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Amid growing panic among the unemployed as the pandemic economic lockdown continues, White House chief of staff Mark Meadows said Sunday on CBS’s Face The Nation that the Republicans and Democrats are not close to a deal. "We still have a long ways to go," said Meadows, one of the chief negotiators with Treasury…

The impeachment inquiry has gripped Washington in a kind of information warfare, putting added pressure on Face the Nation and other D.C. Sunday morning shows to sift through spin and call out obfuscation. That will be even more the case in the coming weeks, as the inquiry enters a new phase, with plans to launch publi…

UPDATED: On Sunday, Meet the Press and Face the Nation had segments discussing and unpacking the impeachment inquiry Donald Trump is facing — and, as expected, he did not like it. On Meet the Press, Sen. Ron Johnson went toe-to-toe with Chuck Todd as he expressed his distrust towards the CIA and FBI. He also addressed…

​Controversial Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota made her first Sunday news show appearance on CBS’s Face The Nation, addressing comments made last week by the son of a 9/11 victim, who accused her of not understanding the outrage caused by her previously dismissive comments on the attack. Show moderator Margaret Brennan…

President Donald Trump says he would steer youngest son Barron away from playing football, calling it a “dangerous sport” but a “great product.” "I just don't like the reports I see coming out having to do with football. It's a dangerous sport,” Trump said in the traditional POTUS Super Bowl Sunday sit-down with the…

President Donald Trump will brave an interview with CBS for Super Bowl Sunday, after bailing on the tradition last year when he could not strike a deal with NBC News. Trump will sit down for a rare interview non-Fox News interview; the pre-taped Q&A will appear on CBS’s Sunday Beltway show Face the Nation on February…

CBS News has named Michele Perez Exner to be communications director for its Washington D.C. bureau and Sunday Beltway show Face the Nation. Prior to joining CBS News, Exner was press secretary for South Carolina’s Republican U.S. Sen. Tim Scott. Before joining Scott's team, Exner spent eight years in the U.S…

It’s soul-searching time for the Washington, DC press corps and national political media. After a White House Correspondents Awards dinner that some felt veered too close to becoming an East Coast Oscars instead of a scholarship banquet, a panel of journalists confronted some hard questions on today’s Face The Nation…

CBS News has named Margaret Brennan moderator of its Sunday Beltway program  Face the Nation. The appointment fulfills the division’s goal of finding a woman for the job, sources say. Previous host John Dickerson was was moved to CBS This Morning to replace Charlie Rose after credible allegations of sexual harassment…

Samantha Holvey, a Miss America contender in 2006; Jessica Leeds, who says Donald Trump groped her on a plane in the 1970s; and Rachel Crooks, a Trump Tower receptionist who said he kissed her on the mouth in 2005 restated their claims this morning during a group interview with NBC News’ Megyn Kelly during her Today…

Update with Trump tweet, below Miller has at least one person in his corner. The president thinks he did a great job on the morning rounds. Previous Stephen Miller, the much-talked-about but low-profile (until now) 31-year-old advisor to President Donald Trump, made his debut rounds on the Sunday morning news shows…

Sunday’s Beltway shows should be humdingers after this week’s yeasty episode of reality competition series Road Rage to the White House. NBC’s Meet the Press has booked Mitt Romney — the 2012 GOP nominee brought out of his Hyperbaric Dignity Chamber (Stephen Colbert 3/3/16) by the Republican Party on Thursday to…