Transcript: Maryland Gov. Wes Moore on "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan," April 5, 2026

Face The Nation Transcripts Transcript: Maryland Gov. Wes Moore on "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan," April 5, 2026 .chip { background-image: url('/fly/bundles/cbsnewscore/images/chip-bgd/chip-bgd-face-the-nation.jpg'); } April 5, 2026 / 7:30 AM EDT / CBS News Add CBS News on Google The following is the full transcript of an interview with Maryland Democratic Gov. Wes Moore, which will air on "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan" on April 5, 2026, moderated this week by senior White House and political correspondent Ed O'Keefe. The interview was taped on April 3, 2026.ED O'KEEFE: Well, Governor, thank you for joining us. We appreciate it. We're meeting amid an ongoing war that is having a bit of an effect on the economy. Rising gas prices, inflation keeps creeping up. It was a decent jobs report on Friday, but mortgage rates are climbing and mortgage applications are down. You observe this as a governor, and you know that residents in your state are feeling the economic pinch. What can you do as a governor to address all of this?GOV. WES MOORE: Well, we are feeling it, and it is true that, you know, a governor does not control the fact that energy prices have spiked over the past year. You know, my, my mom's energy bill in March of last year was $140. It's now creeping close to $500. Governors don't have full control over that. Governors can't control the fact that gas prices have gone up now over $1 because we decided to enter into another war of choice, that governors cannot control the fact that we are continuing to watch homes become more difficult and more expensive. But the thing we can do as governors is we can make sure that even though I don't control the price of food, that I can make sure that we're not doing price manipulation, and that these big corporations aren't gouging our customers, as we're doing here in the state of Maryland. You know, that I can make sure that even though we are watching energy prices rise, that we can hold these da...