some guy made a statement to the inauguration committee. dig a little bit deeper and you find out this guy, sam patton, was a contractor for cambridge analitica. this is a russian backed political party in ukraine. tell me how you think this fits into the bigger picture. if we had carrie on, she d have a tremendous chart on this guy alone. best of all, also a partner of paul manafort. this guy is connected to all these folks. they are all mentioned in some way or another in this agreement. and, you know, it is a discreet case. he didn t register as a lobbyist for ukraine, but i think the two
key things here are the donations that he admitted to making through, you know, straw men sort of phony donors from ukrainian sources. we know that federal prosecutors have been looking at the trump inauguration committee for perhaps taking in foreign money, which is not supposed to. it is illegal to do that. and here is the first evidence that it happened. mother jones reported a long time ago that the cousin, an american cousin, but a cousin of russian oligarch was gave $100,000 to the inauguration, too. so there is a lot of things to examine. the other key thing is, and it hasn t gotten a lot of attention, sam patton admitted to lying when he testified privately to the senate intelligence committee. why is that a big deal? for one, it is against the law to lie to congress. right. but if we re now going to
sam patton, you re right, is a new name. but you dig a half inch and you all of a sudden get a second mention of names we have heard before. right. some of them david just mentioned. but it begins to tie together very closely. let s just talk about the inaugural committee. that s what trump put together with his biggest money men. names we have heard before like elliot and sam. rick gates runs the operation and they take in record amounts of money and don t seem to have spent it on very much at all. that s a whole problem. but in general, we are now zeroing in on the money people who are closest to trump. so that s big. guys, thanks very much for your company tonight. david, stick around because i have another comment to talk to get your analysis on after this break. trade negotiations between
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some guy made a statement to the inauguration committee. dig a little bit deeper and you find out this guy, sam patton, was a contractor for cambridge analitica. this is a russian backed political party in ukraine. tell me how you think this fits into the bigger picture. if we had carrie on, she d have a tremendous chart on this guy alone. best of all, also a partner of paul manafort. this guy is connected to all these folks. they are all mentioned in some way or another in this agreement. and, you know, it is a discreet case. he didn t register as a lobbyist for ukraine, but i think the two