Washington — Rep. Jim Himes of Connecticut, the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, lambasted President Trump’s appointment of Bill Pulte, a controversial housing official, to serve as acting director of national intelligence. Mr. Trump’s choice of Pulte, who had been the director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, has drawn backlash from Democrats
The following is the transcript of the interview with Rep. Jim Himes, Democrat of Connecticut, that aired on “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan” on June 7, 2026. MARGARET BRENNAN: We turn now to the top Democrat on the Intelligence Committee, Representative Jim Himes, who joins us this morning from Greenwich, Connecticut. Welcome back to
The following is the full transcript of the interview with Rye Barcott, a Marine veteran and With Honor founder, a portion of which aired on “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan” on June 7, 2026. MARGARET BRENNAN: Joining us now is Rye Barcott, a Marine veteran who is the founder of With Honor, an organization
The celebration of the nation’s 250th anniversary is now very nearly upon us, as the signal date of July 4th approaches. Of course, to be technical about it, and as many Americans are well aware, July 2, 1776 was the actual day that the Continental Congress approved the resolution proposed on June 7 by Richard
I have never met Harvey Mansfield, the distinguished scholar and Harvard University Professor of Government, Emeritus, but he strikes me as the kind of professor I had in my first graduate course at Georgia State University, then a commuter college in downtown Atlanta, in 1992. That professor taught Early American Literature with the appreciation, insight,
At a time when most royal biographers (myself, alas, included) tend to major in snark and intrigue when it comes to Britain’s most beleaguered family, it is that major-domo of probity Hugo Vickers who is on hand to restore integrity and balance to historical and social dissection of the Firm. He assures us early in
As a college freshman in the fall of 1994, I read Alex Kotlowitz’s There Are No Children Here in an introductory sociology course. For a week, I was over the moon. Here was a gripping story about good kids surviving a fearsome public-housing complex—a story that braided heartbreaking interviews, contemporary news, historical events, and policy