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The Chuck ToddCast
The Chuck ToddCast is back! If you're looking for smart, no-nonsense political conversation, you've come to the right place. The Chuck ToddCast goes beyond the headlines, featuring conversations with top reporters, insiders, and newsmakers from D.C. to the heartland. No scripts, no spin—just real di...
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Interview Only w/ Neera Tanden - The Democratic Party's Credibility Problem — And How to Fix It
Neera Tanden — president and CEO of the Center for American Progress and a longtime Democratic policy hand — joins the Chuck Toddcast for an unusually...
Full Episode - Trump Is The Biggest Wildcard Of The 2026 Midterms + The Democratic Party's Credibility Problem — And How to Fix It
With almost 100 days until the midterms, Chuck Todd delivers a data-driven check-in on a midterm race that's barely moved in months — except in one cr...
Chuck’s Commentary - Trump Is The Biggest Wildcard Of The 2026 Midterms + RFK Jr. Is Making Measles Great Again
With almost 100 days until the midterms, Chuck Todd delivers a data-driven check-in on a midterm race that's barely moved in months — except in one cr...
Super Tuesdays - Why The 2026 Fundamentals Spell Disaster For Trump's GOP
With just 105 days until the 2026 midterms, Chuck Todd and Chris Cillizza use their last Super Tuesday before the sub-100-day mark to take stock of wh...
Interview Only w/ Daniel Silva - A Spy Novelist's Threat Assessment of the Real World
Bestselling novelist Daniel Silva — creator of the Gabriel Allon series — joins the Chuck Toddcast for a conversation that starts with the craft of sp...
Full Episode - Trump’s Destruction Of America’s Military Culture + A Spy Novelist's Threat Assessment of the Real World
Chuck Todd opens with a story that seems small and turns out to be a perfect miniature of everything wrong with this Pentagon: a Blue Angels flyover a...
Chuck’s Commentary - Trump’s Destruction Of America’s Military Culture + Why Chuck Isn’t Worried About Trump’s Election Denialism
Chuck Todd opens with a story that seems small and turns out to be a perfect miniature of everything wrong with this Pentagon: a Blue Angels flyover a...
Interview Only w/ John Opdycke - Why Closed Partisan Primaries Are Terrible For Democrac
John Opdycke — founder and president of Open Primaries, one of the leading organizations pushing to end closed partisan primaries — joins the Chuck To...
Full Episode - Trump Doubles Down On Election Conspiracies + Why Closed Partisan Primaries Are Terrible For Democracy
Chuck Todd opens with the news that Trump is planning a primetime address to push election denialism, and uses it as a lens to examine how thoroughly...
Chuck’s Commentary - Trump Doubles Down On Election Conspiracies + ICE Prepared Itself For War… And We’re Seeing The Consequences
Chuck Todd opens with the news that Trump is planning a primetime address to push election denialism, and uses it as a lens to examine how thoroughly...
Super Tuesdays - The Death of Lindsey Graham and the Senate's Vanishing Center
Chris Cillizza and Chuck Todd open on a jolting weekend in politics: the sudden death of Lindsey Graham and the frantic — and faintly unseemly — scram...
Interview Only w/ John Morgan - Can The Law Succeed Where Politics Fails?
John Morgan — founder of Morgan & Morgan, one of the largest personal injury firms in the country & author of "Life is Luck: Lessons From a Paperboy a...
Full Episode - How Lindsey Graham Should Be Remembered + Can The Law Succeed Where Politics Fails?
Chuck Todd devotes much of this episode to a rich, personal reflection on the death of Senator Lindsey Graham at 71 — a figure who can only be underst...
Chuck’s Commentary - How Lindsey Graham Should Be Remembered + When Moderates Fail…The Radicals Ascend
Chuck Todd devotes much of this episode to a rich, personal reflection on the death of Senator Lindsey Graham at 71 — a figure who can only be underst...
BREAKING: Senator Lindsey Graham Dead At 71
Chuck Todd reflects on the death of Senator Lindsey Graham at 71, offering a candid assessment of one of the most complex and consequential figures in...
Interview Only w/ Tad Devine - Did The Democrats Screw Bernie Sanders?
Legendary Democratic strategist Tad Devine — a senior adviser to Bernie Sanders' 2016 campaign and a veteran of multiple presidential campaigns — join...
Full Episode - Promise Broken… The War In Iran Is Back On + Did The Democrats Screw Bernie Sanders?
Chuck Todd opens with the Iran war back on and the rug pulled out from under the world economy once again — but his central argument is that this is n...
Chuck’s Commentary - Promise Broken… The War In Iran Is Back On + The Democrats’ Platner Debacle
Chuck Todd opens with the Iran war back on and the rug pulled out from under the world economy once again — but his central argument is that this is n...
Dynastic - The INCREDIBLE history behind Wimbledon
Chuck Todd and J.A. Adande tell you the INCREDIBLE story behind Wimbledon. It didn't just become the most prestigious tournament in tennis—it helped c...
Super Tuesdays - Trump’s Admission Of Corruption + Will Trump Break NATO? + Platner Mired In Scandal
Chris Cillizza and Chuck Todd launch Super Tuesdays — the now-on-every-feed version of the show they've been doing together — with a wide-ranging conv...
Interview Only w/ Carolyn Ryan - The New York Times & The Fight For Independent Journalism
Carolyn Ryan — deputy managing editor of The New York Times — joins the Chuck Toddcast for a candid conversation about the state of American journalis...
Full Episode - Trump’s Corrupt Act Is Finally Wearing Itself Out + The New York Times & The Fight For Journalism In The Trump Era
Chuck Todd delivers a sweeping, big-picture meditation on the Trump era and where it's ultimately headed, arguing that despite the widespread convicti...
Chuck’s Commentary - Trump’s Corrupt Act Is Finally Wearing Itself Out + Trump Doesn’t “Own The Libs”... He Grifts His Base
Chuck Todd delivers a sweeping, big-picture meditation on the Trump era and where it's ultimately headed, arguing that despite the widespread convicti...
Interview Only w/ Debbie Cox Bultan - Effective Governance Is The Winning Path for Democrats
Debbie Cox Bultan — CEO of the NewDEAL, a network of center-left state and local elected officials focused on delivering results rather than fighting...
Full Episode - Donald Trump Ruined America 250 By Making It About Donald Trump + Effective Governance Is The Winning Path for Democrats
Chuck Todd delivers a genuinely heartfelt lament that America's 250th anniversary — a moment that should have been enormous — has been shrunk, cheapen...
Chuck’s Commentary - Donald Trump Ruined America 250 By Making It About Donald Trump + SCOTUS Proved It’s Not A “Trump Court”
Chuck Todd delivers a genuinely heartfelt lament that America's 250th anniversary — a moment that should have been enormous — has been shrunk, cheapen...
Interview Only w/ Alvaro Bedoya - The Fired FTC Commissioner Sounding the Alarm on Corporate Power
Alvaro Bedoya — the former FTC Commissioner whom Trump fired in an unprecedented break with a century of agency-independence norms — joins the Chuck T...
Full Episode - The Military Reveals Trump Has Been Lying About The Iran War + The Fired FTC Commissioner Sounding the Alarm on Corporate Power
Chuck Todd opens with the Iran ceasefire collapsing as the U.S. and Iran trade strikes again — but the real story, he argues, is that the U.S. militar...
Chuck’s Commentary - The Military Reveals Trump Has Been Lying About The Iran War + Why “Tax The Billionaires” Isn’t That Simple
Chuck Todd opens with the Iran ceasefire collapsing as the U.S. and Iran trade strikes again — but the real story, he argues, is that the U.S. militar...
Interview Only w/ Matt Bennett - Will The Progressives Or The Center-Left Define The Democrats?
Matt Bennett — co-founder and executive vice president of the center-left think tank Third Way — joins the Chuck Toddcast to offer a pragmatist's anxi...
Full Episode - Hegseth’s Purges At The Pentagon Are A Five-Alarm Fire + Will The Progressives Or The Center-Left Define The Democrats?
Chuck Todd opens with a programming note—the ToddCast moves to a Monday/Thursday schedule for July and August—before digging into the fallout from Zoh...
Chuck’s Commentary - Hegseth’s Purges At The Pentagon Are A Five-Alarm Fire + Trump Is Making Governing Impossible For Republicans
Chuck Todd opens with a programming note—the ToddCast moves to a Monday/Thursday schedule for July and August—before digging into the fallout from Zoh...
Interview Only w/ Mayor David Holt - Defending Pluralism At A Time Of Polarization
Oklahoma City Mayor David Holt — the popular Republican who has won all three of his mayoral elections with at least 60% of the vote — joins the Chuck...
Full Episode - Mamdani Wins The New York Primaries + Defending Pluralism At A Time Of Polarization
Chuck Todd breaks down a seismic primary night in New York, where Mamdani-backed Democratic Socialist candidates swept their races — and argues the DS...
Chuck’s Commentary - Mamdani Wins The New York Primaries + RIP Alan Greenspan
Chuck Todd breaks down a seismic primary night in New York, where Mamdani-backed Democratic Socialist candidates swept their races — and argues the DS...
Interview Only w/ Paul Taylor - Did The Boomers Really Ruin Everything?
Paul Taylor — former executive vice president of the Pew Research Center and author of This Is Getting Old — joins the Chuck Toddcast for a sweeping,...
Full Episode - Trump Is The Worst Role Model President Ever + Did The Boomers Really Ruin Everything?
Chuck Todd focuses this episode around a single, almost too-perfect metaphor: the reflecting pool Trump remade, where the paint is now visibly peeling...
Chuck’s Commentary - Trump Is The Worst Role Model President Ever + The Sharp Contrast Between Trump & Obama
Chuck Todd focuses this episode around a single, almost too-perfect metaphor: the reflecting pool Trump remade, where the paint is now visibly peeling...
Chuck's Commentary - The Real Cost of Trump's Iran Gamble
Chuck takes a wide-ranging look at what he sees as the long-term impact of the Trump administration's foreign policy. He argues that the United States...
Full Episode - The Real Cost of Trump's Iran Gamble + Ian Bremmer on How the Iran War Reshaped Global Power
Chuck opens the podcast with a wide-ranging look at what he sees as the long-term impact of the Trump administration's foreign policy. He argues that...