Face the Nation on the Radio 9/26
Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan
CBS News
3.5 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 26 September 2021
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
On this week's "Face the Nation with moderator Margaret Brennan," confusion builds over who is eligible for COVID-19 vaccine boosters and when can they receive them. We'll hear from CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky and former FDA Commissioner Dr. Scott Gottlieb. South Carolina Republican Senator Tim Scott discusses police reform and the migrant crisis on the Southern border and Washington Democratic Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal discusses infrastructure negotiations. Plus, interviews with Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison about COVID-19, China and his country’s new security contract with the U.S and U.K. Finally, we sit down with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to discuss press freedom in Turkey and the US exit from Afghanistan.
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| 0:16.0 | I'm Margaret Brennan in Washington and this week on face the nation confusion |
| 0:20.5 | plagues the COVID booster rollout and challenges continue to hobble the |
| 0:24.9 | Biden presidency. Poorly orchestrated handling of problems like the |
| 0:29.7 | Afghanistan pullout, border and immigration problems, and unease about his handling of the |
| 0:35.3 | economy are now taking their toll on America's views of President Biden's effectiveness |
| 0:40.8 | and competence. |
| 0:41.8 | Part of it is dealing with the panoply of things that will land it on my plate. |
| 0:47.0 | I'm not complaining, it's just a reality. |
| 0:50.0 | Now at stake, the centerpiece of the Biden presidency, an economic plan including that trillion |
| 0:55.8 | dollar infrastructure bill, plus his domestic extra-extravaganza, three and a half trillion |
| 1:01.7 | dollars in new spending to boost the economy paid for |
| 1:05.2 | by tax increases for corporations and the wealthiest Americans. Key votes are |
| 1:10.1 | expected this week in Congress. Will the politics within the Democratic Party threaten the entire Biden agenda? |
| 1:17.6 | On top of that, inflation, millions of Americans still out of work and supply chain delays due to COVID are all slowing the economic recovery. |
| 1:26.5 | I think it's understandable. People being frustrated. Frustrated by, you know, I thought this was going to be better. I thought everything was working out. |
| 1:35.4 | And there is more muddled messaging to clear up when it comes to COVID guidance. |
| 1:40.1 | Just hours after the CDC authorized Pfizer Boosters for a limited number of Americans, |
| 1:45.4 | the president seemed to get ahead of the science. |
| 1:48.2 | I think what's going to happen is you're going to see that in the near term |
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