Margaret Brennan

Washington, D.C.

Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent at CBS News

Moderator at Face the Nation on the Radio

Face the Nation Moderator, CBS Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent, Boy Mom & USMC wife, UVA alum, CSH grad, CT Yankee & Sag Harbor native, retired 🇮🇪 dancer

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U.S. ambassador to Ukraine intends to resign, sources say

2 weeks ago | cbsnews.com | Margaret Brennan

U.S. ambassador to Ukraine Bridget Brink intends to resign from her post early, three sources told CBS News. Brink has not formally submitted resignation papers but she has been making farewell calls to colleagues, sources said. CBS asked Ambassador Brink and the State Department for comment but did not receive a response. One senior U.S. official told CBS that her resignation stems from an unusual mix of personal and policy concerns, including the recent USAID layoffs.
H.R. McMaster receives accidental call from President Trump

2 weeks ago | flipboard.com | Margaret Brennan |Robert Costa

7 hours agoThe former first lady emphasized wanting to think deliberately about how she was spending her time. Women, Obama said, “struggle with disappointing people.” WASHINGTON — For former first lady Michelle Obama, it was time to start asking herself tough questions as conversations around her personal …
H.R. McMaster receives accidental call from President Trump

2 weeks ago | cbsnews.com | Margaret Brennan |Robert Costa

Just over a month ago, retired Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster received an unexpected call on his personal cell, four sources told CBS News. It was from the White House and he was instructed by the voice on the other end to stand by for the president. McMaster, who had served as national security adviser during President Trump's first term and was ousted after 13 months, was surprised to hear from Mr. Trump at all.
Top National Security Council staffers purged, U.S. officials say

3 weeks ago | cbsnews.com | Margaret Brennan |Jennifer Jacobs

At least three senior staffers at the National Security Council have been fired, with more firings expected, two U.S. officials with knowledge tell CBS News. The sources were granted anonymity because they are not authorized to speak with the press.
Trump to visit Saudi Arabia in first overseas trip of second term, sources say

3 weeks ago | cbsnews.com | Camilla Schick |Margaret Brennan

Trump will visit Saudi Arabia in May President Trump is expected to visit Saudi Arabia in May, two sources confirmed to CBS News. It will be the first foreign trip since his return to the White House. Mr. Trump told reporters earlier this month that he was considering making the visit, noting that traditionally, presidents often make their first foreign trip to the U.S.-allied United Kingdom.
U.S. and Russia expected to make joint statement following talks focused on Black Sea ceasefire deal

1 month ago | cbsnews.com | Jennifer Jacobs |Margaret Brennan

The U.S. and Russia are expected to release a joint statement on Tuesday morning after discussions in Saudi Arabia aimed at achieving a Black Sea maritime ceasefire deal, sources familiar with the matter told CBS News. The statement is scheduled to be out at 4 a.m. in Washington, D.C., and 11 a.m. in Moscow, two of the sources said.
After hundreds of Radio Free Asia staff placed on leave, some fear deportation

1 month ago | cbsnews.com | Margaret Brennan

Radio Free Asia employees fear deportation Washington — Following the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre, Congress created the government-funded Radio Free Asia to broadcast facts into countries where governments are afraid of them. "The U.S. saw China gunning down its own citizens and then also successfully covering it up afterwards," RFA President Bay Fang told CBS News.
Trump appointee Pete Marocco hands control of USAID to DOGE official

1 month ago | cbsnews.com | Camilla Schick |Margaret Brennan

A top official for the U.S. Agency for International Development said he's handing control of the depleted agency to an official with the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE.
U.S., Israel interested in Sudan, Somalia and Syria for resettlement of Gazans, sources say

1 month ago | cbsnews.com | Camilla Schick |Margaret Brennan

The Trump administration and Israel approached the governments of Sudan and Somalia, and have also been interested in Syria, as potential places to resettle Palestinians from Gaza, according to three sources familiar with the effort. The idea of Palestinian resettlement in another country is one of several options the Trump team is chewing over as part of the U.S. president's larger goal of ending Israel's war with Hamas in Gaza and rebuilding the devastated Palestinian enclave.
As pause on Ukraine support has "emboldened Russia," Trump's terms for restarting aid are still murky

1 month ago | cbsnews.com | Margaret Brennan

President Trump may want more than the long-anticipated minerals and economic partnership deal to end the pause he has put on U.S. military and intelligence support for Ukraine in its war against Russia, but his specific terms for restarting aid remain murky. "The president of the United States did not say it has ended. He said it is paused. That is transitional," U.S. envoy to Ukraine Keith Kellogg told Margaret Brennan in conversation at Council on Foreign Relations on Thursday.