Deadline: White House: Season 2026, Episode 40

2026 - 40: Episode 40

4pm: Nicolle Wallace covers new reporting from The Miami Herald which details how Jeffrey Epstein cultivated relationships with high-ranking officials in the Florida justice system, including the former chief of the criminal division in Miami, to gain special favors and lower sentences for his crimes. Later, Epstein survivor Marina Lacerda joins Nicolle to discuss her frustration with Pam Bondi and the Trump administration for their handling of the Epstein files release.5pm: Nicolle Wallace covers the threat to the safe and secure elections Americans have enjoyed and are promised by the Constitution. According to new reporting from MS NOW, Donald Trump is directing his counsel's office to find legal ways to establish more roadblocks to casting votes at polling locations nationwide. Trump is urging this despite his own legal counsel warning that such action could get him in deep legal trouble. Later, Nicolle covers the stunning story out of New York City today where a student was pulled out of her residential building at Columbia University by immigration agents who, according to Columbia's acting president, "made misrepresentations" about who they were and what they were doing there to gain entry to the building.