Extended Interview: America's Mayors Panel
Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan
CBS News
3.5 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 3 February 2026
⏱️ 32 minutes
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A bipartisan conversation with four of America’s Mayors. Local leaders tell us how national politics is impacting their communities.
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| 0:30.3 | Hi, this is Margaret Brennan, moderator of Face the Nation and Chief Foreign Affairs correspondent at CBS News. |
| 0:36.3 | Last week, mayors from around the country were in Washington |
| 0:39.2 | for a meeting of the U.S. Conference of Mayors. A few of them joined me for a conversation about |
| 0:44.6 | affordability and other issues facing their communities. Here's that conversation. We're joined now |
| 0:51.0 | by a bipartisan group of mayors from across the country. |
| 0:54.3 | Republican David Holt of Oklahoma City, Democrat Eileen Higgins of Miami, |
| 0:59.8 | Democrat Quentin Lucas of Kansas City, and Republican Mark Freeman of Mesa, Arizona. |
| 1:05.4 | And it's good to have you all here in town at the table together. |
| 1:09.2 | Speaking in a bipartisan way. |
| 1:11.6 | There are so many things that you see on the ground operating your cities. |
| 1:16.6 | And what we see in our polling again and again is the number one issue for people when they |
| 1:21.6 | say it's the economy, what they really mean is the cost of living. |
| 1:25.6 | And the biggest contributor to that really is housing, |
| 1:29.2 | shelter costs right now, really burdening people. And I want to start with you, Mayor Higgins. |
| 1:34.1 | Miami, we looked it up. It's the least affordable rental market of any major city, |
| 1:39.1 | median price for condos and single family homes, up more than 80% since COVID. So many people |
| 1:44.0 | moved in there |
| 1:44.8 | around that period of time. You've been trying to make government land available to develop |
| 1:50.2 | on. Is that working? Are you going to make a dent in prices? Well, what I can tell you is the |
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