bill. speaker paul ryan met tonight with members of his party to talk about their options, and they may need to come up with something on their own. house leader nancy pelosi is urging her fellow dems not to support a short-term fix, writing a letter to her caucus. coat, unless we see a respect for our values and priorities we continue to urge a strong no on the continuing resolution. washington speak for funding to keep the government lights on. here with us to talk about it tonight jonathan lemere, white house report for the associated press and animist nbc political analyst, and charlie psyches, long time conservative radio host, author of how the right lost its mind and an nbc contributor. you wrote a better than average book of being an old school conservative republican. is this a happy night for you after what happened today? well, i m the minority of a minority.
it lot of mixed messages and just really a lot of allies not knowing who to turn to at this point in time. a thank to all three of our friends. appreciate it tonight. up next our friend charlie psyches explains how the right lost its mind. those are his words, in fact the title of his new book. we re back after this. you nervous? .from godaddy! in fact, 68% of people who have built their. .website using gocentral, did it in under an hour,
america and us americans. it has staggered the democratic party to be sure while it has also staggered what we used to think of as the republican party. especially the once proud modern conservative movement that dates back to buckley and goldwater and their like. as the dust was settling around all of us our friend charlie sykes started writing and the result is his new book, how the right losts its mind. notice that hat, anything about that hat look familiar? the work of a longtime conservative radio host and frequent guest on this broadcast, we welcome charlie back. thank you. good luck with, first of all. it s interesting reading. it is triage, i think, of what just happened, but it happened in slow motion, and it also required a lot of people to acquiesce. yes, and it was a painful book for me to write.
unfilled because of budget cuts. and rex tillerson has generally played an offhand role. you have our dip mats around the world who are utterly flabbergasted by what they re seeing. they have this situation where they have a secretary of state who has been very reclusive, very hands off on the day to day dealings and then you have a president contradicting so much of the work they do, even praising the russians for kicking out some ouf our diplomats and a series of events since this administration. it lot of mixed messages and just really a lot of allies not knowing who to turn to at this point in time. a thank to all three of our friends. appreciate it tonight. up next our friend charlie psyches explains how the right lost its mind.
it was made up by nbc. they just made it up. common refrain from donald trump and now as president we saw the campaign trail going after the institutions of american society, judges, elected leaders, a free press. it s an atmosphere new to america and us americans. it has staggered the democratic party to be sure while it has also staggered what we used to think of as the republican party. especially the once proud modern conservative movement that dates back to buckley and goldwater and their like. as the dust was settling around all of us our friend charlie sykes started writing and the result is his new book, how the right losts its mind. notice that hat, anything about that hat look familiar? the work of a longtime conservative radio host and frequent guest on this broadcast, we welcome charlie back. thank you. good luck with, first of all.