The Takeout with Major Garrett, 12/18/25
The Takeout with Major Garrett
CBS News
4.6 • 586 Ratings
🗓️ 18 December 2025
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Officials have issued an arrest warrant for a suspect in the Brown University shooting. Katrina Kaufman begins from Providence, RI, awaiting a possible presser from law enforcement on their latest discovery. The White House announces their executive order to reclassify marijuana from a Schedule 1 to a Schedule 3 drug. Aaron Navarro is at the White House to detail what this means. Plus, Major conducts multiple interviews with lawmakers and administration officials. Pennsylvania Republican Ryan MacKenzie is one of the four GOP members who crossed party lines to extend ACA subsidies, who explains his decision. Texas Democrat Julie Johnson faces a tough primary challenge in former Rep. Colin Allred, who bowed out of the Senate race and challenged for her seat. She says what sets her apart from her latest opponent. Plus, newly minted NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman joins "The Takeout" to discuss his ambitious goal to have the US back to the moon by 2028. Listen to the full episode right here!
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| 0:00.0 | Your favorite true crime series, 48 Hours, is back for a new season, and so is the official |
| 0:05.5 | after show podcast, Postmortem. Every Monday, listen to a new episode of 48 hours, and then |
| 0:11.2 | join me, 48 Hours correspondent Anne-Marie Green on Tuesday for a new episode of Postmortem, |
| 0:17.2 | where we bring you a closer look at each case. This case was eye-opening on so many different levels. |
| 0:24.1 | Follow and listen to 48 hours on the free Odyssey app or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:30.3 | New leads in the Brown University mass shooting, person of interest identified. |
| 0:34.8 | Authorities now revisiting a possible connection with the killing days |
| 0:39.0 | later of an MIT professor. |
| 0:42.4 | Marijuana reclassified no longer in the same league as heroin or LSD, now with ketamine |
| 0:48.5 | and testosterone, what research avenues on medical use could now be open. |
| 0:54.2 | The White House pledges American astronauts back on the moon by 2028. |
| 0:59.1 | The brand new NASA administrator joins us to outline the space race with China. |
| 1:15.2 | Hello, everyone, I'm Major Garrett in Washington. |
| 1:16.7 | Let me welcome you to the takeout. |
| 1:21.0 | We start this evening with a significant development in the mass shooting at Brown University. |
| 1:25.2 | Authorities tell CBS News they have identified the person of interest. An arrest warrant has been issued and a search for that individual, |
| 1:29.6 | quite obviously, has intensified. Sources also tell CBS News that law enforcement is revisiting |
| 1:36.1 | a possible connection between Saturday's mass shooting at the Brown University campus |
| 1:41.0 | and the targeted killing of an MIT professor two days later. The victim in |
| 1:46.3 | that shooting, a 47-year-old physicist and fusion scientist died on Tuesday. Earlier this week, |
| 1:53.9 | and this is important, local and federal authorities said they saw no link between those |
| 1:58.0 | shootings. Now, apparently they do. Officials have been frustrated in their |
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