I feel sorry for the man, he was in the middle of a briefing with a group of fellow agents in California when the news came across the TV screen saying he'd been fired. He thought it was a some type of joke until they called him aside to inform him 'it wasn't a joke'.
Not since Clinton has a Director of the FBI been fired, and Cox wasn't a director of the FBI, he was however the special prosecutor assigned to investigate Watergate, so it's not 'really' the same type of situation.
People continue to push the collusion between The Trump Campaign and Russia and yet ignore the testimony here--yet continue to believe the narrative the media puts out:
"And I say our, that's the NSA, the FBI, the CIA, with my office, the Director of National Intelligence, that had anything — that had any reflection of collusion between members of the Trump campaign and the Russians. There was no evidence of that included in our report.
Chuck Todd (ph) then asked, I understand that, but does it exist? You say no, not to my knowledge. Is that still accurate?
CLAPPER: It is.
GRAHAM: Ms. Yates, do you have any evidence — are you aware of any evidence that would suggest that in the 2016 campaign anybody in the Trump campaign colluded — colluded with the Russian government intelligence services in improper fashion?
YATES: And Senator, my answer to that question would require me to reveal classified information. And so, I — I can't answer that.
GRAHAM: Well, I don't get that because he just said he issued the report. And he said he doesn't know of any. So, what would you know that's not in the report?
CLAPPER: Are you asking me, or …
GRAHAM: No, her.
CLAPPER: Oh.
YATES: Well, I think that Director Clapper also said that he was unaware of the FBI counter intelligence investigations.
GRAHAM: Would it be fair to say that the counter-intelligence investigation was not mature enough to come to his — to get in the report. Is that fair, Mr. — Mr. Clapper?
CLAPPER: I — that's an — that's a possibility.
it goes on for a bit and then Yates testifies:
"YATES: If I could try to clarify one answer before as well, because I think, Senator Graham, you may have misunderstood me. You asked me whether I was aware of any evidence of collusion, and I declined to answer because answering would reveal classified information.
I believe that that's the same answer that Director Comey gave to this committee when he was asked this question as well. And he made clear, and ***I'd like to make clear, that just because I say I can't answer it, you should not draw from that an assumption that that means that the answer is yes."***
So, in other words, people ARE drawing their own conclusions and making assumptions that "YES, they have something" when in fact all of the departments signed a statement sent to the Senate they have seen NO evidence that would lead them to believe there was collusion between the Trump Campaign and the Russians. And the media continues to feed the narrative 'that because she can't say anything 'she must have something'. So, given that, why would their be need for any special prosecutor??? Or even a 'continued investigation'??? Maybe because they hate this president so badly, and they really hate that their 'Queen Hillary" lost to likes of Him..but more importantly, they need to continue to stir up strife with their base voters and keep them angry and destroying the nation in hopes the President would call for Marshall Law so they can then scream "see we told you he was a dictator" "see we warned you", when in fact it would be their OWN ACTIONS that would bring that about--not because he's some dictator, but because they are acting out violence against the Republic.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2017/05/08/full-transcript-sally-yates-and-james-clapper-testify-on-russian-election-interference/?utm_term=.b776cdf25c9d