Sanders and Mike Waltz appear on Face the Nation Sunday
Sanders and Mike Waltz shared Sunday’s Face the Nation lineup as Brennan tied the conversation to Pete Hegseth’s testimony and the show’s Iran coverage.
Bernie Sanders and U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Mike Waltz were among the guests on Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan on Sunday, a lineup that also included Republican Sen. John Kennedy and put defense and foreign-policy clashes at the center of the broadcast. Brennan opened Sanders’ interview by pointing to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s testimony to Congress, signaling a conversation shaped by Pentagon oversight and Washington’s latest security arguments.
CBS News said the program aired at 10:30 a.m. ET and streamed at 12:30 p.m. ET on Paramount+ and CBSNews.com. The Sanders transcript was posted the same day and updated at 12:41 p.m. EDT, describing itself as the full transcription of an interview with Sanders, the independent senator from Vermont, part of which aired on the July 26 broadcast.
A separate transcript page confirmed Waltz’s appearance on the same episode, placing the Vermont senator and the U.N. ambassador on the same Sunday stage as Brennan and Kennedy. That lineup gave the show a sharp policy contrast, with Sanders representing a left-leaning congressional voice and Waltz speaking from the administration’s foreign-policy side as debates over defense, diplomacy and congressional scrutiny intensified in Washington.
The July 26 episode also fit into a stretch of summer programming that had been dominated by international crises. CBS News’ July 19 Face the Nation episode centered on U.S. strikes back at Iran overnight, and a July 12 transcript featured Israeli Ambassador Michael Leiter. Taken together, the guests and the preceding broadcasts showed the show using its Sunday platform to keep the national conversation trained on the Middle East, military action and the limits of executive power.
With Hegseth’s testimony cited at the top of Sanders’ interview, the broadcast was set up around the questions that have been driving Capitol Hill and White House messaging: how much force the United States should use, how Congress should press the Pentagon, and how the administration should explain its choices to voters watching from a summer news cycle dominated by security issues.
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