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Deadline: White House

“What happens if I speak up”

Deadline: White House

Nicolle Wallace, MS NOW

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

4.56.4K Ratings

🗓️ 26 August 2025

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Nicolle Wallace discusses Trump’s blue city takeovers, John Bolton’s continued defiance, and threats to abortion access at the VA.

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0:00.0

Here's the most important point here. Justice Brandeis, over 100 years ago, the first Jewish

0:09.5

American to sit on the Supreme Court. He said that we could either have a democracy or wealth

0:15.0

in the hands of the concentrated feud. He said, but we cannot have both. We are fighting for our democracy and our humanity right

0:23.1

now. This president's neshions of the Constitution will leave irrevocable harm on posterity.

0:31.8

That's why, as mayor of the city of Chicago, we are standing up to tyranny, and American cities

0:37.0

across this country are doing

0:39.2

the same.

0:40.9

Hi again, everybody.

0:42.3

It's not 5 o'clock in the east.

0:43.8

It is admittedly tempting to look away, to dismiss, to maybe write off as exaggeration

0:50.7

or political hyperbole.

0:52.5

But when people, like the governor and Chicago's mayor,

0:56.3

facing the potential of federal troops arriving on his city streets, suggests there's an

1:01.3

ongoing struggle in our country against tyranny in the U.S., we're going to ask you not to look

1:06.3

away. Because this afternoon, perhaps more than ever before, Trump appears to be on the verge of landing

1:13.0

a punch he began winding up years ago. It has to do with another word, dictator. When Fox News

1:18.7

host Sean Hannity gave Donald Trump multiple chances to disavow that particular and specific ambition back

1:26.4

in December of 2023, he promised he wouldn't be a

1:30.1

dictator, quote, except on day one, now on day 218, but who's counting, amid a federal takeover of

1:38.2

American cities. Here's Trump's second try in two days to address claims that he has become a dictator.

1:46.6

So the line is that I'm a dictator, but I stop crime.

1:50.9

So a lot of people say, you know, if that's the case, I'd rather have a dictator,

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