related to the russia investigation. now he s in the oval office with trump. lavrov said the meeting didn t cover the absurd claims of russian meddling. greg miller, thank you for your reporting. before we go to break, in terms of republicans, we heard from bob corker. obviously there s a big problem at the top of this administration and perhaps an uncon tanable one. what should republicans do at this point? charlie sykes editorial in the new york times came at a really important time because i started seeing yesterday for the first time these conservative hucksters who make money going to a niche audios called out not for supporting trump but for their anti anti-trumpism.
base, his constituency. it didn t transfer to the democratic party, devastating over eight years. let s get the charlie sikes op-ed into the discussion and talks about discussion there ant conservative electionism, anti-trumpism. the elreal heart is the delight in the frustration and anger of his opponents if liberals like something. each controversy reinforces the divisions and mistrust and mr. trump counts on that. the conservatives have lost what it means to be a conservative. i think many people come to conservatism for different reasons and a lot driven by the opposition to the left and why a lot of the conservative movement went to president trump and with his flaws they felt he was battering ram against the left
the president made his decision. there is nothing i can do about that. i m going to focus on what i control, which is my job. joining me from wisconsin conservative commentator and msnbc contributor, charlie sykes. his new op ed in the new york times is titled, if liberals hate him then trump may be doing something right. in a moment we will make him account for that headline. and jeremy alter, msnbc analyst. charlie, what is your central holding about what conservativism has been replaced with? it s been replaced by this viralent loathing for the president, anti-anti-trumpism. they have three choices. you are going to have some people who go to the mat to defend president trump. sean hannity. the never trumpers who will break with him. but the reality is this is a
state supporters viewing all of this? well, i don t have a conservative talk show anymore. but i would say this, so far, what we ve seen the president s base is almost impervious to these sorts of stories. now, mainstream republican-elected officials are axis described as dumbfounded. we have several things happening in american politics. the polarization of american politician. essenti essentially, if you don t want to defend what trump is doing which is very hard to do nowadays, it s anti-anti-trumpism. in other words, just change the subject. attack the media, attack the hypocritical democrats or engage in what about obama? what about clinton?
there is nothing i can do about that. i m going to focus on what i control, which is my job. joining me from wisconsin conservative commentator and msnbc contributor, charlie sykes. his new op ed in the new york times is titled, if liberals hate him then trump may be doing something right. in a moment we will make him account for that headline. and jeremy alter, msnbc analyst. charlie, what is your central holding about what conservativism has been replaced with? it s been replaced by this viralent loathing for the president, anti-anti-trumpism. they have three choices. you are going to have some people who go to the mat to defend president trump. sean hannity. the never trumpers who will