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CBS News Sunday Morning with Jane Pauley

Extended Interview: Jack Schlossberg

CBS News Sunday Morning with Jane Pauley

CBS News

News, Society & Culture, News Commentary

4.3943 Ratings

🗓️ 2 March 2026

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Jack Schlossberg, the 33-year-old grandson of President John F. Kennedy, is running for Congress in New York's 12th District. In this extended interview, he talks with correspondent Mo Rocca about his family; the skepticism and apathy of many voters for politics today; and why he is pursuing public office.

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0:00.0

His name is all you need to know.

0:12.0

John Bouvier-Kennedy Schlausberg, grandson of President John F. Kennedy.

0:17.0

Sunday mornings Mo Rocca had a chance to sit down with Jack Schlossberg. Now a candidate for Congress. My dad, he's an artist, he made me that for my birthday one year. Who you see is who I love. It's wonderful to have a parent who's an artist. Yes, oh my God. Yeah, and a dad who loves you no matter what. Yeah, yeah. And how does he feel about you running for office?

0:38.2

Oh my God.

0:39.0

He was like about time, let's go. Come on. Really? My son, my son, the politician, let's go. He knows I'm born for this. Is that right? Oh, yeah. You're being serious? Absolutely. My dad believes in me so much. Both my parents are so excited about our campaign. and they come to all of our events.

0:52.8

They're cheering me on.

0:53.7

They think, they've watched me.

0:55.2

You know, there's a lot of pictures

0:56.0

over there for me from high school,

0:57.4

and they've watched me. There's a lot of pictures over there for me from high school. And they've known I've loved and been obsessed with politics for the right reasons my whole life just because I couldn't help but be interested in what was happening to our country. I couldn't help but care about immigration and healthcare and education and those issues. And I put myself in situations to learn about that.

1:11.4

And they're so proud now to see what I've built, the following I've built.

1:15.6

My parents get such a kick out of it when people start cheering me on on the street.

1:19.4

They can't believe it.

1:20.2

They think it's so awesome.

1:21.2

And they're proud that I've been speaking out and speaking loudly against what our whole family

1:25.5

sees as a hostile takeover of a democracy by a president who is cruel and corrupt and an unconstitutional person. Your mother is a very, it seems like a very private person. Will she campaign for you? No, she's already been out there waving the flag. She's all jack for New York all the time. She loves it. She's so proud. Okay, this whiteboard. Did you do this for us?

1:45.5

No, are you kidding me? So I lie down in bed at night and I can look at my plans. So we've got Jack's fast track plan, how to protect houses of worship in New York, Jack's tariff plan, lower the cost of food and clothes. The housing plan, deduct your rent from your taxes. If you rent in New York 12 like so many people do, you should be be able to deduct your rent from your taxes just like a mortgage interest payment. Why don't we have that? That's out of control. Nite your tenants. We need to fix it now. New York City Housing Authority, public housing, people deserve to be living in dignified, safe conditions, and we need to invest in public housing. But if you didn't like that, you might like the ricochet rule. Keeping illegal guns out of New York 12 by putting a penalty on states that export and contribute to the flow of illegal guns trafficking into New York State. We want to shake 50,000 hands in New York 12. And we can't forget about nurses, actors, the arts would make this city so great, and child care, the Fran Act, named after the nanny, of course.

2:37.6

Okay, for Fran Trasher, right, for the nanny.

2:40.3

And good theme song.

2:41.9

The actor act, that's interesting.

2:44.4

Yeah, we think that talent should be able to, talent is getting screwed by management too often.

2:49.7

And so we want to make sure that people can deduct also the talent fees that they pay for their agents from their taxes too. We gotta save people money. People are hurting in New York 12. People are not, people think they can't afford to live here anymore. Especially artists which make this place so amazing. We gotta help them out. There's a lot more we can do. And what is this here? here. So this is a sign that I was given from somebody in the mail, mailed it to me, when I was in college. And it's our man Jack. It's from 1960s for my grandpa's campaign. So that was their slogan. And I always thought it was cool. And so we got our Jack for New York logo, which looks kind of similar. Didn't your cousin't, didn't your cousin, R.F.K. Jr., repurpose an ad?

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