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Check the DEMS!\"\u003cbr/\u003e              Papadopoulos was approached by people claiming ties to Russia and offering \"dirt\" on Hillary Clinton in the form of thousands of emails, according to court documents unsealed Monday. Papadopoulos pleaded guilty to lying to FBI agents about the conversations and has been cooperating with investigators, the documents said.\u003cbr/\u003e              Papadopoulos' guilty plea and the possibility that he's working with Mueller's team came as an unexpected twist in the mounting drama surrounding the criminal probe. \u003cbr/\u003e              A separate welter of charges Mueller announced Monday against Trump's ex-campaign chairman Paul Manafort and his longtime aide Rick Gates do not appear directly related to their work for Trump.\u003cbr/\u003e              But Papadopoulos' case cuts close to the central question of Mueller's investigation: Did Russia try to sway the election? Did Trump's campaign know?\u003cbr/\u003e              \"The Russians had emails of Clinton,\" Papadopoulos was told by a professor with ties to Russia during a breakfast meeting at a London hotel in April. U.S. investigators said that the following day, Papadopoulos then emailed a Trump campaign policy adviser, \"Have some interesting messages coming in from Moscow about a trip when the time is right.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              The court papers do not name the professor. But a comparison of conversations cited in the court papers and emails previously obtained by The Associated Press show the professor is Joseph Mifsud, honorary director of the London Academy of Diplomacy. Mifsud did not immediately respond to a request for comment.\u003cbr/\u003e              Papadopoulos was arrested in July and has been interviewed repeatedly by authorities, the filing said. After entering his guilty plea he was ordered not to contact other Trump officials and prohibited from foreign travel. \u003cbr/\u003e              In one of the unsealed files, an FBI agent working for Mueller bluntly hinted that more former Trump associates could soon be questioned.\u003cbr/\u003e              Papadopoulos' lawyer, Thomas M. Breen, based in Chicago, declined to comment on the guilty plea but noted that \"we will have the opportunity to comment on George's involvement when called upon by the court at a later date. \u003cbr/\u003e              We look forward to telling all of the details of George's story at that time.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              The incident echoes elements of a June 2016 meeting involving Donald Trump Jr. and other campaign officials at Trump Tower. The president's son organized that sit down with a Russian lawyer who was offering negative information about Clinton.\u003cbr/\u003e              The White House immediately cast Papadopoulos as a mere volunteer with little influence during last year's campaign. White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders said his role was \"extremely limited\" and that \"no activity was ever done in an official capacity on behalf of the campaign.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              Trump named Papadopoulos to his foreign policy advisory council in March 2016, among a short list of experts amid growing public pressure on Trump to demonstrate he had a bench of foreign policy expertise.\u003cbr/\u003e              During a March 21, 2016 meeting with The Washington Post editorial board, Trump called Papadopoulos an \"excellent guy.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              Shortly afterward, Trump tweeted a photo of his advisory council meeting, with Papadopoulos among a handful of advisers at the president's table. \u003cbr/\u003e              In his plea filing, Papadopolous admitted that he told Trump and other top campaign national security officials during that meeting, that he had made contact with intermediaries for Russia who said they could set up a meeting between Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin.\u003cbr/\u003e              The court filings recount Papadopoulos' meetings abroad starting in March 2016, after he'd been named to Trump's board. \u003cbr/\u003e              Papadopoulos initially told the investigators the meetings came before, and later admitted that was untrue.Papadopoulos also deleted a Facebook post about his travels, the documents said.\u003cbr/\u003e              The court filings say he met first with the professor who boasted of damaging emails and then later with an unnamed Russian woman, who claimed to be related to Putin and sought to arrange a meeting between Trump and the Russian leader. \u003cbr/\u003e              The professor also introduced Papadopoulos to a third unnamed person who claimed he had connections to the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. \u003cbr/\u003e              The two men then exchanged emails about a possible meeting between Trump campaign aides and Russian government officials.\u003cbr/\u003e              The third man is Ivan Timofeev, according to the emails obtained by the AP. He is director of programs at the Russian International Affairs Council in Moscow. Timofeev did not answer calls seeking comment Tuesday.\u003cbr/\u003e              The court records didn't specify which emails the Russian claimed to have.\u003cbr/\u003e              The timing of the new disclosures about Clinton emails may be significant because the scope of the Kremlin's efforts to hack Clinton's campaign and the Democratic National Committee were just beginning to be understood by March 2016, weeks before Papadopoulos was told of damaging emails.\u003cbr/\u003e              It's unclear how frequently Papadopoulos was in contact with the campaign officials. \u003cbr/\u003e              Sanders initially said the foreign policy advisory board convened only once, but the White House later clarified she was speaking only of official meetings with Trump in attendance. \u003cbr/\u003e              An official involved with the group said the group met on a monthly basis throughout the spring and summer for a total of about six meetings.\u003cbr/\u003e            \u003cbr/\u003e\u003cbr/\u003e              ASSOCIATED PRESS\u003cbr/\u003e              Chicago, Illinois - October 31, 2017\u003cbr/\u003e              SHOTLIST:\u003cbr/\u003e              DONALD TRUMP TWITTER ACCOUNT - HANDOUT ONE TIME USE/USE WITHIN 14 DAYS/NO ARCHIVE/NO RE-SALE\u003cbr/\u003e              Washington, DC - 31 March 2016\u003cbr/\u003e              1. Still image of national security meeting of then-candidate Trump - shows Papadopoulos third from left\u003cbr/\u003e              ASSOCIATED PRESS \u003cbr/\u003e              Chicago, Illinois - October 31, 2017\u003cbr/\u003e              2. SOUNDBITE (English), Richard Farkas, DePaul University professor (of Politics of Russia and Eastern Europe):  \u003cbr/\u003e              \"George was not a, not an exceptional student.\" \u003cbr/\u003e               ++WHITE FLASH+++\u003cbr/\u003e              3. SOUNDBITE (English), Richard Farkas, DePaul University professor (of Politics of Russia and Eastern Europe):  \u003cbr/\u003e              \"He was inclined as many of these other students to sell himself rather aggresively.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              +++WHITE FLASH+++\u003cbr/\u003e              4 . SOUNDBITE (English), Richard Farkas, DePaul University professor (of Politics of Russia and Eastern Europe): \u003cbr/\u003e              \"I think it's unfortunate when a young person is unaware of how complicated politics can be in a place as significant as Russia.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              DONALD TRUMP TWITTER ACCOUNT - HANDOUT ONE TIME USE/USE WITHIN 14 DAYS/NO ARCHIVE/NO RE-SALE\u003cbr/\u003e              Washington, DC - 31 March 2016\u003cbr/\u003e              5. Still image of national security meeting of then-candidate Trump - shows Papadopoulos third from left\u003cbr/\u003e              ASSOCIATED PRESS \u003cbr/\u003e              Chicago, Illinois - October 31, 2017\u003cbr/\u003e              6. SOUNDBITE (English), Richard Farkas, DePaul University professor (of Politics of Russia and Eastern Europe): \u003cbr/\u003e              \"George didn't have the experience or the underpinning to have a position of that standing. Now that tells us that either George oversold his credentials. Or that the campaign was actually desperate for input and perhaps not vetting people's credentials as advisors. The truth of the matter is that maybe both of those things were the case.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              +++WHITE FLASH+++ \u003cbr/\u003e              7. SOUNDBITE (English), Richard Farkas, DePaul University professor (of Politics of Russia and Eastern Europe): \u003cbr/\u003e              \"It was really very telling that the campaign would reach out to a character as young and as inexperienced as George to be one of the six people on a list for, you know, the complex issues of the 21st century foreign policy world.\"\u003cbr/\u003e               +++WHITE FLASH+++\u003cbr/\u003e              8. 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