Former MSNBC star faces VERY embarrassing behind-the-scenes accusations from former colleague
Former MSNBC anchor Chuck Todd has been accused of harboring ill will toward a costar during their time together at the network.
Newsmax host Greta Van Susteren - who worked with him for several months in 2017 - took to X Tuesday to claim the anchor regularly refused to introduce her show at the end of his.
Van Susteren, 71, claimed his allegedly hostile behavior stemmed from the fact that the highly rated host did not like him.
The tweet came in reply to one from Todd that demanded ICE agents face an investigation for allegedly drawing a gun on an off-duty officer in Minnesota.
'If you care about ICE’s credibility, you'd want an investigation. Because the allegation is chilling,' Todd, 53, wrote as a caption.
Van Susteren - whose short-lived MSNBC show, For The Record, followed Todd's Meet the Press Daily - replied: 'Phil Griffin, the former President of MSNBC, told me that you refused to do live tosses to me from your 5pm MSNBC show to mine (at 6pm) because you were angry that MSNBC hired me and you didn’t like me.
'As an aside, I never did anything to you.'
When contacted by the Daily Mail on Wednesday, Todd cast doubt on his ex-colleague's claims.
'I don’t recall anything like that, so I don’t have any comments to offer,' he said.
Longtime Meet the Press moderator Chuck Todd - who left MSNBC and NBC News last year - has been accused of harboring hatred for former costar Greta Van Susteren
Van Susteren, now a host on Newsmax, worked with Todd for seven months in 2017. She hosted For the Record with Greta after Todd's MTP Daily
As of writing, Van Susteren's post has been viewed more than 300,000 times.
Griffin, meanwhile, left MSNBC in early 2021 and is now retired.
Todd left the network of his own accord in January 2025, after a successful 18 years.
He initially joined NBC News in 2007 as a political director, during which time he regularly appeared on MSNBC shows like Morning Joe and The Rachel Maddow Show to offer expertise.
He was named the network's chief White House correspondent in 2008 and was promoted to helm Meet the Press in 2014.
He expanded the program the following year with an hour on MSNBC called 'MTP Daily' - the 5pm slot Van Susteren referred to.
She joined MSNBC from Fox News on January 9, 2017. She started her journalism career as a legal analyst for CNN in the early 90s.
Now a host for Newsmax, Van Susteren's less than eight-month stint at MSNBC was plagued by poor ratings.
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When contacted by the Daily Mail on Wednesday, Todd said he had no recollection of the claims made in the post
The information for Van Susteren's claims comes from then-MSNBC boss Phill Griffin, according to the Newsmax star. He retired in 2021
During contract renewal negotiations, she left the network by invoking the departure option in her contract.
'For the Record with Greta', meanwhile, was perpetually the lowest-rated program on the liberal news network in both total viewers and the key 25-54 demographic.
The show also appeared to be shedding viewers from Todd's.
Despite a lead-in from Todd's high-rated program, tens of thousands of viewers left only to return for Chris Matthews’ 'Hardball' after her program was over.
Today, Todd is an independent journalist. Van Susteren joined Newsmax in 2022. She is known for a hard-hitting, centrist-leaning approach to journalism.
