Face the Nation on the Radio 6/6
Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan
CBS News
3.5 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 6 June 2021
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
On this week's "Face the Nation," Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice discusses U.S. vulnerability to cyber attacks and the future of the GOP in the post-Trump era. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg talks about the progress of infrastructure negotiations -- will Democrats and Republicans be able to achieve consensus? Former FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb has analysis on the newly revealed emails from Dr. Anthony Fauci -- what do they tell us about the U.S. response to COVID-19 and the "Wuhan lab leak" theory? Bank of America Chairman & CEO Brian Moynihan joins us to discuss the latest jobs report and America's road to recovery. West Virginia Democrat Senator Joe Manchin joins us to discuss progress on bipartisan negotiations on infrastructure and voting rights. Ahead of Vice President Kamala Harris' first trip abroad to Guatemala, President Alejandro Giammattei tells Ed O'Keefe that mass migration from Central America is a result of "nothing being done for dozens of years."
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| 0:00.0 | A story of betrayal you would struggle to believe if it wasn't true. |
| 0:05.2 | Listen to blood is thicker, the Hargan family killings early and add free on one-ry plus. |
| 0:15.0 | I'm John Dickerson in Washington and this week on face the nation. |
| 0:19.0 | Continuing challenges for the Biden administration |
| 0:22.0 | as the country struggles to meet the president's self-imposed deadlines. |
| 0:27.0 | It seems like everyone is hiring these days, but we're still running 7.6 million jobs behind where we were at the start |
| 0:36.0 | of the pandemic. |
| 0:37.0 | We can't reboot the world's largest economy like flipping on a nice light switch. |
| 0:42.0 | Want to President Biden's solutions? |
| 0:43.9 | A massive infrastructure bill |
| 0:45.8 | aimed at accelerating the recovery |
| 0:47.8 | and repairing the nation's roads and bridges. |
| 0:50.5 | We'll talk with Transportation Secretary Pete Budigig. |
| 0:54.0 | And it's one more reminder, just like the colonial pipeline incident was, of how much we depend |
| 0:59.4 | on critical infrastructure. |
| 1:01.3 | But as negotiations with Republicans slog along, will Democrats have to go it alone? |
| 1:07.0 | Mr President, are you willing to walk away from an infrastructure deal? |
| 1:10.0 | And if so, will they all be on board? |
| 1:13.2 | I hear all the folks on TV saying, why doesn't Biden get this done? |
| 1:17.2 | Well, because Biden only has a majority of effectively four votes in the House and a tie in the Senate with two members of the Senate who |
| 1:25.8 | vote more with my Republican friends. |
| 1:28.8 | West Virginia Democratic Senator Joe Manchin wants to make a deal with the GOP, we'll talk with him about it. |
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