The Chuck ToddCast

By Chuck Todd, Meet the Press

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Nukes and music: Greg Mitch...

12.05.2023

Author and filmmaker Greg Mitchell joins Chuck to talk about his latest film, "Atomic Cover-up," and the resurgence of anti-nuclear proliferation after the summer release of "Oppenheimer."

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12.05.2023 Nukes and music: Greg Mitchell talks about the state of anti-nuclear activism Author and filmmaker Greg Mitchell joins Chuck to talk about his latest film, "Atomic Cover-up," and the resurgence of anti-nuclear proliferation after the summer release of "Oppenheimer."
12.01.2023 Leon Panetta: 'You need a Kissinger' in Middle East peace process Former Defense Secretary Leon Panetta joins Chuck to analyze the path forward for lasting peace in the Middle East, and offers his thoughts on the legacy of former Sec. Henry Kissinger, who passed away Wednesday.
11.28.2023 Andrew Yang’s fantasy draft picks for president Self-described “rebel corporate” Andrew Yang, co-chair of the Forward Party and former Democratic presidential candidate, joins Chuck Todd for a candid conversation about the 2024 election.
11.23.2023 Alternative History Thanksgiving special: What if airline deregulation never happened? Alternative history is back with a special Thanksgiving episode. Turn the clocks back to 1978 and ask, what would air travel be like today if deregulation never took place? Ganesh Staraman, the author of a new book called “Why Flying ...
11.21.2023 Maura Moynihan remembers the Moynihan clan: 'Dad always reached across the aisle' Elizabeth Moynihan, who had become known for managing the Senate campaigns of her husband, the late Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D-N.Y.), passed away on Nov. 7 at age 94 — 20 years after him. Their daughter Maura joins Chuck to ...
11.17.2023 America's changing political battleground Mark Z. Barabak, political columnist for the Los Angeles Times, joins Chuck to analyze America's battleground states ahead of 2024 and details what role the West might play in swinging the election.
11.14.2023 Trudeau and Biden: A tale of two wartime leaders Canadian journalist and publisher of GZERO Media, Evan Solomon, joins Chuck Todd to discuss what the future holds for Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as his polling falls, what President Biden's administration can learn from him and how the two ...
11.10.2023 Rep. Colin Allred: Running against Sen. Ted Cruz's 'outrage machine' Rep. Colin Allred (D-Texas) joins Chuck to discuss his campaign to unseat Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and talks about his working relationship with new Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.).
11.07.2023 Is Joe Biden 2024 a rerun of Hillary Clinton 2016? Political commentator Chris Cillizza and Editor-in-Chief of the Cook Political Report Amy Walter join Chuck Todd to talk about 2024 messaging.
11.03.2023 Abortion or Biden: What's on the ballot for off-year elections? Adam Ganucheau, editor-in-chief for Mississippi Today, and Phillip M. Bailey, national political correspondent for USA Today, join Chuck to preview Tuesday's upcoming gubernatorial elections in Mississippi and Kentucky, and explain what the results in both states could tell us about ...
10.31.2023 Bribes, rumors & revenge: The latest in the Middle East with Martin Fletcher Martin Fletcher, former NBC News Middle East correspondent and Tel Aviv Bureau chief, joins Chuck to talk about Israel’s ground invasion into the Gaza Strip and the politics facing Prime Minister Netanyahu.
10.27.2023 Judge Lina Hidalgo: How a rising star in politics battled clinical depression Judge Lina Hidalgo, head of the Harris County, Texas governing body, joins Chuck to discuss her battle with depression and treatment, and talks about the evolving views around the issue of mental health.
10.24.2023 ‘The last temptation of Mitt’: McKay Coppins’ new Romney biography For his new book, “Romney: A Reckoning,” McKay Coppins had access to hundreds of pages of Senator Mitt Romney’s personal notes. In this live interview with Chuck at the New-York Historical Society, Coppins talks about the reporting process and what ...
10.20.2023 The House is frozen 'by choice,' with Matt Glassman As Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) loses a repeated vote to take up the speaker gavel, House Republicans are considering testing the limits of Rep. Patrick McHenry's (R-N.C.) powers as speaker pro tempore. Matt Glassman, senior fellow at the Government Affairs ...
10.17.2023 ‘Band of Brothers flying into combat’: How John Glenn and Ted Williams became lifelong friends Adam Lazarus, author of “The Wingmen: The Unlikely, Unusual, Unbreakable Friendship Between John Glenn and Ted Williams” joins Chuck to talk about how to titans of the twentieth century ended up as lifelong friends.
10.12.2023 Bruce Mehlman: Are both parties trying to lose in 2024? Democrats don't trust the Supreme Court, Republicans don't trust the FBI or mainstream media, and everyone is paranoid about deepfakes. Bruce Mehlman, partner at Mehlman Consulting, joins Chuck to discuss both parties' biggest weaknesses ahead of 2024.
10.09.2023 ‘I’m in the solutions business now’: Chuck Todd kicks off a new ToddCast era Washington faces a House without a speaker, a war in Israel and a crisis at the southern border. Ryan Nobles, NBC News Capitol Hill correspondent and Paul Kane, Washington Post senior congressional correspondent, talk about a confluence of events that ...
09.10.2023 Chuck's last Post Game: 'The roller coaster never stops,' with John Reiss John Reiss, executive producer for Meet the Press during Chuck's first eight years as moderator, joins to post game a chapter of Meet the Press that brought digital expansion, a daily spin-off and a companion newsmagazine to the longest-running show ...
09.08.2023 'They want to die in the Senate': Aging lawmakers cling onto elected office As Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) faces growing concerns over his health, Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) and his House Republicans are debating a possible impeachment inquiry against President Biden. Carl Hulse, chief Washington correspondent for the New York Times, ...
09.03.2023 Post Game with Jake Sherman: Mitch McConnell 'won't be finishing his term' A second public freeze by Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) has revived concerns over the senator's ability to carry out his term — and cast a renewed focus on the health issues of America's aging political leaders. Jake Sherman, ...
09.01.2023 Meet my son: A former GOP congresswoman's fight for trans acceptance Former Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fla.) served in the House for three decades, until 2019. In the short time since, the GOP has taken a sharp turn toward anti-trans rhetoric. Ros-Lehtinen and her son, Rodrigo Heng-Lehtinen, executive director of the National ...
08.30.2023 A tale of two primaries: Trump's colliding legal and political calendars On Monday, a federal judge in D.C. set March 4, 2024 as the start date for the first of former President Trump’s two federal criminal trials. The day after that is Super Tuesday. Mark Murray, Ben Kamisar, Bridget Bowman and ...
08.27.2023 Post Game with Stephanie Murphy: 'I'm resigned to the fact [Biden] is running' Former Rep. Stephanie Murphy (D-Fla.) joins the ToddCast to analyze how she understood President Biden's 2020 campaign pitch to signal "a promise to be a bridge to the next generation," and tells Chuck, "I took that as one term."
08.25.2023 'Just make stuff up': How Vivek Ramaswamy stole the debate spotlight Presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, who at times looked more like a Trump surrogate, commanded the stage during Fox News’ debate — but mostly because he bore the brunt of his rivals’ attacks on stage. Molly Ball, national political correspondent at ...
08.23.2023 'It's mostly a personality test': Iowa poll dissects the GOP race Former President Trump might skip Wednesday night's debate, but he's ever-present in the minds of voters, according to numbers from the new partnership between NBC News, the Des Moines Register and MediaCom. J. Ann Selzer, the chief pollster behind this ...
08.20.2023 Post Game with Lanhee Chen: 'How do you break the trance' behind Trump's support? As the first presidential debate of the cycle prepares to usher in the next phase of the 2024 campaign, the challengers to former President Trump's re-election bid have mostly still opted to not take him on, as the four-time indicted ...
08.18.2023 Jeffrey Goldberg: The toll Trump's indictments take on democracy itself Ninety-one felony charges across four criminal indictments: That’s one way to measure former President Trump’s impact on American politics. But what about the stress that these indictments place on our judicial system? Jeffrey Goldberg, editor-in-chief of the Atlantic and host ...
08.16.2023 How Trump could weaponize his trial in Georgia A Georgia grand jury issued former President Trump his fourth indictment late Monday night, charging Trump and 18 of his allies with felony racketeering and numerous conspiracy counts in their attempt to overturn the 2020 election. NBC News Correspondent Blayne ...
08.13.2023 Post Game with Eugene Daniels: 'No one thinks [AG Garland] is doing a good job' As both Biden and Trump face special counsel probes in the midst of their re-election campaigns, the developing primaries seem almost secondary to the political implications of the decisions coming out of the courts. Eugene Daniels, White House correspondent for ...
08.11.2023 Chip War: 'If there's a war over Taiwan, semiconductors will be the first casualty' Americans who waited endlessly for products to make it through the pandemic-era global supply chain crisis know all too well how disastrous a shortage of semiconductor chips can be to the global economy — but few know the extent to ...
08.09.2023 'The magic elixir of youth turnout': How abortion politics are clobbering the GOP On Tuesday, Ohio voters resoundingly shot down a constitutional amendment that would have weakened the state's protection of abortion rights, offering a preview of one the GOP's contentious issues ahead of 2024. Republican strategist Brad Todd and Democratic strategist Cornell ...
08.06.2023 Post Game with Hallie Jackson: White House or 'big house' for Trump? With former President Trump's third indictment comes the most serious charges facing a former president — and for voters, the difficult decision to either send him back to the White House or to essentially sign off on his prison sentence ...
08.02.2023 Kai Bird: What Oppenheimer and Jimmy Carter have in common Christopher Nolan's summer blockbuster "Oppenheimer" brought renewed focus to the moral conflict faced by the father of the atomic bomb. But before there was a movie, there was a seminal biography. Kai Bird, author of "American Prometheus: The Triumph and ...
07.30.2023 Post Game: How Trump could prop up Cornel West to troll Biden, with Faiz Shakir A health scare suffered by Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and a repeated moment of public confusion for Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) have returned the focus to the aging of our political leaders — with none more scrutinized than President Biden. ...
07.28.2023 The Hill goes on recess after a doozy of a week: UFOs, impeachment inquiries and leadership questions NBC’s Senior National Political Reporter, Sahil Kapur, and NBC News Capitol Hill Correspondent, Julie Tsirken join Chuck to talk about one of the wildest weeks on Capitol Hill.
07.26.2023 DeSantis 'has a lot of power in Tallahassee, but not a lot of friends' The problems for Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-Fla.) are piling up, as he now admits he's looking to reboot his presidential campaign. NBC News Senior National Politics Reporter Matt Dixon joins Chuck to detail whether DeSantis can regain momentum as he ...
07.21.2023 Gov. Doug Burgum: Culture war issues ‘definitely not the place’ to focus on for presidential candidates Republican presidential candidate and Governor of North Dakota Doug Burgum joined Meet the Press in an exclusive interview to discuss his campaign for 2024, former President Donald Trump’s lead in the GOP race and federal versus states’ rights.
07.19.2023 How Craigslist undermined local newspapers and redefined political coverage Local newspapers were once a staple of every American town. But with the rise of the internet came Craigslist — and with it, the largest threat to the financial survival of newspapers: free, online classified ads. Stanford University professor and ...
07.16.2023 Post Game with Carol Lee: Biden rallied NATO leaders behind Ukraine. Can he rally voters? President Biden's actions on the world stage may be judged by history as some of the most impactful decisions of his time in office — even if it may not matter to voters in November 2024. NBC News Washington Managing ...
07.14.2023 Josh Rogin: Ukraine NATO membership 'a distraction, and a silly one at that' Washington Post columnist Josh Rogin joins Chuck to talk about the NATO summit in Lithuania and why a hold on Ukraine's membership in the military alliance may turn out to be a "red herring."
07.12.2023 'No, actually, the economy is good': Democrats struggle to convince voters As he campaigns for re-election, President Biden is bringing the attention of voters to the strong parts of the U.S. economy in the aftermath of the Covid pandemic. The only problem? Americans aren't easily convinced that "Bidenomics" are making the ...
07.09.2023 Post Game with Amna Nawaz: 'We will be cleaning up this mess' sending cluster munitions to Ukraine As the U.S. agrees to supply Ukraine with cluster munitions — a type of weapon banned in 100+ countries, but not America — critics raise concerns that President Biden might have agreed to "cede the moral authority" on the global ...
07.07.2023 Gov. Doug Burgum is 'spending a lot … to get that 1%' Gov. Doug Burgum (R-N.D.) has launched a longshot bid for his party's presidential nomination, but the software-executive-turned-billionaire-governor is no stranger to dark-horse campaigns. NBC News Senior National Political Reporter Henry Gomez and New York Times Political Correspondent Jonathan Weisman join ...
06.30.2023 Third Way slams third-party bids: 'That almost certainly will help Trump' Faced with the apparent likelihood (for now) of a Biden-Trump rematch, the advent of a third-party run seems inevitable — but now, centrists groups are fighting over whether such a bid would end up handing the election to former President ...
06.28.2023 David Ignatius: 'I don't think [Prigozhin] is long for this world' after Putin challenge After the head of the Wagner mercenary group launched — then halted — an insurrection on Russian cities, President Vladimir Putin is still reeling from the biggest challenge to his authority in the 23 years he has governed Russia. David ...
06.25.2023 Post Game with Cornell Belcher: 'How do we rally [young voters] one more time' for Biden? A new NBC News poll shows further evidence that American voters are deeply dissatisfied with the direction of the country and with its leadership. Cornell Belcher, president of Brilliant Corners Research & Strategies, joins Chuck to break down President Biden's ...
06.23.2023 Colin Allred pitches his Senate bid: 'There's a big appetite to replace Ted Cruz' Rep. Colin Allred (D-Texas) launched an early bid to challenge Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) in a state that hasn't sent a Democrat to the Senate in 30 years. He joins Chuck to detail his candidacy and delivers his perspective as ...
06.21.2023 States draw battle lines over abortion, gender-affirming care Nationwide, rulings happening in the states are already changing the landscape on abortion and gender-affirming care. Reid Wilson, founder and editor of Pluribus News, and Emily Bazelon, staff writer for the New York Times Magazine, join Chuck to break down ...
06.18.2023 Post Game: Trump's legal problems 'color the entire race,' with Peter Baker As former President Trump's legal perils escalate, his rivals might have the opportunity to boost their campaigns — but whether they're rallying for or against him, Trump continues to define the terms of the primary debate. Peter Baker, chief White ...
06.16.2023 Jelani Cobb studies what's driving present-day institutional racism In the aftermath of the 2020 murder of George Floyd, researchers at Columbia worked to trace the roots of America's racial inequalities. The project's lead, Dean of Columbia Journalism School Jelani Cobb, joins Chuck to detail how his project aims ...

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