McDonnell and his wife were indicted this week on corruption charges.

If you need to be filled in on the McDonnell scandal, let this informative animation help.

The 14-count indictment includes charges of wire fraud, false statements and obstruction of official proceeding.

The trip just happens to come one day after McDonnell released a statement saying he repaid more than $124,000 in loans from benefactor Johnnie R. Williams Sr.

With much of the world transfixed on some tyrannical British infant, Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell used the distraction to do a bit of a mea culpa over a donor scandal that continues to swirl around his administration.