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 newsmak
It was quite a show by Republican senate and gubernatorial candidates last night, putting as much distance as they could between themselves and their party’s leader, Donald Trump.
Last night at a Republican National Committee campaign rally, Donald Trump engaged in what can only be summed up as a deranged fantasy sequence about Iran dropping bombs on two American cities -- both of which happen to be heavily Democratic.
October 5, 2026; 5pm: A stunning new piece in The New York Times examines how part of the deal to get Russia to end the war in Ukraine involves a multibillion-dollar oil deal with Trump's close allies.
October 5, 2026; 4pm: As poll numbers for the Trump administration fall abysmally low, Americans have had it up to here with the faltering economy, the sky-high gas prices and the endless war in Iran. This weekend, thousands showed up to the Power to the People protest event in Maryland, where icons like Bruce Springsteen and Joan Baez performed.
October 2, 2026; 5pm: The midterms are looming closer, and Donald Trump has hit the campaign trail, traveling to states that are normally ruby red. In the wake of the war in Iran, high gas prices, and a lagging economy, these same red states now seem politically competitive. Meanwhile, many Republican candidates are quietly clearing out their websites and political ads of any mention of the unpopular Donald Trump.
October 2, 2026; 4pm: As Trump's DOJ is investigating whether former President Richard Nixon -- of the infamous Watergate affair -- got a raw deal, Kash Patel is busy collecting information to examine the FBI's past investigations and operations. Ken Dilanian's reporting suggests that the Russia investigation and Trump's criminal investigations are likely to be included in what's being called "The Patel Report."
October 1, 2026; 5pm: In 2025 alone, Donald Trump made 1.4 billion dollars from his family's cryptocurrency businesses, which include a Trump meme coin and a crypto firm created by his sons, called World Liberty Financial. His embrace of crypto helped him return to the White House in 2024 when crypto execs poured money into his campaign, but now those same crypto voices are speaking out against Trump's corruption.
October 1, 2026; 4pm: After nearly a year of the Trump administration attempting to smear their daughter and wife as a terrorist and actively blocking any attempt to investigate her murder, the family of Renee Nicole Good is fighting back. Today, at a press conference, they announced they are suing the Trump administration for wrongful death, conspiracy and other violations after her shooting death at the hands of ICE agent Jonathan Ross.
September 30th, 2026; 4pm: Nicolle Wallace on the Trump DOJ filing a judicial misconduct complaint against Minnesota judges who spoke to the New York Times about ICE earlier this year.
Monkey see, monkey do. In mimicking Donald Trump’s obsession with investigating the investigators and attempts to prosecute anyone who has tried to hold him accountable, Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee brought in the former Special Counsel Jack Smith today for his third appearance before Congress.
September 28, 2026; 5pm: Last week, Chinese President Xi Jinping was welcomed to the White House with pomp and celebration. This week, the U.S. Ambassador to China said that Donald Trump offered to sell ARMS to Xi. As Donald Trump cozies up to what the New York Times calls "the greatest military, economic and diplomatic rival of the United States," the White House is scrambling to do damage control, denying that the U.S. would ever offer arms sales to China.
September 28, 2026; 4pm: Amid a series of losses of experts and qualified agents, Kash Patel's FBI is yet again in turmoil after Co-Deputy FBI Director, Andrew Bailey, announced he is leaving after just one year on the job.
Yesterday, Donald Trump welcomed Chinese President Xi Jinping to the White House in what appears to be a start of a parade of dictators after he announced that he also intended to host Vladimir Putin at the G20 summit at his Miami resort later this year.
.Donald Trump’s sprawling effort to exert more power over our elections has faced setback after setback, but today, with fewer than 40 days to go until Election Day and early voting already underway in a handful of states, the highest court granted the administration a win.
September 24, 2026; 5pm: While White House reporters struggled to have their press passes restored earlier today, Chinese President Xi Jinping received a warm welcome from Donald Trump.
September 24, 2026; 4pm: The White House restored the press passes for MS NOW White House correspondents today after almost being in outright defiance of a court order and a potential constitutional crisis. Judge Timothy Kelly ordered the White House to restore CNN, MS NOW, and Politico's White House Access after the Trump administration banned the news organizations from White House grounds late last week.
September 23rd, 2026; 4pm: Nicolle Wallace anchors continuing coverage of a hearing over Trump's ban of MSNOW, CNN and Politico from the White House -- as legal experts call the move an attack on free speech and the First Amendment.
September 23rd, 2026; 4pm: Nicolle Wallace anchors continuing coverage of a hearing over Trump's ban of MSNOW, CNN and Politico from the White House -- as legal experts call the move an attack on free speech and the First Amendment.
September 22, 2026, 5pm; The country is facing levels of corruption so blatant and so undeniable that we’re now even seeing a member of Trump’s own party feel compelled to speak out.
This afternoon, perhaps more than ever, Donald Trump, ever the aspirational autocrat, is draping himself in all the trappings of an old-school dictator.
September 21, 2026; 5pm: As world leaders touch down in the U.S. for the UN General Assembly tomorrow, there are endless headlines about Trump's corruption, his weaponization of the DOJ, and his assault on the free press. It's a pressing moment for the sanctity of democracy, not just in the United States, but worldwide.
September 21, 2026; 4pm: Journalists, news anchors, and correspondents report ON the news. They don't want to BE the news. Today, MS NOW has to make an exception. MS NOW joins CNN and Politico in a lawsuit against the Trump administration after Trump removed our White House access in the latest attack on press freedom.
September 18th, 2026; 5pm: Nicolle Wallace on brand new reporting from our colleagues Carol Leonnig and Ken Dilanian on how the Justice Department is aggressively pursuing Donald Trump's favorite myth -- mass voter fraud.
September 18th, 2026; 4pm: Nicolle Wallace on brand new reporting in the Washington Post today that more U.S. troops have died during the war than the Pentagon has disclosed, publicly bringing the death toll to 22 U.S. troops.
September 17, 2026; 5pm: The enriching of Donald Trump, his sons, and many others at the expense of the American people have reached such astronomic levels that it has left the confines of investigative journalism and become comedy fodder.
September 17, 2026; 4pm: The midterms are inching closer and Republicans are starting to publicly break from Donald Trump. A new political ad from Republican Congresswoman Maria Elvira Salazar calls Trump out directly for deportations going too far and for betraying the Hispanic voters who put Trump in the White House in 2024.
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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.
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