French President Emmanuel Macron and IBM Vice Chairman Gary Cohn

Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan

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🗓️ 21 September 2025

⏱️ 48 minutes

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This week on Face the Nation, as world leaders gather in New York for the annual United Nations General Assembly, we look ahead to the biggest issues the world will tackle. With Russia and Israel intensifying their offensive efforts in both the war in Ukraine and the Israel-Hamas conflict, we'll preview a crucial week ahead as President Trump heads to his first U.N. meeting of his second term. We sit down with French President Emmanuel Macron to discuss why France and other U.S. allies are moving ahead with recognizing Palestinian statehood, despite strong opposition from the U.S. and Israel. Plus, we traveled to Syria for an upcoming 60 Minutes piece and spoke to the country's new president, Ahmed al-Sharaa. He'll be the first Syrian President to address the UN in nearly 60 years. We'll tell you why he's such a controversial figure. Finally, the Federal Reserve cuts interest rates by a quarter point. What does that signal for the economy? Former White House economic adviser Gary Cohn joins us to discuss the latest on the rate cut, the cooling labor market, tariffs and more. It's all just ahead on Face the Nation To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	What I told people, I was making a podcast about Benghazi.
0:04.1	Nine times out of ten, they called me a masochist, rolled their eyes, or just asked, why?
0:10.7	Benghazi, the truth became a web of lies.
0:14.6	From prologue projects and Pushkin Industries, this is fiasco, Benghazi.
0:20.1	What difference at this point does it make?
0:23.9	Yeah, that's right. Lock her up.
0:26.0	Listen to Fiasco, Benghazi, wherever you get your podcasts.
0:30.8	I'm Margaret Brennan in Washington, and this week on Face the Nation,
0:34.8	as world leaders gather in New York for the United Nations General
0:38.0	Assembly, we'll talk exclusively with two of them.
0:41.0	Plus the Federal Reserve cuts interest rates by a quarter point.
0:44.0	What does that signal for the economy?
0:46.7	With Russia and Israel intensifying their offensive efforts in both the war in Ukraine
0:51.1	and the Israel Hamas conflict, we will preview a crucial week ahead as President
0:56.0	Trump heads to his first UN meeting of his second term. French President Emmanuel Macron
1:01.5	tells us why France and other U.S. allies will recognize Palestinian statehood despite strong opposition
1:08.7	from the U.S. and Israel. Plus, we traveled to Syria for an upcoming 60 Minutes peace
1:14.6	and spoke to the country's new president, Ahmed al-Shada.
1:17.6	He'll be the first Syrian president to address the UN in nearly 60 years.
1:22.6	We'll tell you why he's such a controversial figure.
1:25.6	Finally, former White House economic advisor
1:29.2	Gary Cohn will join us to talk about the cooling labor market, tariffs, and more. It's
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