Decision Time: What are Trump and Clinton Doing to Politics and Media?

Join Chuck Todd, moderator of Meet the Press and NBC Political Director, for an interactive discussion with a panel of experts and friends of SMPA.

Chuck Todd is the moderator of Meet the Press and the Political Director of NBC News. Previously, he was Chief White House Correspondent for NBC News, and hosted The Daily Rundown on MSNBC. He is a member of SMPA's National Council, and attended GW. 

Kristen Soltis Anderson is a Republican pollster and author of The Selfie Vote: Where Millennials Are Leading America (And How Republicans Can Keep Up). She is the co-founder of Echelon Insights, a research and analytics firm. She was one of TIME’s “30 Under 30 Changing the World” and has been featured as one of ELLE’s 2016 “Most Compelling Women in Washington.”

Cornell Belcher is President of brilliant corners Research & Strategies and is one of the premier strategists in national progressive politics as well as in the rebranding of corporate America. In addition to being a 2015 Harvard Kennedy School Visiting Fellow, he is also a former political contributor to CNN, having provided political analysis to them for six years. Cornell served as Pollster for the Democratic National Committee under Chairman Howard Dean making him the first minority to lead in that role for either national Party. He also served on the polling team for both Obama presidential campaigns. He serves on the SMPA National Council.

Dante Chinni is a contributor to  NBC News and The Wall Street Journal, SMPA Data Journalist in residence, and Director of the American Communities Projects.

Sam Feist is the Washington, DC Bureau Chief and Senior Vice President, Washington-based programming for CNN. He serves on the SMPA National Council.

Steven V. Roberts is the J.B. and M.C. Shapiro Professor of Media and Public Affairs, a columnist, TV and radio analyst, and a best-selling author.

Margaret Sullivan is the media columnist for The Washington Post. Before joining The Post, she was The New York Times public editor, and previously, the chief editor of The Buffalo News, her hometown paper where she started as a summer intern. She was a member of the Pulitzer Prize Board from 2011 to 2012, and was twice elected as a director of the American Society of News Editors, where she led the First Amendment committee.