Deadline: White House

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.