The Takeout with Major Garrett, 12/15/25
The Takeout with Major Garrett
CBS News
4.6 • 586 Ratings
🗓️ 16 December 2025
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
The show’s coverage begins with Tom Hanson in Providence, Rhode Island where the shooting at Brown University killed two students. Officials update the public with a new development that there’s a new person of interest in the investigation, even showing footage of them near the campus. Major speaks with Brown University senior Talia Levine about where she was and her reaction to the shooting, before pivoting to our second big story of the day. Hollywood director Rob Reiner and his wife, Michelle, were found dead in their Brentwood home. Jonathan Vigliotti provides the latest, while Chief Film Critic at Variety, Peter Debruge sets the scene for Reiner’s impact in the industry.
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| 0:15.3 | New video released as authorities are now questioning a new person of interest in the mass shooting that killed two |
| 0:21.8 | Brown University students. An update coming this hour. Rob Reiner, the creative force behind so many |
| 0:29.1 | classic movies and his wife murdered in their LA home, the couple's son arrested, charged |
| 0:36.1 | with the crime. The FBI foils a New Year's bomb plot in the making, |
| 0:41.5 | infiltrating a left-wing domestic terror group and arresting suspects in the California desert. |
| 0:58.6 | Hello, everyone. I'm Major Garrett in Washington. |
| 0:59.8 | Welcome to the takeout. |
| 1:01.8 | We're in the middle of a breaking news situation. |
| 1:07.0 | I want to show you pictures from Providence, Rhode Island, where authorities at any moment say they're going to come out and brief those who are interested about, and there are many |
| 1:12.3 | in the Providence, Rhode Island area, about the murder of two Brown University students over the |
| 1:17.8 | weekend, as well as the shooting of many others on that campus. Now, those authorities are, as we |
| 1:26.2 | just indicated in the cold open to this show, interviewing |
| 1:30.0 | a new person of interest. |
| 1:31.7 | You might recall there was a person of interest taken into custody Sunday. |
| 1:35.2 | That person was later released. |
| 1:37.3 | There is now a new person, a person of interest, not technically a suspect, but they're |
| 1:43.0 | talking to them. |
| 1:49.9 | There have been renewed searches on campus and in the area where the shooting occurred as both local authorities and federal and state authorities comb for new pieces of evidence. |
| 1:56.6 | The slain students, Ella Cook, you see her there, a sophomore and vice president of Brown's |
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