Deadline: White House

Episodes

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  "The corruption and self-dealing by this White House reached a new degree" 17.08.2026 41m

  Democrats are seizing on the message that this administration is delivering by way of its own actions – that the current president and those around him are in it for themselves.
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  "Trump proves again his ego might be America's greatest threat" 17.08.2026 41m

  As the 60-day memorandum of understanding with Iran expires, Trump is proving once and for all that his ego, fragility and apparent instability might actually be America’s greatest national security threat.
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  “80 days out from the midterm elections” 14.08.2026 41m

  August 14, 2026; 5pm: “Stranger things have happened” is Donald Trump’s response to a proposal that he declare a national emergency to take control of our elections, an unsettling thing to hear given that the upcoming midterms will serve as a symbolic referendum on Trump and his administration a year and a half into his second term.
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  “Trump’s ‘war on fraud’” 14.08.2026 43m

  August 14, 2026; 4pm: New reporting by the New York Times finds that even as Donald Trump is issuing pardons to his wealthy friends and donors for crimes like wire fraud, bank fraud, insider trading, and money laundering, his administration is devoting its energy to targeting small dollar fraud.
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  “Todd Blanche’s DOJ takeover” 13.08.2026 42m

  August 13, 2026; 5pm: Newly sworn-in Attorney General Todd Blanche addressed employees at the DOJ earlier today, touting a reverence for the justice system. Meanwhile, the DOJ is actively pursuing cases against Trump’s perceived political enemies and former Olympian David Hearn for allegedly “vandalizing” the remodeled Lincoln reflecting pool.
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  “Even Trump’s voters are souring on him” 13.08.2026 43m

  August 13, 2026; 4pm: Less than 2 years into Trump 2.0, the vast majority of all Americans are fed up with rising costs spurred by what may be Trump’s greatest political betrayal of all time: starting a war in the Middle East with no clear or easy way of getting out.
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  "That bill is much more sizeable than previously thought" 12.08.2026 41m

  August 12th, 2026; 5pm: Alicia Menendez, in for Nicolle Wallace, on new reporting in the Washington Post that taxpayers will foot most of the bill for Trump's D.C. vanity projects.
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  "Donald Trump's Air Force One bait and switch" 12.08.2026 41m

  August 12th, 2026, 4pm: Alicia Menendez, in for Nicolle Wallace, on who was allowed to fly with Trump on his unmarked plane from Turkey -- and what staffers had to ride on the decoy with the press.
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  "In light of a credible threat, journalists and staffers were left in harm's way" 11.08.2026 42m

  U.S. presidents have been known to have tense relationships with those who report on them at times, but Donald Trump’s attacks are a much more aggressive affront to a right enumerated in the First Amendment.
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  "An unprecedented combination of callousness, incompetence and surrealness" 11.08.2026 42m

  In a presidency that is every day summed up by its historically unprecedented combination of callousness, incompetence and surrealness, Donald Trump and his administration have managed to outdo themselves, likely endangering national security, his own staff and the journalists whose job it is to cover them in the process.
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  “Todd Blanche will not be the backstop against Trump’s impulses” 10.08.2026 42m

  August 10, 2026; 5pm: Nicolle Wallace and guests discuss Todd Blanche officially being sworn in as the nation’s 88th attorney general today.
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  “Trump’s growing Herbert Hoover obsession” 10.08.2026 41m

  August 10, 2026; 4pm: Nicolle Wallace and friends unpack the generational shift Trump has caused in who voters trust to handle the economy more. Wall Street Journal reporting finds that voters trust Democrats more than Republicans on the economy as the war in Iran rages on, causing more inflation and higher gas prices.
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  "Even Trump voters are disillusioned with what they're seeing" 07.08.2026 43m

  August 7, 2026; 5pm: Nicolle Wallace on an unexpected, very disappointing jobs report out this morning showing a slump in the job market.
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  "What kind of country manufactures criminal prosecutions against political opponents?" 07.08.2026 42m

  August 7, 2026; 4pm: Nicolle Wallace on Senator Bill Cassidy taking to the Senate floor earlier today and essentially handing over the keys to the Department of Justice to Donald Trump.
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  "A growing number of questions about the U.S. munition stockpiles” 06.08.2026 44m

  August 6, 2026; 5pm: Nicolle Wallace and friends cover the lack of clarity around US weapons stockpiles, which is troubling considering our ongoing war with Iran.
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  “A five-alarm fire for Donald Trump” 06.08.2026 44m

  August 6, 2026; 4pm: Nicolle Wallace and guests cover Trump’s plunging poll numbers driven by voters’ anger and frustrations with the economy.
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  "Undermined by his own Justice Department" 05.08.2026 41m

  August 5th, 2026; 5pm: Nicolle Wallace on how Donald Trump's outright refusal to admit that anything he had done for his Reflecting Pool renovation was wrong, or in this case what the pool contractor he hired had done wrong, is symptomatic of a much larger, more serious issue.
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  "Voters are practically shouting that they want anything but Donald Trump’s economy" 05.08.2026 41m

  August 5th, 2026; 4pm: Nicolle Wallace on 18% of Democratic primary voters listing the economy as the main motivating factor for their vote, nearly tied with their opposition to Donald Trump and his Republican party.
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  "Just under three months to go before the midterms" 05.08.2026 42m

  Voters are heading to the polls in five states for primaries today.
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  "As voters head to the polls in Michigan" 05.08.2026 41m

  As voters head to the polls in Michigan, Donald Trump appears to be treating today’s primary elections as a dress rehearsal for his attempt to take control of our elections in November.