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.

PodSkip has analyzed 158 episodes of Deadline: White House, averaging 5.3 ads per episode (6% of runtime).

Episodes

"Blaming Zelenskyy and punishing his country"
Oct 16, 2026
It’s a common Trumpism: When things aren’t going well, never take accountability -- just blame someone else.
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"A billionaire cash wave hits the midterms"
Oct 16, 2026
When it comes to vital matters of finance developing today, the real question we have to to keep asking ourselves is why do three billionaires, including Elon Musk, currently account for more than…
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“An affinity for Putin”
Oct 15, 2026
October 15, 2026; 5pm: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is in a difficult position because to defend Ukraine, he needs to ask the U.S. for help with weapons and intelligence. However, Donald…
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“DOJ sues California just 19 days before the midterms”
Oct 15, 2026
October 15, 2026; 4pm: Just 19 days before the midterms, Trump’s DOJ is fulfilling its promise of going after voting in Democratic states. Today, the DOJ sued California minutes after the 48-hour…
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"Trump plays Russian roulette ahead of the midterms"
Oct 14, 2026
Over the past few days, Donald Trump has handed Russia win after win, especially with his lifting of sanctions on Russian diesel fuel and therefore putting Ukraine in even more danger as it continues…
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"From unpopular, then to toxic, now to radioactive"
Oct 14, 2026
Twenty days to Election Day, and the American people appear poised to slam the door shut in Donald Trump's face -- and in the faces of Republicans more broadly.
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"Guilfoyle is out"
Oct 13, 2026
It’s rule #1 in the Trump administration. Don’t look weak and desperate.
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"Just 21 days to go"
Oct 13, 2026
At a moment of self-made political crisis for Donald Trump and a breakdown among his supporters, 10 years after the drop of the "Access Hollywood" tape, the most pressing consideration for the rest…
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"3 weeks to go until the midterms"
Oct 12, 2026
October 12, 2026; 5pm: Alicia Menendez is in for Nicolle Wallace. With just 3 weeks to go until the midterms, Democratic Senate candidate in Michigan, Abdul El-Sayed, campaigns with President Obama…
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"Rep. Ilhan Omar's D.C. home raided by Homeland Security"
Oct 12, 2026
October 12, 2026; 4pm: Alicia Menendez is in for Nicolle Wallace. A longtime target of Trump's ire, Democratic Congresswoman Ilhan Omar's D.C. home was raided by DHS this morning in an apparent…
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"Trump's Grand Conspiracy Case is in turmoil"
Oct 09, 2026
October 9, 2026; 5pm: Alicia Menendez is in for Nicolle Wallace. New reporting from The New York Times finds that Trump DOJ's 'Grand Conspiracy' case, which targets former law enforcement and…
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"Republicans distance themselves from Trump's rank unpopularity"
Oct 09, 2026
October 9, 2026; 4pm: Alicia Menendez is in for Nicolle Wallace. As Trump's popularity continues to nosedive, Republican candidates running in the upcoming midterms are scrambling to distance…
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"Kimberly Guifoyle's urgent request"
Oct 08, 2026
October 8, 2026; 5pm: When Kimberly Guifoyle texted Trump donor and former lawyer Eric Deters to urgently send her $100,000 so she could pay off American Express, that request came with a promise…
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"The reality on the ground paints a far different picture"
Oct 08, 2026
October 8, 2026; 4pm: While the Trump administration tries to convince the public that the U.S. is in a strong position in the war with Iran, Senator Chris Murphy joins Nicolle in his first TV…
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"Republicans put rhetorical distance between themselves and Trump"
Oct 07, 2026
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.
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"Questionable hirings as we barrel toward the midterms"
Oct 07, 2026
With the FBI already humiliated by at least one MAGA senator over its lowering of hiring standards, one Trump official today is saying "hold my beer!"
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"Trump's 2020 losses still sting"
Oct 06, 2026
Donald Trump’s loss in Arizona, and specifically in Maricopa County, in the 2020 election stung him so bad that he is still not over it.
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"Trump's latest deranged fantasy sequence"
Oct 06, 2026
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 --…
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"The sheer volume of corrupt acts"
Oct 05, 2026
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…
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"Americans are ready to save themselves"
Oct 05, 2026
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…
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"Not the warmest welcome for their party leader"
Oct 02, 2026
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…
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"The Patel report"
Oct 02, 2026
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…
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"Donald Trump and crypto corruption"
Oct 01, 2026
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…
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"The family of Renee Nicole Good sues the Trump administration"
Oct 01, 2026
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…
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"Reshaping the Pentagon and the U.S. military in his image"
Sep 30, 2026
September 30th, 2026, 5pm: Nicolle Wallace on Pete Hegseth move to cut high level army positions as our country is literally at war.
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"Donald Trump's retribution campaign against public servants"
Sep 30, 2026
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.
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"Donald Trump is seriously out of touch"
Sep 29, 2026
Donald Trump has shown, across nearly every position, how out of touch he is with the American voter.
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"Attempting to relitigate Jack Smith's indictments against Trump"
Sep 29, 2026
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…
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"Rolling out the red carpet for President Xi Jinping"
Sep 28, 2026
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…
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"Another major shakeup at Kash Patel's FBI"
Sep 28, 2026
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…
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