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The Chuck ToddCast: Meet the Press

A 'Selma moment' on policing? Plus, school satisfaction high despite pandemic woes

The Chuck ToddCast: Meet the Press

Chuck Todd

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🗓️ 25 April 2021

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Chuck Todd talks about the top moments from Sunday's "Meet the Press" including a discussion about police reform. Carrie Dann reports on the latest polling from parents with school-age children.

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0:00.0

Hello, there I'm Chuck Todd.

0:04.4

We just wrapped up this morning's Meet the Press.

0:06.4

I'm still on set here as we talk.

0:08.0

In fact, on today's broadcast, we started with a roundtable on police reform from with

0:12.4

Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar, the Baltimore Police Commissioner Michael Harrison, and

0:16.4

Keith Mays, he's the associate professor at the University of Minnesota, focusing on

0:19.4

African American studies and African studies.

0:22.4

And I also had an exclusive interview with Dr. Francis Collins, he's the director of the

0:25.0

National Institutes of Health, Minnesota Terrific Roundtable, Malcolm Gladwell, Peggy Nune,

0:30.8

Jean Robinson, and my colleague Morgan Radford.

0:34.0

Look, I think the best way to start off sort of understanding the show this week was the

0:40.0

question of whether is this a Soma moment.

0:42.6

Jim Clyburn, in a piece that we kicked off the show with, we reached out to him and some

0:47.4

other prominent African Americans asking them about their feelings in the moment after

0:53.0

the show and verdict, and he introduced the idea that maybe this could be a Soma moment

0:58.0

to think about, and then it sort of reversed the question.

1:03.2

What is Soma today without the Voting Rights Civil Rights Act passing in 1964?

1:08.0

And that's the question.

1:09.0

This is going to lead to the passage of police reform.

1:11.4

And I think that's what was hanging in there.

1:13.5

Is this a Soma moment or not?

1:14.8

And Keith Mays, who's a professor at the University of Minnesota, has seen multiple men

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