Deadline: White House

Seeing the writing on the wall that Republicans could likely see a brutal election night on Tuesday, Donald Trump and his allies are laying out their plans to contest election results they don't like.

October 29, 2026; 5pm: Just 5 days before the midterms, the New York Times is reporting a grim mood in the White House. Meanwhile, Trump is cancelling his Saturday rally in Kansas in favor of what the administration is calling "tele-rallies."

October 29, 2026; 4pm: Brand new reporting from The New York Times finds that Jensen Huang, the CEO of Nvidia, was the target of a Chinese spy plot. This comes as Trump is refusing to regulate AI, arguing that the U.S. needs to advance in the AI industry to compete with China.

To understand what Charlie Cook of the Cook Political Report is calling "a unicorn election," look no further than what's happening in the South.

What does the end of the rule of law in America look like, and when will we know if it’s here?

No matter how hard Donald Trump and his Republican Party try, they cannot shake their problem of the Epstein Files.

With just one week to go until the midterms, it is becoming abundantly clear that Donald Trump has a 50-state strategy to save his party and his own ego from a humiliating defeat.

October 26, 2026; 5pm: Breaking News: Trump's DOJ charges Former FBI Director James Comey for a violation of the Espionage Act. This is the third time Comey has been charged by this DOJ.

October 26, 2026; 4pm: Around the world, the fight for democracy is ringing true and toppling strong-men leaders.

October 23, 2026; 5pm: Russia has returned an American hostage, and it is something to celebrate. What is causing many to pause, however, is what Trump was willing to give up in exchange. Trump lifted sanctions on Russia, which he previously signed into law. This is the latest in what former CIA analyst Julia Curlee calls Putin reaping the rewards for interfering in the 2016 election.

October 23, 2026; 4pm: Trump's DOJ filed a preemptive lawsuit against Alaska, seeking to block the senate election results if anyone other than the Republican incumbent, Sen. Dan Sullivan, wins. The reason? There is an unaffiliated candidate, Daniel J. Sullivan, who is also on the ballot. The DOJ claims that the election's integrity could be compromised because voters could be confused between the two Sullivans. This suit comes as polls place the democratic candidate, Mary Peltola, higher.

October 22, 2026; 5pm: Elon Musk and the White House are engaged in a robust game of pointing fingers at each other after Ukraine's Zelensky said that Starlink, the Musk-owned military grade system Ukraine uses in its war against Russia's invasion, was slowed and less functional.

October 22, 2026; 4pm: With the midterms just less than two weeks away, our democracy and election integrity is being put to the test as some Democrats are preparing for Trump and his administration to allege foreign meddling and fraud in order to justify election interference.

The New York Times reports that soon after a billionaire's daughter hired a lawyer close to Donald Trump, he received a pardon.

Less than two weeks before America’s midterms, Donald Trump and his administration are showing their contempt for democracies, not just at home but across the globe, as they seek to turn the world order as we know it on its head.

October 20, 2026; 5pm: Midterm elections are just two weeks away, and questions are arising about the safety of our elections, especially when the threat is allegedly coming from within.

October 20, 2026; 4pm: New MS NOW reporting highlights the chaos, disorder, and trauma military families experienced in February when Iran bombarded a U.S. Navy Base in Bahrain. The evacuation of that base was what some of those 1200 military families called "utter chaos."

Democrats have made fighting the Trump administration’s corruption and self-dealing part of their closing argument to voters.

At such a crucial juncture in such a crucial campaign, every rally, every handshake, every syllable matters, which makes Donald Trump's dual obsessions lately all the more puzzling.

It’s a common Trumpism: When things aren’t going well, never take accountability -- just blame someone else.

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 $600 million dollars to Republicans this cycle?

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 Trump has intensified his pressure on Zelenskyy, calling for him to be replaced, and more importantly, Trump seems to have an affinity for Ukraine’s biggest adversary: Russian President Vladimir Putin.

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 deadline to review an unverified list of alleged noncitizens expired.

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 to defend itself against Russia's brutal war.

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.

It’s rule #1 in the Trump administration. Don’t look weak and desperate.

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 of us is whether that was then and this is now.

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 while Republicans are inching away from unpopular President Trump, who is touring deep red places in the country.

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 alleged criminal fraud investigation. This raid comes 22 days away from the midterm elections, where Rep. Omar is up for reelection.

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 intelligence officials for allegedly 'undermining Trump's political career,' is in turmoil after the sudden departures of two key Trump allies: Joe DiGenova and Kurt Olsen.

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 themselves from Trump's policies.

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: what Deters called "absolutely a quid pro quo."

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 interview after his visit to American military bases in the Gulf convinced of the opposite.

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.

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!"

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.

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, 5pm: Nicolle Wallace on Pete Hegseth move to cut high level army positions as our country is literally at war.

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.

Donald Trump has shown, across nearly every position, how out of touch he is with the American voter.

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.

September 16th, 2026; 5pm: Nicolle Wallace on the war in Iran that has now made deployment far more dangerous for United States troops.

September 16th, 2026, 4pm: Nicolle Wallace on Donald Trump threatening to drag his whole party down with him as voters sour on his handling of just about every issue under the sun.

There are few figures in this administration as hidden from view as Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner.

In a 7-2 decision, with Chief Justice Roberts and Justices Amy Coney Barrett, Neil Gorsuch, and Brett Kavanaugh joining all three liberal Justices, the Supreme Court blocked the Trump administration’s attempts to curb mail in voting.

September 14, 2026; 5pm: As Trump continues to blame Ukraine for the price of diesel skyrocketing, the connection between the Trump family and Russia becomes more apparent with the news that Donald Trump Jr.'s wedding was funded by Umar Kremlev, a Russian oligarch with close ties to Vladimir Putin.

September 14, 2026; 4pm: As the CEOs of the largest AI companies band together to call for a slowdown of AI development and whistleblowers flock to the media to warn that AI is developing too fast, the question all of us are asking is: is the world prepared to respond to this code red?

September 11, 2026; 5pm: Just last year, special envoy Steve Witkoff made $257 million from his multiple businesses and $120 million from selling a stake in his family's real estate business. Meanwhile, Americans struggle to afford groceries and gas.

September 11, 2026; 4pm: On the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, Nicolle Wallace and friends reflect on the lives lost, the endless grief, and what it means to serve one's country in the wake of such tragedy.

September 10, 2026; 5pm: A second late night show host, facing pressure from the FCC, has been forced to not air his interview with Texas Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico. Jimmy Kimmel says his interview with Talarico will be available on YouTube instead. Stephen Colbert was the first late night show host to upload his interview with Talarico on YouTube instead of airing it on CBS due to FCC threats.

September 10, 2026; 4pm: Fuel prices are sky high, grocery prices are through the roof, trade wars with our allies, and now endless food safety issues. As we creep closer to the midterms and Republicans are busy with their "Trump-a-palooza," everyday Americans are growing increasingly disillusioned with Trump and the Republican party.

September 9th, 2026; 5pm: Nicolle Wallace on Trump's unprecedented gifts to White House staffers, including Natalie Harp, the "human printer".

September 9th, 2026; 4pm: Nicolle Wallace on the GOP Midterm Convention in Dallas featuring non-stop Donald Trump content.

September 8th, 2026; 5pm: Nicolle Wallace on Donald Trump, with his historically low approval ratings, focusing on anything except for what matters to voters.

September 8th, 2026; 4pm: Nicolle Wallace on our northern neighbors' retaliatory tariffs going in full effect.

September 7, 2026; 5pm: Jackie Alemany is in for Nicolle Wallace. The November midterm elections are right around the corner and Donald Trump is continuing his crusade to transform mail-in voting — even as some states have ALREADY kicked off their mail-in voting programs.

Despite promising reduced inflation, lower gas prices, and economic prosperity on the campaign trail, Trump has enriched himself by billions while everyday Americans, even those who voted for him, are left struggling to get by.

States are standing up to Donald Trump's unconstitutional attempt to control our elections.

September 3, 2026; 5pm: There's a non-zero chance that a federal agent is armed with YOUR highly personal data, scouring state voter systems -- as part of an EXPANSIVE new fishing expedition, designed to uncover widespread "voter fraud."

September 3, 2026; 4pm: For anyone who wonders why we spend so much time covering the manifestly unqualified, episodically unstable and fearlessly grifty members of Donald Trump's cabinet, it’s because the personal and ethical standards and qualifications of a leader trickle down - for better and sadly for worse.

September 2nd, 2026; 5pm: Nicolle Wallace on Donald Trump's allergy to actual governance -- leaving his supporters with meaningless gestures lacking any substantive solution to the very real problems he created.

September 2nd, 2026; 4pm: Nicolle Wallace on Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, in his 19 months on the job, overseeing a massive purge of high-ranking military officials.

September 1st, 2026; 5pm: Alicia Menendez, in for Nicolle Wallace, on last night's resignation of Army Secretary Dan Driscoll.

September 1st, 2026; 4pm: Alicia Menendez, in for Nicolle Wallace, on Republicans in one of Texas' largest counties debating a proposal that would eliminate their polling sites in November's midterms by thirty percent, as polls show Democratic Texas Senate candidate James Talarico surging.

August 31, 2026; 5pm: Alicia Menendez is in for Nicolle Wallace. Not wanting to be blamed for what are expected to be major losses for Republicans in November, Donald Trump's latest message is – it's them, not me.

August 31, 2026; 4pm: Alicia Menendez is in for Nicolle Wallace. As Trump resumes strikes on Iran for the first time since July and Trump's repeated claims that Iran was "desperate" to make a deal, it is becoming undeniable that the war with Iran has all the makings of a quagmire.

August 28, 2026; 5pm: Jacob Soboroff is in for Nicolle Wallace. As the midterms loom closer and Trump's approval numbers plummet, even Trump's cabinet is struggling to sell his record.

August 28, 2026; 4pm: Jacob Soboroff is in for Nicolle Wallace. "A little excursion" is how Donald Trump described it, at least at the beginning. Not even a REAL WAR... just some swift military action. A conflict that would take all of, quote, "four to five weeks." So much for that.

August 27, 2026; 5pm: Jacob Soboroff is in for Nicolle Wallace. As we speak, a complex legal battle is playing out across the country that could significantly impact November’s midterms -- which are just 68 days away. The issue at hand is the implementation of new rules laid out in Donald Trump's executive order targeting mail in ballots.

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.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth can tout his leadership all he wants, but according to new reporting from MS NOW, the sea change those actually inside the ranks of the military are experiencing is not a positive one.

Ahead of midterms, Donald Trump is throwing stuff at the wall in order to see what sticks.

The legendary country music star sadly died today at the age of 80. She will be remembered for her contributions to both the world of entertainment through her songs, films and tv shows as well as for her contributions to humanity.

It may very well be impossible to count on just one hand the number of people as universally beloved in the history of this country as the legend herself Dolly Parton. And so, it's with great anguish that we'll share with you Dolly Parton died today at the age of 80.

We begin this hour with breaking news out of the United States Supreme Court, which has just granted Donald Trump a win in his fight to take control over our elections.

This hour, at a highly flammable moment for our American economy, Donald Trump is lighting another match -- igniting what could become a brutal trade war.

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.