Natalie Kittroff

They're playing the long game here.

Right.

Yeah, I've always wondered, is that a real long-term position in the U.S.

government, czar?

Are you saying basically that this might have been intentional, that the Trump administration might have nominated Homan to the czar position in order to avoid a background check?

And the Trump Justice Department then does inherit this investigation.

Walk us through what they do with it.

We'll be right back.

So Devlin, once this story breaks about the investigation and about the ending of the investigation, what happens?

How does the Trump administration respond?

Do they explain their decision to drop this case?

They don't mention the bag of cash specifically?

Hours after that... Tom, I want to give you a chance to address this article that came out over the weekend.

Yeah, suddenly we're talking not about whether this happened or not, but about whether it was legal.

And obviously those two things are very different.

Of course, this administration dropped the investigation before they could actually prove whether or not a crime was being committed.

So, Devlin, what do you make of their argument?

Meaning there's a disagreement within the legal community about what actually constitutes corruption, or at least what's the threshold for proving it in court.

Soprano style.

So there are obviously a lot of open legal questions here.