Face the Nation: Full Episode Transcripts (2008–2024) — Date-by-Date 2025 Guest Lineups

CBS has published a comprehensive archive of Face the Nation episode transcripts spanning 2008 through 2024, plus a date-by-date listing of guest lineups from recent 2025 broadcasts. For requests about broadcasts earlier than the online archive, viewers should contact CBS Footage Requests.

Transcripts Archive & Recent 2025 Guest Lineups

Below is a cleaned, easy-to-scan roster of recent episodes and their guests. Each entry lists the broadcast date followed by the featured guests and contributors.

• Dec. 14 — Nobel Peace Prize winner María Corina Machado; Sen. Mark Warner, Democrat of Virginia; Kevin Hassett, White House National Economic Council director; Sen. Bill Cassidy, Republican of Louisiana.
• Dec. 7 — Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent; Rep. Ilhan Omar, Democrat of Minnesota; Rep. Jim Himes, Democrat of Connecticut; former FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb.
• Nov. 30 — Samantha Vinograd (former DHS counterterrorism official, CBS News contributor); Rep. Mike Turner, Republican of Ohio; Sen. Tim Kaine, Democrat of Virginia; Kevin Hassett, White House National Economic Council director; Claire Babineaux-Fontenot, CEO of Feeding America.
• Nov. 23 — Sen. Mark Kelly, Democrat of Arizona; Rep. Jason Crow, Democrat of Colorado; Anthony Salvanto, CBS News director of elections and surveys; Sen. Rand Paul, Republican of Kentucky; Olga Stefanishyna, Ukrainian ambassador to the U.S.
• Nov. 16 — Reps. Tom Suozzi (D–NY) and Don Bacon (R–NE); Army Secretary Dan Driscoll; Sen. Bill Cassidy (R–LA); Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D–NH).
• Nov. 9 — Kevin Hassett, White House National Economic Council director; Maryland Gov. Wes Moore (D); Virginia Gov.-elect Abigail Spanberger (D); New Jersey Gov.-elect Mikie Sherrill (D); West Virginia Gov. Patrick Morrisey (R).
• Nov. 2 — Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy; Sen. Mark Warner (D–VA); Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R–TX); Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey (D); USAA CEO Juan Andrade.
• Oct. 26 — Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent; House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D–NY); Sen. Lindsey Graham (R–SC); Rep. John Moolenaar (R–MI).
• Oct. 19 — Sen. Mark Kelly (D–AZ); Sen. Katie Britt (R–AL); Christine Lagarde, President of the European Central Bank; Professors Jeri Seidman (Univ. of Virginia), Leila Hudson (Univ. of Arizona), and Miki Turner (USC).
• Oct. 12 — Vice President JD Vance; Sen. Chris Murphy (D–CT); Rep. Jim Himes (D–CT); Badr Abdelatty, Egyptian foreign minister.
• Oct. 5 — Secretary of State Marco Rubio; House Speaker Mike Johnson (R–LA); Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D–NY); Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D–IL); Ret. Lt. Gen. Ben Hodges.
• Sept. 28 — Robert Costa, CBS Sunday Morning correspondent; Sen. Rand Paul (R–KY); Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D–MN); Rep. Mike Turner (R–OH); Sen. Tim Kaine (D–VA); Ty Cobb, former attorney to President Trump.
• Sept. 21 — French President Emmanuel Macron; Syrian President Ahmed Al-Sharaa; Gary Cohn, IBM vice chairman and former National Economic Council director.
• Sept. 14 — Scott MacFarlane, CBS News justice correspondent; House Speaker Mike Johnson (R–LA); Jill Schlesinger, CBS News business analyst; Sens. Chris Coons (D–DE) and James Lankford (R–OK); Robert Pape, professor at the University of Chicago.
• Sept. 7 — Kevin Hassett, National Economic Council director; Sen. Mark Warner (D–VA); Sen. Roger Marshall (R–KS); Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D–IL); Anthony Salvanto, CBS News director of elections and surveys.
• Aug. 31 — Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem; Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker (D); Dr. Céline Gounder, CBS News medical contributor; Jennifer Jacobs, CBS News senior White House reporter; Rachael Bade, Politico Capitol bureau chief; Karen Tumulty, Washington Post chief political correspondent; Cindy McCain, World Food Programme executive director.
• Aug. 24 — Maryland Gov. Wes Moore; Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D–NH); Rep. Mike Lawler (R–NY); Mohamed El-Erian, Allianz chief economic adviser; Catherine Russell, UNICEF executive director.
• Aug. 17 — Secretary of State Marco Rubio; Rep. Jason Crow (D–CO); Fiona Hill, former National Security Council senior director for Europe and Russia; Sen. Dan Sullivan (R–AK); José Andrés, founder of World Central Kitchen.
• Aug. 10 — Oksana Markarova, Ukraine's ambassador to the U.S.; Mark Rutte, NATO Secretary General; Sen. Mark Kelly (D–AZ); Rep. Tony Gonzales (R–TX); Dr. Jerome Adams, former U.S. Surgeon General.
• Aug. 3 — U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer; Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan; Dominic LeBlanc, Canada's U.S. trade minister; CMS Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz; New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham (D).
• July 27 — Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought; Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D–MD); Jean-Noël Barrot, French foreign minister; Ted Carter, president of The Ohio State University.
• July 20 — Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick; Rep. Jim Himes (D–CT); Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons; Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass.
• July 13 — Sens. Richard Blumenthal (D–CT) and Lindsey Graham (R–SC); Sen. Maria Cantwell (D–WA); Sen. Rand Paul (R–KY); Rep. French Hill (R–AR).
• July 6 — Kevin Hassett, National Economic Council director; Rep. Tom Suozzi (D–NY); Director Ken Burns.
• June 29 — Sen. Mark Warner (D–VA); Rep. Michael McCaul (R–TX); Scott Gottlieb, former FDA commissioner; Rafael Mariano Grossi, Director General of the IAEA; Amir-Saeid Iravani, Iran's UN ambassador.
• June 22 — Secretary of State Marco Rubio; Reps. Thomas Massie (R–KY) and Ro Khanna (D–CA); Sen. Tim Kaine (D–VA); Ret. Gen. Frank McKenzie.
• June 15 — Sen. Tom Cotton (R–AR); Sens. Richard Blumenthal (D–CT) and Lindsey Graham (R–SC); Sen. Alex Padilla (D–CA).
• June 8 — Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem; Rep. Tony Gonzales (R–TX); Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D–MN); Kevin Hassett, NEC director; Janti Soeripto, CEO of Save the Children.
• June 1 — Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent; Sen. Rand Paul (R–KY); Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D–IL); Michael Roth, Wesleyan University president; Dr. Marty Makary, FDA commissioner.
• May 25 — House Speaker Mike Johnson (R–LA); Rep. Jim Himes (D–CT); Cindy McCain, WFP executive director; Navy veteran Jack McCain; Reps. Seth Moulton (D–MA), Zach Nunn (R–IA), and Don Davis (D–NC).
• May 18 — Secretary of State Marco Rubio; Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D–MD); Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates; Bridget Brink, former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine; Ret. Gen. Stanley McChrystal.
• May 11 — United CEO Scott Kirby; Rep. Michael McCaul (R–TX); New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham (D); Cardinal Blase Cupich, Archbishop of Chicago; Peter Mandelson, U.K. ambassador to the U.S.
• May 4 — Rep. Mike Turner (R–OH); Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D–IL); Oksana Markarova, Ukrainian ambassador; Ret. Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster; NPR CEO Katherine Maher; PBS CEO Paula Kerger.
• April 27 — Anthony Salvanto, CBS News director of elections and surveys; Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov; Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D–NH); Tom Homan, former border czar in the Trump administration.
• April 20 — Camilo Montoya-Galvez, CBS News immigration reporter; Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D–MD); Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick (R–PA); EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin; Austan Goolsbee, Chicago Fed president.
• April 13 — U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer; Neel Kashkari, president of the Minneapolis Fed; Anthony Salvanto (CBS); Rep. Ro Khanna (D–CA); Dr. Peter Marks, former head of FDA's Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research.
• April 6 — Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick; Sen. John Barrasso (R–WY); Sen. Maria Cantwell (D–WA); Rep. Don Bacon (R–NE); Mark Rutte, NATO Secretary General.
• March 30 — Anthony Salvanto (CBS); Shawn Fain, UAW president; Sen. Mark Warner (D–VA); Rep. Jodey Arrington (R–TX); Sue Gordon and Ret. Gen. Frank McKenzie.
• March 23 — National Security Adviser Mike Waltz; Rep. Rand Paul (R–KY); Rep. Jim Himes (D–CT); Dr. Scott Gottlieb; CBS correspondents Camilo Montoya-Galvez and Scott MacFarlane.
• March 16 — Secretary of State Marco Rubio; Steve Witkoff, presidential Middle East envoy; Sen. Lindsey Graham (R–SC); Rep. Debbie Dingell (D–MI); Maryland Gov. Wes Moore (D).
• March 9 — Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem; Kirsten Hillman, Canadian ambassador; Reps. Brian Fitzpatrick (R–PA) and Tom Suozzi (D–NY); Fiona Hill, former White House Russia expert.
• March 2 — Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent; Rep. Mike Turner (R–OH); Sen. Mark Kelly (D–AZ); Rep. John James (R–MI); EU diplomat Kaja Kallas.
• Feb. 23 — New York Gov. Kathy Hochul; Steve Witkoff, Middle East special envoy; Sen. John Curtis (R–UT); Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D–MD); Dr. Scott Gottlieb.
• Feb. 16 — Secretary of State Marco Rubio; Kevin Hassett (NEC); Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R–TX); Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D–NH); Rep. Jamie Raskin (D–MD).
• Feb. 9 — Anthony Salvanto (CBS); Rep. Michael McCaul (R–TX); Rep. Ilhan Omar (D–MN); Sen. Bill Hagerty (R–TN); Scott MacFarlane, Jan Crawford, Sam Vinograd and Christopher Krebs.
• Feb. 2 — Sen. Mark Warner (D–VA); Rep. Brian Mast (R–FL); Sen. Bernie Sanders (I–VT); Frank Figliuzzi, former FBI assistant director; Scott MacFarlane; Hanna Siegel.
• Jan. 26 — Vice President JD Vance; Rep. Mike Turner (R–OH); Rep. Jason Crow (D–CO); Camilo Montoya-Galvez (CBS).
• Jan. 19 — Rep. Mike Waltz, incoming national security adviser; Brett McGurk, NSC coordinator for the Middle East; Sen. Lindsey Graham (R–SC); Sen. Tim Kaine (D–VA); Janti Soeripto, Save the Children.
• Jan. 12 — FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell; Rep. Judy Chu (D–CA); Sen. John Barrasso (R–WY); Sen. Mark Kelly (D–AZ); former House Speaker Newt Gingrich.
• Jan. 5 — Reps. Mike Turner (R–OH) and Jim Himes (D–CT); House Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi (D–CA); Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R–SD); Tom Homan, former Trump administration border czar.

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