Sen. Angus King Angus KingShakespeare Theatre Company goes virtual for 'Will on the Hill...or Won't They?' On The Trail: How Nancy Pelosi could improbably become president Angus King: Ending election security briefings 'looks like a pre-cover-up' MORE (I-Maine) in an interview early Wednesday suggested that ousted FBI Director James Comey could lead the Senate's investigation into alleged Russian meddling in the presidential election.

“I had a fun idea in the middle of the night,” King told CNN’s “New Day.” "The Intelligence Committee ought to hire James Comey to direct our investigation. He's already got his clearances, knows the subject, man of integrity. I’m going to float that today and see what kind of reaction I get.

“He’s a free man as of today; he doesn’t have a job.”

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King, a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, also questioned 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’s involvement with Comey’s firing.

President Trump fired the FBI director Tuesday afternoon based on the recommendation of Sessions and the attorney general's deputy, Rod Rosenstein, White House press secretary Sean Spicer told reporters.

“What is Jeff Sessions doing involved in this?” King asked. “He said he’s going to have nothing to do with the Russia investigation in any shape or form, directly or indirectly, and yet he is involved in firing the guy who is leading the investigation for the FBI.”

King also criticized the timing of Trump’s decision to remove Comey as the head of the bureau.

“They supposedly … fired James Comey for stuff that he did last summer or last fall, and suddenly now they say, well, ‘He’s got to go,’ ” King said. “The timing just doesn’t pass the straight-face test in terms of what’s the real motivation for this,” he added.