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

So as many of you know, I'm a political history junkie and I really am somebody who's gone down every

rabbit hole of every assassination, both successful and unsuccessful when it comes to our

presidents.

So I'm always fascinated when there are new depictions

of events that we think we know a lot about.

And there's a great new ministries right now

that takes us back to the 1865 assassination

of Abraham Lincoln and the 12-day chase and hunt for

John Wilkes Booth. The show is appropriately called Man Hunt. Of course

it's based on a book that was called Man Hunt and it's told it's told from the point of view of Edwin Stanton,

who was Lincoln's close friend and at the time the Secretary of War. The series finale dropped Friday,

April 19th, which is today.

So if you're listening to this podcast on its release date,

you can now watch all seven episodes on Apple TV Plus,

and most importantly, there might be spoilers in here,

but, you know, tough. you've had every opportunity to watch

the whole thing and joining me now is man Hunt's executive producer Lane Eskridge

Lane welcome to the Toddcast thank you It's so nice to be here.

So full disclosure, Lane.

I've been working on my own set of projects here

about doing what you did, essentially,

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