The Takeout with Major Garrett, 1/14/26
The Takeout with Major Garrett
CBS News
4.6 • 586 Ratings
🗓️ 14 January 2026
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Ed O'Keefe is back at the anchor chair for The Takeout. He begins the show by dissecting the various foreign threads with Margaret Brennan, including the meeting with Denmark and Greenland Foreign Ministers at the White House and Trump's comment that the shooting and executions in Iran have stopped. CBS National Security Contributor and Fmr. National Security Advisor H.R. McMaster chimes in with additional analysis. California Democratic Representative Mike Levin joins to discuss his perspective on possible articles of impeachment against DHS Secretary Kristi Noem and the U.S. efforts to sell oil from Venezuela. Plus, Taurean Small joins to break down the impending vote on War Powers resolution, and why the bipartisan effort from the Senate has lost momentum. All that and more on The Takeout!
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| 0:00.0 | The president says the killing is over in Iran, but thousands are believed dead. We'll get the |
| 0:05.9 | latest. Agree to disagree. The Danish leave red-faced about green land. The latest on the |
| 0:13.5 | president's push north. The U.S. is ending visa applications from at least 75 countries will tell you |
| 0:19.2 | why and where. And the latest on an FBI |
| 0:22.5 | raid at the home of a Washington Post reporter. |
| 0:34.4 | Hello, I met O'Keeffe in today for Major Garrett in Washington. Welcome to the takeout. |
| 0:38.9 | The killing in Iran is stopping. |
| 0:41.4 | That's what President Trump said today amid reports that tens of thousands may have been killed in anti-government protests in the last two weeks. |
| 0:47.8 | How the president knows this, how the White House found out to a level they were confident enough to say so publicly, |
| 0:53.1 | and what it means for the ongoing push to oust the Iranian regime remains unclear. |
| 0:57.4 | I'm trying to get some answers to that this hour. |
| 0:59.3 | But it signals the Iranian government, at least, is in touch with the U.S. |
| 1:02.5 | and may be heeding the president's warnings. |
| 1:04.3 | Reiterated last night, an interview with CBS News, |
| 1:07.5 | that the country would be hit very hard if Iran continued harming protesters. The encouraging |
| 1:12.6 | news from Iran came amid what appeared to be difficult conversations today between senior |
| 1:17.0 | administration officials and representatives from Denmark and Greenland. The president insists the |
| 1:21.5 | U.S. needs to control the island. The Danish foreign minister walked out of the meeting to tell |
| 1:25.5 | reporters the two countries continued to agree, to disagree. |
| 1:29.6 | And then there's Venezuela. |
| 1:31.4 | The president turns his attention back there on Thursday when he set to meet with opposition leader Maria Carino Machado. |
| 1:36.6 | Still no answers there either about when elections might be held, how the economy in that country gets rebuilt, plenty of big issues. |
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