Welcome to Pot Save America. I'm Dan Pfeiffer.

Politics and media are inextricably entwined. The politicians who succeed are usually the ones

who best understand how the media is changing. If you want to understand what's happening in

politics and where it's going, you must understand the media environment. That's why I'm talking

to veteran journalist Chuck Tob, the former host of Meet the Press, for our Sunday show this week. Chuck left NBC earlier this year to explore the greener

pastures of independent journalism to pursue a new model for saving local news and to host his

podcast, the Chuck Toddcast. So he's got a foot in both camps, old media and new media.

Chuck is also one of the political press's biggest defenders and detractors,

when appropriate. Chuck is a giant political junkie who knows everything that's happening in every race at every level. Today we're going to discuss the changing media environment,

how the press is covering Trump, and whether Democrats have figured out how to communicate

in this new era. Chuck Todd, welcome to the show. Dan Fiver, it's good to see. I think I was one of your guests in the first month of your launch, if I'm not mistaken.

Yes, you were.

You were.

It was a very highly listened to and quite controversial episode, if I remember correctly.

I don't know.

Every episode you guys do is controversial to somebody.

You know, the beauty of social media is if you want to be controversial,

somebody will help you be controversial. Yes, that is true. That is true. That is what

Twitter slash X has done for us. Um, at you were the host of Meet the Press. I'm going to do

what Chuck Todd would do is I'm going to start with the news of the week here.

Ah, very nice. Donald Trump's 1001st day in office. We are coming to the close of a series of media

retrospectives looking at his 100th day. There are 100 days in the White House. There are two themes

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