This week on “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan,” Syrian rebels have taken control of Damascus, overthrowing the regime of President Bashar Assad. Plus, more on the congressional task force investigation into the security failures leading to the assassination attempts against President-elect Donald Trump earlier this year. Source
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Transcript: Reps. Mike Kelly and Jason Crow on “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan,” Dec. 8, 2024
The following is a transcript of an interview with Reps. Mike Kelly, Republican of Pennsylvania, and Jason Crow, Democrat of Colorado, on “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan” that aired on Dec. 8, 2024. Source
Full Interview: Reps. Mike Kelly and Jason Crow discuss Trump Assassination Task Force findings
Watch Margaret Brennan’s full interview with the chair and ranking member of the House Task Force on the Attempted Assassination of Donald J. Trump, Rep. Mike Kelly (R-Pa.) and Rep. Jason Crow (D-Colo.). Source
Nature: Elk in the Ozarks
We leave you this Sunday with elk braving this frosty morning in the Ozarks of Missouri. Videographer: Scot Miller. Source
“They’re all gone”: The tragedy of the 1972 Munich Olympics
At the 1972 Munich Olympics, Arab terrorists took the Israeli team hostage. Former news and sports exec Sean McManus, son of ABC Sports commentator Jim McKay, looks back on that tragedy, and of watching his father at work reporting it to the world. Source
Reporting the tragedy of the 1972 Munich Olympics
ABC Sports was covering the 1972 Olympics, in Munich, Germany, when Arab terrorists armed with submachine guns took the Israeli team hostage. The fatal drama was carried live on television – an episode retold in the new movie “September 5.” Sean McManus, former president of CBS News and president and chairman of CBS Sports, and the son of ABC Sports commentator Jim McKay, looks back on that tragedy, and of watching his father at work reporting it to the world. Source
“Squid Game” creator on the “darker” Season 2
The internationally acclaimed Netflix series – a dystopian parable about capitalism and greed – is now releasing Season 2. Hwang Dong-hyuk says the lethal competition, played with childish games, is “getting darker, episode by episode.” Source
The return of “Squid Game”
South Korean filmmaker Hwang Dong-hyuk, whose family struggled with poverty while he was growing up, became an award-winning success with the internationally acclaimed series “Squid Game” – a dystopian parable about capitalism, human selfishness and greed, in which players hoping to win a fortune compete in childish, but lethal, games. Netflix is now releasing Season 2, which Dong-hyuk says is “getting darker, episode by episode.” Elizabeth Palmer reports. Source
Billie Eilish on what she’s found “liberating”
With her album, “Hit Me Hard and Soft,” and her current tour (her first without brother Finneas), Billie Eilish is discovering parts of herself she didn’t know were there – from finding a new voice as a songwriter, to stretching her singing after starting vocal lessons. Source
Why ASMR is making a lot of noise
ASMR (or autonomous sensory meridian response) is the tingling sensation some people experience from certain sounds or visuals – a “brain massage,” in the words of Maria Viktorovna, who’s been called the “ASMR queen.” Correspondent Faith Salie talks with Viktorovna about her wildly successful “Gentle Whispering” videos, and with physiology professor Craig Richard, who discusses ASMR’s physical effects. Salie also visits Whisperwave, a New York City ASMR spa. Source