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Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan

Face the Nation on the Radio 12/9

Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan

CBS News

News, Politics

3.51.1K Ratings

🗓️ 9 December 2018

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

It was another whirlwind week in Washington, as President Trump announces two new members of his cabinet and says farewell to another. An analysis of these stories and more on this week's "Face the Nation."Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:16.2

It's Sunday, December 9th.

0:18.2

I'm Margaret Brennan and this is face the nation. President Donald J. Trump.

0:27.5

It was a dignified Donald Trump who took to the football field Saturday to pay tribute

0:32.3

to an American tradition, the Army Navy game. the But there is trouble ahead for President Trump back in Washington.

0:44.0

Embattled Chief of Staff, John Kelly is leaving at the end of the year.

0:48.0

Effers to cool off a trade war with China took a dramatic turn.

0:52.0

The stock market plummeted and prosecutors say the

0:55.1

president coordinated Michael Cohen's illegal payments to Mr. Trump's ex-mistresses.

1:00.0

President Trump denied he directed Cohen to make those payments, and also weighed in by tweet, totally clears the president.

1:09.0

We'll see if two key members of the Congressional Intelligence Committees agree with that.

1:14.6

Florida Republican Senator Marco Rubio and the incoming chair of the House Committee, California

1:19.8

Democrat Adam Schiff.

1:21.6

President Trump also made his pick for Attorney General,

1:25.0

William Barr, who served in the post under George H.W. Bush, and he named former Fox

1:30.9

News anchor Heather Nauer to be ambassador to the United Nations.

1:34.8

The new number two in the Senate Republican leadership, South Dakota's John Thune will weigh in

1:40.0

on their confirmation prospects and he'll tell us what's on the must-do list in the lame

1:44.8

duck session.

1:45.8

Finally, with economic anxiety and trade disputes making headlines around the world, both

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