Hello from Washington, I'm Chuck Todd, cast. So my guest today is Bruce Melman. He's a Washington

and this is the Chuck Todd cast. So my guest today is Bruce Melman. He's a Washington strategist.

He served in the George W Bush administration at one time,

Assistant Secretary in Commerce.

He publishes a terrific weekly feature called Six Chart Sunday,

which is just what it sounds like,

a sub-stack with six infographics on the state of what I would

call sort of political zeitgeist or sort of zeitgeist that is politically relevant.

It's not always directly about politics,

but it always has an application, I think,

to the political conversation.

Bruce is a terrific mind for this.

Remember, by the way, to stick around after our conversation for another

listener question and please remember to submit your questions to the Chuck Toddcast at

gmail.com, like my friends at the George Washington University and the school from the state of Ohio,

don't forget the the. But with that, we are, right now we're taping, I always want to time stamp these things. August 12th, basically one week before the start of the Democratic Convention.

And we're kind of potentially at a...

Is this the end of the new reset of this campaign and this is

why I think this is a good time for Bruce here because he is sort of where the zeitgeist of politics is and where it could be headed.

So Bruce, welcome, nice to see you again.

Thank you, Chuck, thanks for having me back.

No, you know, we don't always bring back

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