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五角大楼：第七名美军士兵在沙特遇袭伤重不治

发布/2026年3月9日 07:44

美国中央司令部说，3月1日伊朗在沙特军事基地身负重伤的一名美军，7日晚因伤势过重去世。 （路透社）

又有一名美军士兵在对伊朗的军事行动中阵亡。

美国中央司令部星期天（3月8日）宣布，第七名美军士兵在美国和以色列空袭伊朗的行动中阵亡。阵亡军人的身份尚未公开，但美国中央司令部说，他是在沙特阿拉伯军事基地遭伊朗袭击时受伤。

美国中央司令部在一份声明中表示，这名军人于3月1日伊朗袭击一座驻有美军的沙特军事基地时身负重伤。军方在通知他的家属之前，不会公布他的身份。官员称，这名军人7日晚因伤势过重去世。当时，军方医疗人员正准备将他转送至德国一家美军医院接受治疗。

美国总统特朗普前一天刚到特拉华州多佛空军基地，出席在美伊冲突中阵亡的六名美国士兵的遗体交接仪式。

以军称打击伊朗伊斯兰革命卫队空军总部

2026年3月9日 07:56 / 联合早报

3月3日发布的Vantor卫星图像显示，位于伊朗首都德黑兰的伊朗伊斯兰革命卫队总部。这张图像摄于2月27日。 （法新社）

以色列国防军星期天（3月8日）晚间说，以空军对数十个伊朗目标发动空袭，伊朗伊斯兰革命卫队空军总部是袭击目标之一。

新华社报道，以军称，此次打击旨在瓦解伊朗弹道导弹系统，并削弱伊朗协调对以色列发动袭击的能力。

伊朗方面尚未证实上述以军实施打击的消息。

Security lines hit three hours at some US airports as TSA absences rise

March 8, 2026 8:53 PM UTC / Reuters

WASHINGTON/NEW ORLEANS, March 8 (Reuters) – Waiting times in security lines at some U.S. airports extended to three hours on Sunday, as absences by Transportation Security Administration workers rose during a partial government shutdown and as spring-break travel increased.

Houston Hobby Airport at one point on Sunday reported lines averaging 3-1/2 hours, and at 6 p.m. (2300 GMT) the wait times averaged three hours.

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Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport advised passengers on Sunday to arrive at least three hours before their scheduled departure and warned delays could continue the rest of the week.

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“TSA is experiencing a shortage of workers at the security checkpoint, which is causing longer-than-average lines,” the airport said in a social media post.

Eliana Patterson, who was returning home to Boston, said security lines at the New Orleans airport snaked around the terminal and out an exit into a nearby parking lot. “My flight’s been delayed but if it hadn’t been I’d be a little worried.”

TSA said longer-than-average lines were also reported at George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston, Charlotte Douglas International Airport in North Carolina and Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport.

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Several airports reported higher-than-normal absences among TSA officials on Sunday.

Funding for the Department of Homeland Security lapsed on February 13 after Congress failed to reach a deal on immigration enforcement reforms demanded by Democrats. That halted operational funding for several government agencies, including the TSA, resulting in about 50,000 TSA airport security screeners working without pay.

“Travelers are facing TSA lines of up to nearly three hours long at some major airports, causing missed flights and massive delays during peak travel,” the DHS said in a statement.

On Sunday, a group representing major U.S. airlines said the long security lines were causing flights to be delayed and passengers to miss flights.

“Congress and the administration must act with urgency to reach a deal that reopens DHS and ends this shutdown. America’s transportation security workforce is too important to be used as political leverage,” said Chris Sununu, CEO of trade association Airlines for America.

Carriers are expecting a record-breaking spring travel period, with 171 million passengers expected to fly, up 4% over the same two-month period last year.

Spring-break travel will heat up just as TSA workers receive their first zero paycheck on March 13, Sununu said.

Ha Nguyen McNeill, the top official at the TSA, told Congress last month that around 1,110 transportation security officers left the TSA in October and November 2025 following a 43-day government shutdown, a more than 25% increase in departures compared with the same period in 2024.

Reporting by David Shepardson in Washington and David Geffen in New Orleans; Editing by Matthew Lewis and Edmund Klamann

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发布时间: 2026-03-08T23:58:29.000Z 来源: 联合早报

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位于英国格拉斯哥郡的中央车站大楼在大火中坍塌。

英国广播公司（BBC）报道，数十趟列车服务已被取消。英国国家铁路公司发表声明说，格拉斯哥中央车站（Glasgow Central Station）已关闭，直至另行通知。

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Seventh US service member killed in Iran war after being wounded in attack in Saudi Arabia

2026-03-08T20:17:09.714Z / CNN

By Piper Hudspeth Blackburn, Isabelle D’Antonio

Updated 25 min ago
Updated Mar 8, 2026, 7:35 PM ET
PUBLISHED Mar 8, 2026, 4:17 PM ET

Smoke rises above the city, amid the U.S.-Israeli conflict with Iran, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on March 5, 2026.

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A US service member died after sustaining injuries during an attack last week in Saudi Arabia, the military said Sunday, bringing the number of American troops killed in the Iran war to seven.

“Last night, a U.S. service member passed away from injuries received during the Iranian regime’s initial attacks across the Middle East,” US Central Command said on X. “The service member was seriously wounded at the scene of an attack on U.S. troops in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia on March 1.”

The name of the service member is being withheld until 24 hours after their family is notified, as is custom.

The news of the fallen service member comes a day after the dignified transfer for the six soldiers who were killed last week in Kuwait. President Donald Trump and other top officials joined the families of those troops at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware as the soldiers were brought home.

That strike, which came without warning, occurred on a makeshift operations center at the civilian port of Shuaiba in Kuwait on March 1. All six soldiers were assigned with the 103rd Sustainment Command, an Army Reserve unit out of Iowa.

The president told ABC on Sunday that meeting with the families of the six troops did not give him pause about the war.

“The parents would be upset if I did that,” he said. “The parents said to me, every one of them, ‘Please sir, win this for my boy,’ and in one case a young woman, as you know. ‘Please, win this for my child.’”

The president has previously said there will likely be more US casualties in the Iran war. Asked Saturday whether he thought he would have to attend more dignified transfers, Trump said, “I’m sure. I hate to … but it’s a part of war.”

CENTCOM also announced Sunday in a separate social media post that a US National Guard soldier died in a “health-related incident in Kuwait on March 6 during a medical emergency.”

Maj. Sorffly Davius, 46, of Queens, New York, died at Camp Buehring, the Pentagon said. The incident is under investigation. Davius was a New York City police officer since 2014, the department said.

This story has been updated with additional information.

Is AI productivity prompting burnout? Study finds new pattern of “AI brain fry”

March 8, 2026 / 1:57 PM EDT / CBS News

The promise of artificial intelligence has been simple: let the machines do the work. Instead, it may be creating a new headache from babysitting the machines. A new study published in Harvard Business Review suggests that instead of making work easier, AI may be giving some workers what researchers are calling “brain fry.”

Researchers surveyed about 1,500 workers and found that people constantly bouncing between multiple AI tools reported more decision fatigue and more errors. About one in seven workers said they had experienced mental fatigue from juggling AI tools at work.

“The AI can run out far ahead of us, but we’re still here with the same brain we had yesterday,” said Julie Bedard, managing director and partner at Boston Consulting Group and an author of the study. She told CBS News the findings are an “early warning sign” that expectations around AI productivity may need recalibrating.

“AI is really good in some ways for work. And in other ways, it gives us pause in how we do our work,” Bedard said. “Specifically, there are ways in which intensive oversight of AI causes a lot of sort of cognitive, just exhaustion.”

The productivity paradox

The study found a striking paradox: AI can both reduce burnout and create it.

When workers had to constantly supervise multiple AI systems or juggle several tools at once, mental strain increased sharply. By contrast, when workers used AI to actually offload repetitive tasks, their stress levels dropped.

Bedard explained that AI “allows us to really extend our capabilities, basically extending our workload and our sphere of accountability at work,” and that expansion of capability can quickly become overwhelming.

“AI brain fry causes a lot of mental fatigue so we feel like it’s beyond our brain’s capability to handle those tasks,” she said.

What it feels like

For people working deeply with AI tools, the concept of “brain fry” resonates.

“There’s a point that usually happens after a full day where I just kind of feel exhausted in a way that I didn’t feel in a normal work day before AI,” said Jack Downey, Head of Strategy, Operations and Product at Webster Pass Consulting. He uses AI daily to build automation systems and finds there is an additional mental strain that comes from AI workflows.

“You’re constantly waiting… and you’re changing gears,” he said. “It works so quickly, but not quite quickly enough that it happens instantaneously. And so it might take five seconds to do one task, 50 seconds to do another task, and five minutes to do another task.” Downey said he usually has several different windows open to work on multiple parts of a project at the same time.

While the technology expands what workers can do, it also expands what they’re expected to do, even if that expectation is internally driven.

“The capacity of AI is so endless that it can be really hard to just say no and stop whatever the next improvement is that you want,” Downey said. “As a perfectionist, that often can result in not knowing when to stop. The next best thing is possible, so, often, you end up spending more time writing the perfect workflow and telling AI what to do.”

Downey said he finds that setting deadlines for himself and his AI helps to limit the fry and produce a better product.

Why businesses should pay attention

For years, many predictions about artificial intelligence suggested the technology would allow fewer workers to do more work faster. But if AI is already pushing workers toward cognitive overload, organizations may need to rethink those assumptions, Bedard said.

“We need to redesign how we do our work… where we don’t just keep exactly what we did yesterday and put AI on the top of it,” she said.

The study found that leadership and training could play a critical role. Less brain fry was seen among employees whose managers were intentional with their AI use.

If businesses don’t figure that out, their bottom lines may suffer. Workers experiencing AI brain fry reported more mistakes, slower decision-making, and higher fatigue. Bedard is clear that the solution is not abandoning AI, but rethinking how human workers best interact with these tools as the AI revolution accelerates.

The promise of AI may be limitless. The question is how far the human brain can stretch to keep up.

Transcript: Energy Secretary Chris Wright on “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan,” March 8, 2026

2026-03-08T12:01:00-0400 / CBS News

Updated on: March 8, 2026 / 2:04 PM EDT / CBS News

The following is the transcript of the interview with Energy Secretary Chris Wright that aired on “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan” on March 8, 2026.

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MARGARET BRENNAN: We turn now to Energy Secretary Chris Wright, who joins us this morning from Denver. Good morning to you.

SECRETARY OF ENERGY CHRIS WRIGHT: Thanks for having me Margaret.

MARGARET BRENNAN: So 50,000 U.S. troops deployed, six Americans that we know of so far killed in action, civilians stranded. We look at our polling, Mr. Secretary, and we see that this is an unpopular war among the majority of Americans. More than half of them, 56% disapprove. When you speak to energy executives about the scope and duration of American involvement, what do you tell them? How long?

SEC. WRIGHT: I tell them that for 47 years, Iran is warg- waged war against the United States, and they’ve- throughout that 47 years, they’ve tried to undermine the energy development and energy infrastructure of all their neighbors, as they’re doing right now, and it’s time to put it to an end. So yes, we have a, we have a temporary period of elevated energy prices, but it will not be long. In the worst case, this is weeks, this is not months, and it leads to a much better place. It leads to an Iran that’s defanged, that can’t threaten its neighbors, can’t threaten American soldiers and can’t continue to drive up energy prices by making a mess of the Middle East. They can move to commerce, not conflict.

MARGARET BRENNAN: Well, but you have the moment we are in right now, and as you know, gasoline prices up 14% in the past week. According to AAA, reports the national average is $3.45. We’ve seen oil prices spike. How high do you think oil and gas are going to go?

SEC. WRIGHT: They shouldn’t go much higher than they are here because the world is very well supplied with oil. There’s no energy shortage at all in the Western Hemisphere.

MARGARET BRENNAN: Right.

SEC. WRIGHT: The United States is a net exporter of oil, a large net exporter of natural gas. But refineries in Asia and Europe are seeing an interruption from the normal crude flows. But there is massive energy stores around the world. What you’re seeing is emotional reactions and fear that this is a long term war. This is not a long term war–

MARGARET BRENNAN: –But–

SEC. WRIGHT: –It’s a temporary movement.

MARGARET BRENNAN: Sorry, go ahead, temporary movement.

SEC. WRIGHT: No, I’m saying look, we’ve seen previous administration have done everything they could. They begged, bartered and bribed the Iranian government to stop its nefarious activity, stop its murderous behavior, and it simply hasn’t worked, and now, they’re, they’re expanding missile and drone program that are rapidly growing to protect their desire to build a nuclear weapon. We’re going to cross the threshold where we can’t put them back in the box. Now is the time to end their risk to America and the world.

MARGARET BRENNAN: But as you know, when I ask you about energy prices, this is not a supply problem. You said there’s plenty of supply. The head of the International Energy Agency said, lot of oil, logistics are the problem. It’s dislocation. It’s a serious problem. So what he’s referring to there is being able to actually move it around. I know you said there’s, there’s one vessel that’s gone through the Strait of Hormuz. 20 million barrels per day typically go through it. When do you get back to that level?

SEC. WRIGHT: Oh, I think it will be relatively soon. Of course, I don’t know exactly. All of our military assets right now are focused on ending Iran’s ability to kill their neighbors, threaten American soldiers and threaten ship traffic in the Strait of Hormuz, but that’s going swimmingly well. Their missile launches are down 90%, the drone launches are down over 80% I think in the relatively near term, you’re going to see their capacity so low that we’ll see more normal ship traffic return to the Strait of Hormuz.

MARGARET BRENNAN: So you don’t think Navy escorts of vessels are necessary?

SEC WRIGHT: They might be. They might be. The U.S. is here to do everything we can to keep world oil markets supplied. Yes, if they have some residual–

MARGARET BRENNAN: –When will you make that decision?

SEC. WRIGHT: We’re, we’re in engagement right now with people that want to get tankers moving out of the Gulf. And so, yes, there could be there- early tankers probably will involve some direct protection by the U.S. military, but most important is to defang their ability to threaten these ships.

MARGARET BRENNAN: So the president had said he was open to tapping the American stockpile of oil, the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, but I saw you on other networks this morning, kind of throwing cold water on the idea. You referred to it as depleted. Are you saying America doesn’t have adequate stockpiles?

SEC. WRIGHT: No. America still has over 400 million barrels of oil in our strategic petroleum reserve, and, of course, robust production. We’re, we’re, more than happy to use that if it’s needed. But as you said earlier, it’s a logistics issue. Where do they need oil? They need oil at refineries in Europe and in Asia. And that’s why we took a very pragmatic step. There’s over 100 million barrels of floating Russian crude waiting in line to deliver to China. That’s going to be sold, it’s going to be refined, but that could be one or two months from now. So in a pragmatic way, with no change in U.S. policy towards Russia, we told the Indians, bring that into your refineries. You know, if you, if you’re feeling a shortage of crude, prices are being bid up, draw down that Russian crude stocks that are sitting right offshore.

MARGARET BRENNAN: Yeah. So on that point, the U.S. has temporarily suspended some sanctions to make that Russian oil, you say was already going to be sold anyway, make it available. But doesn’t Russia still financially benefit from that? Why isn’t the U.S. seizing those Russian tankers if they are our adversary?

SEC. WRIGHT: Because right now, because right now, we’re worried about Iran and fixing a 47-year problem there, and we’re worried about American consumers. We want to stop the rise in–

MARGARET BRENNAN: –Russia was helping Iran–

SEC. WRIGHT: –gasoline and diesel prices. Well, there’s been rumors of that. We don’t know if that’s true or not. Certainly, they’ve gotten a strong message from us. But this is oil already on the ocean–

MARGARET BRENNAN: –These Iranian drones have Russian parts in them. The Russians have been buying Iranian drones. That is very well documented, and CBS has confirmed and reported that there was sharing of intelligence. Russia providing intel to target Americans. So how is Russia not part of this?

SEC. WRIGHT: Look, Russia, Russia is expert at causing trouble around the world, so I’m not saying they’re not. I’m saying I don’t- if they’re helping Iran, it’s not working very well, but we’re not helping Russia by just accelerating the sale of their oil to stop the rise of energy prices and keep European and Asian refineries in oil. We’re just doing pragmatic things to get through a short period that will bring in an era of even lower energy prices because a major energy producing region of the world, the Middle East, will no longer have a strong, powerful Iran that can threaten their neighbors, that can threaten the United States of America and was not far away from a nuclear bomb. That’s an–

MARGARET BRENNAN: –How much–

SEC. WRIGHT: –unacceptable scenario. That’s the risk to energy prices was not doing anything.

MARGARET BRENNAN: So when the Qataris say you could see $150 barrel in oil, that’s something America could stomach? President Trump wouldn’t say, I’m done with this war because I can’t stand the political pressure and the American people saying I don’t like what I’m paying at the pump?

SEC. WRIGHT: No, the president’s going to continue to stay focused on ending a 47-year conflict, stay focused on growing the global energy supply. This is actually part of that effort. It does involve a temporary impediment to energy production, but on the other side, it will allow much more energy production and much lower energy prices. But this is not a long term conflict. Most presidents have just thought, they’ll kick the can down the road. The risk is simply too great to kick that increasingly dangerous can down the road.

MARGARET BRENNAN: Yeah.

SEC. WRIGHT: President Trump’s bold leadership is enough’s enough. We’re going to put it to an end.

MARGARET BRENNAN: I want to ask you about Venezuela. The U.S. deposed Maduro. He’s sitting in a prison. Just this past week, though, we had the interior secretary visiting Venezuela and sitting across from Maduro’s Chief thug, Diosdado Cabello. This is someone who has a $25 million bounty on his head. He ran the prisons, he ran the militias. He was treated as a counterpart to an American official. Is this the same playbook the Trump administration is going to run in Iran, that you will deal with the same regime you’ve been telling me is terrible to deal with for 47 years?

SEC. WRIGHT: We don’t know what the regime will be in place at the, at the end of this conflict, but we do know that regime will not have a massive weapons arsenal, that that regime will no longer be a massive threat to Americans and to the Middle East and to global oil supplies. President Trump is using bold leadership. We can’t change the world at a blink of an eye, but we can steer it in massively positive directions, and yes, Venezuela is a great example of that. Crime in the nearby Trinidad and Tobago has plummeted already from our actions in Venezuela, and President Trump’s insistence that he’s going to work with that our neighbors to reduce drug trafficking in the Western Hemisphere. Leadership takes- involves risks, but if you want to drive improvement, you’ve got to be confident, you’ve got to have the right agenda, and you’ve got to have the courage to do it. This president does.

MARGARET BRENNAN: Energy Secretary Wright, thank you for your time this morning. Face the Nation will be back in a minute. Stay with us.

Transcript: Sen. Tim Kaine on “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan,” March 8, 2026

2026-03-08T12:40:00-0400 / CBS News

The following is the transcript of the interview with Sen. Tim Kaine, Democrat of Virginia, that aired on “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan” on March 8, 2026.

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MARGARET BRENNAN: We’re joined now by Virginia Democratic Senator Tim Kaine, good to have you here, Senator.

SEN. TIM KAINE (D-VA): Thank you, Margaret.

MARGARET BRENNAN: You sit on many relevant committees, armed services, foreign relations. I want to ask you about this explosion overnight nearby the U.S. Embassy in Oslo. I understand that the Norwegian police say it may have been a deliberate attack linked to the current security situation. What do we know about the threat here and to other American posts?

SEN. KAINE: There are threats. Because of my service on the Foreign Relations Committee, I’ve been in dialogue with State Department personnel around the world. Escalated security, other embassies or consulates have had protests, protests that kind of were merging toward violence or at least frightening to our diplomats. We have American citizens stranded in the region. They were told to come home, but they weren’t told to come home until after commercial air flights had stopped. And so my office has been working with Virginians this week trying to help them come home. And so we owe it to our brave professionals wherever they are, and our citizens to keep them safe. And, Margaret, that’s just one more reason why I’ve been asking the question, have we learned nothing from 25 years of war in the Middle East? And with the arrival of the first American casualties back home yesterday, including a Virginian, I worry that the answer to that is no.

MARGARET BRENNAN: So do you have an estimate on the number of Americans still stranded in the Middle East?

SEN. KAINE: It’s thousands and thousands. Now, not every American chooses to come home. So there’s hundreds of thousands, if you just add them all up, who is coming home. I am working with the Virginians who are reaching out to my office. We were able to facilitate one Richmond area resident getting home from Dubai on a flight a couple of days back. And so it’s sort of dealing with that. But what worries me a little bit more is that some of the professionals at embassies and consuls are not being told to come home. And they’re sort of there, and often their security presence is not what we wish it would be. So we have to pay close attention to them.

MARGARET BRENNAN: Let me ask you about the homeland now. We’re in this fourth week of a partial homeland security shutdown. That means people at the Coast Guard, Secret Service, and TSA are not getting paid. But ICE and CBP are still funded. Given that the pressure from Democrats isn’t affecting the agencies where Democrats want to see policy change, is this really an effective strategy?

SEN. KAINE: Well, we have said to the Republicans, we’ve worked out funding for all those agencies other than ICE and CBP. Let’s just pass those funding bills. Let’s confine the ICE and CBP reform discussion just to those two agencies and fund the others. Thus far, Republicans have blocked those efforts. We want to fund TSA, FEMA, Coast Guard and CISA. We want to fund those agencies. And we have a funding agreement that’s already been negotiated between both parties and both houses. So let’s do that. And then ICE and CBP, the Republicans, gave them money last summer. They’re not running out of money. We can continue the reform discussion there.

MARGARET BRENNAN: Well, I ask because CBS obtained a Homeland Security critical incident note that cites Iranian religious leaders issuing fatwas, calling on Muslims to avenge the supreme leader’s death. DHS says that, you know, in the past, these kind of fatwas haven’t really inspired attacks necessarily but–

SEN. KAINE: –But you’ve got to be worried about it.

MARGARET BRENNAN: –But you’ve got to be worried about it in this moment in time. So isn’t there a good argument to be made to move on this standoff, to end it?

SEN. KAINE: I completely agree. Let’s fund all these agencies that don’t have funds right now, and let’s confine the ICE and CBP discussion to what are the reforms necessary.

MARGARET BRENNAN: Why isn’t that happening?

SEN. KAINE: Well, we’ve offered this on the floor, and the Republicans have thus far rejected. They’ve said, you’ve got to fund everything or nothing. And we said, we’ve agreed on all the other agencies. Let’s do that. But ICE and CBP need reforms. We’ve made that very, very plain, and American citizens want there to be reforms. And so that is the focus right now. And they do have enough money because the Republicans provided to them last summer in the reconciliation bill.

MARGARET BRENNAN: We saw Secretary Noem lose her job this week. You’ve said you do regret having voted for her–

SEN. KAINE: –Big mistake–

MARGARET BRENNAN: –you were one of the Democrats who did–

SEN. KAINE: –she was a governor. Governors are often good cabinet secretaries. But what we learned, and this bears going forward, is that she wasn’t calling the shots. Stephen Miller is calling the shots. And as long as he is calling the shots without reforms, this is going to continue to be a very, very rogue, renegade department.

MARGARET BRENNAN: Well, do you need to see and hear something from Senator Markwayne Mullin to get you to vote for him if you’re saying he’s just going to be basically a puppet of Stephen Miller?

SEN. KAINE: That’s our fear. So he could demonstrate otherwise. But what we want to see is not just the change in the nameplate on the door. We want to see reforms to the way ICE and CB- CBP operates. They should operate like local law enforcement does, not invading people’s homes without warrants, body cameras, not wearing masks.

MARGARET BRENNAN: Administrative, not judicial warrants, right?

SEN. KAINE: Yes–

MARGARET BRENNAN: –that they use.

SEN. KAINE: Well, for homes, I would say judicial warrants, I think that would be important for invading people’s homes. These are basic principles that our local law enforcement agencies live by. The Ashland town police lives by them. We should ask our federal agencies to do exactly the same thing.

MARGARET BRENNAN: You’re on armed services as well.

SEN. KAINE: Yes.

MARGARET BRENNAN: The Pentagon may be looking at a supplemental budget request to fund this new war in the Middle East. CSIS estimates the first 100 hours of the war cost nearly $4 billion. Have you heard an estimate on cost? Where are we on this supplemental? Will it get any Democratic support?

SEN. KAINE: We don’t know that the White House is sending a supplemental. So we had a classified briefing the other day, and the topic came up. What I can say, and it’s not classified, is the administration said they haven’t made a decision. My goals right now are twofold, stop this war, which I view as both illegal and profoundly unwise, and protect our troops. If a supplemental comes over, I’m gonna be looking to see, okay, how does it square with those goals? Protecting the troops is key. That’s one of the reasons I want to stop the war. I think they’re just exposed to a completely unnecessary risk by what President Trump has done. So we’ll look at a supplemental if they send one to see, okay, how does it accomplish those goals?

MARGARET BRENNAN: Did they tell you what that’s dependent on? Why don’t they know if they need more money? Is it the duration of time of the conflict?

SEN. KAINE: I think that’s the issue. You traditionally don’t ask for a supplemental halfway through because you might ask for an inadequate amount. I think they may not want to ask for a supplemental because they’re trying to avoid debates and votes in Congress on the Iran war right now. I put up a war powers vote that I lost earlier this week. But I can assure you, I’m not going away. We have other means to have a debate and discussion about whether this war is in the U.S.’s interest after 25 years of war in the Middle East. They may want to avoid a vote on that and are trying to delay it for that reason. They’ll make that call, and we have to look at the content.

MARGARET BRENNAN: Very quickly, I want to ask you about some of the Americans that are still being held in Iran, in Evin Prison. One of them, Reza Valizadeh, a journalist. One of them, Kamran Hekmati, a 70-year-old man. Do you have any idea what is being done to protect them or stop them from being retaliated against?

SEN. KAINE: I do not, and I fear about that. Look, if school kids are being killed in bombing, likely U.S. bombing, although the president and the secretary of defense are now trying to invent a claim that it was Iran. If school kids are being killed, I worry about the fate of U.S. pris- U.S. citizens who are being held prisoners there.

MARGARET BRENNAN: Well, we know the military is investigating that, Secretary Hegseth has said, in regard to the girls’ school. We have to leave it there. Senator, thank you for your time.

SEN. KAINE: Glad to be with you, Margaret.

MARGARET BRENNAN: We will be right back.

Transcript: Olga Stefanishyna, Ukraine’s ambassador to the U.S., on “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan,” March 8, 2026

2026-03-08T12:47:00-0400 / CBS News

The following is the transcript of the interview with Olga Stefanishyna, Ukraine’s ambassador to the U.S., that aired on “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan” on March 8, 2026.

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MARGARET BRENNAN: We turn now to the war in Ukraine, and Ukraine’s ambassador to the United States, Olga Stefanishyna. Welcome back to Face the Nation.

UKRAINIAN AMBASSADOR OLGA STEFANISHYNA: Well, Margaret, thank you for having me.

MARGARET BRENNAN: So, one of the biggest threats to Ukraine has been Russia’s ballistic missiles that it has been firing into your country for some time. The solution has been the Patriot system, the American interceptors. They are in short supply, as you well know, and now America’s allies in the Gulf tell us that they are also in short-supply there and they need them. Your president said he is concerned America is going to reduce its air defense support for Ukraine. How much of a problem is this for your country?

AMB. STEFANISHYNA: Well, thank you, Margaret, for asking this question. Of course, we have been talking about that publicly as well and have been having non-public discussions. But the most important thing that we see that, you know, the events happening right now with the war in Iran have been so resolute that probably these are the most-important developments on a global arena over a decade. So, no shortages of means should be an issue. And we’re sure that the American defense industry is capable of making sure that all the fronts are covered. Ukraine has the resources and ability to procure more, and we are looking forward for exploring the options, how to do it. But also, you know, we ended up with four 300 Shahed drones over the houses of Ukraine, which was only possible because Iran has been a strategic enabler of the Russian aggression three years ago, and we see what the involvement of cheap technologies is, and we have been ready to contribute.

MARGARET BRENNAN: Well, I asked that earlier in the program of the Energy Secretary, Chris Wright, because Russia and Iran have been allied here. They have been trading resources and technology. They are allied in many ways. He seemed to say they were not really a factor. You say they are directly one.

AMB. STEFANISHYNA: Well, I mean, they are absolutely a factor, because basically the Shahed drone technology was developed to attack people, to demoralize population, to cause the losses among civilians. So, it killed, like, hundreds of Ukrainian kids, so many families, and this was a strategic enabler of war. And Russia has been- Russia were not investing in bilateral relations or development or investments. They were investing in regimes like Iran, Venezuela, and Syria, just because they thought it’s not possible to have the resolute action as it is now taking place with Iran and as it was before in Venezuela. And it was not possible a couple of years ago with Syria. So, they are deprived of means of their influence, they are weaker. But also we should not forget that Ukraine has shown that Russia is no different from all of these countries. It’s just bigger, and we see that, you know, the experience which is being gained right now, and the new reality which is been formed by President Trump also paves the way, the new reality for the Russians, and I’m sure they’re really, really afraid of it.

MARGARET BRENNAN: Well, your president said he was asked by the United States to provide anti-drone technology that Ukraine has to America. When does that arrive? When will that be operational?

AMB. STEFANISHYNA: So, you know, we understand more than anybody in this world what is needed in a moment of crisis. What is needed when you see when your people are dying just across so many cities of the Gulf countries. And what we suggested is the immediate action and immediate reaction. So, we can secure the skies. We can provide the air defense because we have so much knowledge. And these are only Ukrainian people, Ukrainian armed forces who have this knowledge and capability, so we are able to provide it to the United States and the Gulf countries and this is what we did. We are not going to stand aside knowing that people are dying because we know how painful it is and we will do everything we can to make sure that this resolute action is ending up with something that is called positive.

MARGARET BRENNAN: So, sending advisors to help. It sounds like special–

AMB. STEFANISHYNA: And also capabilities. So, it’s the drone capabilities of Ukraine is not only the drone or the people, it’s the whole spectrum of actions you’re taking, because situation is changing every week and you need to have people and the mechanism which allow to react immediately and this is what only Ukraine has at the entire planet.

MARGARET BRENNAN: So just a few days ago, President Trump said he thinks Vladimir Putin is ready to make a deal. And he said that Volodymyr Zelensky, your president, has to get on the ball, and he has to get a deal done. And he referred to him as a P.T. Barnum of Ukraine. It seems like the relationship is still really tense, even though you’re talking about Ukraine helping the United States. What’s going on here?

AMB. STEFANISHYNA: Well, I mean, I think definitely a couple of minutes of this discussion is not enough for that. But I think we’re assessing the situation by actions. And the actions are that there is a mechanism where Ukraine still can get access to American military equipment. President Trump has released significant sanctions to the Russian Federation over the last months. And also we are in dialogue already trilaterally with the United States and Russians on ending the war. All of this is a very important development and we are looking forward for their success. But for us the most important thing is that we are able to defend ourselves and secure our cities and we’re doing that to the extent we can with the American support. And we have never been too tired to give credit to President Trump for so many important things he did. Although the rhetorics we hear sometimes is not something that really very clear or very positive. But we’re a tough country, we’re tough people, we have been through so much that a couple of words is not really something that can distract us, and we know what we know, that Ukraine is a country in the world which really wants the war over more than anybody, and this is where we stand.

MARGARET BRENNAN: What evidence do you have that Russia is helping Iran in its war right now on these American allies?

AMB. STEFANISHYNA: Well, some information has been provided. It’s not something that we would want to share, you know, in a media or go public with. But I can also assure you that it’s not only Ukraine. There are, like, a lot of countries who have a lot information and a disposal and intel community is very well developed across all the NATO formats. So whatever information is there, it’s already at the disposal of, you know, all allies and partners, including the United States. And. I’m sure this is an information which is black and white. It’s nothing which could be called gray.

MARGARET BRENNAN: But it goes beyond sharing targeting information, which CBS has reported?

AMB. STEFANISHYNA: I’m not sure that I could really comment on that, but I think we should look also in the context that Russia has been supporting the regimes of the countries I’ve mentioned, like Venezuela, like Syria, like Iran, for years, and this partnership was possible and evolved in building the productions in the Russian Federation.

MARGARET BRENNAN: Ambassador, thank you for your time today.

Transcript: Michael Leiter, Israel’s ambassador to the U.S., on “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan,” March 8, 2026

2026-03-08T12:52:00-0400 / CBS News

The following is the transcript of the interview with Michael Leiter, Israel’s ambassador to the U.S., that aired on “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan” on March 8, 2026.

MARGARET BRENNAN: And we’re joined now by Israel’s ambassador to the United States, Dr. Michael Leiter. Welcome to ‘Face the Nation.’

ISRAELI AMBASSADOR MICHAEL LEITER: Good to be with you. Good morning.

MARGARET BRENNAN: So your prime minister and – the American president speak daily, according to President Trump. Have they agreed to beginning and ending the war on the same timeline?

AMB. LEITER: We’ve been collaborating now for months, I would say, even prior to Rising Lion and Midnight Hammer in June, and that collaboration includes daily conversations in which there is an assessment of how the war is progressing, and I assume that we’re going to reach a complete understanding on the end of this war as well.

MARGARET BRENNAN: So you believe and trust that America will stay with Israel through the duration of this, even if there are strains on the American economy, like gas prices?

AMB. LEITER: We’ve reached a level of collaboration that we’ve never seen between our two countries and between our two militaries. This is a very important operation that doesn’t depend really on a timeline. You know, when you’re doing something that’s so critical you are not going to look at a stopwatch. This has to be finished. This is a terror-sponsoring state that has to be brought down and that’s what we’re focused on.

MARGARET BRENNAN: But you agree with the U.S. assessment from the secretary there he said this is just a matter of weeks?

AMB. LEITER: We believe so. We’re seeing cracks in the edifice of this military security terror regime. They’re starting to have very grave difficulties in conveying orders down through the system. There’s arguments within the system about the appointment of a successor to the supreme leader. They’re having grave difficulties. The fact that they are lashing out irrationally to all of their neighbors and firing these ballistic missiles into all of their neighbors, some 12 countries, into Europe for crying out loud, is indicative of the fact they’re having huge problems. We’re having success in these attacks on their command centers.

MARGARET BRENNAN: So President Trump was specifically asked yesterday about sending troops in to secure Iran’s supply of enriched uranium. He said he’s not ruling it out. Does Iran currently have access to the documented enriched uranium that exists inside the country, and what is Israel’s plan to secure it?

AMB. LEITER: Israel’s plan is to secure it, that’s for sure.

MARGARET BRENNAN: How?

AMB. LEITER: How exactly is an operational issue, I don’t think, Margaret, that you want me to discuss here on a Sunday morning ‘Face the Nation.’ We’ve got to do that. It’s an objective we have to accomplish, but the first thing we have to do is create a situation we’re going to be able to get to that enriched material and remove it, and that has to reach a point where there’s less kinetic activity on the ground. It’s obviously on our radar screen and we’re going to take care of it. The whole objective here of this operation is to prevent a terror state from achieving nuclear weapons. So it’s very much on our radar screen and that’s what we’re going to accomplish.

MARGARET BRENNAN: So just to put a fine point on it the concern is that that material could end up in the wrong hands if the regime collapses and it’s a mess, right? So, how do you secure it without ground forces in some way? Is Israel ruling out ground forces?

AMB. LEITER: We are ruling out the possibility of this regime remaining in the position where they can endanger us and their neighbors. If that includes putting boots on the ground- our preference is for the boots on the ground to be those of the Iranians. These are people who have been living under the boot of this regime now for 47 years. They want freedom. This is a whole generation out there that knows there is such a thing as freedom but has never tasted it yet. They need to put their boots on the ground and ensure their future and the future of the region.

MARGARET BRENNAN: You mean the Iranian army, the IRGC?

AMB. LEITER: The Iranian- the Iranian includes- no, I mean the Iranian people. 80% of the Iranian people are opposed to this regime they just haven’t been able to express themselves.

MARGARET BRENNAN: Well and CENTCOM is telling Iranian civilians to stay home right now. Is there any organized or armed opposition inside Iran that Israel supports?

AMB. LEITER: We’ve been talking to the minorities now for many years.

MARGARET BRENNAN: The minorities meaning the Kurds and the Azeris?

AMB. LEITER: The Kurds, the Balochs, the Azeris, but the Iranian people themselves, the Persians, we saw what they did two months ago. There is a point of combustion where the people will rise up and say we have had enough. We want freedom. So once we set the stage and there is no longer regime with a million armed people that are willing to shoot their fellow citizens in the back, these people are going to rise up and say we want our country back.

MARGARET BRENNAN: Because President Trump said yesterday he does not want the Kurds, who make up about 10% of the population within Iran, he doesn’t want the kurds in neighboring countries to enter the conflict. We don’t want to make the war any more complex than it is already. Turkey’s foreign minister came and said he- he said he had spoken to Rubio about it, but he said this, ‘Israel’s intentions in this matter are not so secret.’ Turkey seems to think that your country is trying to get the Kurds to intervene here. Is that accurate?

AMB. LEITER: I wouldn’t take the words of President Erdogan too seriously. He’s talking about his own caliphate spreading throughout the Middle East.

MARGARET BRENNAN: He was the foreign minister.

AMB. LEITER: He’s talking about taking over- well that’s coming down from the president- he’s talking about taking over Saudi Arabia and Israel at the same time. Look, we want a united Iran, there’s no question about it, but we want to empower the minorities to have their say in the process, in the political process. They’ve been denied of their freedom, so it’s not matter of supporting this particular minority or another, it’s supporting all the minorities. What we’re encouraging them to do is to coalesce, is to come together, to unify. If over the past 47 years the opposition of Iran would have unified, this regime would have come down a long time ago. So we can help them coalesce, we can help them unify, we can help them come together and rise up and say we’re taking our country back. That’s ultimately the end game.

MARGARET BRENNAN: So your prime minister gave an address Saturday and said to the IRGC, to those who lay down their arms no harm shall come. To those who do not, their blood is on their own heads. If there are no Israeli ground forces who do you want the IRGC to surrender to? How does that work?

AMB. LEITER: There are many precedents in history where the people themselves- like Romania, they turned their guns around against Ceaușescu. When people are deprived of freedom, there’s a certain point where they say enough. And all they have to do is put down their weapons and not participate- look they don’t to participate when the people rise up in shooting their own civilians, their own neighbors, their own families in many cases. So look the objective here is to achieve a situation where Iran is no longer an exporter of terrorism, is no longer raining ballistic missiles down on its neighbors and is no longer in the pursuit of nuclear weapons. That’s achievable and together the collaborative effort between Roaring Lion and Epic Rury we’re going to accomplish that.

MARGARET BRENNAN: Ambassador, we have to leave it there for the moment, but we’ll have more questions shortly. We need to take a quick commercial break. Stay with us.

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MARGARET BRENNAN: Welcome back to ‘Face the Nation.’ We return to our conversation with Israel’s Ambassador to the United States, Dr. Michael Leiter. Just to pick this back up, when we talk about what’s coming next in Iran, it has tremendous impact potentially for the entire region and American interests there. The president said when it comes to Iran’s next leaders most of the people we had in mind are dead. The New York Times is reporting the Israeli strike that killed the supreme leader also took out Iranian pragmatists, that was how they phrased it, who were also in that same compound, but the White House had hoped that those individuals might help lead a new Iran. Were they intentionally targeted by Israel or was this unintended?

AMB. LEITER: No. Pragmatists are very limited in their ability to influence in Iran. There have been pragmatists all throughout the 47 years of this terror regime, they have had absolutely no influence. The people influencing, deciding for Iran are these ayatollahs who have a very apocalyptic view of the future and don’t really care about how many people they kill of their own or others. So look, what we’re hoping for is that we move into a period of a transitional government where the minorities come together, where the majority of the people come together. All the various opposition parties come together for a transitional government where they can lead the country for a year or so, together with the guidance from the United States, and Israel and other regional allies, who will no longer live under the fear of being hit by ballistic missiles and then move into a mode of a democratic process. Let the people choose. Let’s not forget the people of Iran are the most pro-western people after Israel.

MARGARET BRENNAN: Well, but when I hear this is going to take weeks not months, referring to the combat, what you’re talking about takes a long time- that kind of transition. So we’re not just talking about a limited military operation. U.S. Pressure, Israeli pressure is going to have to be there for a long time.

AMB. LEITER: Well, this isn’t Iraq or Afghanistan because in this case 80% of the people oppose the regime. They just need the ability to express themselves. That’s what we’re emphasizing here. This is not a repeat of forever wars. They have got to put their boots on the ground and they’re beginning to be motivated and to feel that they’re going to be able to accomplish that. They’re beginning to move forward, it’s just going to take a little bit more time. There’s no long-term gain without some minimal pain. Look, I know what war is all about. I hate war. I lost my son in war. I don’t want to see war. None of us in Israel want to see war, but we can’t have a situation where our existence is threatened every day by a regime that says they’re going to eliminate us.

MARGARET BRENNAN: But just to put a fine point on it, did Israel intentionally target those other Iranian leaders that the president had referred to as some of the people he had in mind to lead?

AMB. LEITER: You know Margaret, we’re pretty good at precision, I think we’ve proven that, but the degree of precision where in this very same room there are these people sitting and those people sitting, we’re not that good.

MARGARET BRENNAN: Ambassador, thank you for your time this morning.

AMB. LEITER: Good to be with you.

MARGARET BRENNAN: We’ll be right back