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Former “Meet the Press” moderator Chuck Todd is leaving NBC News after nearly 18 years at the network.Todd said in a memo to NBC News colleagues that Friday was his last day. He’ll continue doing his podcast and said he’s considering new projects, but offered no details.He joined NBC News as political director in 2007 and was “Meet the Press” moderator from 2014 to 2023, before giving way to Kristen Welker. The role made him one of the more visible journalists in Washington and, as such, an occasional target of President Donald Trump and his supporters.Todd was a leader in...

Full 1-hour 16-minute "Meet the Press" interview. President Donald Trump sits down with activist Kristen Welker for an exclusive and wide-ranging interview.

President Trump joined far-left NBC reporter Kristen Welker for his first post-election appearance on Meet the Press on Sunday morning and shut her down on election integrity issues, telling her the election was too big to rig. President Trump had a historic victory on November 5, 2024, winning every swing state, 312 electoral votes, and the national popular vote. Additionally, Republicans won control of the House and the Senate. There wasn’t enough fraud and propaganda in the world to make Americans believe Kamala Harris could have won. As expected, she was rude, demanding, and accusatory as she interrogated the President...

President-elect Donald Trump will sit down with NBC's Sunday show Meet the Press in his first network interview since winning the presidential election. The interview will be pretaped on Friday and will air on Sunday, Dec. 8.The NBC interview will be conducted by Kristen Welker.JUST ANNOUNCED: President-elect Donald Trump will sit down with @MeetThePress for his first network interview since winning the election. The exclusive interview airs this Sunday.https://t.co/yZBMWfRKBp pic.twitter.com/hyahNHnzRZ— NBC News PR (@NBCNewsPR) December 4, 2024Welker had last interviewed the incoming president in September 2023 and was a presidential debate moderator in the October 2020 debate between Trump and...

Sen. Graham says Israel-Hamas war ‘will not be over’ if hostages are released: Full interviewKRISTEN WELKER: Joining me now is Republican Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina. Senator Graham, welcome back to Meet the Press – SEN. LINDSEY GRAHAM: Thank you. Thank you very much. KRISTEN WELKER: Thanks for being here. We are – SEN. LINDSEY GRAHAM: Yes, ma'am. KRISTEN WELKER: – going to get to Ukraine. I want to start – SEN. LINDSEY GRAHAM: Good. KRISTEN WELKER: – with Israel. I want to get your response to how President Biden reacted to MSNBC's Jonathan Capehart about that hot mic...

Representative Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) said Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press” that the United States was losing moral credibility for not calling out Israel’s military moves in response to the Hamas terror attack. Kristen Welker said, “As The New York Times points out today, Hamas is actually sitting on a lot of that fuel, food and aid that you reference. Their headquarters is underneath that hospital there. So, ultimately, they are the ones who are depriving the civilians of Gaza of all of those necessary aid items that you referenced. If there were to be a cease-fire, what’s the guarantee...

Chuck Todd is unraveling before the eyes of the nation. The Meet the Press host on Friday reacted to the overturning of Roe v. Wade by comparing it to the ongoing “shattering” of democracy in America and ominously warned conservative politicians about the “tinder box” they have created. He also lashed out at Neil Gorsuch and Amy Coney Barrett, calling their appointments “unfair” and “out of bounds.” Getting emotional, he lamented, “Just take a step back and think about the consequential actions of this week. The two Supreme Court rulings that undid — one law 110 years old. This one...

Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan (R) on Sunday slammed New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio for saying not enough is being done to combat the Wuhan coronavirus. "I understand people out there are concerned about when is it going to look better. Just know that people all over the place are working as hard as they possibly can to fight this hidden enemy," Hogan explained. "And it's going to take all of us, not only local governments, the cities, like the mayor, the state governments, all the governors, the federal government." According to Hogan, the Wuhan coronavirus impacts each and...

RUSH: I have been dreading this today like I dread every such day, but I’m looking at media and I get the impression that there are some that are actually looking forward to this or having — I don’t want to say fun with it, but I get the impression that there are a lot of people really energized by this, and that, of course, is because they think it’s going to help them mobilize their political agenda. And I’m just sick of it. I have to tell you, I’m just sick of it. I’m sick every time one of...

It might be safe to say that NBC political director Chuck Todd was invested in or, at least, very eager to have Democrats start actively chasing down President Trump via impeachment. After seemly trying to goad Congressional Democrats into starting an impeachment case earlier on Sunday, Todd grilled Congressman Jerry Nadler (D-NY) during Meet the Press on why he and party leadership had not done more to get rid of Trump. Before getting to the House Judiciary Committee Chairman, Todd gave viewers a crash course in what the Special Counsel investigation found. And in true Chuck Todd-fashion, he put his...

Tom Brokaw has come under fire for comments he made about Hispanics during a “Meet the Press” appearance on Sunday. The legendary NBC News anchor — who was accused of sexual harassment last year by three different women — had been on the panel discussing immigration and what could help bring Americans together on the subject. “A lot of this we don’t want to talk about but the fact is on the Republican side, a lot of people see the rise of an extraordinary important new constituency in American politics — Hispanics, who will come here and all be Democrats,”...

On Sunday’s Meet the Press, host Chuck Todd eagerly touted the latest Gallup poll showing 51% of Democrats and 26% of Americans overall identifying themselves as “liberal.” He excitedly told viewers that “Democrats are embracing the label” and that it was “no longer a dirty word” in politics. “Not long ago, Republicans loved calling Democrats liberal. They didn’t mean it as a compliment. And for a while, it was effective. Today, Democrats are embracing the label,” Todd proclaimed as he teased the upcoming segment. Minutes later, during the show’s Data Download segment, the NBC moderator hyped the new Gallup survey...

President Trump was correct when he recently said that he has been preparing for the North Korea summit his entire life. In fact, there is video evidence to prove it. On Friday the President said – President Donald Trump expressed confidence Friday that he is fully prepared for his planned summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, but with only days to go until the historic event, Democrats and experts still have reservations about his negotiating strategy. “I always believe in preparation, but I’ve been preparing all my life,”

When it was first announced last Thursday that President Trump was to personally meet with North Korea Dictator Kim Jong-un for negotiations, the media’s response varied from optimistic to seething anger. But with some time, it appears as though their consensus is now to denounce the idea as was blatantly obvious on Sunday’s Meet the Press. The entire panel up in arms and fretting that Trump was either going to hand North Korea a victory or blow a gasket at the meeting and start a war. Moderator Chuck Todd, still bitter because Trump called him a “sleeping son of a...

Today on NBC's Meet the Press, White House Legislative Director, Marc Short, defended the process used to vet and hire staffers within the administration The White House’s clearing process has fallen under scrutiny since Rob Porter, a former top aide to President Trump, resigned after graphic details of alleged domestic abuse surfaced earlier this week. Meet the Press' host, Chuck Todd, asked Short what missteps were taken by the White House in hiring Rob Porter. Short responded, saying that many in the White House considered Porter to be a friend and an outstanding worker. But, Short emphasized that there is...

On day one of the 2018 government shutdown, Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) came out and claimed that he offered President Trump funding for his border wall in exchange for protection for so-called Dreamers via the Differed Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) and he turned it down. Since then, the liberal media have been running around claiming that Trump was the reason an agreement couldn’t be reached. But during Sunday’s Meet the Press, Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR) chastised the media for buying the claim “hook, line, and sinker.” The dust-up with NBC host Chuck Todd began after Cotton was explaining that...

GOP strategist Mike Murphy appeared on Meet The Press today to discuss the current state of Donald Trump's presidency and the issue of trust. The self-described "infuriated," "TV blabbermouth" slammed President Trump for fomenting "chaos." The panel breaks down whether distrust is becoming the norm in the Trump era - "We are living through the first screwball presidency in American history," @murphymike says on #MTP“We’re living through the first screwball presidency in American history, where there’s careening from one side to another, you don’t really know who is in charge, the internal politics are crazy," said Murphy. "The Republicans I’ve...

This network, I tell you. Yes, they have their moments of clarity; even a blond squirrel finds a nut. But to say that NBC News or MSNBC don’t have a political point of view is just ridiculous. We all know it. Well, anyone who isn’t a snowflake progressive knows this. Mick Mulvaney, the director of the Office of Budget and Management, surely knows this, with him calling out some of the questions during Sunday’s Meet the Press broadcast, where he plainly hinted at NBC’s slant on the issue. It was something that guest host Andrea Mitchell was not keen about,...

RUSH: F. Chuck Todd is the host of the NBC show Meet the Depressed. It airs on Sunday morning. There’s a daily version of Meet the Press. Now, I have shared with you in the past that I have now the firm belief that many journalists who say that they’re in the news business or in the media are… I’m trying to find a soft word. I’m not trying to be insulting. I’m trying to be descriptive. I think they’re really uneducated. I think they don’t know half what they think they know, and this lack of knowledge is accompanied...

Wednesday on MSNBC’s “MTP Daily,” host Chuck Todd defended CNN after they retracted a report on Russia and three staffers resigned. Todd said the White House’s “war on the media” is a “war on the truth.” Partial transcript as follows: TODD Welcome back. Tonight—well, not just tonight—but I’m obsessed with the White House’s war on the press and on media. Let’s be clear about this, that war is nothing less than a war on the truth. Do we get it right all the time? Nope, we don’t. And when we don’t, we run a correction, and in some cases, people...