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The following is the transcript of an interview with Russell Vought, director of the White House Office of Management and Budget, that aired on "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan" on.

Kentucky Sen. Mitch McConnell supposedly started the call by saying, "We have to bring slavery back. Those were the good old ...