general sanction that firing. i think the people in the fbi were nervous about both what was happening substantively, with respect to whether the president was an agent of a foreign power, and also what was happening to their investigation. this was the step they took, both out of substantive concerns and because theye police politically, it'd be hard to end the investigation. >> a statement from hillary clinton on this, and we have her tweet there, like i said, a puppet. betsy, for folks who might not be familiar with precisely what mrs. clinton is talking about, what is she talking about? >> she's referring to comments she made on the campaign trail and subsequent to trump's inauguration, where she accused him of essentially being a tool of vladimir putin's government in russia. one of the core arguments democrats made in the closing of the 2016 presidential campaign