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Deadline: White House

“It’s a gangster state”

Deadline: White House

Nicolle Wallace, MS NOW

News, Versant, Ms Now, Donald Trump, Daily News, The White House, Nicolle Wallace, Politics, Nbc News, Washington Dc, Msnbc, Government

4.66K Ratings

🗓️ 16 June 2025

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

Nicolle Wallace on this past weekend’s nationwide wave of mass “No Kings” protests, fears of increasing political violence after the tragic murder of a Minnesota lawmaker and her husband, and the ethical questions surrounding Trump’s latest business ventures. Joined by: Tim Miller, Claire McCaskill, Rep. Jamie Raskin, Jacob Soboroff, Ben Rhodes, Richard Painter, Mike Schmidt, Harry Litman, Kristy Greenberg, and Alexandra Berzon.

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0:00.0

Hi there, everyone. It's 4 o'clock in the east. There's a two-liter word that Donald Trump hates more than any other. The word no. Since the earliest days of his second administration, the courts have said no. His first legal defeat actually came on January 23rd, just three days after his inauguration, when a judge

0:23.0

blocked his order ending birthright citizenship for those born to undocumented immigrants. Since then,

0:29.4

there have been at least 187 rulings that have, at least temporarily, paused Donald Trump's

0:36.0

policies and orders. Countless lawmakers have stood up

0:39.5

and said no. Corey Booker spent 25 hours and five minutes saying no, laying out his opposition

0:46.2

to nearly every facet of Trump 2.0 in what was the longest speech ever delivered on the floor of the

0:52.8

U.S. Senate. Even the world's richest man

0:55.8

and Donald Trump's biggest political benefactor, Elon Musk, found his way to know. His red line,

1:03.0

his breaking point was Donald Trump's so-called big beautiful bill. And now the American people

1:09.0

in historic numbers have spoken up and said no in a day of nationwide protests that broke all records.

1:18.5

Organizers say more than 5 million people turned out for the no king's protest on Saturday.

1:24.2

That was also the day of Donald Trump's birthday.

1:26.8

According to one data analyst, it may have been the single biggest day of demonstrations

1:31.3

in our country's history.

1:33.3

50,000 people showed up in New York City.

1:36.3

70,000 people marched in Seattle, Washington.

1:40.3

In Los Angeles, where protests have been taking place all week against Donald Trump's

1:46.1

immigration policies, as well as his deployment of the National Guard against the wishes of that

1:52.1

state's governor and Los Angeles city mayor, more than 200,000 people protested. This was the scene

1:59.9

in Philadelphia, where 80,000 people were seen

2:03.5

marching down the Ben Franklin Parkway waving flags and chanting. Over in San Francisco, people

2:09.5

formed a human banner that spelled out no king on the shores of Ocean Beach. And it wasn't

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