Chuck Todd

This is where I feel energized.

This is where I feel like... Look, I...

What I've tried to do with this podcast is sort of recreate the two hours a day that was my favorite two hours a day every day at NBC.

And all my colleagues that worked with me at NBC are knowing what I'm going to say, which is our morning meeting.

And it was for two shows, right?

We had our planning the Sunday show and planning the daily show.

And I had two staffs of people at times in there.

Well, number one, it's worth reminding people that for all the people who work in Washington, only 537 of them won an election.

I mean, a collection of what I think are the brightest and smartest people.

I would love to start a news organization with that group of people.

If you're concerned about size of government, the elected folks are not the problem.

I miss all of you guys more than you realize.

I'm tempted to name check some of you on how much I miss, whether it's Sarah and Jesse, who just...

So we've got legislation to do that.

The way we did ours is say we will –

who just, we all three shared a brain, Melissa, John, and David.

Um, on every going forward census, you expand the members of the, you expand the number of members in the house rather than expanding the number of people who represent and you lock a district at, at 500,000.

We had visions that were very similar and we certainly knew how to, and there's so many other folks in there, but I miss that.

We picked 500,000 for sort of arbitrary reasons, but there's been a number of political scientists who look at this cube root law that if you look at all the parliamentary democracies of the world, you put population on one axis, how many members.

I miss that collaboration.