Face the Nation on the Radio 1/31
Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan
CBS News
3.5 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 31 January 2021
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
On this week's "Face the Nation," the race to vaccinate and the challenges of new COVID strains. What do states need to fight the virus and protect Americans? Moderator Margaret Brennan speaks with former FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb, Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont, and Miami's Mayor Francis Suarez. We'll also hear from President Joe Biden's Senior Advisor Cedric Richmond and Chicago School's CEO Janice Jackson, about the President's plan to re-open schools. Plus -- CBS News Foreign Correspondent Ramy Inocencio travels back to Wuhan, China -- one year after he visited the city the coronavirus was first reported.
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| 0:25.0 | I'm Margaret Brennan in Washington, |
| 0:28.0 | and this week on Face the Nation, |
| 0:30.0 | Chaos has turned to calm at the White House, but the challenges facing the newly elected |
| 0:35.6 | president continue to grow. |
| 0:38.4 | In the 10 days since taking office, President Biden has issued a flood of executive actions dealing with COVID-19, immigration, |
| 0:47.3 | Obamacare, climate change, overturning the travel ban, racial equity, transgender rights, the Keystone Pipeline. the There are new mandates requiring mask wearing when traveling, new efforts to bring order to vaccine distribution, and a third successful immunization is pending FDA approval. |
| 1:10.5 | We now have a national strategy to be COVID-19. It's based on science, not politics. It's based on truth, not denial. |
| 1:18.0 | But Mr. Biden's push to end the pandemic will likely be disrupted by mutating strains of the virus now spreading in the US. |
| 1:27.0 | Another roadblock? |
| 1:28.0 | He's having a tough time selling his nearly $2 trillion package of economic aid to Congress, even to some |
| 1:34.9 | members of his own party. |
| 1:36.5 | Cove Relief has to pass. There's no if hands or butts. With new accusations and |
| 1:41.6 | threats on top of increasing fears over the safety and security of members of Congress |
| 1:46.2 | Bipartisanship is in short supply on Capitol Hill |
| 1:50.2 | The enemy is within the House of Representatives. |
| 1:54.6 | Will anyone be willing to compromise? |
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