WEBVTT - CBS Correspondent Margaret Brennan Talks Trump Cabinet

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<v Speaker 1>Bloomberg Audio Studios, podcasts, radio news.

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<v Speaker 2>So much to happen here, to get through Monday and

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<v Speaker 2>into a new Trump administration. She has provided leadership at

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<v Speaker 2>CBS in driving forward conversation. Margaret Brennan joins us now,

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<v Speaker 2>of course with Face the Nation seat on the CBS

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<v Speaker 2>television network Sunday morning and of course on Bloomberg Radio

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<v Speaker 2>Sunday afternoon. Margaret, I'm going to cut to the chase

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<v Speaker 2>Republicans and Democrats thunderstruck by the caliber of the talent,

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<v Speaker 2>and then you know, with Secretary Treasury, I guess doing

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<v Speaker 2>a good job yesterday. Enter stage right, Michael Waltz of

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<v Speaker 2>the Virginia Military Institute. Who is Michael Waltz and why

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<v Speaker 2>are you going to speak to him? Sunday?

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<v Speaker 3>The Republican congressman from Florida, former Green Beret, is the

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<v Speaker 3>incoming National security advisor to Donald Trump. We want to

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<v Speaker 3>talk to him about the job he is about to

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<v Speaker 3>take on, because he will be the man in the

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<v Speaker 3>Oval Office providing that advice and really in many ways

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<v Speaker 3>curating what gets to his desk from the cabinet cabinet officials.

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<v Speaker 3>We want to talk to Walls about this really complex environment.

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<v Speaker 3>Most immediately you have the question of who's going to

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<v Speaker 3>implement and oversee this incredibly complex ceasefire and hostage deal

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<v Speaker 3>that could see some hostages coming out as soon as

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<v Speaker 3>Sunday into Monday, Which official diplomats with deep regional knowledge

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<v Speaker 3>will take over from Bradan Burk and the CIA director.

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<v Speaker 3>We want to talk to him about China. Why did

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<v Speaker 3>President Trump invite Shijinping, who just is now sending his

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<v Speaker 3>vice president to the inauguration, an inauguration at which the

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<v Speaker 3>CEO of TikTok will be an honored guest, at the

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<v Speaker 3>same time that TikTok is deemed a national security threat

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<v Speaker 3>and the Supreme Court's trying to decide whether or not

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<v Speaker 3>it goes dark. And immediately, I mean, there's just such

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<v Speaker 3>a list of things. It is such an important moment.

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<v Speaker 2>Margaret within the CBS reporting, how will the first weeks

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<v Speaker 2>forget about the one hundred day shtick? How will the

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<v Speaker 2>first four weeks of Trump to differ from Mattis, Kelly

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<v Speaker 2>McMaster and others in the first term. To me, there's

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<v Speaker 2>a radical set of different people, with Mike Waltz being

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<v Speaker 2>one of the few common features of what we saw

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<v Speaker 2>eight years ago.

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<v Speaker 3>It will be different, and we are already getting a

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<v Speaker 3>sense of that, in part because we don't have people

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<v Speaker 3>who are completely without clue as to how government works. Right,

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<v Speaker 3>Donald Trump is bringing with him stack Ye wait wait.

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<v Speaker 2>Margaret, stop, Damien, do you see how diplomatic Miss Brennan

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<v Speaker 2>is compared to Margaret? Please continue.

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<v Speaker 3>No, But so that's where the sort of learning the process.

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<v Speaker 3>Some of his advisors who don't require Senate information may

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<v Speaker 3>be able to offset some of those who do. We

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<v Speaker 3>know Mattis had such experience both on the battlefield in

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<v Speaker 3>terms of dust on his boots. Pete Hegseith, I think

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<v Speaker 3>tried to get people to forget that that Maddis was

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<v Speaker 3>actually a general and the first Secretary of Defense in

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<v Speaker 3>the in the Trump administration, when he claimed he'd be

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<v Speaker 3>a new set of set of blood with you know,

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<v Speaker 3>a completely different perspective. We will see a bunch of

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<v Speaker 3>cabinet officials who might not have ever been up for

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<v Speaker 3>a job like this had Donald Trump not president of

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<v Speaker 3>the United States.

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<v Speaker 2>Damiens jump in here and say.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, Margaret, you mentioned Mike Waltz, and I remember Mike

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<v Speaker 1>Waltz because he boycotted the twenty two Beijing Olympics, the

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<v Speaker 1>Winter Olympics. Right, So another notorious China hawk, and there's

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<v Speaker 1>so many of them in this administration. And you know

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<v Speaker 1>now we're hearing all this news about ten cents been

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<v Speaker 1>added to the list of China military firms expert controls

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<v Speaker 1>on rarers. China's preventing Applin and BYD from shipping production

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<v Speaker 1>across Asia this morning. So talk to us about this

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<v Speaker 1>cold war that's sort of lingering in the background here

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<v Speaker 1>in the minds of America and China. I mean, how

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<v Speaker 1>do we get through this? What comes next?

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<v Speaker 3>It's the big question. I mean, you have Marco Rubio,

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<v Speaker 3>who could be the next Secretary of State, who's actually

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<v Speaker 3>like sanctioned in China. Does that mean he could ever

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<v Speaker 3>trouble there? You have, yes, China hawks, But this is

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<v Speaker 3>not a very hawkish first approach on day one to

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<v Speaker 3>be asking Shijin paying to send his best representative to

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<v Speaker 3>Washington and to be embracing TikTok the way Donald Trump

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<v Speaker 3>now is and reversing his past position. Perhaps that has

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<v Speaker 3>to do with the one hundred and seventy million users

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<v Speaker 3>who want to stream the Trump inauguration on social media.

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<v Speaker 3>But we will see how this actually translates into policy.

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<v Speaker 3>Is this the charm offensive by Beijing to try to

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<v Speaker 3>convince Trump not to go ahead with the tariffs that

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<v Speaker 3>he promised on the campaign trail? What is does this

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<v Speaker 3>actually mean? That's one of the things we want to

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<v Speaker 3>ask Mike Waltz, is makes sense of all these discordant

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<v Speaker 3>things for us? What's the strategy? What's the approach?

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<v Speaker 2>It's gonna be fascinating in your line up here. You've

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<v Speaker 2>got somebody stuck in the middle, which is a Senator

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<v Speaker 2>from Carolinas, Lindsey Graham. I'm fascinated, Margaret, how you initiate

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<v Speaker 2>a conversation with a gentleman torn between a Trump GOP

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<v Speaker 2>and a mainstream GOP. How are you going to do that?

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<v Speaker 3>And Lindsay Graham has gone between them time and time again.

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<v Speaker 3>I don't know, you know, at this moment in time

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<v Speaker 3>where he is in relation to the Trump orbit, We'll

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<v Speaker 3>ask him that we'll talk to him because he is,

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<v Speaker 3>for example, a staunch supporter of Ukraine, something that Donald

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<v Speaker 3>Trump is not, and we want to talk to him about. Okay,

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<v Speaker 3>by the way, what do we actually learn from that

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<v Speaker 3>hearing with Pete Heike Sith We didn't actually get a

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<v Speaker 3>lot on policy or vision for the Pentagon, or innovation

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<v Speaker 3>or changes. There was more about who he is as

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<v Speaker 3>a person. Yeah, and character is important, no doubt. Tim Kine,

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<v Speaker 3>one of my other guests, will be on with us,

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<v Speaker 3>and he was a Democrat with some of the sharpest

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<v Speaker 3>questions on that front of you know, why wouldn't oath

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<v Speaker 3>to the Constitution be different than breaking an oath to

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<v Speaker 3>your first and second wives. That was pretty sharp. We'll

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<v Speaker 3>talk to him about that.

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<v Speaker 2>Extraordinary, an amazing four or five days for Facination, Chris

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<v Speaker 2>Margaret Brennan, host of CBS Facination. Hear it on the

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<v Speaker 2>CBS Television network Sunday morning, and you can hear it

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<v Speaker 2>again Bloomberg Radio on Facination Sunday two PM in New York, Washington, DC,

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<v Speaker 2>in Bloomberg ninety two nine FM across all of New

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<v Speaker 2>England and Boston. We thank Margaret Brennan for that time

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<v Speaker 2>here on a Friday morning