On this 'Face the Nation' broadcast, Rep. Tony Gonzales and Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg join Margaret Brennan.
On this 'Face the Nation' broadcast, moderated by Margaret Brennan: Reps. Pat Ryan, Democrat of New York, and Tim Waltz, Republican of Florida Sen. Chris Murphy, Democrat of ConnecticutRep. Tony Gonzales, Republican of Texas Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg David Becker and Samantha Becker Click here to browse full transcripts of 'Face the Nation.'
This is the most powerful thing I have done in Congress, truly, very – it's very emotional, and it's pos – it's positive. I mean, there's so many divisive forces.
Because now we have more post-9/11 veterans that have taken their own lives post-service than gave their lives during service. And that's something all – else that we're working on together. Right – I – I do think we'll get it through. At the end of the day, it's becoming a recruiting and retention problem when service members can't have their kids covered. Then that's becoming an issue for the Pentagon. We're working with them to make it a priority and working with leadership to make it a priority and get it paid for.
It's essential to have people that have been on the receiving end of foreign policy at the table, especially with the – with the 58,000 names behind us to keep in mind that every one of these decisions has tremendous human consequences for the service members, for their families. And there's not enough of that right now.
Yes. I was looking at a Pentagon study that said one in four active-duty service members suffer from food insecurity. And then, within that subset, there were over 120,000 dealing with extreme food insecurity. How is that possible in America right now? So, bringing up housing and – and the quality of life in – in barracks, thinking about all the elements of a family's cost. Like, that's why this health care bill is so important, because health insurance is such a driver of – of that pressure.
Good morning. Well – What you have seen in the past few weeks is that, as Israel clears out of certain areas, like Northern Gaza, Hamas is just filling back in, because there is no viable plan for governance. Israel has to take the time to both be less cavalier about the humanitarian costs, but also come up with a plan for what Gaza looks like after the fighting stops. And the fighting is going to stop at some point.
Listen, I think there'll be some – some rough moments in the early going of trying to get this pier operational. But you are absolutely right. Whether it's the airdrops, or the deliveries on the pier, there's nothing that the United States can do that will substitute for the decision by Israel to open up crossings, to stop using these checkpoints as a means to interrupt the flow of vital goods. Israel has to make a commitment to solve the humanitarian crisis inside Gaza.
Right. Or – and President Trump's desire to keep the border a mess because he thinks that it helps him politically. This is as clear a contrast as has ever been available to the Democratic Party on the issue of the border. Democrats support bipartisan border security. Republicans want the border to be a mess, because it's good politics for them.
The president has such limited ability to issue executive orders that would have an impact on the border. He can't conjure resources out of thin air. If he were to try to shut down portions of the border, the courts would throw that out, I think, within a matter of weeks. The only thing that will bring –
Yes. – right after the Uvalde shooting, urban gun homicides in this country have dropped by 20 percent. Thank you. I want to start on the border. That is your district. What do you mean by that? What are you proposing? Well, there's a lot of policy to get into with you on this and other topics. We're going to have to take a break here, so stay with me, and we'll do that on the other side of it. We'll be back in a moment.
So you mentioned that runoff election and this primary challenger you have faced. That's the 28th. In the initial you received 45 percent of the primary vote, just short of that 50 percent threshold.I want to ask, because last March you were censured by the Texas Republican Party and you connected that to the votes that you took to help get the bipartisan Safer Communities Act through the Congress.
Who's the devil? Yes. I think a lot of Americans would like to see that. We just showed video there of Jim Baird. On your point, though, you know, Donald Trump is campaigning, saying he's going to peel back all of Joe Biden's restrictions on guns. There weren't a lot of restrictions on guns in this community - Safer Community Act, but you're telling Republicans, don't repeal this. You're telling Donald Trump, don't repeal the work you did.
A new record number of air travelers are taking to the skies this weekend according to the TSA. That's despite severe weather in parts of the country. And there will be more extreme weather this summer. The 2024 hurricane season is projected to be busy according to both U.S. and world meteorological organization predictions. We spoke with Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg on Friday and began by asking if federal regulations need to change to deal with increased air turbulence.
But certainly something that will affect American travelers, whether here or abroad. Now, there are protocols and patterns for things like how pilots who encounter turbulence can notify those who might be coming in the path, but I do think we need to continually reevaluate that, in the face of the reality that these things are more frequent and more severe than before.
To be clear, something that extreme is very rare, but turbulence can happen and sometimes it can happen unexpectedly. Our climate is evolving. Our policies and our technology and our infrastructure have to evolve accordingly too. This is all about making sure that we stay ahead of the curve, keeping aviation as safe as it is. It's not for nothing that it became the safest form of travel in America.
If there were evidence of that, that would - that would lead to direct action. I'm not here to make an accusation like that at this time. If anything, we want you to err on the side of reporting. So, that's the encouraging part. The concerning part, of course, is if any of those issues are happening at all.
– until they've demonstrated that they can do it safely. They're - yes, there - there needs to be some major change. And that's not overnight work. Now, to be clear, if there were an immediate safety issue, any time there is, FAA acts immediately. It's why it took the extraordinary step of grounding, for example, all of those 737 Max 9 aircraft until they could be specifically inspected and returned to service.
Do you notice, he's trying to save the electrical vehicle but not the gas powered, which is the vehicle that everybody wants. They're going crazy with the electric car, costing us a fortune. We're spending hundreds of billions of dollars subsidizing a car that nobody wants and nobody's ever going to buy.
And every single year more Americans buy EVs than the year - the year before. The most important thing is that the EV revolution will happen with or without us. And we've got to make sure that it's American led. And that's what the president is focused on. We don't want China - look, under the Trump administration, they allowed China to build an advantage in the EV industry. But under President Biden's leadership, we're making sure that the EV revolution will be a made in America EV revolution. That is critically important.
With the technology that - that we counted on a century ago. Now, there are, obviously, a lot of voices here in Washington who are interested in keeping the status quo. So, the president's goal is to have half a million chargers up by the end of this decade. Now, in order to do a charger, it's more than just plunking a small device into the ground. There's utility work and this is also really a new category of federal investment. But we've been working with each of the 50 states.
The reason that we're investing federal dollars is to fill in some of the gaps in areas where it is not yet profitable for the private sector to do it. Now, again, the majority of charging will happen at home. And in some senses an electric vehicle has more in common - fueling it has more in common with charging your phone than it does with filling up a gas car, in ways that are both helpful and challenging. But that is exactly the transition that America is going through right now.
Thank you. One specific example, Republican activist in at least three states now where Donald Trump tried to reverse his defeat in 2020, nearly all of them under criminal indictment, are now poised to reprise a role in the upcoming election as presidential electors. This is all 'Washington Post' reporting.
Yes. Yes. If they don't have that?
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