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The Chuck ToddCast: Meet the Press

How the DOJ was ‘ill-suited’ to hold Trump accountable, with David Rohde

The Chuck ToddCast: Meet the Press

Chuck Todd

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🗓️ 20 September 2024

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

David Rohde, NBC News senior executive editor for national security, joins Chuck to talk about the ways in which the Justice Department has been transformed by Donald Trump’s presidency — and how Merrick Garland dealt with the difficult task of investigating a former president running for re-election.

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0:00.0

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

0:08.8

Look, I want to time stamp this.

0:10.2

It is Thursday afternoon, September 19th, coming up.

0:13.7

I have a terrific interview with a colleague of mine, David Rowe, on sort of the wars over the Justice

0:21.6

Department, the FBI over the last during the Trump era.

0:24.8

It's a fascinating dive into this and our conversation about whether, you know, how,

0:30.0

can it be depoliticized?

0:31.5

How would you do it

0:32.9

uh... i think it's a conversation uh... you will enjoy

0:36.6

but i just wanted to do a quick

0:39.0

uh...

0:39.9

sort of overall give you an overall guide to to you're seeing a ton of polling that has come out, right?

0:46.0

And there's a reason the timing is what it is.

0:49.4

Look, I'm, you know, the NBC news is going to be coming out with a poll on in a couple of days if you're

0:53.7

listening to this on your Friday morning commute or jog or wherever you are on Friday.

1:00.0

But we'll have our own numbers coming out in a couple of days.

1:03.0

But we've seen a ton of numbers come out because everybody's gone into the field,

1:06.0

sort of waited a couple of days after the debate to see.

1:10.0

There is one unmistakable conclusion and that is the debate has had an impact.

1:16.6

She has gotten better in just about every survey and you can look at it you can

1:21.6

you can sit here and say well maybe it's point here, maybe it was a five points in that survey.

1:26.0

You know, as you know, I'm not a big fan of trying to merge all these poles together and come up with a fake number that gives you some sort of a model based on a lot of

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