craig shirley is our guest. he has written seven books.we talked about some of the reagan books including reagan's revolution his first one i came out in 2005 rendezvous with destiny came out in 2009 and then he switched topics in december of 1941, 31 days that changed america that came out in 2011 we will be talking about that as well. the last act of final years in emergent -- emerging legacy of ronald reagan they came out in 2015. and a citizen newts to making other reagan legacy came out in 2017 in his most recent book is on mary ball washington the untold story of george washington's mother that came out in 2019 and we will be discussing that as well. this is an interactive program and we want to hear your voices and here's the come participate in this this program if other craig shirley predicting call in (202)748-8200 if you live in eastern and central timezone. for those of you in the mountain pacific timezones (202)748-8201 and he can't get her on the phone lines and you want to participate you can do it in a variety of ways. numb

and the contrast craig shirley was talking about this week with bob dole. a gentleman who understood you can be a conservative without checking your decency at the front door, without being hateful, without being spike full. you talk about compassionate and conservative, that was bob dole. here i find -- i don't even say the guy's name because i don't want to give more credence. i had to hear people having to yap on and on about a war on christmas. if you were a christian and you are concerned and somebody put xmas up some where and there is going to be 87, it's not much of a faith. you don't have that strong faith in jesus christ. anymore than this, all of this garbage we are seeing here like the war on christmas. you want a war or christmas? you look at that picture, again, the picture i don't want to show and the picture i feel sorry for the guy's family so i don't want to show their faces. nothing has been done over the past year by city councils that really does more violence to the essence of what christmas celebrates than that picture. it comes of co

craig shirley, presidential historian, author of "december 1941: three days that changed america andonth to become the ceo of donald trump's fledgling media company. nunes was a dairy farmer before 2003. it was revealed his company plans to merge with trump's company is being investigated by the seg. nunes emerged as one of the president's chief defenders in congress. as chairman of the house intelligence committee, nunes had to recuse himself from the russian investigation in part because he was too close to trump to be impartial. compare nunes to another republican congressman, one who thought he could lead his party back from the brink but who now laughs at just how naive he was to believe that's possible. joining us staff writer at the "the atlantic," jim alberta as part of the magazine's special coverage of "american democracy in crisis," he profiles peter meyer and his attempts to force a reckoning in his own party. also with us for this conversation, republican strategist and msnbc political analyst susan del percio. thank you very much, susan, for being with us. susan, let's

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