David A. Fahrenthold

It's a really large company based in Maryland.

It's done government contracts for 100 years.

Right.

This is a big company.

But they are in a special relationship with Trump because they are the ones building his White House ballroom.

And the White House ballroom is not like other federal projects.

We don't know how much it's going to cost.

Trump has said $400 million, but we don't really know.

Exactly.

He said he's going to come from all private donations, but then he's also asked for a billion dollars from Congress.

And we don't really know how much Clark is going to make off of this, right?

Trump has actually said publicly that Clark is not going to be paid at all.

He said that Clark is offered to do this ballroom project for free.

We don't think that's true, but it's clear that they have taken on this special relationship on a big project with, it seems like, uncertain dimensions and also uncertain funding sources, all putting themselves in the good graces of Trump for now.

Right.

There certainly are people that see it that way.

Clark told us they did everything above board.

There's nothing sort of wrong about the way they handled this project.

But certainly they are getting paid a lot more than the government originally thought they should get paid for this project.

And the details of those payments, if we hadn't reported them, would be totally secret.