Deadline: White House

“Legally incomprehensible”

Episode Summary

Alicia Menendez — in for Nicolle Wallace — on the escalation of military presence in the Caribbean, the Pentagon's new press corps, and Virginia Giuffre's memoir.

Episode Notes

October 24th, 2025, 5pm: Today, Pete Hegseth has ordered the Navy’s most advanced aircraft carrier to the Caribbean; this comes as Donald Trump muses that his administration could soon plan land strikes in Venezuela. Alicia Menendez — in for Nicolle Wallace — along with a panel of political and military experts discuss Trump’s planned expansion of military presence in the Caribbean. Plus, the Pentagon announcing their new, mostly right-winged press corps and a new memoir detailing harrowing abuse from Jeffrey Epstein.

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