The White House announced the firing.
Will check the timing of the announcement, which would lend credence to the “intent” (sorry, had to say it) to embarrass him publicly with a gotcha. Or, maybe they didn’t know he was in LA. Doubt it, so.... maybe signal to the clintoonians he protected.
Meanwhile, hopefully the Senate committee can expand the “russia” non-investigation to the clinton machinery, and mccabe and... mcaulliffe- and keep this investigation in the news and re-directed appropriately to the real criminal espionage with russians: the clinton server and all of her servants (Mills, the little pentagon bigmouth, Susan Rice and all the others).