Mitt Romney surrogate and former New Hampshire governor John Sununu went head-to-head with Newt Gingrich campaign adviser Bob Walker on MSNBC Monday morning as the two disagreed on the state of the ongoing GOP race.

Is this GOP race as good as over? That’s what Friday morning’s episode of Morning Joe sought to find out. Also… is Newt Gingrich a post-apocalyptic cyborg from the future?

Appearing at a Winthrop University panel Thursday, NBC analyst Chuck Todd ripped into Stephen Colbert and his not-yet-official run, suggesting that Colbert might have some ulterior motives in the way he’s almost throwing his hat into the GOP primary ring:

Appearing on MSNBC’s The Daily Rundown, Chuck Todd asked Sen. John McCain if Arizona was in play. He took a breath, uncomfortably paused, and told him that it possibly could be soon and that the Republican Party had to “fix our problems with the Hispanics.”

Regular viewers of the three big broadcast news shows — ABC World News, CBS Evening News, and NBC Nightly News — have probably come to admire some of the reporters and correspondents featured on air each night. But have you ever stopped to wonder which reporter has logged the most airtime?

In an interview with The Daily Rundown‘s Chuck Todd, besieged GOP presidential candidate Newt Gingrich was asked if the Citizens United Supreme Court decision had enabled the relentless barrage of attacks from Mitt Romney. Gingrich replied that he wasn’t a victim of the case that allows unlimited donations to SuperPACs, but rather of “a bunch of millionaires getting together to run a negative campaign.”

On Wednesday’s The Daily Rundown, host Chuck Todd drew a lot out of the candidate with his deceptively easygoing style. Todd asked Romney about the notion that “any president” would have carried out the raid that killed Osama bin Laden, and Romney said “I think other presidents and other candidates like myself would do exactly the same thing.”

Shockingly, Mitt Romney from four years ago sang a completely different tune.

In an interview with Fox News Sunday’s Chris Wallace this past weekend, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney completely evaded a question about whether the invasion of Iraq was, in hindsight, a good idea. However, in an interview with The Daily Rundown‘s Chuck Todd, Romney was definitive, telling Todd “if we knew at the time of our entry into Iraq that there were no weapons of mass destruction, if somehow we had been given that information, obviously we would not have gone in.”

Today’s edition of The Chris Matthews Show featured a small little awards ceremony to honor the most important political moments of the year. Chris Matthews dedicated the first award to President Obama for his “Best Move” of the year. The nominees for the category were the death of Osama bin Laden, the Libyan invasion, the fulfilled promise to withdraw from Iraq, and his unifying speech to the nation following the Arizona shootings and critical injury of Gabrielle Giffords.

On Wednesday morning’s Morning Joe, Chuck Todd, apparently not realizing he was on live television, flipped the camera an obscene gesture. Newsbuster’s Mark Finkelstein was incredulous that MSNBC censors let it slip, “Was someone asleep at the switch of Morning Joe’s vaunted seven-second delay?” he exclaimed.

Yesterday was a rough day for Jon Stewart. He had to accept that, with a pokémon-colored flourish, Herman Cain was gone forever for the next few weeks until the news cycle wants him back. But today he, he had even more to be happy about: the return of Donald Trump as a political actor, both as a moderator and a potential presidential candidate. It was too much for a political comedian, he explained.

Donald Trump Day continues on Mediaite! Trump guested on The Daily Rundown with Chuck Todd this morning, and immediately called out Todd for lying after his introduction. Todd said that Trump was joining the show to respond to a Marist poll that revealed voters in New Hampshire and Iowa are less likely to vote for the candidate Trump endorses. Trump then attacked Todd, saying that he didn’t call in to respond — producers had been calling him all morning (40 times, according to Trump) trying to get him on the show.

Hillary Clinton spoke with NBC senior political correspondent Chuck Todd about her daughter Chelsea Clinton becoming his new news colleague at the network. “What – what did you think when she said, ‘I want to become a member of the fourth estate,’ this side of the line here?” Todd asked. “Well, I was a little surprised!” Clinton exclaimed. “But, you know, she -– she decided to go for it, and I’m very excited for her.”

Speaking on his program The Daily Rundown Tuesday morning, MSNBC host Chuck Todd issued a challenge to news broadcasters to stop playing the race card in their political coverage. “Can we just agree not to play the race card — at all?” beseeched Todd.

In what might be the only bit of Herman Cain news today that doesn’t have to do with Politico‘s sexual harassment report, Cain campaign manager Mark Block appeared on MSNBC’s The Daily Rundown with Chuck Todd to deny that the campaign is “a front” for the billionaire Koch brothers, joking, “if they are donating to us, their payments are past due.”

Herman Cain‘s campaign manager Mark Block appeared on MSNBC’s Daily Rundown today to rebut a recent Politico report that claimed that the GOP frontrunner was subject of accusations of sexual harassment while he was head of the National Restaurant Association. Block clearly stated that he was “not personally aware of any cash settlement relating to sexual harassment charges to Mr. Cain,” when pressed by host Chuck Todd who claimed he had his own sourcing on the settlement story.

On Sunday morning’s Reliable Sources, host Howard Kurtz took the media to task for having roundly criticized President Obama‘s decision to get involved in Libya, but failing to give the President credit for Muammar Gaddafi‘s killing at anywhere near the same volume. “The media wallowed for months in criticism of the Libya policy,” Kurtz said,  ”Why don’t they stop now, give some credit to the President when a brutal regime is toppled, and the policy is successful?”

Should we be excited about today’s developments in Libya and as well as recent ones throughout the Middle East? Perhaps not. According to Rush Limbaugh, the good vibes we’re feeling are nothing but a “scripted thing to make a takeover by the Muslim Brotherhood equal to an outbreak of Democracy.” To make matters worse, apparently that script has some sex scenes in it as Limbaugh accused the “drive-by” media of “orgasming” all over the place in their attempts to congratulate Barack Obama.

In a sign of the lightning-fast times, President Obama‘s chop-busting exchange with Fox News’ Ed Henry at Thursday’s joint press conference is the star of a new Mitt Romney ad that was released later that same day, and was “exclusively previewed” on Chuck Todd‘s The Daily Rundown this morning. The ad cobbles together bytes of the President and his advisers saying Romney’s name, and as the ad’s title suggests, poses them as a sign that the President is “Nervous” about Romney’s candidacy.

You can add two more items to NBC News Chief White House Correspondent Chuck Todd‘s resume´: karaoke singer and consummate good sport. Chuck’s former White House colleague Savannah Guthrie wrapped up a Today Show report on DC’s “Karaoke Cab” by picking Todd up for some fare-ly entertaining duets, and Chuck did not disappoint. Look out, Brett Baier, there’s a new singin’ sheriff in town!

President Obama’s approval ratings right now are bad. Really bad. However, according to Joe Scarborough on Morning Joe today, there may be, as his co-host Mika Brzezinski put it, a “silver lining with spurs on it.” None other than Rick Perry.

Does the establishment GOP “like” Texas Governor Rick Perry? That’s what the team at Morning Joe sought to find out.

White House correspondent Chuck Todd kicked things off with a little football talk and discussion of how Perry’s announcement that Social Security is a “violent” attack on “core American values” might lose him a few votes from older Republicans, particularly in Florida.

NBC News Chief White House Correspondent Chuck Todd delivered some canny insight into the Rick Perry/Barack Obama dynamic on Wednesday morning’s Morning Joe, observing that President Obama’s inclination to “cut Perry some slack” over recent inflammatory comments might have everything to do with the fact that Perry is the administration’s candidate of choice, and noting that Perry “would have been laughed out of” the Republican primary four years ago.”

NBC’s Chuck Todd told the crew on Morning Joe this morning the Republican presidential field may be–in the opinion of the conventional wisdom–down to a “top tier” of Mitt Romney, Michele Bachmann and Rick Perry, but Todd says a key question today is whether there’s “an opening” for “one more in the field.” Todd says now former candidate Tim Pawlenty was considered a voice of the establishment, or “the Chamber of Commerce candidate, if you will.” For some big money donors, the choices of Perry, Bachmann and Romney may not be satisfying, leading to a call for one more big name–a Chris Christi, for instance.

Rush Limbaugh was fed up hearing about how now President Obama is going to shift his attention towards jobs and the economy. Last time Rush checked, he’s heard about such a “laser-like focus” multiple times, and he took out his aggression on MSNBC’s Chuck Todd and Willie Geist for reporting Obama’s announcement like it was new news they heard for the first time.