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The following is a transcript of an interview with Dr. Marci Bowers, president of the World Professional Association for Transgender Health, that aired on "Face the Nation" on July 23, 2023.

Missed the second half of the show? The latest on...Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie tells "Face the Nation" that Republicans are "afraid of Donald Trump" in refusing to say former President Donald Trump's actions surrounding the 2020 election were criminal, New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy's administration is suing three school districts that require teachers to tell parents if their child is showing signs of changing their gender identity, and Dr. Marci Bowers tells "Face the Nation" that the majority of Americans are "very comfortable" with their binary identity. But the rest, who identify as transgender diverse, are a "vulnerable population that deserves healthcare."

The following is a transcript of an interview with New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy, a Democrat, that aired on "Face the Nation" on July 23, 2023.

The following is a transcript of an interview with former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, who is running for president, that aired on "Face the Nation" on July 23, 2023.

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy's administration is suing three school districts that require teachers to tell parents if their child is showing signs of changing their gender identity. Murphy tells "Face the Nation" that "it's the right thing to do" and the issue has turned into a "complete culture war."

Dr. Marci Bowers, president of the World Professional Association for Transgender Health and one of the leading experts on gender-affirming care, tells "Face the Nation" that the majority of Americans are "very comfortable" with their binary identity. But the rest, who identify as transgender diverse, are a "vulnerable population that deserves healthcare."

Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp's office was contacted by the office of Special Counsel Jack Smith in connection to the investigation into former President Donald Trump and his allies’ efforts to overturn the 2020 election results, Fox News has confirmed. The Washington Post was the first to confirm that Smith's office reached out to Kemp after Trump announced on TRUTH Social that he received a letter from Smith informing him he is a target of a Jan. 6 grand jury Investigation. Smith's activities point to a possible overlap between his investigation and Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis’ probes. Willis has been investigating since early 2021 whether Trump and his allies broke any state laws as they tried to overturn his narrow election loss in Georgia to now-President Biden.  Willis opened her investigation shortly after Trump called Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger in January 2021 and suggested the state’s top elections official could help him "find" the votes needed to overturn his election loss in the state.  STEFANIK: 'NOT A COINCIDENCE' JACK SMITH TARGETS TRUMP SAME WEEK AS IRS WHISTLEBLOWER HEARING ON HUNTER BIDEN Georgia’s Supreme Court last week rejected Trump’s request to have the special grand jury report quashed, and Willis has suggested any charges would come by Sept. 1.  The Post previously reported that Raffensperger was interviewed in Atlanta last month by investigators from Smith’s office.  GEORGIA SUPREME COURT REJECTS TRUMP'S BID TO SHUT DOWN GRAND JURY REPORT, FULTON COUNTY DA IN ELECTION PROBE Meanwhile, Kemp, who previously supported Trump, ultimately certified Biden's victory in the Peach State following the 2020 presidential election.  Trump endorsed Kemp’s rival, former Sen. David Perdue, R-Ga., in the 2022 primary contest, but Kemp went on to win the nomination and the general election. Kemp was also questioned last year by investigators from Willis’ office in connection to her investigation, FOX 5 Atlanta reported.  CNN reported that Smith's office has also contacted former Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey in connection to the DOJ's Trump probe in recent weeks.

U.S. Rep. Tony Gonzales, whose district includes 800 miles of the U.S-Mexico border, tells "Face the Nation" that the enforcement tactics outlined by a Texas trooper are "not acceptable."

Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said Sunday that she’s "not confident" in congressional testimony by IRS whistleblower Joseph Ziegler about Hunter Biden, calling the Republican-led hearing a "ridiculous clown show." Pelosi was asked by CNN’s "State of the Union" anchor Dana Bash whether politics played a role in Wednesday’s hearing, when Ziegler came forward for the first time, joining his IRS supervisor Gary Shapley, to allege political interference in the prosecutorial decisions throughout the years-long federal probe into the president's son. "Well, since you referenced the hearing, what a ridiculous clown show, again, on the part of the Republicans," Pelosi told Bash. BIDEN FAMILY, HUNTER ASSOCIATES RAKED IN OVER $17M FROM FOREIGN SOURCES, IRS WHISTLEBLOWER TESTIFIES While Bash was asking about Wednesday’s hearing by the House Oversight Committee, Pelosi referenced a moment during a hearing the following day with Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., though she fumbled his name. "What did they do, bring in Joe Kennedy talking about censorship, that he's being censored as he's talking to the world in a congressional hearing and showing pictures that had nothing to do with the essence–," she said. "I think you mentioned Robert F. Kennedy," Bash corrected Pelosi before asking again about the whistleblower’s testimony. "Do you feel confident no politics played at DOJ?" Bash asked the congresswoman. "The U.S. attorney was a Trump appointee. A Trump appointee," Pelosi responded. "Now, I have respect for whistleblowers, but the fact is that, from the basis of that hearing, they didn't even have a fair shot at what they came to say in light of the clown show that was going on with pictures and Robert Kennedy and his ridiculous presentation." "No, I'm not confident about what the whistleblower said," she said. "The U.S. attorney was a Trump attorney. This is their opinion. It was not the opinion of the others there." During Wednesday's hearing, Ziegler told Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., that Hunter Biden, his family members and business associates received over $17 million due to business dealings in China, Ukraine and Romania. Those deals included multimillion-dollar payments to Biden family-linked companies from 2014 to 2019, including $7.3 million from Ukrainian energy company Burisma Holdings. Ziegler and Shapley both allege that officials at the Justice Department, FBI and IRS interfered in the investigation into Hunter Biden, and that decisions in the case were influenced by politics.

Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, who is running for the Republican nomination for president, tells "Face the Nation" that Republicans are "afraid of Donald Trump" in refusing to say former President Donald Trump's actions surrounding the 2020 election were criminal.

Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy on Sunday defended former President Donald Trump, who faces a special counsel investigation regarding the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol protests. The biotech entrepreneur, during an appearance on "Fox News Sunday," responded to being slammed for not criticizing Trump a month before the first GOP presidential debate in Milwaukee.  "I’ve been consistent all along,"he said, "that I would have made different judgments than Donald Trump made – that is why I’m running in this race for the presidency – the same race that he’s in. Because I would have made different and, I believe, better judgments for the country."  "But a bad judgment is not the same thing as a crime," Ramaswamy continued. "And when we conflate the two, that sets a dangerous precedent for this country. I don’t want to see us become some banana republic where the party in power uses police force to arrest its political opponents."  "Now that I’m third in the national polls, self-interestedly it would be much easier for me to win this election if Trump were not the front-runner – if Trump were eliminated by the federal administrative police state. But that’s not the right thing for the country," he added. VIVEK RAMASWAMY VOWS TO GUT SEVERAL AGENCIES INCLUDING FBI, IRS, CDC: SHUTTING DOWN 'THE ADMINISTRATIVE STATE' In a recent Fox News survey of Iowa Republicans, Trump received 46% support among likely Iowa GOP caucus goers, while Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis received 16% and Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., received 11%. Ramaswamy came in fourth, polling at 6%.  In South Carolina, another recent Fox News poll found Trump leading by more than 30 points. Ramaswamy came in sixth place in that poll at just 3%.  Ramaswamy contended that he was "not running against anyone," including rival GOP presidential candidates and Democrat President Biden, stressing that he was running for the "vision of what it means to be American." "We don’t want a super PAC puppet," Ramaswamy said. "We want an independent voice, and a patriot who actually speaks the truth. That’s’ what I’m bringing to the race."  VIVEK RAMASWAMY PROMOTES ANTI-WOKENESS ON CAPITOL HILL — BUT LEAVES WITH NO ENDORSEMENTS In a past book, Ramaswamy argued that Trump wrongfully claimed he did not lose the 2020 election and raised millions of dollars off his supporters, "Fox News Sunday" host Shannon Bream noted. "What Trump did last week was wrong. Downright abhorrent. Plain and simple," Ramaswamy previously tweeted on Jan. 12, 2021. "I’ve said it before and did so in my piece."  During the appearance, Ramaswamy responded to Trump’s recent comments describing Chinese President Xi Jinping as "brilliant" and "an iron fist." Ramaswamy said Xi "is a dictator, and China is the top threat that the United States faces," arguing that he stands apart from other 2024 candidates, including Trump, in campaigning for "economic independence" from China.  Ramaswamy said he also has laid out a foreign policy plan based on pulling apart the China-Russian alliance.  "NATO was created to deter the USSR. The USSR does not exist anymore, yet NATO has expanded more after the fall of the USSR than it ever did during the USSR’s existence. So I think we have to ask the question of, ‘What advances American interests?’" Ramaswamy said. "And to me, the top American interest is pulling apart the China-Russia alliance – that ends the Ukraine war, that stops us from having to fund another hundreds of billions of dollars to protect somebody else’s border that we could be using to protect our own border. And more importantly, this is also how we deter Xi Jinping from going after Taiwan."

Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi reacts to Kevin McCarthy telling former President Donald Trump that he supported the idea of expunging his impeachments.

The following is a transcript of an interview with Phoenix Mayor Kate Gallego that aired on "Face the Nation" on July 23, 2023.

Efforts to extract the metals used in car batteries have been pushed off amid pressure from environmentalists and nations that oppose them.

Greenpeace activists demonstrate in front of a deep sea mining vessel commissioned by Canada’s The Metals Company, returning to port from eight weeks of test mining in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone between Mexico and Hawaii last year.

Rep. Tony Gonzales said the tactics used to deter illegal entry to the U.S. are "not acceptable," but stopped short of criticizing Texas Gov. Greg Abbott.

This week on "Face the Nation," U.S. Rep. Tony Gonzales, whose district includes 800 miles of the U.S.-Mexico border, discusses the tacts along the border. Plus, Phoenix Mayor Kate Gallego on the measures her city is taking to deal with the extreme temperatures.

The campaign’s missteps and swelling costs have made donors and allies anxious. One person close to the Florida governor said he had experienced a “challenging learning curve.”

Supporters of Gov. Ron DeSantis have watched anxiously as former President Donald J. Trump has outmaneuvered him in defining the contours of the race.

The government will soon announce the first 10 medications that will be subject to price negotiations with Medicare under a new law. Drugmakers are fighting the measure in court.

Demonstrators outside the Department of Health and Human Services last year. The price negotiations are expected to lower insurance premiums and out-of-pocket costs for many older Americans.

President Joe Biden plans to name a new national monument next week after Emmett Till, a White House official told CNN, honoring the Black teenager whose murder in 1955 helped galvanize the civil rights movement.

The monument will be located across three sites in Mississippi and Illinois, CBS News

Surging summer delays and a record number of travelers have made a habitually horrible peak airline travel season feel even worse. Christina Ruffini has details.

CNN data analyst Harry Enten joins Jim Acosta to discuss Republican presidential candidate Ron DeSantis' fundraising concerns.

Former President Donald Trump on Friday vowed to pursue the death penalty for human traffickers and to revive a now-defunct immigration measure to combat child trafficking, if he's re-elected to the White House. "I will use Title 42 to end the child trafficking crisis by returning all trafficked children to their families in their home countries, without delay," Trump said in a new campaign video posted on social media. "And I will urge Congress to ensure that anyone caught trafficking children across our border receives the death penalty immediately." The Title 42 public health order was implemented by the Trump administration, allowing border officials to expel migrants without granting them an asylum hearing in order to limit the spread of COVID-19. Biden rescinded the policy earlier this year. 'SOUND OF FREEDOM' ACTOR JIM CAVIEZEL CALLS OUT MEDIA ATTACKS ON HIT FILM: THEY ARE 'QUAKING IN THEIR BOOTS Trump, the frontrunner in the 2024 Republican presidential primary, touted his record as president for improving the security of the southern border and lambasted the Biden administration for overseeing a surge of illegal immigration into the U.S. "When I'm back in the White House, I will immediately end the Biden border nightmare that traffickers are using to exploit vulnerable women and children," said Trump. "We will fully secure the border. I will wage war on the cartels just as I destroyed the ISIS caliphate, 100% gone, 100% destroyed." Trump's comments came after he hosted a screening of the hit film "Sound of Freedom" at his golf course in Bedminster, New Jersey, this week. He promoted and encouraged others to see the movie, which chronicles former Homeland Security agent Tim Ballard's efforts to rescue trafficked children. Ballard, his wife, producer Eduardo Verastegui, and lead actor Jim Caviezel all attended the screening. TRUMP'S 2024 GOP RIVALS REACT TO FORMER PRESIDENT'S POTENTIAL THIRD INDICTMENT: ‘DANGEROUS PRECEDENT’ While the film has enjoyed success at the box office, some liberal media outlets derided the project as associated with QAnon, a right-wing community that has been accused of buying into fringe conspiracy theories. The movie has sparked discussions about the prevalence of human trafficking in the U.S. and other countries and what can be done to combat it. "Under my leadership we did more than any other administration in history to combat human trafficking and to end modern-day slavery," said Trump, who cited relevant executive orders and legislation he signed, such as the Frederick Douglass Trafficking Victims Prevention and Protection Re-authorization Act and the Abolish Human Trafficking Act. "Together we will end the scourge of human trafficking, and we will defend the dignity of human life." Trump's latest campaign proposal for human traffickers came about a month after he advocated for imposing the death penalty on convicted drug dealers, during an interview with Fox News.

A previous senior adviser to former President Barack Obama is warning Democrats about a potential threat to President Biden's re-election campaign from third-party candidates like Cornel West, a 2024 Green Party presidential candidate. David Axelrod, who served as a top adviser to Obama for two years in the White House before becoming the senior strategist for Obama's successful 2012 re-election campaign, is questioning "why alarm bells aren’t going off" for Democrats amid mounting concern over West's candidacy in the race. Ever since he announced last month he would make a run for the White House as a third-party candidate, West, a progressive activist and philosopher, has largely been dismissed by Democrats as a serious candidate as they work to shore up support for Biden ahead of the 2024 election. Axelrod, however, insists Democrats should be taking challenges like West's to the incumbent president seriously. PROGRESSIVE ACTIVIST CORNEL WEST ANNOUNCES PRESIDENTIAL RUN UNDER THIRD PARTY "This is going to sneak up on people," Axelrod, a CNN political commentator, said this week. "I don’t know why alarm bells aren’t going off now, and they should be at a steady drumbeat from now until the election." Similar to Axelrod, Pennsylvania Democratic Lt. Gov. Austin Davis said his party "should be concerned" about the implications of West's candidacy. "We should be concerned. I don’t think time’s necessarily on our side. The longer these things hang out there, the worse it tends to get," said Davis, according to CNN. "We should try to deal with it rather quickly if we can." CORNEL WEST CALLS OUT BIDEN'S PAST 'CONNECTIONS' TO SEGREGATIONISTS, SAYS TRUMP ALSO FLAWED ON RACIAL ISSUES Davis also noted that conversations about West, thus far, have been among insiders rather than voters, the outlet reported. The mounting concerns from within the party come amid West's targeting of Biden on numerous issues in recent weeks. Earlier this month, West told Fox News his third-party bid is as "serious as a heart attack" and doubled down on comments he made drawing into question Biden's compassion for the Black community. Criticizing Biden's past relationships with segregationist Democratic senators, West mentioned Biden's praise for former Mississippi Sen. John Stennis, namesake of the NASA Space Center near Kiln, Mississippi. In 2008, Biden reportedly called his fellow Democrat "a hell of a guy." More recently, Biden regaled supporters at a 2019 fundraiser of his time working with Stennis' fellow Mississippian James Eastland and then-Sen. Herman Talmadge, D-Ga., who supported segregation. "I was in a caucus with James O. Eastland. He never called me ‘boy.' He always called me ‘son’," Biden quipped of the senator who once warned against "mongrelization."  Biden was rebuked at the time by fellow Democrat Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey, who said in a statement obtained by the Daily Mail, "You don't joke about calling Black men ‘boys.'" On "Hannity," West confirmed he is accusing Biden of "crimes against humanity" against African Americans, as reported by the New York Post. When Hannity asked West about minority voters continuing to largely support the Democratic Party, which West said is as broken as the GOP, the professor responded that both former President Donald Trump and Biden are flawed on racial issues and both parties are tied to "big money" and corruption. "This is true for Republicans, is true for Democrats. [I'm] talking about Brother Trump himself. And Biden's connection to Stennis. Biden's connection to [ex-South Carolina Democrat-turned-Republican Sen.] Strom Thurmond. We know Brother Trump's own father's been tied to the Klan and of Trump's language about Black people," said West. CLICK TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP During the same interview, West criticized the handling of the White House cocaine incident, which Hannity noted was closed quickly. West agreed that a West administration would not see the same purported deferential treatment in the form of such an accelerated conclusion if drugs were found there. "For my White House — and I've told my people, I'm not even going to the White House until every American citizen has a house — I want to abolish poverty, abolish homelessness. I want jobs with a living wage," he said at the time. Fox News' Charles Creitz contributed to this report.

Patrick Braxton said that the "minority White residents of (Newburn), long accustomed to exercising total control over the government, refused to accept his election as mayor.