House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) says the circumstances surrounding President Trump’s firing of former FBI Director James Comey are "distressing" and “really weird.”

Speaking specifically about Trump saying that Comey assured him three times that he's not under investigation, Pelosi said she thought it was strange that was included in reports on Comey's dismissal.

“We’re talking weird,” she said Monday during a CNN town hall. “Weird means, what? Highly unusual, inappropriate for that. And why is he doing this?"

Pelosi additionally criticized Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein’s memo that the White House initially cited as the reason for Comey’s dismissal last week.

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“The president asked him [to] make a case against Comey, and that’s what he did,” she said. “But he did it in a way that was not prosecutorial.

“It was like, ‘I think I’ll do an op-ed for The Wall Street Journal.’ It’s like, what? This is not professional.”

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell Addison (Mitch) Mitchell McConnellMcConnell focuses on confirming judicial nominees with COVID-19 talks stalled McConnell accuses Democrats of sowing division by 'downplaying progress' on election security Warren, Schumer introduce plan for next president to cancel ,000 in student debt MORE (R-Ky.) announced Monday that Rosenstein will brief all 100 senators on Comey’s ouster this Thursday.

The Senate previously invited Comey to testify at a closed session about his firing, but he declined, noting he would testify publicly instead.

The White House announced last week that Trump had sacked Comey on the recommendation of Attorney General Jeff Sessions Jefferson (Jeff) Beauregard SessionsTrump's policies on refugees are as simple as ABCs Ocasio-Cortez, Velázquez call for convention to decide Puerto Rico status White House officials voted by show of hands on 2018 family separations: report MORE and Rosenstein.

Trump has since hinted that investigations into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election played into his decision to fire Comey.

“Regardless of recommendation, I was going to fire Comey,” he told host Lester Holt on “NBC Nightly News.”

“And, in fact, when I decided to just do it, I said to myself, ‘You know, this whole Russia thing with Trump and Russia is a made-up story.’ ”

Comey announced in March that the FBI was probing Russian meddling in the 2016 race, including possible ties between Russia and Trump’s campaign.