so the former fbi director, going to his counterpart in russia, saying knock it off, something not done in the spy trade very often. >> i like the use of sorkinesque. you can see it in a "west wing" episode for show. john brennan got a lot of push back because it was hyperbolic. maybe that's what the times call for. the firing of andrew mccabe is a really interesting case study of what the president has done vis-a-vis the entire robert mueller probe. he may have been fired for cause. he went through a process within the d.o.j. that did require political -- i'm sorry, civil servants, not political hacks, to make a judgment on the case. but because trump had weighed in so heavily and aggressively on this matter and essentially called for his firing and