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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Sen. Richard Blumenthal, Rep. John James, David Becker
This week on Face the Nation, an update from Nepal following last week's devastating flooding, and a look back at the chaotic withdrawal from the longest war in US histor
Aug 30 46 min
Minneapolis Federal Reserve President Neel Kashkari, Dr. Mehmet Oz, Rep. Byron Donalds, Rep. Seth Moulton
This week on Face the Nation, new warning signs for the U.S. economy and mounting higher costs for American families. As Washington prepares for race cars to speed down i
Aug 23 45 min
Gov. Andy Beshear, U.S. Rep. Don Bacon, State Rep. Chris Rabb
This week on Face the Nation, democratic socialism divides the Democratic party...are mainstream democrats coming on board? And, is President Trump being too dismissive
Aug 16 45 min
Sen. Bill Cassidy, Sen. Bernie Sanders, NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya
This week on ‘Face the Nation,’ can a fractured Democratic party unite to flip the House and Senate in the fall? Plus, a deep dive into the challenges facing public healt
Aug 9 45 min
Sen. Mark Kelly, Rep. Mike Turner, Hugging Face CEO Clem Delangue
This week on ‘Face the Nation,’ Iran apparently blinks after threats from President Trump for a major joint US and Israel attack on Iranian soil. Heading into a sixth mon
Aug 2 45 min
Sen. Bernie Sanders, UN Ambassador Mike Waltz, Sen. John Kennedy
This week on Face the Nation, as the U.S. war with Iran approaches the 5 month mark, both sides are searching for a diplomatic off-ramp.
After nearly two weeks of strikin
Jul 26 45 min
Sen. Mark Warner, Gov. Kathy Hochul, David Becker and Chris Krebs
This week on ‘Face the Nation.’ America is back at war with Iran. Overnight, the U.S targeting Iranian drone and missile sites after Iran's revolutionary guard killed two
Jul 19 45 min
Sen. Tim Scott, Rep. Mike Turner, Amb. Michael Leiter
Today on Face the Nation, breaking overnight: Republican Senator Lindsey Graham has died from what his office calls a "brief and sudden illness" at the age of 71. We'll h
Jul 12 45 min
Extended Interview: NCAA President Charlie Baker
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 o
Jul 6 23 min
Extended Interview: Dr. Deb Houry, Former CDC Chief Medical Officer
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 Directo
Jul 6 45 min
NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman, Rep. Carlos Gimenez and Rep. Adriano Espaillat, NCAA President Charlie Baker
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.
Jul 5 45 min
Extended Interview: Senator Bill Cassidy
Margaret Brennan interviews Senator Bill Cassidy (R-LA) about his clash with President Trump over the war with Iran and healthcare policy.
Jun 29 55 min
Sen. Bill Cassidy, Sen. Tim Kaine, CBS Chief Legal Correspondent Jan Crawford
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 Republi
Jun 28 45 min
UN Ambassador Mike Waltz, Sen. Lindsey Graham, Rep. Jason Crow
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 issu
Jun 21 45 min
Sec. Pete Hegseth, Sen. Mark Warner, Sen. Mark Kelly. Gary Cohn
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 T
Jun 14 45 min
Extended Interview: Co-Founder and CEO of With Honor Rye Barcott
Margaret Brennan interviews Rye Barcott, Co-Founder and CEO of With Honor, about his new book Courage Can Save Us.
Jun 8 12 min
Rep. Jim Himes, Rep. Don Bacon, Rep. Ro Khanna
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 experi
Jun 7 45 min
Extended Interview: World Food Programme Executive Director Cindy McCain
In her final interview as World Food Programme Executive Director, Cindy McCain spoke with Margaret Brennan about the global hunger crisis.
Jun 1 18 min
Extended Interview: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy
Margaret Brennan interviews Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy about the latest in the war in Ukraine.
Jun 1 27 min
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Sen. Chris Murphy, Former Vice President Mike Pence
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
May 31 45 min
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I am a huge fan of all the Sunday shows but out of all of them, this one if my favorite for its substance, tone and the fact that it’s always there.
Quick example: this past week was arguably one of the biggest weeks with a federal grand jury indicting a former president. Face the Nation had helpful perspectives, which often differed, and it also do so while providing informative analysis.
The other networks couldn’t quite pull that off or didn’t event try.
Djw2108 · Jun 2023
I listen to all the network Sunday morning shows and Face the Nation is remarkable for pushing the guests to answer the questions and not just let them make speeches
Bleecker44 · Sep 2022
I used to listen without fail. However, the tone during the recent change of administrations made clear a bias, as did the particular drumbeat created during COVID-19 (note the odd outsized # of appearances by Scott Gottlieb. He is a smooth talker for sure but how is it that he managed to get such a regular spot?)
Ms. Brennan is a star, to be sure - best interviewer in the ecosystem of policy-centered journalists. However, being based in Washington has a negative impact on the show in addition to the positive. I wonder how the line of questioning might change if, say, Ms. Brennan lived outside of Charlotte or Houston. Yes, she has access by being DC-based, but DC is a bubble - a good one in many ways, but a bubble for sure.
Now that COVID is in retreat take the show on the road. Go to the middle of the country. See what happens. You’d be surprised. (Don’t assume you know how you’d be surprised. The assumptions are your bias talking)
Get out of the air-conditioned offices, out from behind the computers, and start rubbing shoulders with folks. Let go of team members who shoot the snarky remarks off camera. We know these folks exist because of the tone. It’s not a bad tone, but could serve a wider audience if it was less overtly “DC”.
bd157 · Mar 2022
John Dickerson is doing an excellent job of filling in for Margaret Brennan but is it really necessary to blast us out of our seats by cranking up the volume on the ads? I set the volume at a level which allows me to hear the host and his guests clearly without disturbing everyone else in the house but then along comes an ad to wake up my entire family. In the case of the ads featuring “Jill Schlesinger, CBS Business Analyst” I think they also wake up some of my neighbors.
It’s so irritating that, just on principle, I would never, ever buy any product or service advertised on the FTN podcast. Could that be what they are going for?
Onnanokomachi · Jun 2021
I have listened to Face the Nation for years and enjoyed it. I am sad to say Margaret Brennan ‘s constant interruption of her guests is disconcerting. The guest is unable to complete a thought. It is rude and says to the guest- “that response is not what I want from you!” CBS you are losing viewers.
Colgray2 · Mar 2021
The questions to Sen. Toomey were reasonable with appropriate follow ups. Mayor Lucas and Congressman Schiff seemed as if they were being interviewed by one of their staffers and Prof. Stevenson by one of her grad students.
This obvious bias only energizes the extremes in our political discourse, both on the right and left. I would like interviews with tough but fair questions and am disappointed Face the Nation did not deliver.
#33Mom · Jun 2022
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