Chuck Todd, host and moderator of NBC’s ‘Meet the Press’, will step down

“Meet The Press” moderator Chuck Todd speaks on SiriusXM’s Creator Confidential on December 3, 2014 in Washington, DC. Larry French/Getty Photos conceal caption

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“Meet The Press” moderator Chuck Todd speaks on SiriusXM’s Creator Confidential on December 3, 2014 in Washington, DC.

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Meet the Press host and moderator Chuck Todd introduced on Sunday that he’ll step down from the favored political present in a couple of months.

Todd said at the end of Sunday’s program that he would hand over internet hosting duties in September.

“Whereas right now is just not my last present, that is going to be my last summer season right here at Meet the Press,” he stated.

“I’ve liked a lot of this job — serving to to elucidate America to Washington and clarify Washington to America,” Todd added.

NBC’s chief White Home correspondent, Kristen Welker, will grow to be the present’s new host, saying in a tweet that she’s “realized a lot from sitting with [Todd] on the anchor desk and easily experiencing his ardour for politics” and is “humbled and grateful” to take over.

In line with NBC, Todd will stay on the community in a brand new position as chief political analyst and can concentrate on long-form journalism.

Todd was beforehand NBC’s political director and took the helm of Meet the Press in 2014 after former host David Gregory stepped down.

Debuting in 1947, Meet the Press is America’s longest repeatedly working TV present and a part of the Sunday morning slate of nationwide political discuss exhibits, which additionally contains CBS’s Face the Nation and ABC’s This Week.