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Margaret Brennan
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Moderator of with Margaret Brennan, Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent, Mom of 2 boys, wife, alum, retired 🇮🇪 dancer
Washington, DCcbsnews.com/news/facing-fo…Joined June 2009

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US sanctioned Vladimir Potanin, but left his company untouched as it tries to maintain stability in the metals market. He's the biggest shareholder of Norilsk Nickel. In 2019 I asked Potanin if he was “un-sanctionable” because the outsize role his metals play in the world…
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COVID NEWS: Autopsies of people who died from COVID19 show that the virus spread throughout the body and remained in tissue for months. The study broadened scientists’ perspectives on where SARS-CoV-2 could cause infection and persist, including the brain. bit.ly/3FPhNVQ
Imaging show SARS-CoV-2 in the brain of a deceased patient.
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Last night a peacekeeper was killed and three others were injured in an incident in Al-Aqbieh, just outside UNIFIL’s area of operations in south Lebanon. We offer our deepest condolences to the friends, family, and colleagues of the peacekeeper who died.
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Isaiah Marquez-Greene, now 18 years old, survived the Sandy Hook shooting, but his younger sister, Ana Grace, was killed. In a note to his younger self, he reflects on his sister’s legacy: “Imagining who she would be if she were still here will keep her alive in your heart.”
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Energy on fusion ignition achievement last week: " It's the first time it has every been done in a laboratory, anywhere in the world. Simply put, this is one of the most impressive scientific feats of the 21st century...This is a BFD."
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. sat down for an exclusive and wide-ranging interview with JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon on building wealth in America, public policy, and the implications of national security challenges for the US and global economies, & more.
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There should be a word for the tendency of small children to pick food off their mother’s plate but not their father’s plate. They feel completely comfortable taking whatever they want. It is like a diet program that I don’t control at all.
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Turning point: “That's about Ukraine, oil, Russia, war, migration, food, national security, China trade, that whole bucket of things & I’d put in that category, quantitative tightening, which is basically reducing the liquidity in the banking system in the world” $JPM Jamie Dimon
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“The war in Ukraine is a turning point,” JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon tells @margbrennan. “All this sort of self-illusion that we had, that somehow the world's at peace, and everything would be fine, that should have been shattered.”
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“….we don't always really know whether you have a mild recession or hard recession. And if it happens, we're going to be fine. I feel bad, terrible, for people who lose jobs. We want to keep it as short as possible,” JP Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon on US economy
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“The war in Ukraine is a turning point,” JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon tells @margbrennan. “All this sort of self-illusion that we had, that somehow the world's at peace, and everything would be fine, that should have been shattered.”
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If the January 6th committee moves forward with referrals for criminal prosecution, we will learn those names & details on December 21st per
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On the Jan. 6 committee's potential criminal referrals it may issue to the DOJ, Rep. Adam Schiff says it would be "an important statement, not a political one." "I think it's an important decision in its own right...one that the department ought to give due consideration to."
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Bahareh Shargi, wife of detained Emad Shargi who was wrongfully detained in Iran, says she was “ecstatic” for the release of Brittney Griner from Russian custody. “It also gives me hope because it means that this can be done for others, such as my husband.”
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Notable: Fiona Hill confirms that Russia asked the Trump administration to swap Viktor Bout & another Russian for Paul Whelan following the 2018 arrest of the US Marine vet. She says the President Trump was not “particularly interested.” Good context.
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There was a potential prisoner swap raised during the Trump administration of Marine veteran Paul Whelan for Viktor Bout, former National Security Council Russia specialist Fiona Hill says. But, Pres. Trump wasn't "particularly interested" in Whelan's case though, Hill adds.
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Pres. Biden is "absolutely right" in saying U.S. citizens being taken by other countries for political reasons is a national emergency, fmr. NSC Russia specialist Fiona Hill says. "They're doing it for trading purposes, but they're also doing it to mess about in our politics."
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The Moore County, NC power grid attack was "unquestionably deliberate," cybersecurity expert Chris Krebs says. With similar events throughout the country, Krebs says, "there is something broader going on." "There is a significant threat to our nation's critical infrastructure."
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Russian Pres. Vladimir Putin is "very much tapped into the culture wars'' in America, cybersecurity expert and analyst Chris Krebs says following the Griner-Bout prisoner swap. "This is one of the few areas Putin still has influence and ability to shape the global narratives."
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“I just don't understand how I should have faith that my dad's going to be home if the White House doesn't even know his name,” Hannah Shargi criticizes WH Press Sec. Karine Jean-Pierre saying she’s not familiar with the case of Emad Shargi's wrongful detention in Iran.
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Americans who travel to countries like Russia, Iran or North Korea, need to realize "they stand the chance of being grabbed for no reason at all, except to be used as a political chip," Rep. Adam Schiff says when asked if the Griner-Bout prisoner swap encourages hostage taking.
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