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“On my first day on the job at Meet The Press, I was handed an audience show survey of Sunday show viewers and the Number One reason folks said they tuned in was not who the person was behind the chair or the guest. It was simply to get educated. “So for nearly a decade, I’ve had the honor of …

The New York Times reports: Chuck Todd said on Sunday that he was stepping down from NBC’s “Meet the Press” after nine years in the moderator’s chair and would be succeeded by the network’s chief White House correspondent, Kristen Welker. In remarks at the conclusion of the show on Sunday, Mr. Todd, 50, said he was conscious that many leaders …

NBC News reports: Dr. Anthony Fauci warned state leaders against the “risky business” of eliminating public health measures, raising concerns on Sunday’s Meet the Press that the nation could see a new surge in cases if it lets its guard down. “Even though the decline was steep, we absolutely need to avoid the urge to say; ‘Oh, everything is going …

Yesterday on Meet The Press, NBC’s Chuck Todd grilled Hillary Clinton on several policy flip-flops including same-sex marriage, prompting the Democratic front-runner to say, “On same-sex marriage, like a lot of people, including our president, I did evolve. And I was not raised to even imagine this. And I’m thrilled now that it is the law of the land. And …

Mitt Romney was on Meet The Press today where he slammed Bill Clinton over the Lewinsky scandal, which the right is resurrecting as Hillary’s run for president grows more likely. Romney: “He embarrassed the nation. He breached his responsibility, I think, as an adult and as a leader in his relationship. and I think that’s very unfortunate.”

Cardinal Timothy Dolan says that that Catholic Church as been “out-marketed” by activists and politicians who have unfairly branded the church as anti-gay. Dolan’s remarks will be aired tomorrow on Meet The Press. “We’ve been caricatured as being anti-gay,” Dolan said in an interview airing Sunday on NBC’s Meet the Press. “And as much as we’d say, ‘Wait a minute, …

The National Rifle Association has yet to comment on the Sandy Hook tragedy. In fact, the day after the shooting they took down their main Facebook page. On Saturday, one day after the unthinkable shootings at a Newtown, Conn. elementary school, the NRA took a more drastic measure by deactivating its Facebook page after celebrating getting to 1.7 million fans …

“I know that people are suffering right now. And for people to think that we don’t have empathy just because we’re not suffering like they’re suffering is ridiculous. And our struggles have not been financial, but they’ve been with health and with difficulties in different things in life. And one thing that I, again, like to remind people is that …

This morning on Meet The Press Vice President Joe Biden appeared to come out in support of same-sex marriage. Think Progress has the quote: Look, I am Vice President of the United States of America. The president sets the policy. I am absolutely comfortable with the fact that men marrying men, women marrying women and heterosexual men marrying women are …

She just believes we’re “of Satan” and that we all need to be brainwashed into being straight Christians. Watch Meet The Press host David Gregory rip her to shreds.

On Meet The Press today Sen. John McCain said he’d like to see a second study on DADT that “asks the right questions.” Because he doesn’t like the answers to the questions on the first study. McCain also dismissed the controversy about his wife’s suddenly withdrawn opposition to DADT, saying, “I respect the First Amendment rights of all members of …

Today on Meet The Press, teabagger Senate candidate Ken Buck declared that being gay is a choice. Except when it’s not, like for alcoholics. Or something. Via Talking Points Memo: Colorado Senate candidates Ken Buck (R) and incumbent Sen. Michael Bennet (D) met for a debate on Meet The Press this morning and sparred on the budget, the Tea Party …

On Meet The Press today, Sen. John McCain was called out for his recent backtracking on DADT, which he once said should be repealed if military leaders agreed, as we saw Joint Chiefs chairman Admiral Mike Mullen do recently. McCain: “Oh, but Mullen was speaking personally.”

On yesterday’s Meet The Press. Things get going around the 5:00 mark.

On Meet The Press yesterday, Tom Brokaw asked California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger about the gay marriage ballot referendum. MR. BROKAW: You have a lot of propositions on the ballot again this fall. One of them would mean a constitutional ban on gay marriages. Do you support that? GOV. SCHWARZENEGGER: No, not at all. As a matter of fact, I think …

Breaking news: Tim Russert, NBC News’ Washington bureau chief and the moderator of “Meet the Press,” died Friday after a sudden heart attack at the bureau, NBC News said Friday. He was 58. Russert was recording voiceovers for Sunday’s “Meet the Press” program when he collapsed, the network said. He and his family had recently returned from Italy, where they …