Transcript: Rep. Jason Crow on "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan," May 3, 2026

Face The Nation Transcripts Transcript: Rep. Jason Crow on "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan," May 3, 2026 .chip { background-image: url('/fly/bundles/cbsnewscore/images/chip-bgd/chip-bgd-face-the-nation.jpg'); } May 3, 2026 / 12:02 PM EDT / CBS News Add CBS News on Google The following is the transcript of the interview with Rep. Jason Crow, Democrat of Colorado, that aired on "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan" on May 3, 2026.MARGARET BRENNAN: We go now to Colorado Democratic Congressman Jason Crow, who's joining us from Sedona, Arizona, where he's attending the McCain Institute Forum. Good morning to you.REP. JASON CROW: Hi. Good morning, Margaret.MARGARET BRENNAN: So I want to ask you about some developing news. We learned late Friday that there was a decision made by Secretary Hegseth and the two Republican chairs of the House and Senate Armed Services committees are objecting to it. They are very concerned by Hegseth's order to withdraw a US brigade from Germany. They said it was not coordinated with Congress. And yesterday, President Trump said, on top of the 5000 that was announced, he wants to pull even more troops out of Germany. What is the effect of doing so?REP. CROW: Well, first of all, it's not just a lack of coordination or just Congress's preference that we want this to be on- this is law. There's actually law in place that both the House and the Senate passed on a bipartisan basis that sets certain conditions for movement of our troops around Europe. And we passed these laws out of grave concern for rhetoric by this administration in the past that they were going to draw down our presence in Europe, which is one of the most important troop footprints we have in the world that helps secure Europe, helps secure our economy, helps protect the hundreds of thousands of American citizens who live and work on the continent. So we are enforcing the law and the requirements. Second is, it appears as though this decision was made because Donald Trum...