Chuck Todd: 6/9/15

The Moment with Brian Koppelman

Brian Koppelman & Gemini XIII

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🗓️ 9 June 2015

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Chuck Todd, NBC News political director and moderator of Meet the Press, talks about the political landscape and his role in it. Brian and Chuck also discuss the line between journalism and show business, the value of long-form interviews, and Chuck's waning enthusiasm for the political game. Plus, Chuck dives into his vision for Meet the Press, the burden of hosting the longest running television show in history, and the real story behind Advise and Consent. Topics this week: NBC's Meet the Press The Stranger: Barack Obama in the White House by Chuck Todd The Julliard School Profiles In Courage by John F. Kennedy Up, Simba! an essay by David Foster Wallace Bulworth Network Advise and Consent Preston Brooks and Charles Sumner Fight Cowboys Are My Weakness by Pam Houston People this week: Former Senator Rick Santorum Governor John Kasich Senator Rand Paul Former Vice President Dick Cheney Senator Bernie Sanders Former Governor Jeb Bush Former Senator and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton President Barack Obama Former Senator Lester Hunt Former Congresswoman Michele Bachmann Former President Bill Clinton Senator John McCain Ross Perot Mayor Bill de Blasio Bill Thompson Twitter: @briankoppelman Rate us on iTunes: itunes.com/themoment To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, this is the moment I'm Brian Cobbleman. Thanks for listening. I'm so
0:10.0	thrilled to be sitting here with my guest today Chuck Todd who is not only the
0:15.9	moderator host to meet the press but NBC News is political director and a
0:20.4	best-selling author of The Stranger,
0:22.9	Barack Obama in the White House.
0:25.0	And Chuck, thanks for doing this.
0:26.7	I think, thanks for having me.
0:28.6	Well, I've been a little, you know, like,
0:31.2	I listen to all your other ones are like, like boy which one of these is not like the
0:33.8	others and it feels like me what the wrong with that I mean no but but I think your story is
0:40.3	right down the middle of what I'm interested in because as you know I'm really curious about
0:46.4	people's journeys and how they figure out what their destiny is and especially people who from an early age
0:51.6	had some notion of the world they wanted to live in.
0:55.0	Which you did, right?
0:56.0	Sort of.
0:57.0	I say sort of.
0:58.0	It was interesting, you know, just walking around,
1:01.0	I'm spending one more time in New York City this week and I walked by Juilliard and I was a music major for a time in college and it is what paid for college.
1:11.0	We got a scholarship to go to school without a French horn scholarship.
1:14.1	And I remember having that, not to borrow a phrase here, that moment at some point I was
1:19.9	junior, sophomore junior in high school when I I thought, do I want to go to
1:23.2	Joyard? You know, I thought I was good enough to try. And then I ran into somebody
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