Face the Nation Diary

Face the Nation Diary

By John Dickerson, CBS News Chief Washington Correspondent and Face the Nation Host
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Face the Nation Diary episodes

  • The state of play in the "Tar Heel State"
    "Face the Nation" moderator John Dickerson discusses the presidential, gubernatorial and senate races with CBS News North Carolina embed Sean Gallitz. Have the top of the tickets for each party had any influence down the ballot?
    31 min
  • The problem with blowing up the whole system
    John Dickerson examines why Donald Trump's pitch to blow up politics as usual is so appealing to some - and why it may not be as clean and simple as supporters hope. As one commenter on a story in the American Conservative put it, "You cannot control a revolution."
    10 min
  • Third debate recap: Trump crosses a line, Clinton dodges
    John Dickerson looks back on the highs and lows of the third general election debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, including Trump's unprecedented refusal to say he'd accept the election results, and Clinton's decision to duck questions on Wikileaks and the Clinton Foundation.
    12 min
  • What evidence do you have, sir?
    Looking back at the 1980 debate between Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan, John Dickerson examines the facts and statistics that politicians traditionally used to reinforce their proposals - and why that practice seems to have fallen by the wayside in the 2016 election.
    10 min
  • The Thrilla in Vanilla
    The two Vice presidential candidates are set to face off for the first time at Longwood University. John Dickerson discusses what will likely be an uneventful clash of the two VP hopefuls.
    4 min
  • The art of storytelling in a presidential campaign
    Politicians used to tell stories as a way to explain a problem or their solution, but that isn't as much the case in the 2016 race, John Dickerson observes. Why not? And what are we missing? Dickerson looks back at one of the stories then-Illinois Sen. Barack Obama delivered in 2008 at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia.
    11 min

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