Transcript: Rep. Jim Clyburn on “Face the Nation”

The following is a transcript of an interview with Democratic Rep. Jim Clyburn of South Carolina airing on Feb. 18, 2024. ROBERT COSTA: Welcome back to “Face the Nation.” We go now to Congressman Jim Clyburn. He’s in Santee, South Carolina. Congressman, good morning. Thanks for being here. We appreciate it. REPRESENTATIVE CLYBURN: Well, thank

Republicans who ousted George Santos don’t regret it, even though they lost the seat

But few seem eager to see the party make major structural or policy changes after Democrat Tom Suozzi won the special election convincingly. Instead, lawmakers accused Republican Mazi Pilip of running a bad campaign, noted that now-President Joe Biden won the district by more than eight points in 2020, and pointed to myriad isolated factors

Haley’s Hawkish Position on War Takes Center Stage in South Carolina Primary

CHARLESTON, S.C.—One doesn’t have to travel very far in South Carolina to discover reminders of its martial spirit. Eight military bases are scattered across the state. They include Parris Island, where U.S. Marines pass through boot camp—an experience fictionalized in Stanley Kubrick’s “Full Metal Jacket.” Behind glass at the Charleston Museum, a pair of intricately

‘Trump Country’ or ‘Haley Country’? Early Voting Underway in South Carolina

Tactical voting for Haley by non-Republicans evident in Mount Pleasant, but Trump enthusiasm clear elsewhere in state. We’re calling it: the earliest early voting totals reveal that South Carolina’s Republican presidential primary has already attracted many more participants than the Democratic primary earlier this month, and not by a small margin. As of Day 3

Why There’s No Placating Putin

Leon Aron, a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, has written a welcome, concise book that follows Vladimir Putin from his youth in hardscrabble Leningrad to his unlikely rise to power, aided along the way by apartment bombings and mangled terror attacks, his tightening the screws on opposition figures, unprovoked invasions, to the present