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On this “Face the Nation” broadcast, moderated by Margaret Brennan:
- Sen. J.D. Vance, Republican of Ohio
- Sen. Gary Peters, Democrat of Michigan
- Oksana Markarova, Ukrainian ambassador to the U.S.
- Chris Krebs, the previous director of CISA and a CBS Information cybersecurity knowledgeable and analyst
- Former Protection Secretary Robert Gates
Click on right here to browse full transcripts of “Face the Nation.”
MARGARET BRENNAN: I am Margaret Brennan in Washington.
And this week on Face the Nation: From the courtroom to the marketing campaign path, election 2024 is in full swing. Crisscrossing key states, former President Trump and President Biden spent the weekend rallying essential voting teams nearly one month earlier than they’ve agreed to face off within the first presidential debate of 2024.
However will it’s sufficient to prove voters?
We are going to discuss to Ohio Senator J.D. Vance, a doable working mate for Mr. Trump and one of many Republicans who confirmed as much as help the previous president in New York, the place he faces expenses of falsifying enterprise information to repay an grownup movie star to learn his 2016 marketing campaign.
And we’ll hear from Michigan Senator Gary Peters, who’s in command of defending Democrats’ slim majority.
Plus: new threats to our elections. What do we have to learn about overseas interference and the hazards of A.I.? We are going to get the most recent from cybersecurity knowledgeable and analyst Chris Krebs.
Then: Russia’s advance on Ukraine’s second largest metropolis of Kharkiv marks certainly one of Moscow’s largest territorial positive factors thus far. Ukrainian Ambassador Oksana Markarova will be part of us with the most recent.
Lastly, Robert Gates as soon as led the CIA and the Protection Division, serving beneath eight presidents. We are going to get his ideas on the state of U.S. nationwide safety, the 2024 election and extra.
It is all simply forward on Face the Nation.
Good morning, and welcome to Face the Nation.
With Election Day lower than six months away, President Biden is navigating a number of challenges at house and overseas. His nationwide safety adviser is in Israel immediately for talks with embattled Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, because the conflict in Gaza enters its eighth month.
Netanyahu himself is going through an ultimatum from a member of his conflict cupboard, Benny Gantz, who’s the president of the USA who’s threatening to stop authorities until a postwar plan for Gaza is delivered by June 8. Earlier this week, the protection minister additionally publicly questioned Netanyahu’s technique.
And that battle abroad is making waves at house. Voters’ dissatisfaction with President Biden’s dealing with of the conflict in Gaza is overshadowing his graduation handle at Morehouse Faculty in Atlanta this morning, the place some college students and school have protested his look.
The speech is simply one of many stops this weekend aimed toward shoring up help from black voters. Latest polling suggests he is falling behind his opponent in key states. A brand new CBS ballot reveals the president trailing Trump by 5 factors in Arizona, regardless of Biden successful that state in 2020. And, in Florida, Trump is comfortably up by 9 after successful that state within the final two cycles.
We start this morning with Nikole Killion, who’s in Atlanta.
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PROTESTER: Free, free Palestine!
NIKOLE KILLION (voice-over): Protesters greeted President Biden exterior of Morehouse forward of his graduation handle to graduates on the all-male traditionally black faculty.
KOLLIN BROWN (Morehouse Graduate): You do wish to stay acutely aware of what is going on on on the earth, however, on the similar time, it is a time and place for all the pieces.
NIKOLE KILLION: A whole bunch of Morehouse college students and school petitioned faculty leaders to rescind Biden’s invitation, arguing the president’s help of Israel’s conflict in Gaza goes in opposition to the varsity’s legacy of social justice.
ROBERT MYRICK (Morehouse Alum): I positively suppose it is an essential speech. I believe this is a chance for Biden to come back out, discuss – discuss what he is achieved for the black group, in addition to handle younger individuals and voters of shade’s disdain for the actions of Israel in Gaza. I nonetheless suppose it is a possibility for him to win us over.
JOE BIDEN (President of the USA): The actual fact is that, this election, rather a lot is at stake.
NIKOLE KILLION: Saturday, Mr. Biden stopped by a preferred black-owned restaurant in Atlanta, persevering with his push with black voters, as current polls present him trailing former President Trump in a number of key battlegrounds, together with the Peach State.
PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN: You hear about how, , we’re behind within the polls. Properly, thus far, the polls have not been proper as soon as.
DONALD TRUMP (Former President of the USA (R) and Present U.S. Presidential Candidate): I believe you are a rebellious bunch, however let’s be rebellious and vote this time, OK?
NIKOLE KILLION: In Texas, the previous president picked up an endorsement from the Nationwide Rifle Affiliation. He inspired gun homeowners to prove, even teasing a 3rd time period, which is barred by the Structure.
FORMER PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: We received a landslide that’s, here is the expression, too large, too rigged.
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NIKOLE KILLION: Again right here at Morehouse, a few of the college students and school are holding a silent protest, sporting Palestinian scarves or the colour of the flag.
President Biden will maintain making his case to black voters, heading from right here to Detroit to talk at an NAACP dinner later immediately – Margaret.
MARGARET BRENNAN: That is Nikole Killion in Atlanta.
And we’re joined now in studio by Ohio Republican Senator J.D. Vance.
Good to have you ever right here.
SENATOR J.D. VANCE (R-Ohio): Morning.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Good morning to you.
So, you had been at Mar-a-Lago not too long ago. You had been in New York on the Manhattan courtroom. You had been in Ohio alongside Donald Trump at a fund-raiser. I do know you retain getting requested whether or not or not you are going to be vp or not. And also you mentioned you have not spoken to him about it.
SENATOR J.D. VANCE: Certain.
MARGARET BRENNAN: However we’re additionally taking a look at a fairly tight race within the Senate. So, I ponder, do you suppose you are extra useful to him within the Senate or within the White Home?
SENATOR J.D. VANCE: Properly, I’ll let him make that call, in the end. I believe he is aware of tips on how to greatest run his presidential marketing campaign.
And what I’ve mentioned is, I am completely satisfied to be an advocate for the agenda in the USA Senate. I believe that is one of the best ways for me to assist the individuals of Ohio. I am actually concerned about serving to him in different methods, if that is what – what issues, as a result of, look, Margaret, now we have to reelect Donald Trump as president.
The distinction is so extraordinary between larger inflation at house and conflict abroad – that is the Biden document – and the Trump document of peace at house and prosperity. That’s an unbelievable factor to run on. And, importantly, it is an unbelievable factor to ship for our nation. So I believe we have to assist Donald Trump get throughout the end line.
That is why I’ve spent a good period of time with him the previous couple of weeks serving to him elevate some sources, displaying up in help in New York. But it surely’s all about getting him elected president. I really do not care that a lot who the vp is, as a result of Trump’s in the end going to control.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Properly, you name your self one of the vital pro-labor Republicans in Congress.
SENATOR J.D. VANCE: Sure.
MARGARET BRENNAN: You had been on the market with automakers who had been placing just a few months again. And you’ve got been very broadly supportive of tariffs.
Why are you against President Biden, then, placing tariffs on batteries and electrical automobiles and different know-how from China? It appears inconsistent.
SENATOR J.D. VANCE: Properly, I believe there are two issues right here.
Initially, most of the tariffs that Joe Biden has endorsed within the final couple of weeks are tariffs that he ran in opposition to in 2020. However now that he sees that Donald Trump is…
MARGARET BRENNAN: He stored them.
SENATOR J.D. VANCE: … main him in polls, he is adopting the Donald Trump agenda. That is not really being a very good coverage president. That is shifting on politics as a result of you are about to lose.
That is additionally essential. There’s one other…
MARGARET BRENNAN: Properly, he is focused these fairly immediately.
SENATOR J.D. VANCE: There is a second factor, Margaret, that is actually essential right here, is, Biden’s total agenda, such that it exists, has been about defending inexperienced vitality jobs, on the expense of the commercial heartland.
If you’re in Wisconsin, Michigan, or Pennsylvania, you aren’t being empowered or enriched by Joe Biden’s inexperienced vitality agenda. So, him making use of tariffs on the inexperienced agenda stuff, does it assist steelmakers? Does it assist pure gasoline employees? Does it assist the center of the American economic system? The reply isn’t any, which is one more reason why Donald Trump would make a a lot better president.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Properly, , it is, what – Chinese language electrical automobiles are like, lower than 2 p.c of the market. However the level right here is…
SENATOR J.D. VANCE: Properly, but it surely’s loads of the availability…
MARGARET BRENNAN: … all tariffs, although on – on – however, to your level, all tariffs, which you are – you appear to be in favor of, they’re inflationary.
So how is the Trump-Vance concept right here going to assist make issues extra reasonably priced for individuals, should you’re placing taxes on items they’re buying from abroad?
SENATOR J.D. VANCE: Properly, I – I do not essentially purchase the premise there, Margaret.
For those who apply tariffs, actually, what it’s, is you are saying that we’ll penalize you for utilizing slave labor in China and importing that stuff in the USA. What you find yourself doing is, you find yourself making extra stuff in America, in Pennsylvania, in Ohio and in Michigan..
MARGARET BRENNAN: That didn’t occur within the Trump administration, although.
SENATOR J.D. VANCE: And I believe that – nicely, it – it really did occur within the Trump administration, Margaret.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Manufacturing jobs got here again?
SENATOR J.D. VANCE: You probably did have – you probably did have vital onshoring. You had vital will increase in individuals investing in manufacturing unit development.
But it surely takes time, Margaret. And that is one of many issues, one of many explanation why I believe that we’d like a second time period of President Trump, is, these items will not be going to occur in a single day. The American heartland wasn’t destroyed in – in – in 4 years.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Mm-hmm.
SENATOR J.D. VANCE: It is not going to be rebuilt in 4 years. However you actually need to double down on this coverage of bringing good jobs again to the heartland and, extra importantly, making stuff in America. We’ve got to be self-reliant as a rustic.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Sure. We have not heard loads of specifics. I imply, there’s been ranges of a ten p.c to 60 p.c tariffs. Are you aware what the plan is?
SENATOR J.D. VANCE: Properly, look, I am not going to talk for Donald Trump, however I actually agree that we have to apply some broad-based tariffs, particularly on items coming in from China, and never simply photo voltaic panels and E.V. stuff.
We have to defend American industries from the entire competitors, as a result of right here – here is the factor, Margaret. The rationale China beats us, it is not as a result of they’ve higher employees. It is as a result of they’re prepared to make use of slaves to make issues there.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Proper. Or it is state funding.
SENATOR J.D. VANCE: We would like American – we wish American employees to make these items at good wages.
MARGARET BRENNAN: I wish to ask you about a few of the stuff you’ve mentioned about American universities. I do know you have been very vital of them.
You gave an interview in February. You mentioned: “The closest conservatives have ever gotten to efficiently coping with the left-wing domination of universities is Viktor Orban’s method in Hungary. I believe his method needs to be the mannequin for us, to not eradicate universities, however to provide the selection between survival or taking a a lot much less biased method to educating.”
He seized management of state universities and put them in foundations that had been then run by his allies. Is that what you are advocating be achieved in the USA?
SENATOR J.D. VANCE: Properly, Margaret, what you are seeing in the USA really is that universities are managed by left-wing foundations. They don’t seem to be managed by the American taxpayer.
And but the American taxpayer is sending tons of of billions of {dollars} to those universities each single yr.
MARGARET BRENNAN: I do not need taxpayers controlling training essentially.
SENATOR J.D. VANCE: I – I…
MARGARET BRENNAN: Is that what you are advocating for, federal authorities management?
SENATOR J.D. VANCE: Margaret, what I am advocating for is for taxpayers to have a say in how their cash is spent. Universities are a part of a social contract on this nation. They educate our youngsters. They produce essential mental property. They get some huge cash due to it.
But when they are not educating our youngsters nicely, and so they’re layering the subsequent technology down in mountains of pupil debt, then they are not assembly their finish of the cut price. I believe it’s very affordable to say there must be a political resolution to that downside.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Properly, America’s universities nonetheless entice expertise from all over the world, as you went to certainly one of America’s very high colleges. However – however…
SENATOR J.D. VANCE: Look, there’s nonetheless good issues about American universities, but it surely’s going within the mistaken path, Margaret.
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MARGARET BRENNAN: However so – however Viktor Orban, particularly, as , I imply, he – he rewrote the structure. He neutered the courts. He has tried to regulate the media.
These will not be essentially conservative rules. So why would you wish to mimic him?
SENATOR J.D. VANCE: Properly, look, I am not endorsing each single factor that Viktor Orban has ever achieved. I do not know all the pieces he is ever achieved.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Proper.
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SENATOR J.D. VANCE: What I do suppose is, on the college – on the college precept, the concept taxpayers ought to have some affect in how their cash is spent on these universities, it is a completely affordable factor.
And I do suppose that he is made some sensible selections there that we might – we might study from in the USA.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Properly, he was simply welcomed at Mar-a-Lago.
And – and, as , Chief McConnell simply spoke out on the ground of the Senate this previous week after Xi Jinping visited Hungary. He is attempting to dealer commerce offers. They’re brokering commerce offers, not simply with Russia, however with Iran. Orban – due to this – McConnell mentioned it must be a crimson flag for anybody critically involved about competitors with China.
So why take any coverage cues from a person and a rustic and a technique cozying as much as America’s adversaries?
SENATOR J.D. VANCE: Properly, look, Margaret, Hungary is a nation of 10 million individuals. America is a nation of 330 million individuals and an important economic system on the earth.
I do not suppose that we should always take each cue. However I really must reject the premise right here, as a result of why is Viktor Orban getting nearer to China? Partially, as a result of American management will not be making sensible selections. We’re pushing different nations into the arms of Chinese language – the Chinese language, as a result of we do not make sufficient stuff, as a result of we pursue a ridiculous overseas coverage fairly often.
We’ve got to be extra self-reliant. I do not like China. I do not like that China has stolen loads of American jobs. The rationale they’ve achieved it’s as a result of American management has made dangerous selections.
MARGARET BRENNAN: However you…
SENATOR J.D. VANCE: That is our fault, and that is one thing we are able to repair as Individuals.
MARGARET BRENNAN: You – you have talked rather a lot concerning the – the necessity for the USA to pivot to Asia…
SENATOR J.D. VANCE: Certain.
MARGARET BRENNAN: … and let the Europeans give attention to Europe. However Xi Jinping is specializing in Europe.
Why would you cede affect?
SENATOR J.D. VANCE: Properly…
MARGARET BRENNAN: You are – since you’ve actually been against serving to Ukraine in its struggle. You’ve got mentioned loads of issues which might be suggestive…
SENATOR J.D. VANCE: Properly…
MARGARET BRENNAN: … that you simply simply wish to pull – pull again.
SENATOR J.D. VANCE: … let me – let me – let me handle that time, Margaret.
Initially, I believe the explanation that now we have to be sensible in Ukraine is, we do not have a technique. What’s Joe Biden attempting to do? What’s one other $60 billion carrying out that $120 billion hasn’t? We’ve got to have a sensible technique to spend American taxpayer {dollars}.
However – however, on this – however on the Europe…
MARGARET BRENNAN: Eighty p.c of it funds the U.S. protection industrial base from the – the supplemental that simply handed.
SENATOR J.D. VANCE: However, Margaret, however on – on this query, Europe and China and the intertwinement between these two, look, the explanation Europe has grow to be weaker is as a result of they’ve deindustrialized.
And why have they deindustrialized? As a result of they’ve pursued a inexperienced vitality agenda, following the lead of the Biden administration, and that essentially empowers China and Russia. We have to acknowledge that it is our selections which might be making these nations stronger. We have to repair that, not whine at nations which have 10 million individuals.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Or – or individuals similar to low-cost stuff, regardless of the place they stay, proper? So – and so they search for cheaper suppliers. However…
SENATOR J.D. VANCE: Properly, they’d like to have low-cost vitality in Europe, and so they do not have it due to the insurance policies of the inexperienced vitality foyer.
MARGARET BRENNAN: I wish to ask you about abortion…
SENATOR J.D. VANCE: Certain.
MARGARET BRENNAN: … as a result of we see it in our polling as so motivating.
However President Trump has adopted this place that it must be states that management abortion entry.
SENATOR J.D. VANCE: Certain.
MARGARET BRENNAN: You mentioned again in 2022 {that a} proposal to restrict abortion entry after 15 weeks of being pregnant was one thing you’d help and a few minimal nationwide normal.
What’s the minimal nationwide normal that you really want the federal authorities to have on abortion?
SENATOR J.D. VANCE: Properly, look, Margaret, I believe that, to begin with, now we have to acknowledge that political actuality is, I believe, actually motivating loads of these issues.
What Donald Trump has mentioned, which may be very per what I mentioned throughout my very own marketing campaign, is that the gross majority of abortion coverage goes to be made on the state degree.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Mm-hmm.
SENATOR J.D. VANCE: And I really suppose, should you evaluate his view of claiming, look, this can be a robust difficulty, we have to let individuals debate and determine this very robust difficulty on this new setting, the place it has been kicked again to democratic legislators…
MARGARET BRENNAN: Proper. However you desire a minimal federal normal.
SENATOR J.D. VANCE: However – however – however, Margaret, evaluate this to the Biden administration method is, we wish Christians to carry out abortions and we wish American taxpayers to fund late-term abortions. I believe…
MARGARET BRENNAN: That is not true.
SENATOR J.D. VANCE: … the Trump method – that’s completely what Democrats have endorsed.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Prohibited beneath that Hyde Modification.
However – so you do not have a – a minimal nationwide normal?
SENATOR J.D. VANCE: Margaret, what I’ve mentioned persistently is, the gross majority of coverage right here goes to be set by the states. I’m pro-life. I wish to save as many infants as doable.
And, positive, I believe it’s very affordable to say that late-term abortions shouldn’t occur with affordable exceptions.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Mm-hmm.
SENATOR J.D. VANCE: However I believe Trump’s method right here is attempting to settle a really robust difficulty…
MARGARET BRENNAN: Sure.
SENATOR J.D. VANCE: … and really empower the American individuals to determine it for themselves.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Senator Vance, thanks for becoming a member of us immediately.
SENATOR J.D. VANCE: Thanks Margaret.
MARGARET BRENNAN: We flip now to Michigan Democratic Senator Gary Peters.
Good morning to you, Senator.
SENATOR GARY PETERS (D-Michigan): Properly, good morning to you.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Properly, you simply heard us run by a complete bunch of those statistics with our polling information. And you’re in command of serving to to defend the slim Democratic majority within the Senate.
Are you continue to assured which you can choose up a seat in Florida? And are you bullish that you’ll really be capable to pull off a win in Arizona?
SENATOR GARY PETERS: I’m.
I am nonetheless very, very assured. We’ve got all of the items in place to achieve success. And, mainly, it is similar to how we had been profitable within the final cycle, when people thought that that was not doable in a midterm with a – a celebration in energy within the White Home.
We did. We made historical past final cycle. We will do it once more. And it is primarily due to candidate high quality.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Properly…
SENATOR GARY PETERS: We’ve got excellent Democratic candidates, excellent Democratic incumbents who’ve served their state in opposition to deeply flawed Republican candidates.
So I am assured we’re going to have the ability to win.
MARGARET BRENNAN: OK.
So, simply to place up on display screen, as a result of I do not suppose we did that, the candidate in Arizona I used to be speaking about, Ruben Gallego, is main Kari Lake by 13 factors. That is – that is fairly stark.
SENATOR GARY PETERS: Yeah.
MARGARET BRENNAN: So, ought to -you – are you assured?
SENATOR GARY PETERS: It’s.
And here is a – right here – I – the lead is nice. However I – , I take each ballot with a grain of salt. We’re nonetheless going to have a troublesome race. We will nonetheless be targeted on Arizona to make it possible for Ruben wins.
However should you take a look at the distinction, his service to the – the state of Arizona by his work in Congress…
MARGARET BRENNAN: Sure.
SENATOR GARY PETERS: … versus Kari Lake, who’s been an election denier, she’s been touring across the nation, not in Arizona, individuals of Arizona need somebody who’s going to be there preventing for them. And that is what they’ve in Congressman – there.
MARGARET BRENNAN: OK. However that’s what’s taking place down-ballot, however President Biden within the state of Arizona is down 5 factors versus Donald Trump. So what’s – what are they lacking on the high of the ticket right here?
SENATOR GARY PETERS: Properly, I – I am nonetheless assured that Joe Biden will win in Arizona as nicely. The – the election will proceed to play out. These are going to be shut races.
As I mentioned, along with his lead, , I – I all the time take these polls with a grain of salt, in the truth that these are aggressive battleground states. By definition, they will be very shut. We will win as a result of – – not simply due to the candidates, but in addition due to our capacity to run higher campaigns, reaching out to our voters, getting them engaged, getting them to the polls.
That is the way you win these shut races. It is what we did final cycle.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Sure.
SENATOR GARY PETERS: It is what we’ll do once more this yr in election time.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Properly, in Florida and Arizona, we polled in each of these states. By virtually 3-1, voters say President Trump can be higher for his or her funds than President Biden.
In Arizona, Trump has a 10-point benefit on the particular query of, who cares about individuals like you numerous? And the economic system, many times, primary difficulty. What can President Biden do to repair that?
SENATOR GARY PETERS: Properly, President Biden has been targeted on the economic system.
And, really, should you ballot people about their particular person view about themselves, polls are fairly constant. They be ok with what’s taking place of their household. And it is about specializing in that facet. Ask individuals about your self and are you higher off.
However, actually, President Biden, in addition to Democrats within the Senate, have been trying to cut back prices. For instance, prescribed drugs, bringing down the value of prescribed drugs for households, it’s a focus of the president that may proceed.
And, , you need to look again on the earlier administration. You understand, people overlook that, when the previous president was there, we had been in a pandemic.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Proper.
SENATOR GARY PETERS: And he simply mishandled the – that pandemic in a spectacular vogue.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Properly, that’s the reason – that’s the reason it’s…
SENATOR GARY PETERS: … that brought about so many hardships for individuals.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Sure. And that’s the reason it’s so stark when individuals say they suppose he will be higher for his or her funds. It is fairly gorgeous, frankly.
On the problem of the border, we all know, simply on the details, the variety of migrants crossing the Southern border has really been declining for the previous few months. And the Biden administration has talked about, , new efforts beneath method right here.
But it surely’s not displaying up in any type of higher critiques for the president’s border coverage. That’s so important for help within the state of Arizona. He is trailing by 5 factors. What does he must do on the border that is going to assist cease the bleeding?
SENATOR GARY PETERS: Properly, as you mentioned, the numbers are getting higher. They’re going to proceed to get higher.
And – and President Biden, his administration has been targeted on that. We additionally, as Democrats…
MARGARET BRENNAN: Does he want to speak about it extra?
SENATOR GARY PETERS: He – completely. And that is what a marketing campaign is about, and the marketing campaign to ensure individuals have that info. As you additionally know, Democrats labored with Republicans to have probably the most complete border safety invoice that will’ve been handed in many years.
MARGARET BRENNAN: And it did not.
SENATOR GARY PETERS: That might’ve made it even higher.
And but Donald Trump mentioned, do not vote for it as a result of it will be a political win for Biden.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Proper.
SENATOR GARY PETERS: He’d fairly see issues on the border. the American individuals don’t desire that. They need options. They need people who roll up their sleeves, get issues achieved.
We had been on the sting of doing that. And Donald Trump tanked that effort.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Properly, he…
SENATOR GARY PETERS: And Republicans simply listened to him. They’re – they’re mainly hypocrites on this difficulty.
MARGARET BRENNAN: However he persistently talks about immigration.
President Biden very, very, very not often discusses the issues that you simply had been speaking about. And, on immigration, we simply see that these insurance policies right here, 13 p.c of Biden – say Biden’s insurance policies profit U.S. residents over immigrants. Trump insurance policies overwhelmingly are seen as extra constructive.
I imply, there’s only a notion difficulty right here. How do you battle that?
SENATOR GARY PETERS: Properly, it – that – it’s a notion difficulty. It is not a truth difficulty. The details are clearly mistaken in relation to that.
President Biden has been addressing this difficulty. The numbers present it. And that is what a marketing campaign is about. That is what we do, is to make it possible for there is a very clear distinction painted. When voters go into the voting sales space in November…
MARGARET BRENNAN: Mm-hmm.
SENATOR GARY PETERS: … they may know the details. They may see that there is a clear distinction. And they will vote for the one who’s really delivered, which is President Biden, in addition to Senate Democrats throughout the nation as nicely.
That distinction will play out because the – the campaigns get into full gear.
MARGARET BRENNAN: All proper.
And we all know President Biden is headed to your property state of Michigan shortly. Thanks very a lot, Senator Peters.
Face the Nation might be again in a single minute. Stick with us.
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MARGARET BRENNAN: We’re joined now by the Ukrainian ambassador to the USA, Oksana Markarova, who’s simply again from a visit to Kyiv.
Good morning.
OKSANA MARKAROVA (Ukrainian Ambassador to the USA): Good morning. All the time good to be again.
MARGARET BRENNAN: It is nice to have you ever in particular person.
Secretary Blinken was simply in Kyiv. You had been there. What did you study from these face-to-face conferences with President Zelenskyy?
AMBASSADOR OKSANA MARKAROVA: Properly, it was, as all the time, very candid, excellent, very productive dialogue. The secretary has been there for 2 days, so not simply assembly with the president, which, in fact, has been very deep on each facet of our strategic friendship, but in addition with prime minister, with Vice Prime Minister Fedorov, so many visits.
Most significantly, I believe it was good to align what are we going to do, how we’re going to – to place to the perfect use these funds that Congress has supplied. And this $2 billion announcement of FMF help, which might, by the way in which, go to joint manufacturing and Ukrainian-made manufacturing is, I believe, an important step ahead.
So, excellent go to. All the time good to – to – to see secretary there in particular person.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Are the weapons arriving quick sufficient?
AMBASSADOR OKSANA MARKAROVA: Properly, there isn’t any such factor as quick sufficient once we are up in opposition to such a nasty enemy, and now we have to catch up for a protracted pause in – in weapons ordering or beginning the availability.
So, no, we’d like it to be sooner.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Ambassador, now we have extra to speak about.
However I’ll must take a industrial break in an effort to do this and are available again with a extra in-depth chat with Ambassador Markarova. So, stick with us.
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MARGARET BRENNAN: My colleague Norah O’Donnell interviewed the pope on the Vatican final month.
And you may watch it tonight on 60 Minutes, plus a one-hour prime-time particular this Monday at 10:00 p.m.
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MARGARET BRENNAN: Welcome again to FACE THE NATION. We proceed our dialog now with Ukrainian ambassador to the USA.
Ambassador, President Zelenskyy has made clear on a number of events now that Ukraine wants extra patriot missile techniques. He says your nation solely has about 25 p.c of the air protection techniques it wants.
Is the USA going to supply that assist?
OKSANA MARKAROVA (Ukrainian Ambassador to the U.S.): Properly, to begin with, let me second President Zelenskyy on the necessity. I imply clearly I used to be there only for two days however on daily basis we hear within the information simply immediately, , the horrible hit in Kharkiv (INAUDIBLE) once more, 27 wounded, 5 lifeless already. We do not know, perhaps extra.
Clearly Russia is doubling down on their conflict crimes. They discovered new buddies to supply extra of those glide (ph) in bombs, horrible. Simply attempting to destroy as many peaceable citizen in Ukraine as doable. So, the quick method to cease it’s to supply us with greater than air – extra air protection.
It is also the environment friendly method, , as a result of not solely it would save lives, however it would save the vitality technology. And all the pieces then (ph) we should spend some huge cash and energy to revive and rebuild.
So, desperately want it now. We’re in – in very energetic conversations. Actually Pentagon. And I wish to thank them as we’re making ready for the brand new Ramstein group assembly subsequent week, working day and evening to search out it. However, frankly, that is the time when everybody have to provide us a bit of little bit of theirs. So, we’re very grateful to those that are offering us with their techniques. We’re grateful to the U.S. for in search of them, finding them, funding a few of them, however we’d like extra and it is time to actually take some courageous selections and supply us with extra of this so we are able to see them immediately the place we’d like them two – at the very least two we’d like in Kharkiv and that space.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Proper.
OKSANA MARKAROVA: However different locations should be protected as nicely.
MARGARET BRENNAN: And Germany was trying to present some assist, as I perceive it, on that entrance.
OKSANA MARKAROVA: Sure.
MARGARET BRENNAN: You understand – you simply talked about an upcoming summit in Ramstein. C.Q. Brown, the chair of the Joint Chiefs, advised reporters Ukraine has requested the USA for assist to strike inside Russia. The U.S. has been afraid to have U.S. weapons utilized in that type of a strike. What’s it that Ukraine’s looking for to do?
OKSANA MARKAROVA: Properly, to begin with, you bear in mind we had this dialogue for 2 years now. We’ve got the appropriate to defend ourselves. This – we’re defending ourselves whether or not we’re placing Russian troops on our territory or Russian troops exterior of our territory. And now we have been attempting to do this. However, in fact, there have been some restrictions.
Now, I can’t go publicly into discussions the place we’re on discussions with both U.S. or any of different companions. However I simply wish to say that it is clear that Russia is an aggressor right here. It is clear when they’re making ready one thing. So, the U.N. guidelines, the worldwide regulation and each different guidelines that exist on this nation, which Russia violated by the way in which, give us a transparent proper to defend ourselves and by placing an aggressor whether or not on our territory or for – or the place they’re launching or threaten (ph) the assault from.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Do you want extra coaching to your troops? I do know there’s now a brand new draft, a decrease age, you want extra males preventing.
OKSANA MARKAROVA: And the coaching is ongoing. And, frankly, that is the place we’re cooperating with the U.S. and with different companions. We wish to see extra coaching been achieved in Ukraine in order that not solely we’re coaching our troops, however we’re additionally changing into institutionally extra robust, constructing their – our military of the longer term which might be defending, not simply Ukraine however all of us from Russia. So, sure, in coaching it will be one of many key discussions with the allies.
MARGARET BRENNAN: And in Ukraine. Attention-grabbing.
Ambassador, thanks for offering us that replace.
We’ll be proper again.
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MARGARET BRENNAN: And we’re joined now by CBS Information cybersecurity knowledgeable and analyst Chris Krebs, who’s the previous director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Safety Company.
Good to have you ever again.
CHRIS KREBS: Good to be again.
MARGARET BRENNAN: So, in our polling that we simply carried out in Arizona particularly, it was a middle of election denialism again in 2020 and we’re seeing this once more. I imply half – practically half of Trump’s supporters say the 2024 presidential ends in Arizona must be investigated and challenged if Biden wins. Seven in ten from those that establish themselves as MAGA.
Is that this going to be a repeat of 2020? I imply what – what is going on to occur?
CHRIS KREBS: Properly, , all these claims are regardless of any credible proof being introduced within the courts or, , to everybody else and the specialists on the market. We’re persevering with to see claims of issues with 2020, even 2022, the midterms. So, I believe the motivation buildings, the way in which they’re aligned proper now, it – it creates loads of room and a permissive setting for these to allege that there are issues. Once more, regardless of any credible proof and continued investments in election safety, election resilience, modernizing election techniques. You understand, again in 2020 we talked about having 95 p.c or so of ballots, , forged on paper. Now that quantity’s in all probability nearer to 98. So, now we have made enhancements over the past a number of years.
MARGARET BRENNAN: It is fascinating you make that time about paper as a result of on the marketing campaign path Donald Trump claims 2020 was rigged, claims 2024 may be as nicely.
Take heed to what he simply mentioned.
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DONALD TRUMP (R), (Former U.S. President And 2024 Presidential Candidate): Our aim on election might be someday voting with paper ballots, proof of citizenship and voter I.D. It is quite simple. If you wish to save America and your Second Modification, register, get an absentee or mail-in poll, vote early or vote on Election Day, I do not care.
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MARGARET BRENNAN: So, two issues there. Now he’s for mail-in ballots. He was in opposition to them in 2020. However you simply mentioned there already is a paper path. He is saying there may be none.
CHRIS KREBS: The overwhelming majority of votes forged in the USA proper now are with a paper path. There’s a small share which might be recorded down on election – election techniques, however that is for accessibility functions, for people who might have visible impairment or in any other case. And it is essential to make sure open and accessible voting processes.
The one-day voting – this push, this drive, it is really counterproductive. It really is counter to participation within the democratic system and resilience in safety. That longer run up, the weeks, months prematurely of the election, permits us to detect if there are any points, get on high and repair them.
For those who had an election on one single day, life occurs first. Any individual would possibly get sick, you can get in a automobile accident, you may not be capable to get to the polls. But when one thing occurs early on, it might have this cascading, catastrophic affect on getting individuals to the polls and voting on election day.
So, I am far more in favor of a – of the system now we have now with early voting, with mail-in and absentee ballots.
MARGARET BRENNAN: So, the director of nationwide intelligence, your successor, as I mentioned, Jen Easterly, additionally testified that they’re so ready, election infrastructure has by no means been safer. However then we additionally hear from U.S. intelligence that China, for instance, is experimenting with issues like generative AI to affect voters.
How do individuals perceive that affect effort versus really tinkering with ballots?
CHRIS KREBS: I believe that is the appropriate distinction. There’s interference, which is the technical manipulation of techniques, and as Jen Easterly, my successor at CISA mentioned earlier this week in a Senate listening to, the investments we’re making, the continued enhancements throughout techniques, it – I’d even recommend that, , when – once we mentioned in 2020 that it was a secure and safe election, it is much more secure and safe now as a result of these continued investments, due to continued enhancements throughout these techniques.
However to your level on affect, the scope, the size, the know-how obtainable to our adversaries, together with AI and deep fakes, it’s a far more precarious menace setting. The Chinese language are energetic. The Russians are very energetic. They have been utilizing deep fakes in Europe. We have seen AI pop up in Moldova, Slovakia, else – Bangladesh. So, it’s – it’ll be a device.
My sense, nonetheless, although, is threats which might be AI powered or AI enabled might be very like what occurred in New Hampshire with the robo name. Will probably be instantly detected, will probably be investigated shortly, and will probably be prosecuted. And that is what’s taking place proper now.
I believe the most important concern although is that that is cumulative. It is accretive. So, fairly than one single catastrophic AI enabled occasion –
MARGARET BRENNAN: Proper.
CHRIS KREBS: It may be a gentle drum beat the place we, the place the voters, the general public, are simply going to lose confidence and belief within the overarching info ecosystem.
MARGARET BRENNAN: And we’re seeing that in our polling already, a insecurity.
CHRIS KREBS: Some would possibly say that is a part of the technique.
MARGARET BRENNAN: That is scary.
CHRIS KREBS: Completely.
MARGARET BRENNAN: CNN was reporting each the Chinese language and Iranian governments had tried to make use of faux AI content material again in 2020 however selected to not deploy it. Is that correct?
CHRIS KREBS: I – I can not converse to the particular intelligence there. It shouldn’t be a shock although. It – we have been speaking about deep fakes and AI as a danger vector for years, for half a decade at the very least. So, to say that – whether or not it is the Russians, the Chinese language, the Iranians, the North Koreans, whomever, have been tinkering or researching this know-how as not too long ago as 4 years in the past, I believe that is solely credible. We’re seeing it now although. We’re seeing, as I discussed, already in Europe. We’re seeing it right here as nicely. And I’d anticipate that between now and the election we’ll proceed to see AI created content material pop up.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Sure.
CHRIS KREBS: And that is the place it is essential for the tech platforms to make sure they’re looking out for it.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Proper.
CHRIS KREBS: That the AI corporations are guaranteeing that their platforms can’t be manipulated. The problem, in fact, although is there are opensource fashions that can be utilized.
MARGARET BRENNAN: And we have to maintain speaking to you about this, sadly, within the months to come back as a result of it appears like will probably be a persistent difficulty.
CHRIS KREBS: Completely.
MARGARET BRENNAN: We’ll be proper again.
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MARGARET BRENNAN: We flip now to former protection secretary and CIA director, Robert Gates, who we spoke with on Friday from the Faculty of William & Mary, the place he serves as chancellor. We started by asking him why nationwide safety ought to matter to voters this election yr.
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ROBERT GATES (Former Protection Secretary and Former CIA Director): Our leaders have to deliver these points house to the American individuals in a really direct method. The world is not going to disregard us simply because we predict we are able to ignore the world. So, the very first thing is to clarify that if we do not cope with these issues early, they grow to be very harmful issues and really expensive issues for the USA down the highway.
The opposite is to clarify to the American individuals, for instance, how we’d like – how we’re economically interconnected with the remainder of the world.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Properly, if President Trump had been to win once more, what might he do in another way in a second time period that will give him a stronger legacy? I do know you have been vital of a few of his habits when he was in workplace.
ROBERT GATES: I believe you’d in all probability see considerably totally different home insurance policies in – in numerous areas. I believe one factor he is been clear about for a very long time is the necessity for tariffs to guard American trade and so forth. I believe he would even have a special method in lots of – in lots of areas with respect to overseas coverage and by way of attempting to finish the conflict in Ukraine. It is by no means made fairly clear how he is going to do this or what phrases he must conform to or how he would deal with the problems within the South China Sea in another way.
So, , I believe that there is a component of unpredictability in – within the – in his case of – of not understanding what he actually has in thoughts to cope with any of those particular points, particularly on nationwide safety.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Would you be open to voting for Mr. Trump?
ROBERT GATES: Oh, I am not even going to start to go there.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Since you did write an essay in “Overseas Affairs” just a few months in the past the place you had been – you had been fairly particular in criticism. You mentioned his disdain for allies, fondness for authoritarian leaders, erratic habits undermined U.S. credibility. You had been additionally vital of President Biden in his withdrawal from Afghanistan, which you mentioned additional broken the world’s confidence in America.
Do you suppose Mr. Biden has been capable of restore that injury?
ROBERT GATES: I believe that he gained loads of credibility with the velocity with which he assembled the coalition of companion nations, allies and buddies, earlier than, throughout and after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, placing collectively that three dozen nations prepared to assist Ukraine with cash, with army help and so forth. Having the ability to warn the allies earlier than the Russians really invaded in order that once they did we had monumental credibility with others that we knew what we had been speaking about and we knew the character of Putin’s menace.
I believe lots of people would agree that there was some pointless delays in getting vital gear to – sure varieties of kit to the Ukrainians. And I am not speaking concerning the six-month late supplemental that – that was simply handed by the Congress. I am speaking about going again a yr and a half or two years, whether or not it was tanks or missiles or plane that after lengthy debate and deliberation the choice was lastly made to supply them.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Vladimir Putin was in China this previous week visiting his ally, Xi Jinping. And he mentioned Friday, Russian troops are advancing day by day in Ukraine. What do you suppose it would take to cease this momentum?
ROBERT GATES: Properly, this is among the locations the place, frankly, the six-month delay in getting the supplemental handed is – has been an issue as a result of – and poses an actual disaster, I believe. The circumstances in Ukraine proper now are – are fairly dire. The Russians are shifting, not solely round Kharkiv, however elsewhere alongside the entrance. Putin has taken the final six months to a yr to rearm, reequip, to recruit. I’ve learn numbers that he is placing as many as 30,000 new troops a month into Ukraine. They’ve extra troops in Ukraine now, the Russians do, than they did at the start of the conflict.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Throughout that point Russia has additionally constructed up extra help for its effort with Iran, with North Korea, supplying it weapons, with China now, U.S. intelligence says, serving to to reconstitute Russia’s army industrial base, even collectively producing drones.
What consequence ought to there be for a rustic like China for serving to this conflict to proceed?
ROBERT GATES: There are a selection of different sanctions which might be obtainable to the administration and to the Europeans that – that might deliver further stress on the Chinese language at a time when their economic system will not be doing very nicely.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Would they make a distinction?
ROBERT GATES: They might. They might. The Chinese language have very massive stakes in different issues, in different relationships all over the world, along with Russia. And, , till a yr or so in the past they had been being fairly cautious about what they had been offering to the Russians. They nonetheless haven’t, as greatest we all know, haven’t supplied precise weapons to the Russians. That is been a crimson line for the USA.
And – and, Putin, frankly, and should you take a look at the cupboard adjustments that Putin has simply made, they’re all targeted on militarizing the Russian economic system to maintain an enormous army for a very long time going ahead.
This isn’t a one-time downside with simply Ukraine. Putin has determined to take Russia in a special – in a special path that poses an actual menace to all of its neighbors. And the Chinese language, by serving to them, are enabling that.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Properly, the Chinese language president was simply touring by Europe, and he was in France. I ponder what you concentrate on the French president’s assertion that nothing must be dominated out in relation to sending western troops to Ukraine. I do know another European nations have additionally leaned into that concept. Ought to it’s taken off the desk by each Biden and Trump?
ROBERT GATES: I believe the notion of deploying NATO troops into Ukraine causes loads of home concern, not simply on this – in the USA, however in Europe as nicely. I do not suppose you are taking issues off the desk, however I – however I additionally do not suppose you place them on the desk in an express method.
You understand, a part of my downside is that our authorities talks an excessive amount of and another governments discuss an excessive amount of as nicely. Typically it is higher simply to do issues and never inform individuals you are doing them.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Properly –
ROBERT GATES: However perhaps that is the outdated CIA man.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Is that suggesting extra coaching then of Ukrainian troops?
ROBERT GATES: I believe – I believe we’re clearly – and there is going to must be extra coaching of – of the Ukrainians, notably with their new conscription regulation and – and numerous new younger individuals coming into the Ukrainian army.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Ought to that take –
ROBERT GATES: That coaching can happen in western Europe or it conceivably might happen in Ukraine as nicely.
MARGARET BRENNAN: One of many visitors on our program, J.D. Vance, a senator from Ohio, has likened U.S. help for Ukraine to the U.S. invasion of Iraq, making that argument that there is like a creeping U.S. function doubtlessly.
He additionally went to the Munich Safety Convention however skipped conferences with President Zelenskyy and – and the pinnacle of NATO, saying he would not study something new. What do you say to a number one Republican like him?
ROBERT GATES: Slightly than get into particular personalities, I simply suppose that individuals have to open their eyes and – and be prepared to take heed to different factors of view and be prepared to study, notably from individuals who have been round, like Senator McConnell and others, who – who may help him perceive – assist him and others perceive that – that this can be a totally different type of aggression by far than what occurred in Iraq in 2003. And – and there’s no assurance that – that Putin will cease with Ukraine. And – and to not perceive that potential menace, and in addition the diploma to which it encourages different aggressors all over the world, I believe – I believe some – some further info, briefings and training could also be required.
MARGARET BRENNAN: I wish to ask you concerning the Center East, the place there already are a number of capturing wars on a number of fronts involving U.S. ally Israel.
Do you agree with President Biden’s resolution to withhold some particular armaments from the Netanyahu authorities whereas surging others?
ROBERT GATES: One of many issues that has struck me has been the diploma to which the Netanyahu authorities has basically ignored the views and – and requests of his closest ally, starting with extra humanitarian help and – and taking good care of the – of the civilians in Gaza. I believe that there are – there are methods that we are able to stress Israel.
The reality of the matter is, 2,000 pound bombs that aren’t precision guided inevitably result in loads of collateral injury. They mainly collapse buildings. I am all for offering all other forms of weapons to Israel, together with precision guided bombs, and – and different gear that they could want. However I believe when – when our allies ignore us, and notably on points which might be of giant significance to us and to the area, then I believe it is affordable to take actions that attempt to get their consideration.
MARGARET BRENNAN: There have been extraordinary statements from Israel’s protection minister this previous week the place he publicly criticized his personal prime minister, saying he cannot get a solution to some key questions like what occurs on the finish of this conflict. He known as on Netanyahu to decide, declare Israel is not going to set up civilian management or army management over the Gaza Strip and begin speaking to worldwide actors about who’s going to control. What do you concentrate on such a public break up like this within the midst of the conflict?
ROBERT GATES: Properly, it is fairly extraordinary, however – however I believe not surprising. You understand, the USA authorities has been asking Prime Minister Netanyahu for months, what’s your plan? What occurs after the capturing stops? The place are you going with this? What is the resolution politically? What is the resolution economically and in humanitarian phrases? And there – and neither we, nor the Israelis, together with his personal protection minister, get any solutions to these questions.
MARGARET BRENNAN: I do know you mentioned you have by no means been a fan of Bibi Netanyahu. You mentioned you met him again in 1989. Are your issues in regard to U.S. nationwide safety that he might draw the U.S. right into a wider battle?
ROBERT GATES: My largest concern, and we have to again up and have a bit of perspective right here. There are, the truth is, 4 wars occurring within the Center East proper now. Not solely the conflict in Gaza, however the conflict on Israel’s northern border with Hezbollah, the Houthis in Yemen and what – the disruption of the worldwide provide chains by their assaults within the Pink Sea, after which the militias in – in Syria and in Iraq. There may be one energy behind all 4 of those conflicts, and that is Iran. And what we’re not speaking about, we have grow to be so preoccupied with Gaza, what we have failed to speak sufficiently about is, how can we cope with an Iran that’s mainly the – the one offering the arms, the planning, and the intelligence in all 4 of those conflicts, and that Iran is the supply of the issue.
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MARGARET BRENNAN: We’ll be proper again.
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MARGARET BRENNAN: Thanks for watching. For FACE THE NATION, I am Margaret Brennan.
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