this. they are kicking this to the department of justice. of course this news coming at quite a surprise to everybody in preet bharara's orbit given he thought he was going to be reporting to the office on monday and definitely thinking he was going to keep on in this position after his conversation with then president-elect trump in november as you pointed out earlier in the video after the election. it's obvious he's trying to make the point here that this was him deciding not to resign and that as a subsequent decision he was fired, and he made that clear in a tweet earlier today and then in a statement. i'm going to read a part of it. he wrote today i was fired from my position as u.s. attorney for the southern district of new york. one haul mark of justice is absolu absolute independence. preet bharara was a pretty high