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Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan

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America’s premier Sunday morning public affairs program. For nearly 70 years, Face the Nation has sought to help audiences understand how current events affect their lives. Today, that mission remains the same. Hear moderator Margaret Brennan’s illuminating and informative interviews with elected officials, policy experts and foreign leaders. Face the Nation airs Sundays at 10:30 AM, ET on the CBS Television Network and at 12 PM, ET on the CBS News Streaming Network. Face the Nation is also available on Paramount+.

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Jul 6, 2026

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Extended Interview: NCAA President Charlie Baker 06.07.2026

CBS News Senior White House and Political Correspondent Ed O'Keefe interviewed NCAA President Charlie Baker this weekend about NIL rules, sports betting, and the future of college sports.

Extended Interview: Dr. Deb Houry, Former CDC Chief Medical Officer 06.07.2026

Margaret Brennan interviews Dr. Debra Houry, the former CDC Chief Medical Officer who resigned in protest after HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. fired then-CDC Director Susan Monarez.

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman, Rep. Carlos Gimenez and Rep. Adriano Espaillat, NCAA President Charlie Baker 05.07.2026

This week on Face the Nation, America celebrates its 250th birthday. We try to put politics aside and a take look at some of the things that make this nation so unique. Despite record breaking temperatures sweeping across much of the nation, Americans came out over the weekend to honor the country's 250th year of independence.  Fireworks, parades, flyovers, and red, white and blue were all on...

Extended Interview: Senator Bill Cassidy 29.06.2026

Margaret Brennan interviews Senator Bill Cassidy (R-LA) about his clash with President Trump over the war with Iran and healthcare policy.

Sen. Bill Cassidy, Sen. Tim Kaine, CBS Chief Legal Correspondent Jan Crawford 28.06.2026

This week on Face the Nation, the fragile detente between the US and Iran is disrupted and tensions over the war with Iran explode between President Trump and the Republican Senator he worked to defeat. Following a Capitol Hill shouting match between President Trump and Louisiana Republican Bill Cassidy over the Senator's vote against the war with Iran, we spoke exclusively with Cassidy about that...

UN Ambassador Mike Waltz, Sen. Lindsey Graham, Rep. Jason Crow 21.06.2026

This week on Face the Nation, Vice President Vance and Iranian officials meet face to face in Switzerland to kick off a 60 day period of talks to resolve the nuclear issue, but the Trump administration is finding that their path to peace is complicated.    Saying he wanted to avert "economic catastrophe," due to the shutdown of the Strait of Hormuz, the President negotiates an agreement...

Sec. Pete Hegseth, Sen. Mark Warner, Sen. Mark Kelly. Gary Cohn 14.06.2026

This week on Face the Nation, the U.S. and Iran might be on the brink of a preliminary peace deal. As the nation's capital gets ready for a UFC fight night on president Trump's birthday, officials say a deal to end a war in the Middle East is imminent.  We get the latest in an exclusive interview with Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth. Plus, we hear from two key Democrats on committees with o...

Extended Interview: Co-Founder and CEO of With Honor Rye Barcott 08.06.2026

Margaret Brennan interviews Rye Barcott, Co-Founder and CEO of With Honor, about his new book Courage Can Save Us .

Rep. Jim Himes, Rep. Don Bacon, Rep. Ro Khanna 07.06.2026

President Trump's grand plan for the Washington DC skyline isn't the only thing shaking up the city this summer.  Last week he appointed a man with NO intelligence experience to head up the top agency in the intelligence community.  Bill Pulte, who serves as the director of the federal housing finance agency, is the heir to a building fortune and close to the President.  He's rubbed...

Extended Interview: World Food Programme Executive Director Cindy McCain 01.06.2026

In her final interview as World Food Programme Executive Director, Cindy McCain spoke with Margaret Brennan about the global hunger crisis.

Extended Interview: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy 01.06.2026

Margaret Brennan interviews Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy about the latest in the war in Ukraine.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Sen. Chris Murphy, Former Vice President Mike Pence 31.05.2026

This week on Face the Nation, the diplomatic dance between the US and Iran continues as Ukraine makes an impassioned plea for more help from the US.  We spoke exclusively with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who issued a warning. and made an urgent request for anti-ballistic missile weaponry from the US, whose supply is already stretched thin by with the war with Iran. Back home, as midte...

Director Kevin Hassett, Sen. Chris Van Hollen, Reps. Josh Gottheimer and Mike Lawler 24.05.2026

Negotiations to move towards ending the war with Iran intensify, we have the latest on what we know so far.  Sources familiar with the negotiations have told CBS News that the latest proposal to move towards ending the war, now in its 13th week, includes a process to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, the unfreezing of some Iranian assets held in foreign banks, and a continuation of negotiations over Ir...

Extended Interview: Former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates 18.05.2026

Margaret Brennan interviews Former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates about President Trump's trip to China, conflict in the Middle East, and more.

USTR Jamieson Greer, Panel with Rep. Tom Suozzi and Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick, Taiwanese Representative to the US Alexander Yui 17.05.2026

This week on Face the Nation. Back in the US following a whirlwind diplomatic mission to China, President Trump faces backlash here at home when it comes how he's handling the economy While the reviews for the President's trip to China -- and details about the deliverables from the meeting of the world's two biggest economic superpowers -- are still coming in, it's Mr. Trump's efforts on the domes...

Sec. Chris Wright, Sen. Mark Kelly, Rep. Ted Lieu 10.05.2026

This week on Face the Nation, global energy markets remain tied in knots by the conflict with Iran as ships in the Strait of Hormuz remain at a standstill. As the administration awaits a response to the latest U.S. offer to end the war with Iran, President Trump attended a golf tournament at his golf club in Virginia Saturday, and last week settled on a new label for the military conflict, which h...

Kevin Hassett, Rep. Jason Crow, Sen. Raphael Warnock 03.05.2026

This week on Face the Nation, gas prices spike as the standoff between the U.S. and Iran continues and the Supreme Court decision weakening the Voting Rights Act sparks a scramble in some southern states to get in on redistricting before the midterm elections.  We take a deep dive on the state of the economy with White House National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett, the head of Minneapolis...

Extended Interview: Mike Wirth 27.04.2026

Margaret Brennan interviews Chevron CEO Mike Wirth about the Iran war's impact on the global energy supply. 

Acting AG Todd Blanche, Rep. Jamie Raskin, Ambassador Christian Turner 26.04.2026

This week on Face the Nation, shots fired at the White House Correspondents' Dinner. President Trump, members of his Cabinet, and hundreds of lawmakers and journalists were in attendance. A Secret Service agent was hit during the attack, but protected from serious injury by his bulletproof vest. The alleged gunman is now in custody. We'll find out the latest on the investigation from Acting Attorn...

Amb. Mike Waltz, Dr. Jerome Adams, Fmr. Attorney General Eric Holder 19.04.2026

This week on Face the Nation, the fight over the Strait of Hormuz could threaten the fragile ceasefire between the U.S. and Iran. The short-term truce in the war with Iran is holding — for now — but tensions are escalating over the status of the vital waterway where around 20% of the world's oil and energy supplies travel through. Iran again closing it to ships this weekend, and firing at vessels...

Extended Interview: Kristalina Georgieva 13.04.2026

International Monetary Fund Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva joins Margaret Brennan for her first U.S. network TV interview since the outbreak of the war in Iran. 

Ambassador Michael Leiter, Senator Mark Warner, Congressman Mike Turner 12.04.2026

This week on Face the Nation, Vice President Vance returns to the U.S. empty handed following a marathon session of peace talks with Iranian leaders. What's next in the now 44-day war that has sent gas prices soaring around the world?  Will the fragile two week ceasefire hold? And what exactly is President Trump's goal in the conflict?  We hear from the Israeli Ambassador to the U.S. Michael Leite...

Gov. Wes Moore, Ret. General Frank McKenzie, NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman 05.04.2026

This week on Face the Nation, the missing crew member from a downed fighter jet in Iran is rescued in a daring mission. Plus, tracking Artemis II as it makes its way to the moon. Breaking overnight, the U.S. Air Force officer in Iran, found and recovered after an urgent, two-day manhunt involving special operations forces in a remote area of Iran where the F-15E fighter jet went down. We'll get de...

Tom Homan, Rep. Jim Himes, Dr. Jerome Adams 29.03.2026

This week on Face the Nation, continued conflicting messages out of the White House when it comes to the war against Iran and why Americans are increasingly bearing the brunt of Washington's actions, or inactions. It's a spectacular spring in the nation's capital, but Congress has fled the city after showing they're incapable of consensus when it comes to funding the Homeland Security department....

Extended Interview: Former Iran detainees 24.03.2026

Two Americans who were previously detained in Tehran join Margaret Brennan to discuss their fears for people who are currently behind bars in Iran as the war continues.

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