UPDATE: Chuck Todd signed on of his final broadcast as moderator of NBC News’s Meet the Press by handing his successor, Kristen Welker, a reliable alarm clock and telling viewers that he̵…
by telling viewers that it was an understatement to call the gig “an honor and privilege of my lifetime.”
“This is simply the pinnacle of political journalism, something my younger self never would have imagined,” said Todd, who announced in June that he was stepping down from the role. “No matter how much of a grind that the current political climate is, wearing my down on any given day, I still always have had a ‘pinch me, I can’t believe it feeling every time I hear my name introduced as the moderator of the longest running show in the history of television.’ In fact, I used to joke my goal is not to be the last moderator of the longest running show in American history, and I have achieved that goal and then some.
Kristen Welker will succeed Todd as moderator next week. When she does, all of the major networks’ Sunday morning shows will have a woman as moderator or co-moderator for the first time.
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