Look who's got a reserved seat for #ComeyHearing
Found in this CNN article:
http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/08/politics/comey-hearing-live/index.html
Bharara first refused to resign along with 46 US attorneys across the country when Trump took office. Although it is common for incoming administrations to replace US attorneys when transitioning to power, Trump had previously assured Bharara that he'd keep his job.
Sources told CNN that Bharara had been told after a meeting with Trump in November that he could stay on, and that he felt blindsided by the request. He was fired after refusing to comply.
Preet Bharara's presence at the hearing today is interesting not just because he was fired in such public fashion by Trump (after, according to Bharara, telling him he could stay on last fall), but because it invokes the dramatic testimony Comey gave to congress in 2007.
Bharara, then counsel to Sen. Chuck Schumer, had called Comey to ask him to tell the story of a riveting story from 2004 when Comey and other DOJ and FBI officials threatened to resign in a showdown with top aides to President George W. Bush's White House over a warrantless domestic surveillance program.