it is my pleasure to welcome you to this conversation about matthew continetti important excellent newook the right, the 100 year war for american conservative. it's intellectual and political history over the past century. to accept the ideas behind the rise the electoral coalition that composed it. the weight the coalition has sought power and use power and our politics for the weights thought about the country and its future. the book explores the tension between populism and conservativism between libertarian and traditionalist between pragmatists ands purist. it gives us a lot to talk about. and that is what we will be doing this morning. we will do it through a conversation between the booksks author matthew continetti and p you might sit one of its subjects former house speaker paul ryan. a practitioner and a thinker about politics of the modern right. a word about each of them as if they need it. matthew continetti is a senior fellow where his work is focused on american politics and political and history. he is a prominent journalist and analysts. he was the founding editor of

joining me for insight and analysis are eugene robinson, amy walter, matthew continetti, betsy woodruff swan and michael beschloss. welcome to sunday. it's "meet the press." >>> from nbc news in washington, the longest running show in television history, this is "meet the press" with chuck todd. >> good sunday morning. chuck todd is off today. even by donald trump's standards, it's been an extraordinary week. first came word of the fbi's search at mar-a-lago, for classified documents. while that prompted an it's about time reaction by some on the left, the noisiest voices on the right were calling for everything from the abolishment of the fbi to civil war. then on wednesday, the former president who once said pleading the fifth amendment was for mobsters and the guilty did so himself more than 400 times in a new york civil suit. the list of items removed by the fbi at mar-a-lago and revealed on friday included 11 sets of classified documents, five sets were top secret, three sets were secret and three were confidential. and there are still so many unanswered questions. what kind of leg

just search matthew continetti or the title of his book "the right." >> tonight cnn anchor the new york times best-selling author anderson cooper chronicles the rise and fall of a legendary american dynasty, his mother's family, that vanderbilt. he is joined by katherine howe, a "new york times" best-selling author of historical fiction and an academic who brings her teeth research skills and narrative flair to the story of an extraordinary family. and now without a further ado i would like to welcome our guests to the virtual stage.

kimberley strossel member of the editorial board at the "wall street journal" and matthew continetti, start with you, there are democrats like senator leahy who have concerns about this let alone the money and the possibility of inflation going up because of this. but, also, the politics of this and somebody paying off essentially a loan that other people have paid or other people haven't gone college. >> yeah, i find this really crazy politics. they just passed the inflation reduction act. it was this win according to them. they can go out and make the case that they are reducing inflation or helping the environment, tenuous as though that argument may be. this is not a political winner. this is something they are doing for their progressive base. they are going to get accused of giving money to higher earners. there is very serious concerns that this is going to directly inflate tuition costs even more, add to inflation. those are not messages that any democrat should want to be taking into the midterms and so i find this very questionable from a politics perspective. >> bret: haro

i want to read you something matthew continetti wrote. he noted the journal's ed page says the gop has an abortion problem. and the problem? republicans have no idea what to say about abortion. do you agree essentially with that sentiment? and that this may have changed the political complexion of the midterms? >> i think it's definitely changed the complexion of the midterm some. i don't know how big. look. i've always taken the position of rape, incest, life of the mother, and certain weeks up to 15 weeks and whatever. that was a fairly common thing in the republican party. even donald trump said rape, incest, life of the mother exceptions. and now you're seeing these republicans go there is absolutely no exception. because somehow in the republican party, the crueller you are, the more likely you are to win a primary. so blake masters, for instance, can erase his website all he wants and now pretend like he is some soft on this but he didn't because he used it to win a primary. so, yeah, i think republicans are in real trouble because

just search matthew continetti or the title of his book "the right." >> tonight cnn anchor the new york times best-selling author anderson cooper chronicles the rise and fall of a legendary american dynasty, his mother's family, that vanderbilt. he is joined by katherine howe, a "new york times" best-selling author of historical fiction and an academic who brings her teeth research skills and narrative flair to the story of an extraordinary family. and now without a further ado i would like to welcome our guests to the virtual stage. >> hello. thank you so much everyone. it's such apleasure to be here . anderson, greetings to you. >> i feel like we only ever see each other remotely. >> that's true although hopefully that will change. welcome one and all. this should be a fun conversation and there will be plenty of time at the end if you have questions or comments you'd like to share. the way we're going to do it is i will be taking a question from the q&a but i will be able to look at the chat. if you have a question please put it in the q&a. let's begin because anderson, you spoken be

thank you matthew continetti and paul ryan.

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