CBS News Airs July 4th Weekend Face the Nation Broadcast

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On the July 4th holiday weekend, CBS News aired a special edition of Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan, featuring Representatives Adriano Espaillat and Carlos Gimenez in conversation with correspondent Ed O'Keefe. The two congressmen represent notably different political perspectives, with Espaillat a Democrat from New York and Gimenez a Republican from Florida, suggesting the program took up some issue where both sides were invited to weigh in. The broadcast aired on the same weekend that Vulture's daily film trivia game, Cinematrix, posed a patriotic puzzle to its readers: name an Ethan Hawke or Uma Thurman movie whose title contains the words red, white, or blue. The two items share little beyond their July 4th timing, but together they capture the odd texture of a holiday news cycle, when serious political programming runs alongside breezy pop-culture games and the country is only half paying attention.