Carol Leonnig

are saying somebody with integrity and with our shared values has to do this work.

Some of them also want to bear witness to the corruption and manipulation of the department and make sure there's someone there to see it.

Yes.

I mean, I was talking to somebody the other day who said, I'm just holding on.

I'm just holding on because this can't stand.

You did a good summary.

You know,

We were kind of gobsmacked, Aaron and I, my co-author Aaron Davis, when we learned that there was this investigation that got shut down.

And the investigation began actually because of a really unusual referral from the CIA.

There was a informant who reported to his intelligence handlers, if you can imagine this, Tim, that he had information.

that LCC had ordered his folks to get $10 million to Donald Trump in the form of a illegal campaign contribution, a friendly campaign contribution in 2016.

Now, you'll remember LCC met, the Egyptian president met with Trump in a

interesting sidebar during Trump's campaign and the United Nations General Assembly private meeting, initially public, but then private.

It was during this time that everyone thought Hillary Clinton was going to win the election.

Duh, that didn't work out.

Everyone in Donald Trump's campaign was like, this guy will not put any more of his money into the campaign because he thinks he's going to lose.

And this was all a marketing brouhaha anyway, and we don't have enough money to get to the end with TV advertising.

So anyway, the investigators got this information from the CIA that El-Sisi was going to try to give Trump $10 million.

And interestingly, at that same time, in the late, late, late, late 2016, right before the election, Trump writes a check for $10 million to his campaign.

But Bill Barr, when he got wind of this as the new attorney general, he questioned, do you really have the basis, the predicate for doing this investigation?