Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20170131:02:38:00
Sort of the belly of this story, as we start to understand what this means, is the historic nature of an action like this. we just saw eric, reporter for "the new york times," reference the saturday night massacre which is, of course, a nixon era proverbial blood letting that i think is what flashed in everyone's mind when we first heard about this. for a perspective on that and how big a deal this is, we're joined by presidential historian michael beschloss who we've called on very short notice. thank you. >> my pleasure. history yet again, right? >> is it? it certainly is a big deal. when er...