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The Chuck ToddCast

Chuck’s Commentary - No Incentive For Congress To End Shutdown + Trump Wants A Violent Confrontation With Protestors

The Chuck ToddCast

iHeartPodcasts

Government, News

4.02.8K Ratings

🗓️ 6 October 2025

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

Chuck Todd highlights the perverse political incentives looming over the government shutdown, Trump’s efforts to create a violent confrontation with protestors and his controversial strikes on alleged Venezuelan drug boats. Then, he takes the ToddCast Time Machine back to 1991 and the long lasting impacts of Anita Hill’s testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello there, happy Monday and welcome to another episode of the Chuck Toddcast.

0:09.1

As I have warned you, my moods are defined many Sundays and Mondays by how the Miami Hurricanes are doing.

0:18.4

So you can only imagine what my personal mood is in. I will get to

0:22.0

my football weekend. The only quick thing I'll say up top is my third straight weekend traveling for

0:27.8

football and let's just say I hit my first travel glitch. I was on a nice run there where nothing

0:33.5

happened. I was a little nervous that this would be glitchy. The government shut down because we have these poor TSA agents are working without

0:41.6

knowing if they're going to get a paycheck on time and air traffic controllers.

0:45.4

So the idea of sickouts,

0:47.5

longer lines,

0:48.1

all of that was true.

0:49.5

Then you hit the old mechanical issue.

0:51.9

I'm in a small airport.

0:53.5

So,

0:53.8

you know,

0:56.5

there's not many alternatives when you run into those things. But yeah, I was, I was pushing the travel karma luck with my three straight weekends there.

1:03.4

So perhaps, perhaps I should be lucky that it wasn't too bad and survivable.

1:09.4

Before I get, and I will share some football.

1:11.2

And of course, today's Monday.

1:12.7

I got my podcast time machine.

1:15.4

We're going to go back to October 1991, probably the single most televised Senate hearing

1:24.4

in my lifetime, I might argue.

1:30.3

It's an interesting debate we can have on that,

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