comey and wanted to get rid of director comey because director comey was escalating the subpoenas into the investigation of donald trump. rod rosenstein, in fact, any deputy attorney general would not have the authority to make a recommendation or decision to fire an fbi director. it s just not done. j. edgar hoover wasn t fired. william sessions s was fired because of his own ethical problems. don t fire an fbi director particularly for the sole reason because that person is looking into the president. what rod rosenstein was asked to do was write his thoughts about why, you know, what he thought director comey had done wrong during the clinton year during the clinton investigation into the e-mails and there was a lot of people who had a lot of criticism about that and so he put that down there but he didn t say you should fire me, he said these are reasons why you could. all of those reasons are actually true and rod rosenstein s view and many people s view but they existed for the