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Moderator, Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent, Boy Mom &USMC wife, UVA Center 4 Politics Board, CFR Board, retired 🇮🇪 dancer
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Tomorrow morning’s broadcast of will be pre-empted by coverage of the Masters Tournament. But make sure you tune in next Sunday for another episode of Face the Nation with .
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CBS Sports' live third round coverage of the Masters will resume Sunday at 8:30 a.m. ET and continue until the conclusion of the third round. Live final round coverage will air as scheduled, beginning at 2 p.m. ET on CBS.
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For the 14th week in a row and in the middle of the Passover holiday, more than 100K Israelis protested tonight in Tel Aviv against the Netanyahu government's judicial overhaul plan. Thousands more demonstrated across the country
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OU-Norman Emergency: There is an active shooter at the Van Vleet Oval. Take immediate action now. Run. Hide. Fight!
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Thanks to for filling in this weekend on . I will be spending Easter weekend with my family & back with team FTN next week.
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As usual, hope you all watch @FaceTheNation with @margbrennan this Sunday, April 9. I'll be the guest moderator this holiday weekend, working with her excellent team. Very much looking forward to the discussion with presidential historians. We'll also talk with key newsmakers...
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1.1m girls & young women are without access to formal education. “Currently, 80% of school-aged Afghan girls and young women – 2.5m people are out of school. Nearly 30% of girls in Afghanistan have never entered primary education.” Here’s the UNESCO report bit.ly/3UeMMQN
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Here’s the latest report on Afghans who helped the US & are seeking US visas: travel.state.gov/content/dam/vi H/T @CamJourno
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IN THE WAKE OF US AFGHANISTAN WITHDRAWAL: “Tens of thousands of Afghans” expressed interest in the Special Immigrant Visa program to leave the Taliban’s Afghanistan for the U.S. according to a State Dept spokesman. But “historically” about 40-50% of applications do not qualify.
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IN THE WAKE OF US AFGHANISTAN WITHDRAWAL: “Tens of thousands of Afghans” expressed interest in the Special Immigrant Visa program to leave the Taliban’s Afghanistan for the U.S. according to a State Dept spokesman. But “historically” about 40-50% of applications do not qualify.
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.: "This was sent to us about 10 minutes before the briefing began, with little notice...Releasing this at the beginning of the high holidays...Why today? Is this all we get?" John Kirby says there is "No effort here to try to obfuscate or try to bury something."
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So "I think the reason that we left Afghanistan and the reason the Afghan government fell was that two presidents, President Trump and President Biden, both had as a very high objective to to leave Afghanistan," Gen McKenzie (Ret) on cbsn.ws/40TIMry
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"So while I gave advice, my advice was not followed. I executed that order as well as we were able to do," General McKenzie (Ret) told me in Sept on @FaceTheNation that he disagreed with President Biden's Afghanistan decisions. cbsn.ws/40TIMry
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A Congressional staff member tells me the WH hasn't sent the classified Afghanistan after action review to the Hill though they've been told to expect it. House Foreign Affairs Chair is traveling in Asia. Kirby is briefing on Biden team's version of events from the podium now.
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McCarthy slams NBA
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“I am the Speaker of the House. There is no place that China’s going to tell me where to go and who I can speak to — I’m not the general manager of @HoustonRockets.” “We’re united in this same approach… on both sides [of the aisle].” - @SpeakerMcCarthy’s message to the CCP.
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The DC Chief Judge is giving DOJ until mid-April to respond to a request from CBS News and other media orgs to unseal Pence-related legal docs.
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New case in DC federal court seeking to unseal docs related to the fight over Mike Pence's grand jury testimony in the Jan. 6 probe -- media coalition argues Pence's ongoing public commentary about all this pierces the usual secrecy rules assets.bwbx.io/documents/user
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Tomorrow a delegation including roughly half of the Congressional Select Committee members on CCP plan to meet Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen. will be the highest ranking lawmaker to do so on US soil. Fmr Trump National Security adviser Robert O’Brien will join
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