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Deadline: White House

“Where is the line for Republicans?”

Deadline: White House

Nicolle Wallace, MS NOW

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

4.56.4K Ratings

🗓️ 13 March 2026

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Nicolle Wallace, John Heilemann, and Rev. Al Sharpton discuss if Republicans have a line when it comes to Donald Trump. In the wake of the war in Iran, it seems as if the cracks in the MAGA coalition are beginning to widen.

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0:00.0

It's terrifying and it's exactly the opposite of what we were told leading into this administration.

0:08.9

That it's going to be America first.

0:11.2

Right.

0:11.3

And no more unnecessary foreign wars.

0:16.1

Hi again, everyone.

0:17.3

It's now 5 o'clock in New York.

0:18.5

For the better part of the last 10 years, we've asked again and again and again and again, where is the line for anyone who's backed Donald Trump in the past,

0:28.5

especially someone like Joe Rogan, whose support may have won him the presidency? For that matter,

0:33.7

where's the line for Republicans? Is there any point where they'll throw up their

0:37.5

hands and say, lie to me once, shame on you, lie to me 700 times and I'm out? Donald Trump

0:44.1

went too far this time. We haven't seen it. That's why we keep asking the question. For so long,

0:48.6

a lot of us, including me, have wondered if there is a line. If this afternoon, weeks into a war initiated by Donald Trump,

0:56.2

who swore, who ran three times on keeping us out of wars exactly like this one,

1:00.9

it does appear that the faintest, faintest line is starting to appear,

1:08.2

at least for some Republicans and Trump supporters, and for the American

1:11.6

people more broadly. It runs straight down the middle of Donald Trump's powerful political

1:16.5

coalition, the one he just assembled in 2024, even a pair of old Fox News colleagues. Watch.

1:23.8

I mean, Sean Hannity is Lindsay Graham by a different name. It's amazing to me to watch them cheerlead this. I mean, we've got seven U.S. personnel dead. We've got a girl school, 175 young girls dead in Iran. And there's serious dispute we'll get into who's behind that. But there's only serious dispute because the president is now saying that it

1:44.9

wasn't us, but his own defense secretary over his shoulder is saying, it's under investigation.

1:50.8

The defense secretary, by the way, another former Fox News colleague. It's not just Fox News, though,

1:56.4

and it's not just a Joe Rogan thing either. Right now, all Americans are grappling with the concern, the fear, the idea of another

2:05.3

prolonged war, images of deadly strikes conducted in our names as Americans, broadcast on

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