NASA Chief, Military Leaders, and Governor Moore Head This Week's Guest Lineup

Sunday's edition of "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan" brought together a striking cross-section of American leadership, uniting the nation's top space official, a retired four-star general, a prominent Catholic archbishop, and a Democratic governor, all against the backdrop of an ongoing U.S.-Iran war reshaping federal priorities from the Pentagon to state capitals.

Senior White House and political correspondent Ed O'Keefe moderated the broadcast, which aired on CBS News at 10:30 a.m. ET and streamed on Paramount+ and CBSNews.com at 12:30 p.m. ET.

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman, the agency's 15th administrator, appeared as one of the most closely watched guests. Isaacman, a billionaire entrepreneur and commercial astronaut who made history as the first private citizen to perform a spacewalk during the Polaris Dawn mission, was confirmed by the Senate in a 67-to-30 vote on Dec. 17, 2025. He has been navigating significant turbulence at NASA since taking office, with the Trump administration having targeted more than 40 science missions for cancellation in its proposed budget.

Retired Gen. Frank McKenzie, the former commander of U.S. Central Command who now serves as a CBS News contributor, also appeared. McKenzie has been a consistent presence on the program in recent weeks, having discussed the Iran campaign just the previous Sunday on March 29. As the general who led CENTCOM under both Presidents Trump and Biden, McKenzie brought direct institutional knowledge of military planning for the Middle East.

Perhaps the most striking voice came from Archbishop Timothy Broglio, who heads the Catholic Archdiocese for the Military Services, USA, an institution overseeing more than 200 Catholic priests serving as chaplains across the United States military. His interview, taped April 2 by O'Keefe, drew immediate attention for its moral weight: Broglio said it is "hard" to see the Iran war "as something that would be sponsored by the Lord," arguing the conflict likely fails the Catholic Church's Just War criteria, which require, among other conditions, that all peaceful means be exhausted before military force is employed.

Maryland Gov. Wes Moore, a Democrat and the first Black governor in the state's history, sat for his interview on April 3. The conversation centered on the war's economic reverberations at home, including rising gas prices, creeping inflation, and climbing mortgage rates that are straining Maryland households even as the most recent jobs report offered some modest relief.

Rounding out the broadcast, a political panel featuring Amy Walter, publisher and editor-in-chief of the Cook Political Report; David Sanger, a White House and national security correspondent at The New York Times; and Jeff Mason, a White House correspondent at Bloomberg, was set to analyze the broader political landscape.

The lineup placed the moral, strategic, scientific, and economic dimensions of the Iran conflict in direct conversation, with four guests whose institutional roles span the military, the church, state government, and federal science policy.