Transcript: Former Ambassador Bridget Brink on “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan,” May 18, 2025

The following is the transcript of an interview with Bridget Brink, former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, that aired on “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan” on May 18, 2025. MARGARET BRENNAN: Last month, Ambassador Bridget Brink resigned from her post as America’s top diplomat to Ukraine, and last week, she explained why. Though she had been serving as a career diplomat for three decades, Brink wrote in the Detroit Free Press she could, quote, ‘no longer in good faith carry out the administration’s policy,’ accusing President Trump and his team of putting pressure on the victim, Ukraine, rather than on…