Hello there, I'm Chuck Todd and this is the Chuck Todd cast.

I'm joined today by Mark Murray, senior editor at the NBC News Political Unit, Richard

Bowman, deputy editor for the Political Unit, Richard Mark Corsert.

Among my partners in crime for first-read, all things I'm going to do also with the NBC

News, whole and what we do there.

We're recording today's episode on Wednesday, January 25th.

Later today, early tomorrow morning, we're going to get our first look at our upcoming

new NBC News poll, which will be debuting on Sundays, Meet the Press.

But we want to get together.

We've done this one other time before to let you know what our thinking was going into

the poll and then we're re-accoming out of it.

So this is part one.

We will have a part two next week when we have the results and we'll delve into them there.

We always think it's fun to preview, sort of let you know our thinking about what we

did ask and what we didn't ask.

So Mark and Bridget welcome back to the Todd cast.

Thank you.

Chuck, it's awesome to be here.

So let me, you know, we basically, as I sort of said to our pollsters, this has to be our

first Republicans are in charge of the House poll.

And what does that mean, right?

And everything is through that prism.

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