nation's capital,
not from the White House, but a
few blocks away on K Street,
where the two businesses
that make the nation's capital
tick come together,
politics and lobbying.
And if TransCanada is seen by
some as the ugly Canadians
in those flyover states,
when CEO Russ Girling
comes to Washington,
he fits right in with colleagues
from Big Oil and their friends.
>> I mean, this is the
oil and gas administration.
Let's just be
really direct here.
>> Bob: Investigative journalist
Chuck Lewis specializes in the
covert use of money, power,
and lobbyists
to affect public policy,
in particular with the
untrackable donations known
as dark money, increasing in
the US each year.
>> There's been an explosion
in terms of the amount
of dark money.
It's gone up from a few hundred
thousand dollars to $1.4 billion
just since 2012.
>> Bob: A case in point,
the ubiquitous ad campaign
south of the border soliciting
support for TransCanada
and the Keystonethat the net
benefits economic to the
State Of Nebraska, I think,
a fair-minded assessment,
outweigh those risks.
>> President Donald Trump:
..important on others.
>> Bob: But for all the ads,
the unrelenting lobbying,
the seemingly
endless amounts of money,
it would turn out that what
TransCanada and Keystone really
needed was this guy.
>> President Donald Trump:
..projects that he's killed.
He rejected the
Keystone XL pipeline,
despite the fact that
it would've created 42,000 jobs.
>> Bob: Throughout the
2016 presidential campaign,
the pipeline kept
rearing its head,
and once in the Oval Office,
President Trump
didn't disappoint.
>> President Donald Trump:
All live television, fellas.
Anybody afraid of
life television?
[ Laughter ]
>> President Donald Trump: No?
Okay, ready?
>> Bob: A lot had
happened in between,
but in the fight for
Keystone, at long last,
there seemed to be a winner.
>> President Donald Trump:
TransCanada will finally be
allowed to complete this
long-overdue project with
efficiency and with speed.
>> Bob: The pipeline had not