Deadline: White House Podcast

That knock at Pete Hegseth's door this afternoon? That's accountability. Try as he might to board up the windows, it appears it's coming for him whether he likes it or not.

November 9, 2026; 5pm: Today, Republican Rep. Thomas Massie introduced eight articles of impeachment on the House floor against Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. A vote can be expected tomorrow or Wednesday.

November 9, 2026; 4pm: In the aftermath of last Tuesday's midterms, Trump is making it abundantly clear that he has no intention or is incapable of abandoning his politics of chaos, cruelty, and corruption.

November 6, 2026; 5pm: Former Representative Beto O'Rourke, who has served Texans and worked tirelessly to turn the state blue in recent years, joins Nicolle to discuss the historic blue flips in Texas on Tuesday's midterms.

November 6, 2026; 4pm: Mere days after the country mass-rebuked Donald Trump and his administration in the midterms, Susie Wiles is out as Trump's chief of staff. In her place, Trump appoints Stephen Miller, the architect of the most brutal, inhumane immigration enforcement campaign the country has experienced in Trump 2.0.

November 5, 2026; 5pm: After Republicans were decimated on Tuesday's midterm elections, Pete Hegseth's future as Secretary of Defense seems to be in limbo with new reports of Trump asking his allies their opinions of Hegseth.

November 5, 2026; 4pm: As Democrats get ready to take office come January in the wake of the blue tsunami, Republicans and the Trump administration are busy conducting their post-mortem.

Midterm results last night rung in a resounding chorus from winning candidates saying the era of rampant and brazen corruption in our government stops now.

The American people have drawn some bright red lines around what they will and will not tolerate from their leaders.

We are watching democracy in action as all day voters have been heading to the polls making their voices heard, and that’s on top of the 59 million people who already cast their ballots in early voting.

No time to waste -- there's a lot happening at this very moment, and by the time we're through it all, at the end of this very program, we'll presumably be monitoring the first round of closures at polling places.

November 2, 2026; 5pm: Trump and his allies are STILL unable to find evidence of voter fraud in the 2020 election, but that doesn't stop them from using those conspiracy theories to justify attempts to interfere in tomorrow's midterm elections.

November 2, 2026; 4pm: The day before a very important election day in America's history, Donald Trump took to the stage in front of the reflecting pool in Washington DC, where instead of talking about the economy, cost of living, or gas prices, he talked about algae, pipes, and the Potomac River.

If on the off chance you got yourself a ticket to a rally put on by a Republican candidate for office, do yourself a favor and call to confirm the event is still on.

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.