The Takeout with Major Garrett, 1/16/26
The Takeout with Major Garrett
CBS News
4.6 • 586 Ratings
🗓️ 16 January 2026
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
After his week-long trip to Arizona for his San Diego Padres fantasy baseball camp, Major is back at the desk! He tackles the ongoing protests happening in Minnesota, with Matt Gutman on the scene and Councilwoman Aurin Chowdhury with her reaction to ICE presence in the state. Iranian activist and journalist Masih Alinejad discusses the latest on the protests in the country. Plus, congressional lawmakers from both sides travel to Denmark in an effort to ease tensions brought on by the Trump Administration over Greenland. Former U.S. Ambassador to Denmark Rufus Gifford provides his own analysis on the President’s claim that he needs to take control of Greenland. All that and more on The Takeout!
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| 0:33.9 | Hello, everyone. I'm Major Garrett in Washington. |
| 0:40.2 | Welcome to the takeout. |
| 0:41.3 | It is very good to be back. |
| 0:43.1 | Retro Padre Mug keeping me company. |
| 0:46.0 | We will return to that happy place known as Padre Fantasy Camp when we close out tonight's show. |
| 0:50.9 | But while I was gone, as you well know, Minneapolis became an epicenter |
| 0:55.9 | of choice for a Trump administration eager to make an example of a sanctuary city, bringing |
| 1:02.0 | ice forces in large numbers to enforce immigration laws with an intensity that has resulted in |
| 1:08.3 | many arrests, two shootings, and the killing of a U.S. citizen, Renee Good. |
| 1:13.6 | Tensions ripple through the city and reverberate across the country. |
| 1:18.1 | Mistrust and suspicion color ICE enforcement actions. |
| 1:22.3 | Federal police say they feel threatened, disrespected, and impeded. |
| 1:27.2 | State and city authorities say they do not trust ICE investigations. |
| 1:32.2 | They question the usefulness of their raids and consider their tactics overly aggressive |
| 1:36.8 | and at times escalatory. |
| 1:39.6 | Minneapolis has therefore become a prism through which the country and quite possibly |
| 1:43.5 | the world now views |
| 1:45.0 | what the Trump administration means by a zero-tolerance policy for undocumented status. |
| 1:51.2 | What enforcement looks like en masse and the boundaries, tactically and politically, the Trump |
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