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Constitutional boundary. >> all right. senator jeff merkley, thank you. >> you're welcome. thanks. >> here to help make sense of tonight's extraordinary presidential meltdown, natasha bertrand, who follows the russia investigation closely for "the atlantic." democratic strategist, former "apprentice" contestant tara dowdell, and msnbc contributor sam cedar, host of the majority report with sam cedar. and i'll start here today. the president -- we played about two minutes of what was i think seven, eight-minute rant. rant by the president. and i just thought, wow, i haven't quite seen this leve...

Disagreements on policy, the idea of diverse points of view coming to the president, the devil's advocate, who will play the part of a responsible critic is very, very useful in the white house. the buck stops on the president's desk. but he should be welcoming a mcmaster who disagrees with him rather than, in effect, shielding himself from that uncomfortable or inconvenient truth. and it sometimes is truth even when it is disagreeable. and so, however you characterize john bolton, he's much more of trump's view. he comes with an agenda. he is not going to be the neutral arbitor or honest brok...

And people tend to forget, in 2005, for george bush not to get his way in the wake of 9/11, which still had a lot of impact on national security issues, john bolton is at the extreme of the extreme when it comes to neo-conservative foreign policy. and this is going to have incredibly grave implications for the iran deal, for our involvement in syria. i mean, this is -- this is incredibly alarming. and this is not to post that needs senate confirmation. >> and senator blumenthal, when you look at that aspect of this, same cedar raising a point that relates to the constitutional nature of your b...

I mean, at least nixon didn't take such a prominent role. he had his main -- main lieutenants in the white house doing most of his bidding. this is a situation where i think trump was involved in this from the beginning on his own. people that were involved with him were very close family members and long time con if i dans. and i think there's others around him that realize the dangers in what he's trying to do to extricate himself from all of this. >> nick ackerman, thank you for joining us tonight. stick around. we'll be right back right back with sam cedar and cristina greer. don't go anyw...

Incredibly analogous fashion. you would have ended up, if the white house did it and people at the department of justice resigned over it, you would have a direct history repeating itself. >> you would. there's no question about it. that's exactly -- that's exactly what we're seeing here. but in the watergate situation, i mean, at least nixon didn't take such a prominent role. he had his main -- main lieutenants in the white house doing most of his bidding. this is a situation where i think trump was involved in this from the beginning on his own. people that were involved with him were very c...