Chuck Todd

Shaped by exile, anti-communism, and memory.

Like this was not the week to tell you, you know, but when it was over, he called an all staff meeting.

And that framework expands and later the waves of immigrants from Venezuela and Nicaragua plug into really the same political model.

Let me, let's sit down and let me tell you about him.

And he had some things to say, but there was this.

Pay some respect to the dead.

And if you want to see the impact, there's probably no better campaign year than the year 2000.

Florida's decided by 537 votes, a state shaped in part by the identity born in 1961.

So when you think about this week in history, you think about revolutions, assassinations, cultural breakthroughs, right?

The revolutions we just talked about.

The assassinations, Lincoln.

The cultural breakthroughs, Jackie Robinson.

It was moments where individuals redefined what's possible.

The Bay of Pigs is where a group of exiles revealed the limits of something else, American power and the power of political memory.

Because every time a candidate steps onto a stage in Miami today,

Yeah.

They're not just campaigning.

Yeah, you're not the first person who said, I remember I had somebody who worked for him and said, I like when you interview him because you keep him on message.

They're still walking in the shadow of that beach, the Cochinas, the Bay of Pigs.

Look, someday we'll study, maybe somebody will study him in science, trying to figure that out.