This will become an existential moment for the MSM.
If Hillary goes down, and they are seen as stooges who helped her with “the con” at every step, then they have nowhere to go. They’ll be seen like Stasi informants after the reunification of Germany. Nobody will hire them. They’ll have “HACK PROPAGANDIST” stamped on their biography.
They need to come back to the side of law and pretend they really were investigating her. That is, if they want to retain a granule of respect or credibility forever.