Meet the Press

Burned Again: Fiorina Registers ChuckTodd.org After He Cites Her 'Lost' .org Domain
By Tom Blumer | May 10, 2015 | 11:21 PM EDT

Chuck Todd should have been ready for this, but he wasn't.

Just a few days days ago, on the very network at which Todd toils, "Late Night" comedian Seth Meyers thought he would be cute and embarrass GOP presidential candidate Carly Fiorina over not registering the CarlyFiorina.org domain, thereby allowing a critic to take it and use it as a platform for criticizing her tenure as H-P's CEO. Fiorina then informed Meyers that she had just purchased SethMeyers.org moments earlier. When the ignorant comedian speculated that doing so must have been expensive, she told him that the price tag was cheap. On Sunday's "Meet the Press," Todd went after Fiorina over the same matter, with the same eventual result.

Wash Post’s Marcus on Fiorina: ‘Wouldn’t Be Taking Her Seriously If She Weren’t a Woman’
By Brent Baker | May 10, 2015 | 2:15 PM EDT

Eight years after Barack Obama launched his presidential campaign, national media journalists have changed their tune and discovered an interest in experience and accomplishments in those running to occupy the Oval Office. To wit, on Sunday’s Meet the Press, Ruth Marcus, the veteran Washington Post reporter turned columnist, dismissed Republican Carly Fiorina: “I don’t think we would be taking her seriously at all if she weren’t a woman.”

Chuck Todd Presses Boehner From Left on Money, Special Interests in Politics
By Jeffrey Meyer | May 3, 2015 | 1:37 PM EDT

On Sunday’s Meet the Press, Chuck Todd spoke to House Speaker John Boehner about a variety of issues, including the ongoing protests in Baltimore, but found time to press his guest on a variety of liberal issues that included money in politics and the role of special interests in the legislative process. Todd did his best to point out that Boehner’s “dire predictions about health care” were wrong

Bozell & Graham Column: Hillary's Wacky Poor-House Claims
By Brent Bozell | and By Tim Graham | April 21, 2015 | 10:17 PM EDT

While Hillary Clinton hates doing Sunday shows – as we remember from the weekend after Benghazi – she did allow her close friend Gov. Terry McAuliffe to appear on Meet the Press on April 19. Jaws dropped when NBC host Chuck Todd threw him a real Russert-like hardball, quoting from his 2007 memoir What A Party!

"This is Hillary Clinton," said Todd. "This is you quoting her in your book. ‘They had bankrupted us totally. We owned nothing. We didn't own a car. We didn't own a house. Here we were, 50 years old and we owned nothing. No-thing! All the money we had, which we had brought into the White House, was gone. I hadn't made any money for eight years, so it was really horrible.'"

Kathleen Parker Blasts Hillary’s ‘Inner Ayotollah’ Campaign Attitude
By Jeffrey Meyer | April 19, 2015 | 12:15 PM EDT

On Sunday’s Meet the Press, Washington Post columnist Kathleen Parker sharply criticized Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign rollout and insisted that “[s]he has to let this inner ayatollah get out of her head.”

Chuck Todd: Can GOP ‘Obsession’ With ‘Beating Clinton' Be 'Too Much?'
By Jeffrey Meyer | April 12, 2015 | 11:28 AM EDT

On Sunday, NBC’s Meet the Press spent considerable time analyzing Hillary Clinton’s soon-to-be presidential announcement but Chuck Todd found time to ask if the GOP spends too much time trying to defeat the Clintons. Speaking to conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt, Todd wondered “I look at sort of an obsession on the right of beating Obama and beating Clinton, Bill Clinton, over the years and I think, they're zero for four. Is there a point where you do this too much?”

Meet the Press Panel Eagerly Hits GOP Over Religious Freedom Laws
By Jeffrey Meyer | April 5, 2015 | 12:17 PM EDT

On Sunday’s Meet the Press, an all liberal panel repeatedly took shots at the Republican Party over its support for religious freedom laws with Amy Walter of the Cook Political Report going so far as to suggest that on the issue on the issue of gay marriage “if we took everybody over the age of 50, and just moved them out of this country, this wouldn't be an issue at all.” 

Joe Scarborough: Harry Reid’s Retirement a ‘Big Trade-Up...for America’
By Jeffrey Meyer | March 29, 2015 | 12:27 PM EDT

Appearing on Meet the Press on Sunday, Morning Joe co-host Joe Scarborough celebrated the announcement that Senator Harry Reid (D-NV) will retire at the end of 2016 by declaring it a “big trade-up not only for the Democratic Party but for America and I’m dead serious.”

Chuck Todd Tees Up Jerry Brown to Slam Ted Cruz as ‘Unfit’ for Office
By Kyle Drennen | March 22, 2015 | 3:05 PM EDT

Ahead of Texas Senator Ted Cruz’s expected Monday announcement declaring his candidacy for President of the United States, NBC’s Meet the Press moderator Chuck Todd on Sunday teed up California’s Democratic Governor Jerry Brown to blast the Republican as “absolutely unfit to be running for office.”

Chuck Todd 'Proud' of How NBC Handled Brian Williams Scandal
By Kyle Drennen | March 16, 2015 | 5:58 PM EDT

Talking to former CBS political analyst Jeff Greenfield at an event for 92Y in New York, NBC's Meet the Press moderator Chuck Todd praised his network's handling of the Brian Williams scandal: "Look, I am proud of my news organization, that it proved that nobody's bigger, nobody is above integrity and credibility. Period." That declaration was prompted by Greenfield taking a shot at how Fox News handled similar allegations against host Bill O'Reilly.

Chuck Todd: Will GOP Overreact on Hillary E-Mails, Cause People to ‘Sympathize With’ Her?
By Jeffrey Meyer | March 15, 2015 | 11:58 AM EDT

On Sunday’s Meet the Press, moderator Chuck Todd took time out of the ongoing controversy surrounding Hillary Clinton’s e-mails to bring up the usual mock media concern, whether or not the GOP will overreact in their handling of the situation: “Do you fear, as somebody who would like to see the Republicans win the White House, do you fear that congressional Republicans could get in the way and actually make her look – sympathize with?”

Chuck Todd Asks Ben Carson to Defend Christian Faith in Light of ‘Science’
By Kristine Marsh | March 2, 2015 | 2:10 PM EST

It’s hard to imagine NBC’s Chuck Todd calling out a liberal  candidate in this way. On Sunday'sMeet the Press, Todd questioned how Dr. Ben Carson's Christian faith could "co-exist" with his trust in science.