Face the Nation on the Radio 10/31
Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan
CBS News
3.5 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 31 October 2021
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
On this week's "Face the Nation," moderator Margaret Brennan is joined by Secretary of State Antony Blinken for a wide-ranging interview including President Biden's climate action goals and the latest on the administration's diplomatic efforts around the world.
With the FDA's emergency use authorization of Pfizer's COVID vaccine for kids 5-11, how can we ensure kids of all backgrounds get a shot? We're joined by Dr. Claire Boogaard, Medical Director of the COVID-19 Vaccine Program at Children's National Hospital.
Supply chain issues have Americans on edge -- how will it impact the holiday season? How will the president's Build Back Better plan help the American worker? We'll hear from Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo.
While Democrats push ahead with climate-focused legislation, what's the Conservative answer to fixing the environment? We get the latest on policy with Utah Republican Rep. John Curtis.
With Democrats whipping votes to pass Mr. Biden's ambitious spending plan, what parts are critical for Americans, including the environment? Rep. Ro Khanna of California joins us for a look at the latest out of Capitol Hill.
CBS's Ed O'Keefe has a preview of the Virginia governor’s race, the biggest political contest on Election Day. Can Terry McAuliffe win again by nationalizing the race? Or will Glenn Youngkin’s hyperlocal focus on education succeed?
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| 0:27.6 | I'm Margaret Brennan in Washington. This morning on Face the Nation, we begin a week, |
| 0:35.2 | President Biden said, will determine the course of his presidency and whether Democrats maintain |
| 0:40.7 | control of Congress. At the G20 summit in Rome, President Biden found it easier to broker agreements with other countries |
| 0:48.0 | than his own party in Congress. |
| 0:51.0 | He ended a costly tit for |
| 0:52.8 | with Europe over steel tariffs and brokered a plan to block |
| 0:56.2 | corporations from shopping around the world for low tax rates. |
| 0:59.6 | We're going to continue together and prove to the world that democracies are taking on hard |
| 1:06.4 | problems and delivering sound solutions. But significant national security |
| 1:11.0 | challenges from adversaries like Iran still loom. |
| 1:14.0 | When would you like to talk with Iran to resume? |
| 1:17.0 | Dyer projections for a warming planet make the work at his next stop, a UN climate summit |
| 1:25.8 | even more challenging as experts warn the very survival of our planet is at stake. |
| 1:31.2 | We'll hear from Secretary of State Anthony Blenkin and Secretary of Commerce, Gina |
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