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​Sen. Tim Scott underlined his controversial “America is not a racist country” comment today on CBS’ Face The Nation. The South Carolina Republican made that remark on America in his rebuttal last week to President Biden’s first address to Congress. His remarks drew fire and racist comments from those who disagreed…

Democratic Congresswoman Val Demings, the former chief of the Orlando, Florida Police Department, said Sunday on CBS’s Face the Nation that the Ohio officer who fatally shot Mi’Khia Bryant acted as "he was trained to do." However, Demings later supported the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act, which has a clause…

Speaking to CBS News' Face The Nation on Sunday, French President Emmanuel Macron said travel restrictions for vaccinated Americans wanting to come to France will be "progressively" lifted from the beginning of May. This should come as good news for industry professionals hoping to attend the Cannes Film Festival…

Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti today gave an upbeat assessment of the city’s efforts to beat back the Covid-19 pandemic on CBS Sunday talk show Face the Nation. Asked if he feared a “fourth wave” of infections, Garcetti said, “hope really hangs on the horizon. I haven’t felt this optimism in 12 months.” He estimated…

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…