“Well, hello there, everybody. It’s four o’clock in New York, I’ve missed saying that,” Wallace said. “It is so very, very, very good to be back with you. I have missed everyone.”Wallace then proceeded with the show and discussed Donald Trump’s criminal trial.Alicia Menendez had been filling in for Wallace during her leave after Wallace and her husband, Michael Schmidt, welcomed a daughter via surrogate.Wallace had phoned the show Friday to give an update and announce she was ready to return.“Everyone is perfect,” Wallace said about her family. “As you know, because you have missed your babies by sitting in that chair so that I can be with my babies for the last three months. It’s the older one that really milks the most out of maternity leave — the baby is always happy that I’m here. It’s been awesome to be with both of them.”With Wallace’s return, the MSNBC host is also launching a new series called American Autocracy that she said “is something the whole country should be grappling with, because that is certainly the head of the Republican party is running on this time.”Wallace has anchored Deadline: White House since 2017, with the show expanding to two hours in 2020 after becoming one of the network’s top-rated programs.
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