The following is the transcript of the interview with White House Correspondents’ Association President and senior CBS News correspondent Weijia Jiang that aired on “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan” on April 26, 2026. MARGARET BRENNAN: We’re joined now by our Senior White House correspondent Weijia Jiang, who’s currently serving as the president of the

This week on “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan,” acting Attorney General Todd Blanche and White House Correspondents’ Association President and CBS News correspondent Weijia Jiang join after gunshots rang out at the annual dinner. Plus, U.K. Ambassador to the U.K., Sir Christian Turner, joins. Original CBS News Link

Samantha Vinograd, CBS News national security contributor, told “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan,” that the country is facing “the most complex threat environment” in its history. “In this scenario, two things can be true. It can be true that law enforcement and intelligence professionals prepared exhaustively for last night, weeks of planning, intelligence gathering,

Cole Thomas Allen, the suspected gunman who tried to attack the White House Correspondents’ Dinner Saturday night, left behind what officials are calling a written “manifesto” in which he clearly stated he wanted to target officials in the Trump administration, a senior U.S. official told CBS News. The president and first lady Melania Trump were