CBS News Sunday Morning to cover birthright citizenship, John Mulaney and Theodore Roosevelt library

CBS News Sunday Morning will lean into some of the country’s sharpest civic and cultural fault lines when Lee Cowan guest-hosts the June 21 broadcast. The 90-minute program begins at 9:00 a.m. ET on CBS and streams at 11:00 a.m. ET on the CBS News app and on Paramount+, with a lineup that ranges from the Supreme Court fight over citizenship to a presidential library opening in the North Dakota Badlands.

Mo Rocca’s cover story will examine birthright citizenship and the Supreme Court review of President Trump’s January 2025 executive order seeking to limit citizenship for some children born in the United States. CBS says the order could affect a quarter of a million children each year, according to Pew Research Center, which gives the segment immediate public-health and social-policy weight as families and courts confront the stakes of who is included in the promise of American citizenship.

The broadcast will also move through a series of segments that reflect how the show balances public issues with personality-driven profiles. Tracy Smith will speak with comedian and actor John Mulaney, while Robert Costa will talk with Shooter Jennings about preserving the music of his late father, Waylon Jennings. CBS says Shooter Jennings’ second album in that project, Diamonds, will be released later in 2026. Charles Blow will offer thoughts on fathers, a theme that lands alongside Conor Knighton’s report on seahorses, the species where fathers carry the babies.

Health policy will also get attention. Dr. Jon LaPook will explain the current epidemic of childhood obesity and discuss what can be done to remedy it, a subject that reaches far beyond medicine and into school lunch programs, family budgets and unequal access to healthy food and safe places to play.

Cowan will spend time in the North Dakota Badlands at the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library in Medora, a project CBS says has been 107 years in the making and is set to open July 4. He will also explore the Manet & Morisot exhibit at the Cleveland Museum of Art, adding a quieter cultural note to a broadcast built around issues of identity, inheritance and memory. For a Sunday morning hour that often shapes the national conversation before many other programs start, this lineup suggests CBS is aiming squarely at the questions Americans are already arguing about.