CBS News announced the guest list for Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan on Sunday, April 5, setting up a morning program built around national security, religion and politics. The show was scheduled to air that day at 10:30 a.m. ET on CBS News and stream at 12:30 p.m. ET on Paramount+ and CBSNews.com.
Retired Gen. Frank McKenzie, the former commander of U.S. Central Command, was listed as a guest, along with Archbishop Timothy Broglio, who heads the Catholic Archdiocese for the Military Services, USA. The program also named Amy Walter, publisher and editor-in-chief of the Cook Political Report, David Sanger, a White House and national security correspondent at, and Jeff Mason, a White House correspondent at, as panelists.
The week’s broadcast was moderated by senior White House and political correspondent Ed O'Keefe rather than Brennan. That detail matters because the guest announcement was for a standard Sunday public affairs program that combines one-on-one interviews with a panel segment, and CBS News said that was the format set for April 5.
For viewers, the key point is straightforward: the April 5 edition was built around voices with direct ties to the military, the Catholic Church’s services branch, and the political and national security beat. McKenzie brought the perspective of a former combatant commander, Broglio represented an institution serving Catholics in the armed forces, and the panel brought together reporters and a strategist with deep Washington experience.
