Chuck Todd Compares Newt Gingrich To The Terminator: ‘He Just Sort Of Keeps Showing Up’
Is this GOP race as good as over? That's what Friday morning's episode of Morning Joe sought to find out. Also... is Newt Gingrich a post-apocalyptic cyborg from the future?
Newt Gingrich Hilariously Tells Chuck Todd He’s No Victim Of Citizens United
In an interview with The Daily Rundown's Chuck Todd, besieged GOP presidential candidate Newt Gingrich was asked if the Citizens United Supreme Court decision had enabled the relentless barrage of attacks from Mitt Romney. Gingrich replied that he wasn't a victim of the case that allows unlimited donations to SuperPACs, but rather of "a...
Mitt Romney On Iraq War: In Hindsight ‘Obviously We Would Not Have Gone In’
In an interview with Fox News Sunday's Chris Wallace this past weekend, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney completely evaded a question about whether the invasion of Iraq was, in hindsight, a good idea. However, in an interview with The Daily Rundown's Chuck Todd, Romney was definitive, telling Todd "if we knew at the...
A web-first politics site for NBC News: Vivian Schiller on the launch of NBCPolitics.com
NBC News keeps its political reporting in lots of different places. There’s Chuck Todd on Twitter, in the evening with Brian Williams and the Nightly News Crew, online at MSNBC’s First Read, or your Sunday morning coffee date with David Gregory on Meet the Press. That diffusion is part of why today they’re launching NBCPolitics.com,......
Hillary Clinton ‘A Little Surprised’ About Chelsea’s New NBC News Gig
Hillary Clinton spoke with NBC senior political correspondent Chuck Todd about her daughter Chelsea Clinton becoming his new news colleague at the network. "What – what did you think when she said, 'I want to become a member of the fourth estate,' this side of the line here?" Todd asked. "Well, I was a...
MSNBC’s Chuck Todd Calls Upon Mainstream Media To ‘Just Stop Playing The Race Card’
Speaking on his program The Daily Rundown Tuesday morning, MSNBC host Chuck Todd issued a challenge to news broadcasters to stop playing the race card in their political coverage. "Can we just agree not to play the race card -- at all?" beseeched Todd.
NBC’s Chuck Todd: Rush Limbaugh And Sarah Palin Could Never Win GOP Nomination
NBC chief White House correspondent Chuck Todd sat down with Meet the Press' David Gregory to discuss, among other things, the possibility of either radio host Rush Limbaugh or former Alaska governor Sarah Palin winning the GOP nomination. Gregory kicked off the conversation by pointing to Palin's recent Newsweek cover story,...
Savannah Guthrie And Chuck Todd ‘Kicking It Like Kathie Lee And Hoda’ With On Set Toast
MSNBC's Rundown co-host Chuck Todd said farewell to his co-host Savannah Guthrie Friday, popping the cork for an on-set champagne toast as Guthrie prepares for her move to NBC's TODAY. In a tweet about the morning, Guthrie told followers she and Todd were "kickin it like KLG and Hoda," a reference to TODAY's...
Chuck Todd Explains White House Effort To Get Story Out Sunday Night: ‘It’s A B.F.D.’
NBC's Chuck Todd, on MSNBC's Morning Joe Monday, explained the coded messages that swirled from inside the White House late Sunday night and into the Blackberrys of key reporters. "I got a three-letter emphasis on getting down here from a White House official who said, 'I can't say. It's a B.F.D.'" No, Todd assured...
Rush Limbaugh ‘Apologizes’ To Mediaite’s Tommy Christopher For Misreading Koran-Burning Story
Earlier today, we reported that right-wing radio giant Rush Limbaugh completely bungled the task of reading Tommy Christopher's critique of a Hardball segment comparing the Qu'ran to the Bible. Later in his show, Limbaugh corrected himself, and apologized to Christopher. Mr. Christopher tells Mediaite, "I'm glad Rush corrected the record, and I...
