Face the Nation on the Radio 8/29
Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan
CBS News
3.5 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 29 August 2021
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
On this week's "Face the Nation," guest moderated by Ed O'Keefe, CBS News Foreign Correspondent Charlie D'Agata and CBS News National Security Correspondent report the latest on the violence in Kabul, Afghanistan. White House National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan joins us to discuss President Biden’s evacuation and defense strategy in the wake of a deadly ISIS-K attack on the Kabul airport. We'll hear from Former U.S. Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence Sue Gordon, who offers thoughts on the Biden administration’s response to a deadly ISIS-K attack and the threats going forward; Plus, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) discusses America's ongoing exit from Kabul and the security landscape moving forward. Hurricane Ida is expected to strike the Gulf Coast 16 years to the day as Hurricane Katrina. We hear from CBS News Meteorologist Jeff Berardelli and CBS News Correspondent Omar Villafranca. We will also hear from Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards and Baton Rouge Mayor Sharon Weston Broome. Finally, Former FDA Commissioner Dr. Scott Gottlieb breaks down the intelligence community’s latest review on COVID’s origins and what's next after FDA’s approval of Pfizer’s vaccine.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey Prime members, you can listen to Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan, |
| 0:04.0 | ad free on Amazon Music. Download the app today. |
| 0:08.0 | I'm Ed O'Keefe in Washington, and this week on Face the Nation, |
| 0:12.0 | a trifecta of catastrophes faces the nation and |
| 0:15.9 | President Biden. |
| 0:16.9 | Breaking overnight, Hurricane Ida is now an extremely dangerous category for a storm and expected to strike the Gulf Coast later today |
| 0:26.0 | with winds topping 150 miles an hour and potentially devastating double digit storm surge in at least three states. The forecast for |
| 0:35.2 | damage, grim. You know I is turning into a very, very dangerous storm. This will |
| 0:41.0 | be one of the strongest hurricanes to hit anywhere in Louisiana since at least the |
| 0:45.8 | 1850s. |
| 0:46.8 | We'll tell you where Ida is headed and hear from Louisiana's governor John Bell Edwards. |
| 0:52.4 | Then the dire situation in Afghanistan, |
| 0:56.0 | with just hours to go before the Taliban's get out of the country deadline, |
| 1:00.0 | the threat of more attacks on the Kabul Airport remains high. |
| 1:05.0 | Back home, the country mourns the 13 American service members killed in Thursday's suicide |
| 1:10.3 | bombing attack at the Kabul Airport. |
| 1:13.6 | We will not forgive. |
| 1:16.9 | We will not forget. |
| 1:20.1 | We will hunt you down and make you pay? |
| 1:23.7 | The president is already making good on that promise. |
| 1:26.6 | A U.S. drone strike killed two ISIS leaders involved with the airport bombing attack. |
| 1:31.1 | Will there be more retaliation against ISIS K? |
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