even if it didn't affect the investigation. and the inspector general report said it didn't. i still think it has to be clear you can't do that. >> i want to bring in one of my faves, former federal prosecutor glen kearsener. doesn't this set a precedent? >> that's important. i think we'll spend time trying to unravel what's behind this firing. when i was a federal prosecutor, i supervised 30 other federal prosecutors and i found myself in this exact same position. opr conducted an investigation of something one of our prosecutors did. they made a recommendation about a sanction or a punishment. that would go to my u.s. attorney and together we would try to decide what it is a prop party punishment was. i have to tell you, almost every time that i can remember, we accepted oprs recommendation and that's the sanction we imposed. now, whether what a gent strzok did, which in my opinion was horrendous and undermines the