Trump grand jury: Huge … but significant? Plus, John Glenn’s legacy

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🗓️ 26 May 2021

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Jacqueline Alemany, author of the Washington Post’s PowerUp newsletter and Edward-Isaac Dovere, staff writer at the Atlantic and author of the new book, “Battle for the Soul” join the ToddCast. Jeff Shesol, author of “Mercury Rising” discusses one presidential campaign that never got off the launchpad.

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0:00.0	Hello there, I'm Chuck Todd and this is the Chuck Todd cast.
0:09.4	President Trump is, once again, facing some negative headlines as the Manhattan District
0:13.3	Attorney convenes a grand jury to look into Trump in the Trump order organization.
0:16.9	It's a kind of news that is both impactful and insignificant.
0:21.7	It's huge that a former president in possible 2024 frontrunner might be indicted, but somehow
0:26.6	it also feels weirdly insignificant because Trump has been under investigation in one
0:29.8	way or another ever since first entering office in 2017.
0:32.6	There's a, could be a numbness to it if you will.
0:35.0	Plus, we are officially in the sausage making part of legislative legislation season as
0:40.0	infrastructure police reform, spending negotiations, all make their way through the process of proposals,
0:45.3	counter proposals and capital oil.
0:46.7	So joining me today to unpack these stories, Jacqueline Alamani, author of Washington Post's
0:51.4	Early Morning Newsletter and one of my favorite reads, Power Up.
0:53.9	And Edward Isaac Dover, he's a staff writer at the Atlantic and author of the new book, which
0:58.4	has also been making a little bit of news, Battle for the Soul, Inside the Democrats,
1:02.2	Campaign to Defeat Trump.
1:03.7	And later in the show, I'm going to talk with author Jeff Sheshell.
1:06.7	He's written some great books about the Supreme Court, LBJ and RFK.
1:09.9	We've got a new book coming out on one of my favorite topics.
1:13.2	It's called Mercury Rising, John Glenn, John Kennedy in the new Battleground of the Cold
1:17.2	War.
1:18.2	Amen.
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