Seriously you are saying firing the person in charge of an investigation does not affect the investigation. Even if he is not involved with the day to day work, he is still the guy who has to request the money and so on. He is involved even if he is not involved, and removing said person is possibly going to jetison the whole thing either with the temporary deputy who is now acting FBI director or with whoever Trump replaces him with once the Senate eventually confirms the new FBI director or Trump recess appoints one.

And while we can't see the future, we can use the past to guide us, we can look at other democracies and what happens when a president fires the investigators into the federal branch...and let's just say it is not good for how many times this was smooth sailing and conductive towards a better functioning democracy.

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Sure Congress has its own investigation, but that investigation is not going anywhere due to congress not wanting to hire people and not wanting to spend money and thus it appears it was not serious as of last week.

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/04/27/russia-investigations-joke-donna-brazile-215080

<QUOTE>Part of the problem is that the panel doesn't have enough staffers to do anything. The Daily Beast pointed out that there are currently only seven staffers working on the Senate investigation—all of them part-time! One of them even has to balance investigative duties with attending law school part-time. It was heartening that the committee this week—after the Yahoo and Daily Beast stories—announced the hiring of April Doss, a respected former lawyer for the National Security Agency, as a special counsel. But to put things into perspective, Politics USA points out that the House Benghazi Committee had 46 staffers and 8 interns. The special commission looking into Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction had 88 staffers, and a joint House-Senate probe of Iran-Contra had 181 staffers. In short, if the Senate Intelligence Committee is our last, best hope, then we have very little hope. And we desperately need hope.</QUOTE>

7 Staffers, all part time.

Read the whole article I just did one of the most damning quotes but there were several more in the article.