Michael Beshash News Today

And joining us now is michael beshash, the white house historian, someone whos attended the correspondents dinner several times. thanks for joining us. it is that time when the president has to play stand up comedian. who was really good at this among the presidents? >> well, they began with a pretty low bar. as you mentioned the first to do this was calvin coolidge and probably the person who changed it was ronald reagan in the 1980s. it was a private dinner more or less and this was not on c-s...

Appreciate that. and as michael mentioned msnbc is going to have live coverage of the white house correspondents dinner tomorrow night at 9:00 eastern. ahead a change of the top of the justice department and the legacy of asparagus. stay with us. but when i started having back pain my sister had to come help. i dont like asking for help. i took tylenol but i had to take six pills to get through the day. so my daughter brought over some aleve. its just two pills, all day! and now, im back! aleve....