John Heilemann
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Sep 23, 2026
Nicolle WallaceHOST
[upbeat music] This week's episode of the Best People Podcast was a fun one.
Nicolle WallaceHOST
Longtime journalist, my sometimes wingman, John Heilemann, joined me.
Nicolle WallaceHOST
Take a listen to what he told me about how he sees the prospect of Donald Trump refusing to leave in 2028.
John HeilemannSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Donald Trump tried to do this once before.
Nicolle WallaceHOST
We have reached 20 million downloads.
Nicolle WallaceHOST
It is fitting that my guest on the newest episode of The Best People is another dear friend, John Heilemann.
Nicolle WallaceHOST
Take a listen to a little bit of our oddball, wide-ranging conversation about one of the first times we ever appeared on television together.
John HeilemannSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
There's one episode of that show where I completely lost it.
John HeilemannSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
I was looking for it the other day just because it's so funny watching you look at me going like, "Oh, my God.
John HeilemannSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
He's completely losing his mind."
Nicolle WallaceHOST
I mean, the record should reflect that I still look at John Heilemann that way.
Nicolle WallaceHOST
The whole conversation, that new episode, is out tonight for premium subscribers.
Nicolle WallaceHOST
Did you miss that? I want to bring into our coverage Media Matters for America President Angelo Carusone.
Nicolle WallaceHOST
And joining me at the table, Puck News senior political columnist and national affairs analyst, John Heilemann.
Nicolle WallaceHOST
Tom is still with us.
Nicolle WallaceHOST
Um, hoax is, you know, what is it? A noun, a verb and a hoax, um, if you're Donald Trump.
Joe ScarboroughHOST
And those states he was talking about, Kansas, Iowa, Nebraska.
Joe ScarboroughHOST
Now, those are states that are so predictably red, it's something they should never have to worry about, John Heilemann.
Joe ScarboroughHOST
But, um, you know, s- you know, playing it safe, you would say, "Oh, of course Republicans are gonna win Kansas, Iowa, and Nebraska." I don't know how much money I'd put on that right now if I were a betting man.
Joe ScarboroughHOST
Of course, I'm not a betting man, but if I were a betting man, I wouldn't, I would not move all my chips to the Republicans, 'cause in Kansas, you actually have a great political athlete in Kansas.
13 MINS LATER
Joe ScarboroughHOST
And I wanna...
Joe ScarboroughHOST
Le- let's show those numbers again.
Joe ScarboroughHOST
I, John Heilemann, have you seen numbers like this? I mean, again, we go back to diesel, and I want to hear from Jay Marton on this too.
Joe ScarboroughHOST
But go back up with, uh, these numbers.
Liev SchreiberGUEST
It's your life
Joe ScarboroughHOST
... you were trapped by John Heilemann.
Joe ScarboroughHOST
Like-
Liev SchreiberGUEST
Yeah
John HeilemannPANELIST
Hey, Abdul.
John HeilemannPANELIST
It's John Heilemann here.
John HeilemannPANELIST
Um, you're campaigning with Kamala Harris next week, and there's some, uh, there's some debate in the, among various candidates in competitive states about whether that makes sense.
John HeilemannPANELIST
You've got Mary Peltola up in Alaska, Rob San, Josh Turek, Adam Hamilton, who are all basically saying for various reasons, uh, "No, thanks." Uh, explain the, your rationale for why you think it's a good idea to have, uh, former Vice President Harris in the state, and then tell me which peninsula of Michigan you like better, the upper or the lower.
Tim MillerHOST
When you were working for Hillary in 2016, and I had, I had left my party and gone through a midlife crisis and got very high on my own supply going on cable news, beginning of my cable news career, telling all of my fellow Republican strategists that they, you know, signed up for disaster.
Tim MillerHOST
Like, there's a clip of me that goes around on, I believe, John Heilemann's show on Bloomberg, talking about [laughs] how Hillary was gonna win South Carolina.
Tim MillerHOST
Famously, she lost the election and lost South Carolina by, like, 100 points.
Tim MillerHOST
And so I, I'm just...
Cornell BelcherGUEST
This president is not only deeply unpopular from a policy and political standpoint, but he's deeply unfavorable also, so it's a double whammy on this president, and I think it pulls all of his numbers down and will be an absolute, um, anchor around any Republican who doesn't distance themselves.
Nicolle WallaceHOST
Um, John Heilemann has entered the chat.
Nicolle WallaceHOST
Hi, my friend.
John HeilemannGUEST
Yeah.
Mike AllenPANELIST
The petulance.
Mika BrzezinskiHOST
Um, we have John Heilemann here at the table with us.
Willie GeistHOST
But burn the, somebody's gotta burn the, burn the village in order to save it.
Mika BrzezinskiHOST
Mike Allen here at the table with us.
37 MINS LATER
John HeilemannPANELIST
People have very understandable fear, and they don't use it.
John HeilemannPANELIST
They just don't know.
Joe ScarboroughHOST
I, I, I, I really don't know how, John Heilemann, in 2026 I hope you use it, how in 2026 people don't use Perplexity or ChatGPT or you name it.
Joe ScarboroughHOST
What- whatever Claude-
Mika BrzezinskiHOST
Thank you.
Joe ScarboroughHOST
You know, uh, prior to John Heilemann giving us the numbers, I asked Rahm Emanuel-
Joe ScarboroughHOST
Yeah.
Mika BrzezinskiHOST
Mm-hmm
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