Inauguration committee knew about it. With me nbc Investigative Reporter kennedy lanian, evelyn farkas, Deputy Defense secretary kim lee, associate counsel during Whitewater Association and former u. S. Attorney guy lewis. Great to have you with us this friday. Ken, let me start with you. Tell us about this guilty plea and what unfolded. Ayman, this case appears to have come out of the investigation of Paul Manafort, Donald Trumps former campaign chairman, running this massive lobbying on behalf of russian backed ukrainian oligarch. Sam patten comes in after the oligarch,ian kovic had fled in exile to russia and manafort trying to reconstitute political party, known as party of regions, formed something called opposition block. According to the documents, patten was lobbying for the opposition bloc. Inside the United States he was being paid by this foreign political party, thats illegal because he never registered with the Justice Department. He gave a media interview saying he was no