The Best People with Nicolle Wallace
Jun 29, 2026 · 48 min · 19 segments
Eddie Glaude believes that, “if we're not angry about our current moment, something's wrong.” Bonded by their experiences covering some of the nation’s most haunting modern stories, the author and…
Eddie GlaudeGuest
Nicolle WallaceHost
And I just wanted to start with, you know, I think we first met on the set of Morning Joe, and while everyone else was sorta chugging coffee and taking in, um, whatever hilarity Heilemann or Tooley or-
... you know, [laughs] a particle delivered, you just cut right to the bone all the time.
Maybe it's I'm a professor, but you know, it's part of what it means to be a teacher.
But I wanna just say that those moments, you know, you always get a little bit of heaven in the context of ordinary time.
And you know, our efforts in those early days and our relationship that we've established over these years, we've been doing God's work, and I just, I feel so blessed from that first encounter to today.
But I think it, it comes from, you know, being from Mississippi and my, not wanting my mother and my father to yell at me for not telling the truth, and being a professor, I think.
the truth gets, gets shaved off from people wanting to please, not really the people that we surround ourselves with, but a lot of people who do this.
And two, the only reason why I think I'm on television, the only reason why I think I have a public platform, is to say what I think is the truth.
I think Americans are hungry for what the theologian Howard Thurman called the sound of the genuine.
And I just wanted to start with, you know, I think we first met on the set of Morning Joe, and while everyone else was sorta chugging coffee and taking in, um, whatever hilarity Heilemann or Tooley or-
... you know, [laughs] a particle delivered, you just cut right to the bone all the time.
Maybe it's I'm a professor, but you know, it's part of what it means to be a teacher.
But I wanna just say that those moments, you know, you always get a little bit of heaven in the context of ordinary time.
And you know, our efforts in those early days and our relationship that we've established over these years, we've been doing God's work, and I just, I feel so blessed from that first encounter to today.
But I think it, it comes from, you know, being from Mississippi and my, not wanting my mother and my father to yell at me for not telling the truth, and being a professor, I think.
the truth gets, gets shaved off from people wanting to please, not really the people that we surround ourselves with, but a lot of people who do this.
And two, the only reason why I think I'm on television, the only reason why I think I have a public platform, is to say what I think is the truth.
I think Americans are hungry for what the theologian Howard Thurman called the sound of the genuine.
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