It is Wednesday, May 8th, good afternoon from Washington.

I'm Chuck Todd.

And this is the Chuck Todd cast.

Did I have a special treat for you?

I sat down on Monday night at the historic sixth and I synagogue here in DC with the legendary

two-time Pulitzer winning Robert Carroll to discuss his deeply revealing experiences writing

about political figures like Robert Moses and LBJ.

And I'll be sharing part of that interview with you later in this pod.

By the way, you might know him from the first book on Robert Moses and of course all of

the books on LBJ and we're all anticipating book five, which is all about LBJ and Vietnam.

But by the way, I promise you, when you hear Carro tell the story of Johnson's 48 election

crime, you will be riveted.

But first, some reality checks, Trump's tax returns show over a billion dollar in business

losses.

Are we shocked to know that?

And Joe Biden might be stronger than we thought he was.

How did that happen?

My pals for the podcast today are Politico's White House reporter, Aliana Johnson and Bloomberg's

National Political Reporter, Sahil Kapoor.

Sahil and Aliana, hello.

Hey, Chuck.

All right.

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