Deadline: White House
Drawing on years of experience as communications chief for President George W. Bush and senior advisor for the McCain-Palin campaign, Nicolle Wallace provides political insight and clarity on where the decision-makers stand on complex issues. Join her for analysis and discussion with the key newsmakers every weekday.
"The cost of the Trump bandwagon"
August 27, 2026; 4pm: Jacob Soboroff is in for Nicolle Wallace. This afternoon, Republicans are starting to reckon with the consequences of hitching their wagon to Donald Trump.
Later, Trump's new policy, which removes tariffs from imported ground beef for 90 days (conveniently right up until the midterms), is making American cattle farmers feel frustrated and betrayed.
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"The sea change inside the ranks of the military"
August 26, 2026, 5pm; Multiple accounts add to the picture of what reporting alleges is an army that is "essentially rudderless."
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"Trump is throwing a four-letter word that starts with S-H at the wall"
August 26, 2026, 4pm; GOP strategists pitched a political blueprint to Donald Trump that would center on local issues, individual races and individual candidates -- it might not surprise you to learn that Trump rejected that strategy.
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"Dolly Parton was a force to be reckoned with"
August 25, 2026, Dolly Parton never strayed from who she was, and it was her authenticity that was so magnetic. An accomplished singer and songwriter, when speaking about the thoughts behind her philanthropy, she put it very simply: "I just give from the heart."
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"Dolly Parton occupied her own stratosphere in our most bitter moments"
August 25, 2026, 4pm; Even in the depths of America's most bitter, most divisive moments these last few decades, country music icon Dolly Parton has seemingly occupied her own stratosphere: adored across all regions, genders, political affiliations and on and on.
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"Breaking news out of the Supreme Court"
August 24, 2026, 5pm; Today's ruling is about Trump's executive order that would restrict mail-in voting. The highest court has granted the administration's request for a stay, which means that the injunction previously placed on Trump's executive order is lifted while the appeals process goes through.
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"A highly flammable moment for our American economy"
August 24, 2026, 4pm; Today's rank escalation is the latest in a series of punches and counter-punches between two allies, the U.S. and Canada, following the collapse of weeks-long negotiations over the weekend.
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"All pardoned by Donald Trump"
August 21st, 2026; 5pm: Alicia Menendez, in for Nicolle Wallace, on a stunning report exposing how Donald Trump pardons those who donate to support him and his family.
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"Donald Trump's worst impulses"
August 21st, 2026; 4pm: Alicia Menendez, in for Nicolle Wallace, on Chief Justice John Roberts, acting alone, allowing Donald Trump to continue construction of his golden ballroom.
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"What feels like many lifetimes ago"
August 20th, 2026; 5pm: Alicia Menendez, in for Nicolle Wallace, on the outsized role Jennifer Hegseth plays alongside her husband in the Department of Defense.
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"From disruption to cataclysm"
August 20th, 2026; 4pm: Alicia Menendez, in for Nicolle Wallace, on state officials and election administrators in active conversation with local law enforcement, state attorneys general and legal advisers about how to respond if federal agents attempt to raid a polling site and seize ballots or machines -- breaking the chain of custody for ballots and potentially throwing an election's results into doubt.
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"Donald Trump’s whims and desires and grievances"
Aug 19th, 2026; 5pm: Nicolle Wallace on how when it comes to Trump, it is always about retribution and going after those he feel wronged him.
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"His human binky"
Aug 19th, 2026; 4pm: Nicolle Wallace on how Natalie Harp has this level of access to the president and the White House, and if there any kind of risk to having her inside.
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"Florida, Florida, Florida"
August 18th, 2026; 5pm: Today the Sunshine State holds its primaries ahead of November’s midterms. We dive into the issues coloring politics purple this hour with Florida Democrat gubernatorial candidate David Jolly and Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro.
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"Territory that can only be defined as a hot mess"
August 18, 2026, 4pm; Trump and his cabinet seem be focused on everything and anything but the business of making people's lives better and governing as practically Donald Trump’s entire cabinet hits the campaign trail and as Trump’s poll numbers plummet with less than 80 days to the midterms.
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"The corruption and self-dealing by this White House reached a new degree"
August 17, 2026, 5pm; Democrat lawmakers say Trump 2.0 is more focused on getting rich and prosecuting perceived enemies than helping the American people, and the American people have had enough. But rather than stop the corruption or make the American people feel better about what their government is doing, this administration is leaning in.
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"Trump proves again his ego might be America's greatest threat"
August 17, 2026, 4pm; In the span of just 20 hours Trump threatened to both dramatically expand the war with Iran and to abandon one of our closest allies in favor of a dictator who has been nice to him.
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“80 days out from the midterm elections”
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’”
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”
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”
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"
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"
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"
August 11, 2026, 5pm; The Washington Post reveals how when faced with an assassination threat from Iran, Trump secretly flew back from the NATO summit last month in Turkey via an alternate aircraft -- despite saying he was flying home in Air Force One.
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"An unprecedented combination of callousness, incompetence and surrealness"
August 11, 2026, 4pm; Alarming new reporting finds that Donald Trump used his staff and White House journalists as decoys amid security threats from Iran, having them fly out of Turkey on the old Air Force One while Trump flew out on a separate unmarked aircraft.
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“Todd Blanche will not be the backstop against Trump’s impulses”
August 10, 2026; 5pm: Nicolle Wallace and guests discuss Todd Blanche officially being sworn in as the nation’s 88th attorney general today.
Later, Nicolle covers the interesting character Trump’s crypto company – World Liberty Financial – is willing to do business with to the tune of one hundred million dollars.
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“Trump’s growing Herbert Hoover obsession”
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.
Later, Nicolle covers the lack of clarity on where things stand in negotiations with Iran as the Strait of Hormuz continues to stay closed.
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"Even Trump voters are disillusioned with what they're seeing"
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?"
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”
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.
Later, Judge Jack McConnell and Judge Esther Salas join Nicolle to talk about the danger judges face when they rule against the Trump administration.
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“A five-alarm fire for Donald Trump”
August 6, 2026; 4pm: Nicolle Wallace and guests cover Trump’s plunging poll numbers driven by voters’ anger and frustrations with the economy.
Later, Nicolle covers Sen. Rand Paul leading Republicans in voting to hold Dr. Anthony Fauci in contempt for invoking his Fifth Amendment right to not answer their questions in his appearance in front of Congress last week.
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"Undermined by his own Justice Department"
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"
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"
August 4, 2026; 5pm: Voters in Kansas, Missouri, Virginia, Washington and the all-important swing state of Michigan are making decisions today that will have massive implications for the direction of this country and how the second half of Trump’s second term will go.
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"As voters head to the polls in Michigan"
August 4, 2026; 4pm: Michigan in particular has been a target for Trump’s bizarre and untrue election fraud claims, which seem to amount to “there was election fraud when I was president in 2020, but not when Joe Biden was president.” But while Michigan is one of Trump’s first targets, it is becoming abundantly clear that he doesn't intend of stopping there as he continues his push to federalize our elections.
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“The corruption knows no bounds”
August 3, 2026; 5pm: Alicia Menendez is in for Nicolle Wallace. Alicia and friends discuss the newest instance of corruption coming from the Trump White House: an expensive subscription for early access to Donald Trump’s social media posts.
Later, Alicia covers Senator Bernie Moreno’s statement against Rep. Max Miller, who has been accused of domestic abuse by Moreno’s daughter.
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“Blanche’s hollow commitments”
August 3, 2026; 4pm: Nicolle Wallace and guests discuss Todd Blanche meeting the demands of two GOP holdouts – Senators Thom Tillis and John Cornyn. At least, that’s how it appears on the surface. But there is mounting skepticism that Blanche will stand on his commitments since history has shown that his loyalty primarily lies with Donald Trump.
Later, Nicolle discusses U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro dropping charges filed against former Olympian David Hearn for “vandalizing” the recently remodeled Lincoln Reflecting Pool.
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“Trump’s shakedown of epic proportions”
July 31, 2026; 5pm: Nicolle Wallace and friends discuss the Wall Street Journal’s stunning new report about the Trump administration’s massive level of fundraising and how private companies yield to his requests.
Later, Rep. Jamie Raskin joins Nicolle to discuss the staggering amount of corruption from the Trump administration.
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“Keeping the slush fund is more important to Trump than Todd Blanche”
July 31, 2026; 4pm: Nicolle Wallace and guests break down the stall in Todd Blanche’s confirmation to lead the Department of Justice. Two GOP senators won’t vote “yes” on Blanche until there is confirmation that the slush fund is dead, but Trump refuses to let it go.
Later, Nicolle covers Trump’s plummeting approval ratings as the midterm elections loom closer.
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“The undoing of critical counterterrorism infrastructure”
July 30, 2026; 5pm: Nicolle Wallace and friends cover the Trump administration’s gutting of the Center for Prevention, Programs, and Partnerships – a division of the DHS established by the Biden administration that was meant to fight against terrorism and keep this country safe.
Later, Nicolle covers the disturbing and serious allegations of domestic violence against Ohio Republican Congressman Max Miller.
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