Hello from Nashville. I'm Chuck Todd, and this is the Chuck Toddcast. It is Tuesday, November 12th, and news from the Trump transition operation is coming in pretty quickly, not really in any sort of order. It's just coming as he's ready to announce it. Marco Rubio for Secretary of State.

Christy Noem for Secretary of Homeland Security.

Mike Huckabee, somebody who is not a practicing Jew to be picked as ambassador to Israel.

An interesting decision there.

But before we get too far ahead of ourselves, I wanted to take a step back.

And hear from

my longtime colleague, Garrett Haig. It's one of our senior correspondents on what was the Trump

campaign. Of course, he's one of our senior reporters on Capitol Hill. And more importantly,

you know, when he first started here in NBC, he was covering the other Republican Party,

the one run by Mitt Romney. So he's actually, he's, he is, he was covering the other Republican Party, the one run by Mitt Romney.

So he's actually, he is, he has seen the change of the party as well.

And he's been on the front lines of that.

So I really think Garrett's going to be able to offer a unique, a unique take versus what you've seen in other places.

Before we get started, remember to stick around for an audience question.

We're going to start collecting suggestions for this year's what-if series.

My goodness, this campaign itself had a number of what-ifs, right?

My favorite being, what if Trump had said no to an early debate?

So if you have an alternative historical question you'd like to see us tackle, please submit it to The Chuck Toddcast at gmail.com. I even threw another one in my final opus of the campaign year. I encourage you to take a look at at NBCNews.com. What if Barack Obama had dumped Biden for John Tester in 2012.

So many different ways the party could have gone.

But forget that.

We're going to focus on how to follow the Trump transition and what was it like in the last 10 days of the Trump campaign?

Garrett Hake, welcome back to the podcast.

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