Tallahassee heads to Washington: Marc Caputo goes inside the developing Trump administration

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🗓️ 8 January 2025

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Marc Caputo, senior politics reporter at Axios and one of the best reporters out there on the Trump beat joins Chuck to talk about reporting on President-elect Trump. Marc’s first story for Axios featured one of the hardest interviews to get in Trump’s orbit: an on the record discussion with Trump’s incoming chief of staff, Susie Wiles.

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0:00.0	Hello from Washington.
0:07.2	Happy New Year.
0:08.0	I'm Chuck Todd, and this is the Chuck Todd cast, the first one that we're taping in the new year.
0:13.8	I know you've been listening and hopefully have enjoyed the four-episode alternative history series.
0:19.9	By the way, it is to signpost this,
0:22.8	it is Tuesday, January 7th. Washington, D.C. just got eight inches of snow on January 6th.
0:29.7	Let's just say, I've thought about adding a fifth edition to my what-if series.
0:35.2	What if there had been eight inches of snow paralyzing the D.C. metro area on January 6th,
0:41.5	2021.
0:43.8	Just something to think about when you watch how quickly and how easily the town gets shut down,
0:49.6	how there's just, you know, who would have been on the ellipse?
0:54.3	Anyway, couldn't help myself and wanted to share that idea out there.
0:59.9	What if that the snowstorm D.C. got on January 6, 2025 had come on January 6, 2021.
1:11.6	But I thought that would be a good way to get things started.
1:13.8	But to actually get things started, I've got a terrific first guess because it's a guy who understands how the new Trump administration is going to work, how the new Trump White House might work.
1:24.9	It's Mark Caputo.
1:25.7	He's the senior politics reporter at Axios. He has been on
1:28.7	the Trump beat at various places, including for us here at NBC News for a time, been over at Politico.
1:35.1	And more importantly, I first met him when he was at the Miami Herald, where he was covering
1:39.8	all Florida politics, was about the last reporter still reporting out of Tallahassee.
1:45.7	Well, guess who was one of the most important players in Tallahassee for years?
1:52.4	A woman by the name is Susie Wiles.
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