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On this "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan" broadcast, moderated by Margaret Brennan:\u00a0Democratic Sen.\u00a0Mark Kelly\u00a0of ArizonaRepublican Rep.\u00a0Mike Turner\u00a0of OhioCl\u00e9ment Delangue, CEO of Hugging FaceIndependent former Sen.\u00a0Joe Manchin\u00a0of West VirginiaHeather Manchin, founder and CEO of Americans TogetherClick\u00a0here\u00a0to browse full transcripts from 2026 of "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan."\u00a0 \u00a0MARGARET BRENNAN: I\u0027m Margaret Brennan in Washington.And this week on Face the Nation; Iran apparently blinks after threats from President Trump for a major joint U.S. and Israel attack on Iranian soil.Heading in to a sixth month of conflict with Iran, President Trump told reporters Friday he had plans to go full throttle on his threat for military action in Iran.(Begin VT)DONALD TRUMP (President of the United States): We will be hitting them. We will be hitting them very hard. At some point, they\u0027re going to say, we just can\u0027t take it anymore.(End VT)MARGARET BRENNAN: His vows for going big caused a flurry of diplomatic scrambling and yet another announcement of \u2013 quote \u2013 "perimeters of a deal." But is this the one that\u0027s for real? We will have the latest.Plus: After an alarming incident of OpenAI going rogue and hacking into at least one company\u0027s computer system, we will talk to the CEO of Hugging Face, Clement Delangue.Finally, with polls showing Americans souring on both political parties, we will talk with former Senator Joe Manchin about his latest effort to encourage independents to join the process.It\u0027s all just ahead on Face the Nation.Good morning, and welcome to Face the Nation.President Trump\u0027s threat to massively escalate attacks on Iran set off a diplomatic scramble on Saturday. American allies, including the Saudi crown prince, urged the president to back off plans to bomb Iran\u0027s energy infrastructure.Late last night, Trump said military action at levels unseen since World War II remained an option. But he\u0027s holding off for now, at the request of allies, as well as Iran, because, he claimed, there was a diplomatic opportunity or, as he put it \u2013 quote \u2013 "the perimeters of a deal" has been agreed to.This morning, diplomatic sources tell me that there is no deal yet, but, rather, signs of progress towards an arrangement with Iran to reopen the strait. The challenge remains just how much leverage Iran will maintain over it.We turn now to Arizona Democratic Senator Mark Kelly, who joins us from Columbus, Ohio, this morning.Good morning to you, Senator.SENATOR MARK KELLY (D-Arizona): Good morning, Margaret.MARGARET BRENNAN: We\u0027re now in the sixth month of this war we had been told would last four to five weeks. In the past week, the targets have widened. Iran hit Egypt. We saw Saudi Arabia join the U.S. in bombing Iranian-backed militias there.And then, late last night, President Trump used the term that he had been considering military action on levels unseen since World War II. You sit on Intelligence. You sit on Armed Services. Has the administration shared anything in regard to its plans on Iran?SENATOR MARK KELLY: I mean, not these latest plans.And I think what we\u0027re seeing here is a president who has an approach to this that\u0027s just rather erratic. He says one thing, he does another thing. It\u0027s escalatory at this point. He\u0027s trying to get us back to February. And I think, if he could, he would \u2013 if he had a big reset button he could hit, he would certainly take that option.Hey, we\u0027ve got 18 dead Americans. Prices have skyrocketed across the country for the American people. I was here in Ohio. I\u0027m here in Ohio now, but I met with some veterans the other day, and they\u0027re struggling. I mean, these are a lot of retired service members that can\u0027t afford to put gas in their car, can\u0027t afford groceries.Rent is going up. And this president is not dealing with the issues that the American people need him to deal with.MARGARET BRENNAN: Well, you know, in our polling, we see that this is a very unpopular war, and it\u0027s weighing on the president\u0027s own approval ratings.But Democrats are faring slightly worse, according to CBS polling. When asked who has the better approach to Iran, 32 percent say Trump and the GOP. Only 30 percent say the Democrats. So we are in this thing. Do Democrats need to offer an affirmative vision for ending it?SENATOR MARK KELLY: Well, I don\u0027t think it\u0027s the president\u0027s vision.Here\u0027s a guy who got us into this without a strategic goal, without a plan, without a timeline. He\u0027s got a secretary of defense that doesn\u0027t know how to manage this war, who decided a good metric at the beginning was just to drop as many munitions as he could on as many targets, and now we\u0027ve got a munitions shortage. Big surprise.So they\u0027re flailing. They\u0027re stuck. They\u0027re responsible for this. And the president is the one that has to try to figure out a way out of this. I would suggest to him, though, that the solution is not to do the same thing that he\u0027s been doing, not to have his real estate buddy and his son-in-law in charge of a negotiation, to put some people in here that know how to do this, how to talk to the Iranians, and put a coalition together, bring our allies back together.He\u0027s alienated not only our GCC allies, but our European allies as well. And it\u0027s just making this much harder for him to figure out a way out.MARGARET BRENNAN: But "The Washington Post" is reporting that the top U.S. general in Europe, General Grynkewich, warned the Pentagon that he lacks resources to protect Israel from incoming ballistic missiles, and if he\u0027s without another Navy destroyer, he will be forced to choose between defense of the homeland versus that of Israel.It sounds like, for the moment, Israel\u0027s not rejoining combat operations. Bu...
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