Nicolle Wallace

I shouldn't be here.

This shouldn't be happening.

I shouldn't even get to meet Robert De Niro.

But in this moment for our country, in this moment in our politics, we get to row in the same direction, towards something better, towards something brighter, toward a healthier state for our democracy.

Without any further ado, this is the best people, and this is the iconic, the legendary, the incredibly kind and generous Robert De Niro.

Thank you.

Thanks for doing this.

I've been a fan forever, and I really mean that.

I shouldn't get to meet you or know you, but because we find ourselves aligned in this existential struggle for the future of our country, we get to talk about that.

And I wonder if you've seen things realign in your own life because of this moment in our politics.

You've seen the Trump story so clearly from the very beginning.

Is that from knowing him as a New Yorker?

I like that.

I think people were late to call it what it was, right?

Like they wanted to make it normal because the brain can't process whatever this is.

And I feel like you never did that, right?

You always sort of called it the way you saw it.

Do you wonder, right?

Like, I feel like we wouldn't be here if the Republicans at the beginning had said like, get out of here.

This guy's nuts.