McCarthy issued a clarification on his earlier clarification, which boils down to: collusion - yes; criminal conspiracy - no.

"To be clear, collusion is literally just concerted activity. It can be made to sound sinister, but it is not necessarily good or bad, criminal or innocent. It’s just people doing stuff together.

A subset of collusion is conspiracy. Conspiracy is a crime. Technically, it is an agreement between two or more people to commit a crime — the conspiratorial agreement is a crime even if its criminal objective is never realized.
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I personally believe it is reprehensible for an American political campaign knowingly to seek or accept opposition research from foreign governments, particularly hostile foreign governments.

... not everything that is bad is illegal — that’s life in a free country. In American law-enforcement practice as it currently exists, I do not believe it is illegal to take oppo-research from a foreign source (including a foreign-government source)."

https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/andrew-mccarthy-collusion-comments-fox-news-clarification/

Похоже, что из состояния "не было" переходим в состояние "ачотакова."