"Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., wouldn’t say if Monday’s revelations provided enough evidence Trump’s campaign intentionally colluded with the Russian government, but admitted there “seems to be a pattern.”"

A bit of DuckDuckGoing turns up "Laura Barrón-López [is the] Congressional Reporter [for the] HuffPost". Is she an affirmative action hire? Perhaps that would explain her peculiar belief that the word "admits" is a synonym for the word "claims".