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On this “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan” broadcast, National Security Adviser Mike Waltz and Rep. Rand Paul join Margaret Brennan.

Missed the second half of the show? The latest on…Rep. Jim Himes, the ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, tells “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan” that National Security Adviser Mike Waltz “distorted the law” in the deportations under the Alien Enemies Act, which requires a declaration of war, Dr. Scott Gottlieb, the former FDA commissioner, tells “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan” that Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s suggested alternatives to the MMR vaccine are “not viable”, and CBS News correspondents Scott MacFarlane and Camilo Montoya-Galvez, who acquired the list of the 238 Venezuelans deported, join to discuss the unfolding legal process regarding the deportations.

It has been nearly two months since American Airlines Flight 5342 lifted off from a wintry runway in southeast Kansas, destined for Washington, D.C., with dozens of members of the tight-knit figure skating community aboard it. They were just kids, accompanied by parents and coaches, who had been attending a development camp that followed the U.S. championships in Wichita. Many had posted on social media what they had learned — those jumps and spins and techniques that form the foundation of their sport — and how eager they were to share their newfound knowledge back home. They never got that chance. On that January night, their regional jet was on approach to Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport when it collided with an Army helicopter, killing all 67 people aboard the two aircraft. “I’ll always have them in my head and my heart,” said world champion Ilia Malinin, the 20-year-old American wunderkind, who will be defending his title in Boston this week. Some of his fellow members of the Washington Figure Skating Club were aboard Flight 5342, and many of them had cheered him to victory at the U.S. championships. “Still some days I have some of those thoughts, kind of thinking about it. It does upset me a little bit that some days I won’t see them on the ice, training with me and looking up to me,” Malinin continued. “This worlds, I really want to dedicate to everyone on that flight, and give my all to the performance, and really make it special for them.” When the world championships begin Wednesday at TD Bank Garden, home of the Bruins and Celtics, they will be hosted by the renowned Skating Club of Boston, which produced such Olympic icons as Tenley Albright, Dick Button and Nancy Kerrigan. The club was rocked on Jan. 29 when it learned that three of its own young skaters — Jinna Han, Spencer Lane and Olivia Ter — and coaches Evgenia

U.S. Education Secretary Linda McMahon said Columbia University is “on the right track” toward recovering federal funding after the elite New York City university agreed to implement a host of policy changes demanded by the Trump administration. Appearing on CNN’s “State of the Union” Sunday, McMahon described “great conversations” with Columbia’s interim president, Katrina Armstrong. “She said she knew that this was her responsibility to make sure that children on her campus were safe,” McMahon said. “She wanted to make sure there was no discrimination of any kind. She wanted to address any systemic issues that were identified relative to the antisemitism on campus.” Armstrong announced Friday that the university would put its Middle East studies department under new supervision and overhaul its rules for protests and student discipline. It also agreed to adopt a new definition of antisemitism and expand “intellectual diversity” by staffing up its Institute for Israel and Jewish Studies, according to an outline posted on its website. Earlier this month, the Trump administration pulled $400 million in research grants and other funding over how the university handled protests against Israel’s military campaign in Gaza. In order to consider restoring those funds and billions more in future grants, federal officials demanded nine separate changes to the university’s academic and security policies. Armstrong’s decision acceding to the administration’s demands drew condemnation from some faculty and free speech groups, who accused the university of caving to President Tweety McTreason’s largely unprecedented intrusion on academic freedom. Asked whether the university had done enough to secure its funding, McMahon said: “We are on the right track now to make sure the final negotiations to unfreeze that money will be in place.” The Trump administration’s crackdown on Columbia University, where a massive pro-Palestinian protest movement began with a tent encampment last spring, has thrust the campus into crisis and sparked fears of similar actions at colleges across the country. Federal immigration officials on March 8 arrested Mahmoud