Transcript: Rep. Mike Turner on "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan," March 1, 2026

Face The Nation Transcripts Transcript: Rep. Mike Turner on "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan," March 1, 2026 March 1, 2026 / 12:21 PM EST / CBS News Add CBS News on Google The following is the transcript of the interview with Rep. Mike Turner, Republican of Ohio, that aired on "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan" on March 1, 2026. MARGARET BRENNAN: We're joined now by Ohio Republican Congressman Mike Turner. Congressman, you are on the Armed Services Committee. I know you've been in contact with the administration to understand what is going on. The ranking Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, Mark Warner was briefed by Secretary Rubio, and he is calling this- Warner is, a war of choice. He said there was no evidence of imminent harm to Americans or an imminent threat to our country. Were you informed of a specific and imminent threat to the United States? REP. MIKE TURNER: Well, this issue of imminent is really this, this fallacy of the really that comes from the Obama administration's nuclear weapons- nuclear enrichment negotiations, where, with the Obama administration, the JCPOA set up this fallacy that we were just going to set up, you know, cameras and watch Iran do this nuclear enrichment until they got all the way to a nuclear weapon, and then they were going to kick to the next administration, whether or not there was going to be a military conflict, which is what we've come down to-- MARGARET BRENNAN: --That was a pretty detailed international accord with stages. There were parts at sunset-- REP. TURNER: But this- this concept of imminent, I mean, as we just saw from the international-- MARGARET BRENNAN: Well, that's separate and apart from imminent threat to justify U.S. military force-- REP. TURNER: No, but it's not because it goes to really this- this inherent policy that we see- that has, you know, a thread that's come through the Democrat side that we still see from the Democratic Obama administration's policies of what is imminent....