Horse trading. Throw this one under the bus, but spare this one. Hillary may be spared, but the price exacted for that will be YUGE.
Whatever is in the upcoming IG report must be devastating. The DemonRats and Clintonoids are coming to realize they're on the edge of a MAD event; hence the really serious bargaining is beginning to bring the whole self-destructive thing to a mutually face saving end. Right now we have a negotiation like the one that ended the Cuban Missile Crisis. A few minor players on both sides will be sacrificed, but the big ones will walk.