What is going on in terms of faith in the Democratic system? Can the vice president brush this off? There were crowded jail cells. In the 1950s it's been included. It get-- enables them to change the conversation from the horrific conditions that we see with-- that children being held in at some of these border crossing detention facilities. DAVID NAKAMURA: --we remember the images from 2014 when we had the initial border crisis of unaccompanied children. And it brings me, Michael, to the results of this poll that we saw out from Gallup this week on the question of how confident and proud Americans are feeling these days. I think all of us, as parents, as Americans, were horrified by the picture of Oscar Ramirez Martinez and his daughter Valeria, who drowned trying to cross the Rio Grande. I mean, it seems like, and critics will certainly say you continue to try to bypass Congress to make changes in a way that is not how their oversight role is supposed to function. Michael Gerson: Trump babbles in the face of tragedy Aug 15, 2017 One of the difficult but primary duties of the modern presidency is to speak for the nation in times of tragedy. MARGARET BRENNAN: You say unless people lost their passport, they often don't think about what the State Department actually does. And, frankly, Margaret, the ways in which Ken just referred to loopholes as things that are legal protections for children and their parents in detention I think misreads the core issue. MARGARET BRENNAN: Is there more she can follow through to this next round of debates, or are the targets going to be set on her? For FACE THE NATION, I'm Margaret Brennan. KEN CUCCINELLI (Acting Director of U.S. Now we're seeing the debate change on this issue as people start to realize. These are core features of American law that protect children in American custody. And: "Let Russia fight ISIS, if they want to fight 'em." He is the author of “Heroic Conservatism” (HarperOne, 2007) and co-author of “City of Man: Religion and Politics in a New Era” (Moody, 2010). GLEN JOHNSON: --it was so that people could understand what he was about and what was of interest to him. MARGARET BRENNAN: What would you do with the migrants already in U.S. custody, the overcrowding that we are seeing? I was actually somebody that covered government for a number of years, almost thirty years, but I did not know that much about the State Department. And I do think it's a-- a requirement that whoever the Democratic nominee is that they can go to Philadelphia and go to a fire station and talk to people. Michael Gerson '86 is a nationally syndicated columnist who appears twice weekly in The Post. MARGARET BRENNAN: So the concern that this is being used for political purposes? I mean we see this with Iran and their increasing enrichment. MARGARET BRENNAN: Michael, you know, the-- the former vice president has sort of recoiled through some of the activists in his party and presented himself as someone who is able to find compromise or moderate. We begin today with the acting director of U.S. An elementary school is attacked. All we know — or try our best to know — is the character, stability and credibility of the president himself (or herself). Ken Cuccinelli just referenced correctly that Senators Graham and Durbin, a seasoned Republican and Democrat, have tried repeatedly to get a proposal moving that could win both bipartisan support in the Senate and, ultimately, be embraced by President Trump. I know his heart. It's caused by what's happening in those countries. That's why I think when you cast that aside, this was not the U.S. and Iran making a nuclear deal. He was a soldier who then became an anti-war activist. Citizenship and Immigration Services (, 2020 Democratic Presidential Candidate John Delaney (read more), Glen Johnson, author of "Window Seat on the World" (, Panelists: Jamelle Bouie, Susan Page, Michael Gerson, and David Nakamura (. Michael Gerson 0 comments on board, to then actually leading most of the technical and back-- back-and-forth negotiations with the Iranians. MARGARET BRENNAN: So you now have billions of dollars from Congress. But we should not lose sight of the two things that we have to focus on. Michael Gerson, Self: The Robert MacNeil Report. And Jeh Johnson and the President were-- were frustrated by criticism from the left. Good morning. A transcript from the August 9, 2015 edition of Face the Nation. Dangerous overcrowding and unsanitary conditions at the border. Like fixing our health care system--, JOHN DELANEY: --lowering pharmaceutical prices, building infrastructure, doing things to improve public education, make college more affordable, expanding, you know, pre-K to make it universal. On this "Face the Nation" broadcast moderated by Margaret Brennan: Click here to browse full transcripts of "Face the Nation.". MARGARET BRENNAN: We turn now to Democrat Chris Coons who is part of a bipartisan group of senators who continue to work on immigration reform. And-- but to do any of those things we actually have to start coming together. We have never seen anything like it before. So that-- that unraveling I think has come at some expense to our credibility and to, you know, the future stability of that area. The latest on John McCain and his impact on U.S. politics. MARGARET BRENNAN: That's it for us. After more than, you know, three weeks since he first made the comments, Biden apologized yesterday for his remark on past work with segregationists. A space shuttle explodes. He is the author of “Heroic Conservatism” (HarperOne, 2007) and co-author of “City of Man: Religion and Politics in a New Era” (Moody, 2010). I mean foreign policy really needs to be discussed more in this presidential debate. He is the author of Heroic Conservatism and co-author of City of Man: Religion and Politics in a New Era.He appears regularly on the PBS NewsHour, Face the Nation and … Television Year-To-Date. But I preserve options. This is not only disturbing; it is disqualifying. Gerson is the author of Heroic Conservatism (HarperOne, 2007) and co-author of City of Man: Religion and Politics in a New Era (Moody, 2010). He is the author of Heroic Conservatism (HarperOne, 2007) and coauthor of City of Man: Religion and Politics in a New Era (Moody, 2010). There are regulatory changes. MARGARET BRENNAN: Is that still happening at U.S. facilities, that overcrowding? And that concern is never raised--. Is there going to be any proposal put forward by Congress? I think the book, one of the things that the book tries to do is just explain the fundamentals of diplomacy, what a bilateral meeting is like, what a multilateral meeting is like. Of all the absurdities in Donald Trump's rapid political rise, none is more puzzling than his reputation for toughness in the war against terrorism. He appears regularly on the “PBS NewsHour,” “Face the Nation” and other programs. Vance, Diane Guerrero, and Amani Al-Khatahtbeh - and also takes a look at the shifting tide of American politics with journalists Michele Norris, Jeffrey Goldberg, Michael Gerson… I'm sorry for any of the pain or misconception I may have caused anybody. And-- and the President is also coming off a time where he is certainly seem to be doing things, and whether-- some of those are controversial. Michael J. Gerson 2015 May Commencement Speaker. And they are not the equivalent of a legal change by Congress. I'll remind you that their zero tolerance policy that forcibly separated children from their parents at the border a year ago was a humanitarian disaster--. ... Ruth Marcus, and Michael Gerson discuss the shooting of unarmed teenager Michael Brown and the furious protests rocking Ferguson, Mo. We have over seventy thousand people working for the department, many of them here, but numerous people, two hundred and eighty-five posts around the world, and they represent our interests all throughout the globe. We need more asylum judges. Gerson serves as senior adviser at One, a bipartisan organization dedicated to the fight against extreme poverty and preventable diseases. Questions about positions that he's taken in the past out of step with today's Democratic Party and his nimbleness in trying to respond to them. KEN CUCCINELLI: Yeah, I think the effort was being made and Congress wasn't responsive. But, you know, can you elect an institutionalist in a time of ideology. Is why I am asking you that question. JOHN DELANEY: So I wouldn't decriminalize border crossings, but I would make it illegal to separate children from their families. A space shuttle explodes. There are ways in which the administration has demonstrably failed in its moral responsibility to provide minimally reasonable care for children in their custody. And you took I think a hundred thousand photos--. And-- and what would you do with the thousands of migrants who are currently in U.S. custody? My plan which is called Better Care is a universal health care plan. You look at his history. MARGARET BRENNAN: Can you act without Congress? Yes. Is it a existential--, MICHAEL GERSON: Well, I make of it that--. I mean, you know, if anything, what was the lesson of eight years for President Obama? MARGARET BRENNAN: Leader McConnell wasn't able to get this done? Trump is a real estate developer who takes any domestic terrorist attack — whatever the actual circumstances — as confirmation of his views on a lax immigration system, as evidence of a law enforcement system hobbled by political correctness and as cause for more aggressive profiling of Muslims, Arabs, or whomever he is currently defining as the threat. The President has undermined that in the past through his tweets, but I think they are preparing to take some action. We made four trips there, and this was something that I always knew about is the myth of John Kerry. MARGARET BRENNAN: Thank you very much, Mister Cuccinelli. MARGARET BRENNAN: Michael, final word here. But the reality is, his actual record, his lifelong record of standing up and fighting for civil rights is what he should be judged on. SENATOR CHRIS COONS: --last February was the only one that got sixty no votes even in a Republican majority Senate. MICHAEL GERSON: Well, I think that the President has staked out extreme nationalism as his trademark, and I think that there is a revolt against that in a highly-polarized environment. Listen. MARGARET BRENNAN: I think a lot of people would agree with that in principle but know in practice it's a lot harder to get things done particularly on issues like immigration. So it wasn't just so that he could see and learn and do things--. MARGARET BRENNAN: That after post-debate polls showed the former vice president losing support, while California Senator Kamala Harris gained ground. MARGARET BRENNAN: Our guests, acting director of Citizenship and Immigration Services Ken Cuccinelli and Delaware Democrat Senator Chris Coons. That's the only place we see any effort going on right now. Join the Cathedral as we welcome nationally syndicated columnist Michael Gerson to the Canterbury Pulpit for the 11:15 worship service, directly followed by a conversation forum with Dean Randy Hollerith. JOHN DELANEY: I absolutely-- I absolutely think I can get back in the deal and I absolutely can make it better. MARGARET BRENNAN: --with an Iranian official in American history. We have to find common ground. "A leader understands that people feed off his emotions in a moment of crisis. If you look at the-- the Democratic race, there is a very obvious top tier. MARGARET BRENNAN: That it's already starting to unravel? I mean, look at so many of the candidates, Senator Warren, so many of these people have outsourced their health care plan to Bernie Sanders, right? KEN CUCCINELLI: No, no, I am just pointing out that the pool of those with final removal orders--, KEN CUCCINELLI: --is enormous. I think, she will do quite well going forward. He serves on the board of directors of the U.S. … GLEN JOHNSON (Window Seat on the World/@ByGlenJohnson): Thank you for having me on, Margaret.