The Chuck ToddCast: Meet the Press NBC News

James Whitfield is one of the most prominent casualties in a national war over race, history and diversity. The principal at Colleyville Heritage High School, Whitfield was put under administrative leave after he was attacked by protestors who accused him of teaching critical race theory at his high school.

Jackie Calmes, columnist at the Los Angeles Times and Olivier Knox, Washington Post reporter and author of the Daily 202 newsletter, join Chuck to talk about the balance between urgency and emergency.

NBC News Senior Capitol Hill Correspondent Garrett Haake joins Chuck after Meet the Press wraps to discuss news that climate change provisions are likely getting dropped from the Democrats’ spending plan. Plus, how serious is Matthew McConaughey about running for Texas governor?

Kristen Du Mez, historian and author of "Jesus & John Wayne" talks to Chuck about the evolution of American evangelicism.

Chuck talks with OnMessage Co-Founder Brad Todd and President of Brilliant Corners Research and Strategies Cornell Belcher about competing messages heading into 2022.

The new space race doesn’t just pit nation-states against one another, it’s also a fight between private companies looking to cash in. Chuck talks with Michio Kaku, theoretical physicist and professor at the City University of New York and the author of “The God Equation: The Quest for a Theory of Everything.”