cooperating witness and the newest guilty plea. no that we know he first started cooperating on may 22nd, that also tells us that hey, the mueller investigationing had an active cooperating witness working with them for more than the past three months and none of us had any idea about it. mueller side of this doesn t leak. if you were hoping to get juicy leaks out of the special counsel s office, nobody is getting any leaks out of the special counsel s office. otherwise we would have heard that sam patten-was a cooperator and due to be charged some day. prosecutors also say that will sam patten-lied to and obstructed the senate intelligence committee and their senate investigation of the russia scandal. we haven t even known that he testified to the senate intelligence committee. the chairman and vice chairman of that committee burr and warner put out a statement confirming that mr. tat patten-did in fact speak to the
cooperating on may 22nd. that also tells us that hey, the mueller investigation had an active cooperating witness working with them for more than the past three months and none of us had any idea about it. mueller side of this doesn t notify the justice sheriff s department that he should be
a conversation that broached the topic shows that it s on the radar of president trump s legal team, something they know could be a political bombshell that would make republicans alarmed as well as democrats if they moved in that direction. and they also feel speaking of people close to the president, that they don t have a lot of visibility now into where this manafort investigation and trial is going, especially on the mueller side. they know manafort was a long-time friend of roger stone, who is under a lot of scrutiny, his associates, at least, right now from robert mueller and his investigators. so that s what everyone is trying to figure out the chess moves here by mueller. does manafort have any connection to the stone inquiry at all, the stone-related inquiry by mueller? eli stokels, we have a story in the new york times. what s interesting about this plea is this appears to be about all they ve got. their message is you can t indict a sitting president and mueller is
calculation down the road to possibly pardon paul manafort? giuliani has told me that he has had a discussion back in early august about the remote possibility, is the way he put it, but he urged the president to not even consider it. but the fact that they even had a conversation that broached the topic shows that it s on the radar of president trump s legal team, something they know could be a political bombshell that would make republicans alarmed as well as democrats if they moved in that direction. and they also feel speaking of people close to the president, that they don t have a lot of visibility now into where this manafort investigation and trial is going, especially on the mueller side. they know manafort was a long-time friend of roger stone, who is under a lot of scrutiny, his associates, at least, right now from robert mueller and his investigators. so that s what everyone is trying to figure out the chess moves here by mueller. does manafort have any connection to th
the documents in court? objectively i think that the documents are more important. what people forget is that mueller indicted this case before he had dates as a witness. in fact, he was a codefendant of paul manafort, so it was a documents that drove him to plead guilty. it s not like he arrived and suddenly there was a case on paul manafort. the problem that i think that mueller has. it is perfectly strategically natural to say that the whole case revolves around gates, because he is a difficult witness but he has a lot of deception in his background. but the problem that they have on mueller side, they paid too much to get this plea. they really gave him kind of a slap on the wrist plea, so you have one day where they indict him for felonies that are over 100 years of exposure and then the next day they pleaded him out to two minor counts that