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FULL INTERVIEW: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy spoke with @margbrennan for @FaceTheNation. Watch below.

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SUNDAY: Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) joins us to discuss how Democrats are strategizing ahead of the crucial 2026 midterm elections. Tune in at 10:30 am ET.

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SUNDAY: House Armed Services Committee member Rep. Don Bacon (R-NE) joins us to discuss U.S. foreign policy as the House passes a new Ukraine aid bill, and as American negotiators try to broker a peace deal in the Middle East. Tune in at 10:30 am ET.

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SUNDAY: We’ll speak to the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee Rep. Jim Himes (D-CT) on U.S. negotiations with Iran, Russia’s war with Ukraine, and more. Tune in at 10:30 am ET.

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Significant attack on Kyiv underway per CBS
@aidan_stretch. He reports 8 ballistic missile impacts in the last 10 minutes, with some Kyiv residents reporting power outages to CBS News.

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Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told @FaceTheNation in an exclusive interview that his government has evidence that Russia is abducting Ukrainian children and training them to fight against fellow Ukrainians.

It is an allegation that may constitute a war crime, according to the International Criminal Court. This is the first time that Zelenskyy has publicly made this accusation, which goes beyond the documented evidence that Russia has a state-sponsored program of taking Ukrainian children to camps for reeducation or "Russification."

@margbrennan reports:

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he has evidence that Ukrainian children kidnapped by Russia are being pushed to fight on the battlefield.

“They taught these children to hate their native country, to hate native people. And Ukrainians, can you imagine, such young Ukrainians, young boys, come to the battlefield and kill Ukrainians,” Zelenskyy told @margbrennan in an interview on May 29.

Zelenskyy also urged Congress to impose sanctions on Russia tied to the kidnapping of Ukrainian children.

“They really stolen thousands of Ukrainian children. We know about 20,000, we know, but maybe it's more,” Zelenskyy said, and told @margbrennan Russia has proposed exchanging civilian children for soldiers captured on the battlefield. “Can you imagine, how we can exchange our children?” he said.

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that world leaders need to put "more pressure," including sanctions, on Russian President Vladimir Putin to bring him to the negotiating table as Zelenskyy seeks to end the war that has stretched on for more than four years. https://t.co/vhJmxhHhNd

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Former Vice President Mike Pence said Sunday that he hopes the Trump administration will drop its new "anti-weaponization fund" that has sparked pushback on Capitol Hill and divided Republicans. https://t.co/XHSI1D33Ta

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Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told @CBSNews in an exclusive interview with @margbrennan that his government has evidence that Russia is abducting Ukrainian children and training them to fight against fellow Ukrainians. https://t.co/pHF9QnKikZ

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When asked whether Democratic Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner passes the “character test,” after CBS confirmed reporting that Platner's wife told his campaign about sexually explicit texts he sent to other women, Sen Chris Murphy (D-CT) says Platner has lived a life of service to the U.S., but “also made mistakes and he has admitted that.”

“I think this is going to be a pretty clear contrast in Maine between somebody who has spent his life protecting us versus somebody who seems to be protecting Donald Trump's corruption,” he says.

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Former Vice President Mike Pence says he has “certainly seen evidence” of the Trump administration deliberately whitewashing the Jan. 6 Capitol attack, but says “an effort by some to rewrite” the history of that day won’t work.

“Particularly, I was offended on the anniversary of January 6, when the White House put out a timeline that literally blamed Capitol Hill police for the riot that took place that day,” Pence tells @margbrennan.

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“We don’t need slush funds to settle cases,” former Vice President Mike Pence says, slamming the Trump administration’s “anti-weaponization fund,” adding that he hopes the Trump administration will “drop the idea entirely.”

“The idea of creating a fund that could compensate people that assaulted police officers and vandalized the Capitol that day is unacceptable,” Pence tells @margbrennan.

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President Trump “never claimed” to be a conservative, says former Vice President Mike Pence, but he tells @margbrennan he’s “less clear” on Vice President JD Vance’s “views and his philosophy of government.”

“There's this new tension within the Republican Party that will take those pieces of the agenda, the populous right agenda that President Trump has embraced and try and make that the new direction of the Republican Party,” Pence says, adding that “would be bad for the Republican Party” and “worse for the country.”

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“We're looking at possibly losing a generation of children” as a result of the destruction from the wars and conflict zones around the world, says the World Food Programme’s Executive Director Cindy McCain.

“When you talk about kids that are either not getting enough food, or what they're getting is not nutritious enough,” she said, “And plus, there's no schools open, and there's no, you know, proper housing, clean water, etc…. that spells disaster for a child, especially.”

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When asked about the situation in the Middle East and how ongoing conflicts are affecting humanitarian relief to the region, the executive director of the World Food Programme Cindy McCain said “things aren’t good.”

“When you shut the Strait of Hormuz, and you've got bombings on both sides…people are going to not only become food insecure, but they're going to starve,” she told @margbrennan. “It's time to end this and make sure that we can open the Strait of Hormuz, because it's affecting everybody, and it will take us months to get back on track when they do open it.”

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“In retrospect, Joe Biden should have stepped away from that race,” Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) says of the 2024 presidential election, and adds that “Democrats do have to be honest about the mistakes that we made in 2024.”

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In his new book “Crisis of the Common Good: The Fight for Meaning and Connection in a Broken America,” Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) says he’s taking a closer look at “the emotional state of the country.”

“This is a country that is feeling more lonely, more adrift, more exhausted by an economy that abuses workers, a culture in which we tell people that they can make themselves happy by just buying things instead of… being active citizens,” Murphy says. “So it's a book about the underlying work that we have to do to unrig the economy, so that people feel purpose and value, and unrig our democracy, so that people feel power.”

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A federal judge has ordered President Trump’s name be removed from the Kennedy Center within two weeks, ruling that "only Congress can change" the institution's name. The judge also blocked the Kennedy Center board’s plan to close the facility in July for a multi-year renovation, marking the latest legal setback for Trump’s efforts to reshape some of Washington’s historic landmarks.

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There are already two famines, and @WFPChief warns that we may be looking at several more famines. Director McCain appeals for countries and private corporations to step up to feed the starving. She also reflects on why it is harder than ever to be a humanitarian. https://t.co/tei9YGHuPJ