Hello there, I'm Chuck Todd.

I just stepped off the meat depressed set where I interviewed Massachusetts Senator

Elizabeth Warren and sat the code to Senator Mike Browns, both her members of the armed

services and banking committees in the Senate, which made them the ideal guess for all the

ground we wanted to cover in our broadcasts, the meeting between Putin and Xi, the state

of our economy, following the meltdown of several mid-size banks in the Justice Department

investigating whether TikTok's parent company is indeed spying on journalists, as TikTok's

CEO prepares to testify for Congress.

I'm sitting here now with Peter Baker, Chief White House correspondent for the New York

Times.

And we could be talking about these issues, but you've got a fun scoop this morning, a history

scoop, if you will, sort of a rewriting of history, a new article that reveals one person's

version of events on what may have happened with the hostages in 1980 where the Reagan

campaign may have essentially worked behind the scenes with foreign governments in the

Middle East to delay the release of the hostages, therefore benefiting Ronald Reagan's campaign

against Jimmy Carter.

Peter Baker is here and Peter.

That is a conspiracy theory that many Democrats, many Carter people have harbored for decades,

and here's Ben Barnes.

I mean, you know, it's funny.

The role John Connelly's played in quite a few historical events, some of them accidental,

foreign scumlike.

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