an example would be samuel patton. does his charges, how do his charges affect the overall probe? well, it tells us we are inching closer and closer to connections with russia, which is the original mission of the mueller probe. and even though rudy guilliani argues that this isn't something trump would have known about individually or personally, this is just a contribution to the inaugural committee that samuel patton is accused of or convicted of funneling money into the inaugural campaign. these are just more pieces of the puzzle , of the russia puzze that build a bigger picture about the circle of people involved. >> let's switch gears and talk about the story louis mentioned, part of the strategy of the president's legal defense team. guilliani saying to the new yorker they may try to suppress the findings of the mueller probe, try to exert some kind of executive privilege so it doesn't get published, doesn't get released. how likely is that to happen? is there a legal ground for something like that to happen? wh

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

with helping a foreigner funnel money to a trump political event the focus on washington lobbyist samuel patton, the man you see here. he pleaded guilty on friday from steering money from a russian-backed oligarch. he pleaded ghlt to acting as an unregistered foreign act and lying to congress. trump's attorney rudy guiliani called the event irrelevant. >> what does this have to do with president trump? not a single thing. it has nothing to do with collusion. some guy who donated to the inauguration. my goodness, there are about 500,000 that donated to president trump. and there are still more contradictions. george papadopoulos contradi tickets and pushed back on the suggestion that mr. trump meet with vladimir putin during the 2016 campaign. but according to court filing, quote, while some in the room rebuff george's offer, mr. trump nodded with approval and deferred to mr. sessions who appeared to like the idea and stated the campaign should look into it. george's giddiness over mr. trump's recognition was prominent during the days that followed. he requested probation instead of jail time fo

so actually, today, he wrote my fo former chief of staff -- >> samuel patton is writing to your formeraff? >> yes, and he readdressed the t text to me. and it says call off the trolls now, or i will be starting to rele release things about meshia, and that is me. and he prefer i not now, and go back to e a race the comments so that we don't say that they were working against us, and meshia knows what i am talking about, and ra frankly, i have bigger problems these days and maybe you are not as tight as you used to b. and actually that is a direct blackmail. >> you feel that you are being blackmailed because you are talk and it? >> it is a typical russian blackmail, and these people are closely tied to the russian, and by the way, this is prior to, and i don't want to get it politicized, but it is prior to donald trump election, and these people are on their own, and this way, he is anti-trump, and he is republican, but anti-trump, and this is something else. these guys are for hire and ready to do any dirty trick, cheat, and go against the american interests, and do all kinds of things

longtime lobbyist samuel patton pleading guilty yesterday to failing to register as a foreign agent.n illegally purchase tickets to the january 2017 inauguration. patton has ties to a russian associate of president trump's former campaign chairman paul manafort. and he has agreed to cooperate with special counsel robert mueller. the president's attorney calls the indictment irrelevant. >> what does this have to do with president trump? not a single thing. nothing to do with collusion. some guy who donated to the inauguration. my goodness. there are 500,000 people that donated to president trump. >> joining us now prosecutor turned defense attorney randy zellen. randy you are laughing as you listen to giuliani. is this guilty plea irrelevant? >> nothing is irrelevant. and the fact that the former mayor and counsel to the president is saying that it's irrelevant reminds me of the old maxim. doth protest too much. . i wonder of the 5,000 people who donated how many were russia zbloon that's the question we want to know too. this is obviously one person now who we have learned, which is

one more guilty plea and one more cooperator for robert mueller, he's samuel patton, business ties toa 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

. >> let's talk now about this lobbyist, samuel patton pleading guilty on friday to acting as an unregisteredoreign lobbyist. what exactly did he admit to doing? >> he admitted to failing to file the paperwork required because he was acting on behalf of ukrainian clients. he got paid over $1 million according to prosecutors for working for ukrainians during the years. what's interesting about this guilty plea and he's by the way agreeing to cooperate with prosecutors as a result of his guilty plea. what's interesting is that for the first time we see an american who's admitting to helping funnel foreign money into the inauguration of donald trump. he helped buy tickets for the inauguration for a couple of yurk yu ukrainian oligarchs who are not allowed to donate to the inauguration or to the campaign. now we see a new line of inquiry that we knew was going on behind the scenes in the robert mueller inquiry. so now i think what we're expecting is we're going to hear a lot more about this. was there money that went illegally into the campaign and into the inauguration, and is someone else going