The Takeout with Major Garrett, 1/6/26
The Takeout with Major Garrett
CBS News
4.6 • 586 Ratings
🗓️ 6 January 2026
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Major begins the show with Scott MacFarlane on five years since the January 6th insurrection, highlighting Scott's reporting about Thom Tillis is the first Republican pushing to get the honorary plaque erected on the halls of the Capitol. He interviews Former Georgia Lieutenant Governor Geoff Duncan on his testimony on the Hill today, as well as his change to run as a Democrat in the race for Georgia's governor. Lilia Luciano and Ed O'Keefe tackle the latest on Venezuela, with Lilia on the Colombian border and Ed from the White House about the administration's new plan to take over Greenland. Miami Mayor Eileen Higgins joins to discuss how Venezuelans in her city are reacting to Maduro's capture and pushing the administration to bring back temporary protected status for her constituents. Lastly, Matthew Heath, who was formerly detained in Venezuela, discusses his experience. All that and more on The Takeout!
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| 0:00.0 | There once was a woman who lived in a shoe. |
| 0:03.0 | A size too snug, but what could she do? |
| 0:06.0 | But that's not where her story ends. |
| 0:08.0 | Thanks to a little help from her Experian friends, |
| 0:11.0 | she got her score into much better shape |
| 0:13.0 | and relocated to a box fresh new place, |
| 0:16.0 | with room to grow and a mortgage to suit. |
| 0:19.0 | Now, she lives in a spacious four-bedroom cowboy boots. Better your |
| 0:23.7 | Experian credit score to help get mortgage ready. Experian. Better your score. Better your story. |
| 0:30.7 | Five years ago, rioters stormed the U.S. Capitol, be police officers, and attempted to occupy |
| 0:36.5 | the building, all over pure political fiction. |
| 0:41.2 | We remember. |
| 0:42.8 | New development in Venezuela, Greenland, and Ukraine, as the White House foreign policy portfolio |
| 0:48.0 | expands in dramatic and to some dizzying ways. |
| 0:53.3 | Venezuelans and Cubans have deep roots in Miami. |
| 0:56.0 | What do they make of this moment and its possibilities? |
| 0:59.7 | We will ask Miami's brand new mayor, Eileen Higgins. |
| 1:14.0 | Hello, everyone, I'm Major Garrett in Washington. |
| 1:15.8 | Let me welcome you to the takeout. |
| 1:25.6 | Facts are stubborn things, and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence. |
| 1:30.9 | Future founding father and the second president of the United States, John Adams, said that in 1770, |
| 1:37.7 | as defense counsel to British soldiers accused of murder in what has come to be known as the Boston Massacre. |
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