The Best People with Nicolle Wallace
Episodes
Best of The Best: Rosie O'Donnell Did Not Become an Artist to be Liked
29 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
As we reflect on 2025 and prepare for the new year, we thought it would be a good time to share an episode we recorded back in September that blends t...
Marc Elias Urges Dems to Replace Nostalgia with Forward Progress
22 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Marc Elias is a formidable elections attorney and a fierce defender of voting rights. As Republicans hone a strategy of subtracting voters from the ro...
Leslie Jones Asks MAGA: Why Do You Want America to Suck?
15 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It takes a rare kind of brilliance to be universally funny, and Leslie Jones is Exhibit A. With the release of her new comedy special "Life: Part Two”...
Rachel Maddow Has Some Advice for Those Who Capitulate
08 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
With the backdrop of intensifying scrutiny over the Trump administration's boat strikes, Nicolle’s friend and colleague Rachel Maddow returns — th...
Claire Danes is “Tough and Nervous"
01 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Claire Danes knew she was destined to act at five years old, and audiences have felt that certainty ever since – from her turn as Angela Chase in th...
Introducing "Rachel Maddow Presents: Burn Order"
24 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"Rachel Maddow Presents: Burn Order" is the story of one of the most shocking decisions in American history: the executive order to target and round u...
Best of the Best: Jess Michaels Survived Epstein. Now She’s Speaking Up
24 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Since the government shutdown ended, there’s been a renewed focus on releasing the Epstein files. And after the House and Senate voted to compel the...
Heather Cox Richardson: "People are Starved for Facts"
17 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
As an American historian and history professor at Boston College, Heather Cox Richardson muses, “ I don't predict the future, I predict the past.”...
Scott Galloway Wants to Make America America Again
10 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Scott Galloway — affectionately known as “Prof G” to his legion of podcast followers — is deeply concerned about young men in America. In his ...
“Pod Save America” Co-Hosts: Re-Humanization Needs to be a Goal Now
03 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“Pod Save America” began as a way to “narrow the distance” between the conversations former Obama White House staffers were having in private ...
JB Pritzker on ICE Raids in Chicago: “People are Traumatized”
27 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Governor JB Pritzker has mastered the art of standing up to Donald Trump. Whether he’s mocking Trump’s threat to jail him (“Come and get me, Mr....
Charlamagne Tha God: “We The People” Hasn’t Failed Us Yet
20 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Charlamagne Tha God’s more than 7 million monthly listeners hang on his every word for a reason: Charlamagne is plugged into real Americans’ lives...
Preview of “The Blueprint” Season 2
15 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Jen Psaki is on a mission to show us how the Democratic party can use this political moment to fight and win again. On Season 2 of her podcast, “The...
Martin Sheen is the Most Presidential Man in the Room
13 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Martin Sheen has been playing iconic leading men for nearly 70 years from "Badlands" to "Apocalypse Now" and of course as President Jed Bartlet in "Th...
Introducing Season 2 of “The Blueprint”
08 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Democrats are looking to regain power, and there is a whole lot of warranted debate about what a winning formula looks like. “The Blueprint with Je...
Anthony Scaramucci Thinks Trump Has "Lost a Step"
06 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Anthony Scaramucci, known as “The Mooch” to friends and foes alike, holds a unique place in American politics. A baseball fanatic and Goldman Sach...
Rosie O'Donnell Did Not Become an Artist to be Liked
29 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Rosie O’Donnell has never shied away from a microphone. And while her decades-long public feud with Donald Trump has at times been fodder for tabloi...
Joan Baez is Calculating How Much She’s Willing to Risk
22 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Legendary singer and activist Joan Baez still marches in protests; but she also performs in a circus, dances with drag queens and does whatever else s...
Jess Michaels Survived Epstein. Now She’s Speaking Up
15 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
At 22 years old, Jess Michaels was thriving. She was finding success as a dancer and model in New York City. Then, in 1991, she met Jeffrey Epstein. J...
Stacey Abrams’ Steps to Freedom and Power
08 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
She’s a voting rights activist, a prominent voice in the Democratic party and a three-time New York Times best-selling novelist; but more than anyth...
Ken Burns Believes in our American Experiment
01 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ken Burns is America’s documentarian: From the Civil War to Vietnam, baseball to the Brooklyn Bridge, his films are gospel for generations of Americ...
Phil Rosenthal is Hungry… And Subversive
25 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Life can take some pretty unexpected turns. Just ask Phil Rosenthal. The man who brought us “Everybody Loves Raymond” is now a global star in his ...
Jon Lovett: “This is not Policy Making. This is Vandalism”
18 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Pod Save America and Crooked Media founding member Jon Lovett isn’t just a podcasting legend or Barack Obama’s speechwriting secret weapon. He's a...
Melissa Murray is the JLo of Law
11 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When systems are failing, what do you triage first? That's a question that keeps constitutional law superstar Melissa Murray awake at night. As a law ...
Jacob Soboroff: “The American People Are Being Lied To”
04 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
From the war in Ukraine to the devastating wildfires in Los Angeles, Jacob Soboroff is no stranger to covering tragedy. His first-hand account of fami...
Tim Miller is Ready to Fight Fire with Fire
28 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
There is no pre-political Tim Miller. From a fifth-grade bet on Bill Clinton, to becoming a Republican strategist for Jeb Bush, to finally saying “G...
Jeff Daniels on the Enemy Within
21 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Very few actors have the range to pull off “Dumb and Dumber’s” slack jawed Harry Dunne, while mastering the arc of moral giants like Atticus Fin...
BONUS: The Youth Baseball Coach Who Fended Off ICE
15 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
BONUS: In his two decades of coaching youth baseball, Youman Wilder never expected ICE agents to show up at his practice. But recently, that's exactly...
Jimmy Jam on Prince, Janet, and a Nation Finding Its Rhythm
14 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Five-time Grammy Award winner, Rock & Roll Hall of Famer, and more Billboard No. 1 hits than any other production team in history – these are just a...
Sarah Jessica Parker: “I Always Just Believed in Us”
07 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Sarah Jessica Parker is the ultimate New Yorker. Andy Cohen says walking around with her is like “walking around with the Empire State Building.” ...
Glennon Doyle & Abby Wambach: Brokenhearted but Showing Up Anyway
30 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The names Glennon Doyle and Abby Wambach speak for themselves. Glennon, a bestselling author, activist, and podcaster. Abby, an American soccer legend...
Deconstructing the Manosphere with the MeidasTouch Brothers
23 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The real-life brothers behind the MeidasTouch digital media empire say building a resistance during Trump 2.0 is not that complicated: let your moral ...
Doc Rivers Refuses to Shut Up and Dribble
16 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Something about Nicolle: if she wasn’t a full-time anchor and part-time podcaster, her dream job would be to work anywhere near the NBA. So as the b...
Kara Swisher on Musk & the “Megalomaniacs” in Charge
09 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Kara Swisher is a boss. As a journalist, entrepreneur, and longtime podcast host, she understands the intersection between tech and media, wealth and ...
Rachel Maddow: Born to Dilly Dally, Forced to Fight Fascism
02 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On the second episode of “The Best People with Nicolle Wallace,” Nicolle’s “phone-a-friend" Rachel Maddow reflects on the weird reality of thi...
Jason Bateman Can’t Look Away
02 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to “The Best People with Nicolle Wallace.” Each week, Nicolle sits down with someone she admires for conversations that are illuminating, ...
Introducing “The Best People with Nicolle Wallace”
28 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On her new podcast, “The Best People,” Nicolle Wallace sits down with the smartest, funniest, wisest people she knows. These are the people who ar...