Transcript: Energy Secretary Chris Wright on "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan," May 10, 2026

Face The Nation Transcripts Transcript: Energy Secretary Chris Wright on "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan," May 10, 2026 .chip { background-image: url('/fly/bundles/cbsnewscore/images/chip-bgd/chip-bgd-face-the-nation.jpg'); } Updated on: May 10, 2026 / 1:15 PM EDT / CBS News Add CBS News on Google The following is the transcript of the interview with Energy Secretary Chris Wright that aired on "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan" on May 10, 2026.MARGARET BRENNAN: We're now joined by U.S. Secretary of Energy, Chris Wright, good to have you here.SEC. CHRIS WRIGHT: Great to be here. Happy Mother's Day.MARGARET BRENNAN: Oh, thank you for that. President Trump said that he expected a response from Iran. He said this yesterday. Has one been received and what is the U.S. going to do with it?SEC. CHRIS WRIGHT: Not that I'm aware of, but I suspect we will get a response very soon. Things are tough for the leaders of Iran right now, and I think they're- they get growing motivation to make it- make a deal, but we know where this is going to end. We don't know the route to there, but at the end of the day, we'll have free flow of traffic through the Straits of Hormuz, and we will have an end to the Iranian nuclear program. The end point we know. The route, we don't.MARGARET BRENNAN: The goal is there, but Prime Minister Netanyahu told my colleague Major Garrett, the war is not over. He said there's still work to be done, ballistic missiles, nuclear program. President Trump told Congress that hostilities had been terminated. So is the U.S. view that the war itself is over?SEC. CHRIS WRIGHT: Well, the military objectives that we set out to achieve, and we guided the world to four to six weeks, and it took about five weeks to achieve. Those are achieved. The ending of the Iranian nuclear program is a different matter, and that's what still needs to be achieved, and again, most likely achieved by negotiation, but doesn't necessarily have to be achieved by negotiation. MAR...