Deadline: White House Season 2026 Episode 43 - Episode 43

Airdate: 2026-Mar-03

Episode summary:

4pm: In spite of already plunging poll numbers, President Donald Trump can't seem to escape tensions bubbling up even within his own party. Nicolle Wallace unpacks the war on Iran with Anne Applebaum, Mark Mazzetti, Angelo Carusone, Gen. Steve Ande and Sen. Ruben Gallego. 5pm: New reporting from MS Now revealed that, ahead of the joint U.S.-Israeli attack on Iran, Kash Patel's FBI gutted its global espionage unit, raising questions about whether Patel, as he claims, truly had no idea about the impending operation or whether this was a premeditated effort to circumvent would-be internal backlash. We discuss with Carol Leonnig -- who broke the report -- Andrew Weissmann and Michael Feinberg. Later in the hour, the latest on Trump's DOJ and Kristi Noem's testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee with Michael Schmidt, Miles Taylor and Basil Smikle. 

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