Super Tuesdays with Chris Cillizza and Chuck Todd
Sep 22, 2026 · 1 hr 40 min · 53 segments
Six weeks out, Chuck Todd and Chris Cillizza open on Trump's ban of CNN, MS NOW and Politico from the White House — escalated Monday when the rest of the TV pool refused to cover him without CNN…
Chuck ToddHost
Chris CillizzaHost
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All right, so Chuck, I know you were taught the same thing I was, which is the most important thing about news is the first three letters, N-E-W.
I will admit, I am slightly divided on leading off with Donald Trump's latest... provocation of the mainstream media.
Late Friday night, he announces he is banning CNN, MSNOW, and Politico from the White House grounds.
Monday morning, those three organizations announced they're suing and the tv press pool announces they will not cover donald trump now i want to explain i want us to explain that to people why that matters um why don't we do that first explain to people because you've been in it explain to people how that works and why that matters and then then let's go bigger
so look the reason we have a tv pool is that in the late 70s early 80s it literally became a Even with the three network era and then the introduction of CNN, really sort of this fourth camera, you throw in a PBS every now and then.
And nobody wanted five camera crews in the Oval Office talking with the president and all this stuff.
So it was really during as the television era kicked in, the networks, the bureau chiefs of what were the four bureau chiefs at the time, now five.
Are we going to call it Extreme Tuesdays? Supreme Tuesdays? Extreme Super Tuesdays.
Whatever you call it, just go and like, subscribe, and share it on your favorite podcast app.
All right, so Chuck, I know you were taught the same thing I was, which is the most important thing about news is the first three letters, N-E-W.
I will admit, I am slightly divided on leading off with Donald Trump's latest... provocation of the mainstream media.
Late Friday night, he announces he is banning CNN, MSNOW, and Politico from the White House grounds.
Monday morning, those three organizations announced they're suing and the tv press pool announces they will not cover donald trump now i want to explain i want us to explain that to people why that matters um why don't we do that first explain to people because you've been in it explain to people how that works and why that matters and then then let's go bigger
so look the reason we have a tv pool is that in the late 70s early 80s it literally became a Even with the three network era and then the introduction of CNN, really sort of this fourth camera, you throw in a PBS every now and then.
And nobody wanted five camera crews in the Oval Office talking with the president and all this stuff.
So it was really during as the television era kicked in, the networks, the bureau chiefs of what were the four bureau chiefs at the time, now five.
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