The Takeout with Major Garrett, 1/13/26
The Takeout with Major Garrett
CBS News
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🗓️ 13 January 2026
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Ed O'Keefe fills in for Major today. CBS News believes at least 12,000 Iranian protesters have been killed as a crackdown within the country. Tony Dokoupil has a one-on-one interview with President Trump about what he's planning when he tells Iranian protesters that "help is on the way." We have a preview of that exchange. Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado is set to have a meeting at the White House on Thursday, following the capture of Nicolas Maduro. Former Venezuelan President Juan Guaido speaks with Ed about his reaction to Maduro's capture, and what he hopes that Machado gets out of her meeting with the President. Plus, The Supreme Court hears arguments about whether to limit transgender athletes from playing sports in their desired gender identity, rather than their biological sex. Jan Crawford has the latest, while Ed interviews Jennifer Sey, a vocal opponent of trans athletes playing in sports. Listen to the full episode here.
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| 0:00.0 | death toll in Iran may be in the thousands higher than previously feared. In an exclusive interview, |
| 0:05.7 | President Trump tells CBS news anchor Tony DeCopal, the U.S. will take strong action. We'll have a preview. |
| 0:12.0 | Why the Clintons are a no-show on Capitol Hill telling Congress to back off. The man who was the |
| 0:17.8 | recognized leader of Venezuela, to much of the world, joins us to discuss his country's future, and should a president get to name a building after himself? |
| 0:27.0 | It's yet another one of those questions Congress may soon consider. |
| 0:44.1 | Happy Tuesday and welcome in. I'm Ed O'Keefe, in for Major Garrett. This is the takeout. |
| 0:49.0 | As reports out of Iran suggest the situation there is much more violent than initially thought, |
| 0:54.9 | President Trump is threatening to take, quote, very strong action if authorities there begin hanging anti-government protesters this week, as is feared. And the president acknowledges there's a pretty substantial |
| 1:00.1 | number of people who've been killed in more than two weeks of demonstrations against the regime. |
| 1:04.8 | His comments come, as sources tell CBS News the situation appears much more violent and deadly |
| 1:09.3 | than initially thought. |
| 1:16.1 | At least 12,000 people are believed to be dead, but that death toll could be much higher. |
| 1:19.5 | CBS News has not been able to independently verify the death toll. |
| 1:23.5 | Images out of the countries you see there show rows of body bags. |
| 1:28.6 | The president spoke out on what the U.S. might do in Iran in an exclusive interview with CBS news taped this afternoon in Detroit with CBS evening news anchor Tony DeCobo. Here's part of their |
| 1:33.3 | conversation. |
| 1:34.8 | Americans woke up this morning and they saw that you said help is on the way. |
| 1:38.7 | Yeah. |
| 1:39.3 | What do you mean by that? |
| 1:40.2 | Well, there's a lot of help in the way and in different forms, including economic help from our standpoint and not going to help Iran very much. |
| 1:49.1 | And, you know, we put Iran out of business with their nuclear capacity. |
| 1:53.0 | And now, depending on what's actually happening, nobody's been able to give us accurate numbers about how many people they've killed. |
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