Transcript: Sam Vinograd and AT Smith on "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan," April 26, 2026

The following is the transcript of the interview with CBS News national security contributor Sam Vinograd and CBS News law enforcement analyst AT Smith that aired on "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan" on April 26, 2026. MARGARET BRENNAN: We turn now to Samantha Vinograd. She was a top homeland security official in the Biden administration. Is now a national security contributor here at CBS and AT Smith is a former deputy director of the secret service and now a CBS law enforcement analyst and joins us from Greenville, South Carolina. Good to have you both here. Sam, you were in the room with us, sheltering with some of our colleagues, as I understand it, you were close to the perimeter and able to detect some of what was happening. I was struck, national guard was there, secret service was there, private security was there, national guard was there. The perimeter of the security went out pretty darn far. There were protests surrounding the building. There weren't just protests about Trump. There were protests around Jeffrey Epstein. There were protests about the corporation that owns this news network. There were protests about the Iran war. …