to evan perez joins us with that what more can you tell us about this man patten and his plea deal? well, samuel patten is a lobbyist here in washington, and he pleaded guilty today in federal court in washington to essentially failing to register as a foreign agent. but there is a lot more to this story. he got paid over a million dollars or the representing a pro-russian ukrainian political party. and one of the people he was in business with is konstantin kilimnik that name rings familiar because the special counsel robert mueller has named him in the past in court papers as someone who is suspected to be a russian spy essentially. so patten has now agreed as part of his plea deal to cooperate with prosecutors. this is a case that began as part of an as part of the robert mueller investigation that was referred over to prosecutors in washington, d.c. and one more interesting thing about this, john, is that, patten basically admits in the court papers today that he helped ukraini
stem from their work as lobbyists for a pro-russian ukrainian political party and was not explicitly related to their work in the campaign. now attorney general jeff sessions is coming under increasing fire for answers he gave at several congressional hearings over the past year. you don t believe that surrogates from the trump campaign had communications with the russians? is that what you re saying? i did not and i m not aware of anyone else that did. i don t believe it happened. i think it s not that he has a problem with the truth, i think it s easier to say that he s perjured himself at least three times. reporter: the accusations come after revelations from former campaign policy advisers carter page and george papadopoulos. carter page telling cnn he told congressional investigators he mentioned to sessions a trip he planned to take to russia at the height of the campaign. and in a march 2016 meeting, where papadopoulos sat in between then-candidate trump and jeff sessio
jury. key figures include former white house national security adviser michael flynn who left the white house after controversy over his discussions with the russian ambassador. also former trump campaign strategist and chairman paul manafort in june manafort retroactively registered as a foreign agent for work with a pro russian ukrainian political party. welcome back to morning joe. it s monday, october 30th. with us, we have former fbi special agent and contributor clint watts. washington anchor for bbc world news america, katty kay, richard haas, and joining the conversation chief legal correspondent and host of the beat ari melber, and robert costa. bob, a lot of panic this past week from republicans. also some conservative news outlets trying to whip a frenzy
any moment one or more people could be taken into custody after a federal grand jury approved its first charges in bob mueller s investigation into any links or coordination between the russian government and those tied to president trump. key figures in mueller s probe include former white house national security adviser michael flynn, who left the white house after controversy over his discussions with the russian ambassador, and later, registered as a foreign agent for his work for turkey during the campaign, which was undisclosed on his financial disclosure report. and former trump campaign strategist and chairman paul manafort, in june, manafort retroactively registered as a foreign agent for his work with a pro-russian ukrainian political party and mueller s team raided manafort s virginia home in the early morning hours last july. politico reports that mueller s prosecutors brought the realtor who helped manafort buy the
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