Face the Nation on the Radio 11/7
Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan
CBS News
3.5 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 7 November 2021
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
On this week's "Face the Nation" with moderator Margaret Brennan; late Friday, the House passed President Biden's 1.2 trillion dollar infrastructure bill, a key part to the president's ambitious social agenda. Will these major projects begin by the Spring? We'll hear from Cedric Richmond, the Senior Advisor to the President and Director of the White House Office of Public Engagement. Senator Tim Kaine tells us how Democrats on Capitol Hill are responding to their losses on Election Day. CBS News’s chief political analyst John Dickerson and Cook Political Report Editor in Chief Amy Walter walk us through what Tuesday’s election results could mean for next year’s midterm elections. Former FDA Commission Dr. Scott Gottlieb has the latest on the COVID-19 pandemic. And FedEx Chairman and CEO Fred Smith joins us to discuss how his company is handling ongoing supply chain disruptions.
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| 0:16.1 | I'm Margaret Brennan in Washington and this week on face the nation. |
| 0:20.1 | President Biden wound up a rough week with a big win. |
| 0:23.6 | Will it be enough to end the perception that Democrats can't get anything accomplished? |
| 0:29.0 | Calling it a monumental step forward, |
| 0:32.0 | Mr. Biden applauded the passage of one of his signature |
| 0:34.7 | economic plans, a $1.2 trillion bill to update the nation's infrastructure. |
| 0:39.8 | They want us to deliver. Democrats, they want us to deliver. |
| 0:44.0 | Last Tuesday's off-year elections were a symbolic debacle for the party |
| 0:49.0 | and a harbinger of potential losses in next year's midterms |
| 0:52.0 | when control of Congress is at stake. |
| 0:55.0 | And the trends are unmistakable. |
| 0:57.0 | A Republican wave is underway. |
| 1:00.0 | I think the one message that came across was get something done. |
| 1:06.2 | It's time to get something done. |
| 1:07.3 | Stop, yell, stop talking. |
| 1:09.2 | Get something done. |
| 1:10.6 | But the president's social spending program, Build Back Better, is still the subject of intra-party |
| 1:16.2 | haggling. |
| 1:17.2 | Unlike the bipartisan infrastructure bill, Democrats who hold razor-thin margins in Congress will have to go it alone. |
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