Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan
Hosted by Margaret Brennan · CBS News
3.5from 1,129 ratings
- 516
- Episodes
- 178
- Transcribed
- 1,129
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2018
- First episode
- 126K
- YouTube views
About Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan
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+.
- Publisher
- CBS News
- Category
- news
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 14 Jan 2018
- Latest episode
- 20 Sept 2026
Latest episodes
178 of 516 episodes have a transcript.
20 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Rep. Ro Khanna, Sen. Bill Cassidy, Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar, Gary Cohn
13 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, Gov. Spencer Cox, Michigan Democratic Senate Candidate Abdul El-Sayed
6 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Energy Sec. Chris Wright, Rep. Jason Crow, Rep. Lisa McClain
Inside a recent episode
Rep. Ro Khanna, Sen. Bill Cassidy, Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar, Gary Cohn
Published 20 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] What are you and others in the government doing to help those who are detained when they're doing work there? Well, it's appalling. And while I have my disagreements with Secretary Rubio and this, I stand in complete solidarity with him, as does the China Committee. We cannot have American citizens or scholars in America be detained or disappeared because of what they say. And when I was in China about a year ago, We raised this issue, not on this specific case, but we had heard cases of Chinese students in the United States who were not being allowed to continue because they may have engaged in some protest or had an errant social media tweet. […]
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- Maria Elvira Salazar
- Ro Khanna
- Bill Cassidy
- Gary Cohn
- Dario Amodei
Reach and audience
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- YouTube views
- 125,543
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 3.5 / 5
- 1,053 ratings
- Spotify
- 3.6 / 5
- 76 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 92 / 100
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- Quality
- 91
- Social presence
- 97
- YouTube
- 82
- Engagement
- 100
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