the clinton e-mail investigation 11 days before the election. trump's seismic firing sparking comparisons to waterwatergate. but the nixon library pointing out that nixon did not go as far as trump in firing his fbi director. and today in the midst of all this controversy, a moment of extraordinary some would say certainly unusual timing. the russian foreign minister sergey lavrov expected here at the white house to visit with president trump. >> and it is interesting historical perspective not enduring the nixon era did we deal with what we're dealing with today. thank you very much. and this morning you will hear that this decision came about from the brd acceptipresident ae findingses of doj investigation, but multiple officials tell cnn that president trump was considering firing james comey oig for at least a week now and that this investigation was done at his urging. cnn's jessica schneider joining us with more. >> yeah, tensions have been mounting between the white house and the fbi in recent week. the trump administration and attorney general jeff sessions pushed the fbi to be aggressively pursue its investigation urgin

the nixon library apparently is not happy with the trump-nixon comparison's tweeting "fun fact, richard nixon never fired the director of the fbi." bill clintonrector, williams sessions appointed by ronald reagan. sessions was accused of using an fbi plane to visit his daughter and had the government pay for and install a security fence around his home that didn't provide security. sessions voluntarily stepped down under attorney general janet reno. clinton went on to appoint louis freeh and the two were well known enemies who said he was disgusted by clinton's scandals. >> shepard: and fbi headquarters is named for a man that got his start at bureau before it was named the fbi. that happened on this day in history. your insurance company raises your rates... maybe you should've done more research on them. for drivers with accident forgiveness, liberty mutual won't raise your rates due to your first accident. liberty mutual insurance. due to your first accident. buttrust angie's list to help., [ barks ] visit angieslist.com today. come close, come close. fun in art class. i like that. [ music stops suddenly ] ah. when your pain reliever stops

the video library. you can find everything from director james comey. isughts off of twitter, this berkeley saying "people had no trust issues at all with hillary clinton or the email issue." also saying "he needs to be fired." brian's next from florida. republican line. caller: i was commenting on director comey's first comment -- whate leaking of the he was delivering to congress sayit is funny that you there is a telegraph, telephone, and tele congress and that is how you spread your message the best. pedro: couple of stories to share you outside of director comey although you are welcome to keep on calling. talking about president obama's former national security advisor susan wright who said requesty she declined a to testify before a senate subcommittee citing separation of powers between the executive and legislative branches and the fact that the invitation was not bipartisan, saying her decision to decline an invitation to testify on russia's election meddling came from a lawyer. senateders of the judiciary committee on crime and terrorism, lindsey graham and sheldon whitehouse show that the invitation only became -- only came from lindsey grah

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the most recent president that did that is bill clinton in 1993. there was a saturday night massacre, to go back in time and look at that, ben stein. ben, nixon library pounced at the chance to say no, no, no. this is different. what did you think of that? >> it's not that wildly different in the sense that important people in law enforcement were fired. mr. nixon fired elliot richardson, the snobby a-elitest attorney general. he fired archie cox, an elitist special prosecutor selected by democrats to wreck mr. nixon's life. they were replaced. probably by one of the smartest attorney generals in the history of the world. watergate was different. there was a great deal of material that had been discovered. a very long, long, 18-month long in depth investigation. in the event they never found any crime. there's a gigantic, huge difference in a sense that there's no crime here. mr. trump has not been accused of any crime. there's no evidence of any kind of collusion with russia during the election. they're backing up a tree that doesn't exist, this is an investigation in search of a crime. a media firestorm and a democratic screaming match over somethi

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clinton at this point in their administrations. tomorrow, former president barack obama will receive the profile and courage award. the ceremony takes place at the jfk libraryss ps. kennedy's daughter, caroline, and grandson, jack, will present the this award. >> i think president obama really brought in a new generation just like president kennedy did. and certainly the generation that was inspired by my father transformed this country in civil rights peace corps, space. and i think the generationing that president obama brought into public life, my children among them, are going to go on to do great things. >> be sure to check out msnbc's special coverage of the event. chris matthews will have special guests to provide analysis of president obama's speech .explore his lasting legacy. watch the award beginning tomorrow at 8:00 p.m. own on msnbc. >>> at the top of the hour, the future of health care, what could happen as president trump bill heads to the senate. that will do it for me. your business up next and thomas roberts picks it up at 8:00 eastern. f 32 nfl teams. be there for america's toughest and help, when help is needed america's #1 isn't a statu

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the united states. laying broadband so that every community had access to high tech, whether in a school, a library or advanced manufacturing facility. >> i'm assuming hillary clinton wanted a lot of those things. >> we didn't talk about it quite frankly. we were talking a lot about donald trump, we had a lot of commercials running about him. and we didn't have enough commercials running about how you're going to help out work class people, that these working class people, the system is rigged against them. it is geared towards the top 1%. it is geared toward the insurance companies. they do get all the ben f benefits. you're throwing people of on of health care and giving a tax cut to the wealthiest in the country and sick kids will not get health care. those are issues that hit home and i think we spent too much time talking about donald trump's behavior as opposed to we care about you, we'll go to the mat for you and that's all we talk about. >> sam stein. >> to that point, congressing man, two days ago you have a report that the last insurer in iowa in the private marketplace mayor be pu may be pulling out of 95% of the counties. why not put your own proactive

clinton or anyone earns as a member of the private sector, it is just like mnyob. an. none of your business. ainsley: obamas are waiving a 600,000 doll fee on updating community for a plans for libraryplane hitting power lines and a traffic pole sending sparks flying before a mushroom cloud full of names filled the air. incredibly no one was hurt. authorities say engine problems caused that terrifying crash. those are the headlines. out to janice dean for some weather. or you guys. go to you guys. brian: i prefer you toss. >> janice, toss you to the weather. >> you can do it in unison. steve: three, two, one. janice, dean. >> like a b-minus. we'll try ben in the break. how is it going? it's a beautiful day here in new york city. gorgeous. the sun is out. i mean you're going to need a light jacket. feels like springtime. cooler air though to the north of this boundary that we are watching the potential for these low pressure coming out of the west, ride the boundary, bring potential forç heavy rain and threat for severe weather as well. flooding concerns for parts of oklahoma, kansases missouri and arkansas. here is the setup. here is the future radar. all the gulf moisture getting