Well, happy Friday. That's right. I've snuck in a special edition of the Chuck Todd

cast, both, of course, in the audio and visual space. My guess for this, it's a special

on the, look, we just passed the 50th anniversary of the fall of Saigon, essentially the end of the Vietnam War.

And look, Vietnam has sort of defined our, for half the country or anybody over the age of 50,

Vietnam has been a definer of our politics.

I mean, I can just tell you about my own family.

My father will tell you he's no longer

with us, but he would say to me, the reason he became a Republican is he blamed LBJ for Vietnam and the

death of his best friend. His best friend died in a training accident after being drafted to go into

Vietnam. I'll, you know, I'll never forget when I was going through my dad's things.

He had a whole file folder on every time he had to deal with potentially going to Vietnam,

and he didn't have to go, and he didn't want to go.

He had a medical deferment at first.

He had flat feet, And then when that didn't

work, he got lucky with his lottery number. But what was interesting is how he had saved all of

that. And he had all this information. And I'll tell you why it had a huge impact on me,

any time any of these guys that have run for office over the last 20 years, 30 years,

who claimed they couldn't

remember how they got out of Vietnam or couldn't remember this or couldn't remember that.

All I would remember is my dad's file folder.

And I'm like, if you were that concerned about getting out of Vietnam, you knew every gosh darn

detail of how you got out or what it was going to take. And so I will tell you, I have,

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