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What’s Happening

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Thom Tillis on “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan,” Feb.

The Details

15, 2026 : / 1:00 PM EST / CBS News Add CBS News on Google The following is the transcript of the interview with Sen. ED O’KEEFE: We’re joined now by Sen.

Thom Tillis from the Munich Security Conference in Germany. Thank you for taking a few minutes to be with us.

Why This Matters

A report that was published this week— SENATOR THOM TILLIS: Thank you ED O’KEEFE: — Security Conference describes leaders who are taking an ax to existing rules and institutions, and says the era in which Europe could rely on the U. As an unquestioned security guarantor is over. You think that’s a fair assessment.

International observers are watching how this situation develops.

Key Takeaways

• No longer a reliable partner to Europe?
• TILLIS: Well, you know, in some ways, I hope that we’re going to enter an era where our reliance on Europe is improved.

The Bottom Line

You know, we could be scaling up latent capabilities that would have been serving that $2 trillion to better serve Ukraine and better modernize their own weapons. So let’s make sure that people look at this with balance and understand that a part of the reason why we are where we are is because we had that deficit in the 20 years, in the first 20 years of this century.

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