The Takeout with Major Garrett, 1/12/26
The Takeout with Major Garrett
CBS News
4.6 • 586 Ratings
🗓️ 12 January 2026
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Caitlin Huey-Burns fills in for Major at the anchor chair. The Department of Justice opens a probe into Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell. Scott MacFarlane is at the desk with more, and Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren warns about the administration's move to make the Fed less independent. Weijia Jiang joins from the White House to discuss possible options that the President is receiving from his national security team on how to respond to ongoing protests in Iran. Plus, Minnesota officials sue the federal government about their immigration operations, following the death of a Minneapolis woman by an ICE agent last week. Nicole Sganga is on the scene, and Virginia Democratic Congressman James Walkinshaw joins "The Takeout" to discuss his move to put language that would reign ICE and CBP officers in, when it comes to immigration enforcement. Listen to the full episode here!
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| 0:59.2 | Fed Chair Jerome Powell, under criminal investigation, economic leaders blast President Trump. |
| 1:05.3 | Senator Elizabeth Warren joins the takeout. Iran engulfed in protest. President Trump just given military options. |
| 1:13.4 | Nora O'Donnell speaks with the exiled crown prince. More ice agents pour into Minnesota as tensions remain high in the city. Hello, I'm Caitlin Huey Burns in for merit Major Garrett. |
| 1:34.4 | Thank you and welcome to the takeout. |
| 1:36.1 | The Trump administration's Justice Department has opened a criminal inquiry into Fed chairman |
| 1:41.5 | Jerome Powell and whether he lied to Congress over the renovation of the Fed's |
| 1:45.9 | headquarters. Now, this comes after the president has made repeated demands that the Fed lower interest |
| 1:52.2 | rates and threatened to fire Powell, though he says now he knew nothing of this investigation |
| 1:57.3 | into Powell. President Trump has been accused of weaponizing the law against his |
| 2:02.6 | political foes in order to seek retribution or to bend them to his will. Now that accusation has |
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