. >> trace: also here, chris swecker, former fbi director. we just heard from karl rove that was with former president george w. bush. thanks for coming on, chris. i want to pick up with you where we left off with carl there. i mean, listen, the whole concept, you're investigating this thing and suddenly the white house said no, did not talk business, no, we meant did not do business and now it's just this casual on the phone. but you happen to be the sitting vice president of the united states. regardless if it's casual, it's influential as heck. >> karl is spot on. this is what we call as head of the criminal division, we saw this quite a bit in bribery cases. it's called stream of services. you sell access or something of value, and you get something back in return. it's not an expressed quid pro quo. it's just an understanding. if you can match up the services within a reasonable period of time with the thing of benefit, in this case $10 million or whatever it is, then you have bribery. you don't have to have the expressed quid pro quo. th