, you know, it's funny what a difference 24 hours makes. yesterday we were getting comm