The Takeout with Major Garrett, 1/15/26
The Takeout with Major Garrett
CBS News
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🗓️ 16 January 2026
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Ed is back at the desk today. Weijia Jiang joins from the White House to discuss Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado, while Charles Shapiro, Former U.S. Ambassador to Venezuela, provides some perspective in the country’s current political landscape. Lana Zak is in Minneapolis, where another shooting by an ICE officer has increased tensions in the state. Plus, more than 20 individuals were charged in a sports betting scheme within the NCAA. Danny Funt, sports writer and author of “Everybody Loses: The Tumultuous Rise of American Sports Gambling,” breaks it down. Join us right here on The Takeout!
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| 0:00.0 | Guess who came over for lunch? With the future of Venezuela on the menu, what we know about Maria |
| 0:05.1 | Karino Machado's first face-to-face meeting with President Trump. The temperature turns up in the |
| 0:10.7 | Twin Cities as violent immigration raids continue while threats in Iran are walked back as more |
| 0:16.1 | sanctions are put in place. Plus, throw in the game for monetary gain. Feds call foul on the alleged |
| 0:23.0 | case of corruption in college sports. |
| 0:34.6 | Hello, I'm Ed O'Keefe in for Major Garrett, who's still out somewhere on a baseball field. He'll be back tomorrow, don't worry. But welcome to the takeout. If there's one thing this reporter's learned in his handful of years covering the White House, is that you can measure the importance of a meeting, or how much the White House wants you to know about it, based on which way the invited guest gets into the building. Your world leader and close ally or one of those dignitaries of president really likes, |
| 0:58.0 | you're likely getting an arrival like this. |
| 1:00.0 | Full military honors, the bans, and maybe even, yes, a flyover. |
| 1:04.0 | Look at that. That was for the Saudi Crown Prince. |
| 1:08.0 | If you're a leader who the president respects from a country the U.S. has to do business with, |
| 1:13.2 | or maybe one of those leaders who visits quite often, well, you get to do this. |
| 1:18.5 | They line up service members along the driveway, they are holding flags of the various U.S. |
| 1:24.0 | states. |
| 1:25.0 | Your black car rolls right up to the front door in the west wing. |
| 1:31.0 | But just about everyone else goes in through one of the side doors. |
| 1:35.2 | There's one right there on 17th Street, the southwestern corner of the White House complex, |
| 1:39.6 | where reporters rarely go. And that's where Maria Corina Machado arrived today, |
| 1:45.6 | whist through security with no fanfare. To be fair, she's not a head of state or head of any major international body, but she is the leader of an opposition movement that decisively won an election |
| 1:50.4 | two years ago that Nicholas Maduro ignored. President Trump is skeptical. Machado can lead Venezuela's |
| 1:56.5 | military, control its vast oil supply, and rally public society to help rebuild the country. |
| 2:03.7 | So for now, she was snuck in through the side entrance. |
| 2:10.0 | Her goal is to one day be invited in through the front door, with the band's playing in her honor. |
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