Transcript: Save the Children President and CEO Janti Soeripto on "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan," May 10, 2026

Face The Nation Transcripts Transcript: Save the Children President and CEO Janti Soeripto 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 / 1:16 PM EDT / CBS News Add CBS News on Google The following is the transcript of the interview with former Save the Children President and CEO Janti Soeripto that aired on "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan" on May 10, 2026.MARGARET BRENNAN: We turn now to Janti Soeripto, she is the president and CEO of Save the Children U.S., which works to provide humanitarian aid and health resources to children worldwide. Good to have you here on this Mother's Day.JANTI SOERIPTO: Thank you, Margaret and Happy Mother's Day.MARGARET BRENNAN: You're just back from Sudan, which is one of the hardest places in the world to be a parent, certainly to be a mother. Pope Leo called it an inhumane tragedy. The UN says 34 million people need urgent assistance. I know the US is trying to work on a humanitarian ceasefire, but tell me what you saw there on the ground.JANTI SOERIPTO: Well Margaret, it is truly the world's worst humanitarian crisis, millions of people in need, and probably also the one that gets the least attention relative to the need. It literally took me four days to actually get from here to see the first school that we are supporting there. So, the level of logistical and operational impediments to actually get support to children and mothers where they are is unbelievably difficult. You have to cross multiple lines of various militant groups. It is truly, truly the last mile and- and the scale of the need is- is really astonishing. I see a lot of emergency situations across the world, I see a lot of fragile states, but this was really right up there.MARGARET BRENNAN: I know the U.S. has said this is essentially a proxy fight now, but when you look at the humanitarian need, some of the statisti...