bellringer 9/3

 My take on it was that he was using this bad situation to his benefit. So the people recognized it and he has been accused. He threatened her to step down on he would take away funding and the funding he was going to take away was a program that she ran that investigated public official. So he could protect him self and get rid of something he didn't like in one step. I personally do not agree with his reasoning but he is very smart.