Full transcript: Former Vice President Mike Pence on "Face the Nation," Nov. 20, 2022
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The following is the full transcript of an interview with former Vice President Mike Pence airing Sunday, Nov. 20, 2022, on "Face the Nation."
MARGARET BRENNAN: Thank you for making time for us today.
Two more black-footed ferrets have been cloned from the genes used for the first clone of an endangered species in the U.S., bringing to three the number of slinky predators genetically identical to one of the last such animals found in the wild, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced Wednesday.
There were 56 wild, endangered Puerto Rican parrots living around El Yunque National Forest before Hurricane Maria in 2017. After the storm, there was only one survivor. Wood thrushes, found across the eastern U.S.; 60% of them are gone. Baltimore orioles, also an eastern bird; two-fifths have been lost. Western meadowlarks, prevalent in the central and western U.S.; three-fourths have disappeared.