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 br…

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. Marines…

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…

NBC’s Meet The Press With Chuck Todd was the most-watched Sunday Beltway show in the news demographic, outstripping its competitors by double digits. The ratings come out the same day ABC announced Martha Raddatz has been promoted to co-anchor of This Week With George Stephanopoulos.

MTP, which is rated by Nielsen for…

UPDATE with details of press conference: House Speaker John Boehner just wrapped a no-detail-too-small news conference at which he arrived singing Disney tune “Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah,” explained he made the final decision to announce his resignation this morning after getting his morning coffee at Starbucks like he does…

Given that he helmed the definitive documentary series on the most destructive conflict in American history, it makes sense that CBS invited The Civil War (and so many others) creator Ken Burns on Face The Nation this morning to talk about the legacy of that war in context with the recent tragedy in Charleston and the…

It’s time to stop talking about Megyn Kelly’s menstrual cycle, but not about the “rage” roiling voters, CBS News political director John Dickerson told reporters at TCA today. And, yes, that means continuing to talk about Donald Trump, who is the  "vehicle of the moment"  by which voters are expressing their anxiety.

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