Dante Chinni, the director of the American Communities Project and the brain behind Data Download, joins Chuck to talk about County to County and the 2022 midterms.

Larry Sabato, the Director of the UVA Center for Politics and the Editor in Chief of the Crystal Ball, plus Nathan Gonzales, the editor and publisher off Inside Elections, talk with Chuck about the tight race in Virginia.

James Whitfield is one of the most prominent casualties in a national war over race, history and diversity. The principal at Colleyville Heritage High School, Whitfield was put under administrative leave after he was attacked by protestors who accused him of teaching critical race theory at his high school.

Why are so many “do-or-die” issues ending the same way? Is it the media’s fault for focusing on the wrong thing? Should Trump be allowed back on social media so we can actually see the crazy things he’s saying? Or is this just a sign of broken politics. Jackie Calmes, columnist at the Los Angeles Times and Olivier Knox, Washington Post reporter and author of the Daily 202 newsletter, join Chuck to talk about the balance between urgency and emergency.

NBC News Senior Capitol Hill Correspondent Garrett Haake joins Chuck after Meet the Press wraps to discuss news that climate change provisions are likely getting dropped from the Democrats’ spending plan. Plus, how serious is Matthew McConaughey about running for Texas governor?

Kristen Du Mez, historian and author of "Jesus & John Wayne" talks to Chuck about the evolution of American evangelicism. 

Chuck talks with OnMessage Co-Founder Brad Todd and President of Brilliant Corners Research and Strategies Cornell Belcher about competing messages heading into 2022.

The new space race doesn’t just pit nation-states against one another, it’s also a fight between private companies looking to cash in. Chuck talks with Michio Kaku, theoretical physicist and professor at the City University of New York and the author of “The God Equation: The Quest for a Theory of Everything.” 

Chuck talks with Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) and former White House Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham about the former president's final weeks in office. He also sits down with Nick Clegg, Facebook’s VP of Global Affairs, on the reform needed on the platform.

Steven Dennis, Congressional reporter at Bloomberg and Siobhan Hughes, Capitol Hill reporter for the Wall Street Journal, talk about the debate over the debt limit.