first to you, carroll lee, your reporting on the conversations with andrew mccabe when the president first complained to him after the firing of james comey. this is the backdrop for this forced exit, early exit of andrew mccabe. tell us what you know, what you reported. >> andrea, it's one of the first we know of. we don't know every conversation the two of them had. what sources have told us is the president was very frustrated watching james comey take this fbi plane back from california to washington, d.c., after he was fired and so he called andrew mccabe the next day and demanded to know why he was able to do that. mccabe said he didn't authorize that but he would have if he'd been asked. in the process of the conversation the president brought up something that has frankly bothered him for quite a long time. it's no secret, but the way he phrased it mccabe was taken aback and saw it as offensive. ask your wife how it feels to be a loser, reference to mccabe's wife's failed campaign for state office in virginia which, as president trump has pointed out multiple times, she recei

i want to start with carroll lee. you're reporting this morning that came out this morning is significant for a coupleov of reasons. we are learning four or five more. >> right. we learned a year ago today when michael fl micha michael flynn sat for his interview. >> he is talking to fbi agents. >> yes. it was put on his schedule for that day. sources tell us he didn't notify anyone at the national security council's legal team. they would typically notify them and have a lawyer present. he didn't have his personal lawyer present. a number of people told us he didn't seem to understand exactly what was going to transpire in that interview and didn't notify any senior white house officials at that time. then they learned two days later when she came to the white house and told them he could be susceptible. >> which is unusual here. >> yes. >> there's a lot of unusual pieces here. there is also the part you learned and sources confirms to us that one of the agents that came over to talk to him was peter who had been exc

and here in washington, nbc news national political reporter, carroll lee.us through what it has been like for andrew mccabe and why, specifically, he'd leave. he's supposed to leave a month from now. >> lefs suppohe was going to le month and get his full benefits. he was already expected to leave. the pressure that had mounted from the white house and the president on him was only getting stronger. it started early on with the president criticizing him for his wife having run for state office in virginia. getting $500,000 from a superpak by someone close to the clintons. he thought it meant he was bias for the job. >> andrew mccabe has been there two decades. a month from now, he would get full benefits. i'm not saying it doesn't hurt your feelings, but so what if the president keeps going after you on twitter? doesn't it have to be something more significant to make it walk with a month to go? >> i don't know. this could just be that he had enough annual leave stored up that he has enough time to cover him to march. i don't know what it would be. everybody

donald trump, i don't know, carroll lee talking about this in her reporting, calling andrew mccabe's wife a loser? >> you're absolutely right, katy. none of this happens in a vacuum. mccabe has been singled out by this reporting. and the president called andrew mccabe when he saw that -- the fired fbi director, the person he just fired from the job, james comey, was coming back on an fbi plane, just to return to his home in washington, he called mccabe, asked him why he was on that plane, and when mccabe didn't answer, he said, ask your wife how it feels to be a loser, referencing her failed run for virginia senate seat. this all plays into this. there was pressure we cannot ignore that was placed on this deputy fbi director that had to play into this decision to some extent. i want to show the way the fbi director, chris wray, is framing this is that there is a direct correlation between what is coming out in this inspector general report and this decision. so now we're all really waiting to see what's going to be coming from this report, and it looks like it's headed into the final