Transcript: Rye Barcott on "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan," June 7, 2026

Face The Nation Transcripts Transcript: Rye Barcott on "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan," June 7, 2026 .chip { background-image: url('/fly/bundles/cbsnewscore/images/chip-bgd/chip-bgd-face-the-nation.jpg'); } June 7, 2026 / 10:30 AM EDT / CBS News Add CBS News on Google The following is the full transcript of the interview with Rye Barcott, a Marine veteran and With Honor founder, a portion of which aired on "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan" on June 7, 2026.MARGARET BRENNAN: Joining us now is Rye Barcott, a Marine veteran who is the founder of With Honor, an organization that works to elect military veterans and others who have dedicated themselves to public service. In the last eight years, the organization says they have helped over 100 get elected, currently 50 of them serve in Congress. His new book is "Courage Can Save Us: Ten Extraordinary Americans and the Fight for Our Future," profiling five Democrats, five Republicans, all of whom have had military service, or in one case, FBI experience. Rye, it's good to have you here.RYE BARCOTT: Thank you. Thanks for having me on.MARGARET BRENNAN: So, we need saving.RYE BARCOTT: Yes. MARGARET BRENNAN: It sounds like in your book you profiled these 10 people, some of them currently, including Representative Don Bacon, who's on the program, and then two governors. What about them made you write?RYE BARCOTT: So, I've been leading With Honor. I co-founded it with the late David Gergen and another marine that I served with during the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, about eight years ago, and through that period of time, we've helped recruit and train and help elect veterans that take our pledge to serve with integrity, civility, and courage, including the courage to work across party lines at a difficult time to do so. Through that process, I've gotten to know many of them quite well, and so what I decided to do was select 10, an even balance of five and five, all of whom were in office at a very difficult, chal...