The Best People with Nicolle Wallace
Aug 31, 2026 · 59 min · 23 segments
This week, we’re revisiting an episode we recorded back in May with MSNOW’s own Chris Hayes. Please enjoy! We’ll be back with a new episode next week. Chris Hayes’ antidote to anxiety is always…
Chris HayesGuest
Nicolle WallaceHost
I mean, do you spend any mental energy trying to figure out chicken and egg with these big stories? Is the Epstein betrayal the keyhole through which they believe the rest of what the pro-democracy had to say about the economy and the corruption? Or do you think it's just all crashing down on people? What is your theory on how the collapse happened? That's a great
I think that one, I think, useful category to think about is sort of low trust, high trust, right? Do people trust other people and trust in institutions? And one of the things about the US is we are a very low trust democracy.
In fact, We're the lowest trust country of pure nations, right? So there's all sorts of measurements of trust.
Do you think most people can be trusted most of the time is a question that gets asked across all the countries.
But the reason I think it's relevant is A, I think the information environment has exacerbated that, right? The way the algorithmic feed works, it feeds on that.
Mm-hmm.
And I think one of the things you saw with Epstein was that dynamics flip around.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Right? So
like, well, I wanted to release
I mean, do you spend any mental energy trying to figure out chicken and egg with these big stories? Is the Epstein betrayal the keyhole through which they believe the rest of what the pro-democracy had to say about the economy and the corruption? Or do you think it's just all crashing down on people? What is your theory on how the collapse happened? That's a great
I think that one, I think, useful category to think about is sort of low trust, high trust, right? Do people trust other people and trust in institutions? And one of the things about the US is we are a very low trust democracy.
In fact, We're the lowest trust country of pure nations, right? So there's all sorts of measurements of trust.
Do you think most people can be trusted most of the time is a question that gets asked across all the countries.
But the reason I think it's relevant is A, I think the information environment has exacerbated that, right? The way the algorithmic feed works, it feeds on that.
Mm-hmm.
And I think one of the things you saw with Epstein was that dynamics flip around.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Right? So
like, well, I wanted to release
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