Deadline: White House - Season 2026 Episode 138 -

4pm: Nicolle Wallace and guests cover Trump's next pick for Director of National Intelligence, Jay Clayton, and his difficulty answering simple questions about who won the 2020 election at his confirmation hearing today. Later, Carol Leonnig joins Nicolle to share significant new reporting about simmering tensions within JD Vance's Secret Service detail over requests by Vance and his family considered completely unprecedented compared to previous Vice Presidents.5pm: Rachel Maddow joins Nicolle Wallace to discuss Trump's moves to stop any change that might slow down ICE's mass deportation scheme, which has resulted in two deadly shootings in the span of just a week. Later, Ben Rhodes and John Heilemann join Nicolle to unpack Trump's willingness to plunge the U.S. military deeper into war with Iran just weeks after a supposed ceasefire.