The Takeout with Major Garrett, 12/19/25
The Takeout with Major Garrett
CBS News
4.6 • 586 Ratings
🗓️ 19 December 2025
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Trump’s Justice Department releases a portion of the Jeffrey Epstein files to a mixed reaction. Scott MacFarlane sets the scene for the files that the public has access to. Longtime Epstein Investigative Journalist Barry Levine & Yasmine Meyer, a lawyer for Epstein Survivors, provide analysis and reaction to the release. Major covers some breaking news about U.S. strikes in Syria with Ellee Watson, and ends the show with a goodbye to wrap the year.
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| 0:57.8 | The Epstein Files Law says all. |
| 1:03.4 | The Trump Justice Department says not all. |
| 1:06.5 | The deadline, what's been released, what we have learned, and the fallout. |
| 1:12.0 | President Trump's big deal with drug companies lower prices in some key health care sectors |
| 1:16.8 | in exchange, protection from tariffs, and rapid reviews for emerging drugs. |
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| 1:40.4 | Hello, everyone, I'm Major Garrett in Washington. |
| 1:43.1 | Welcome to the takeout. Some Epstein files were released an hour ago. We are reading them now. We will have reporting from Scott McFarlane at the top of the show, as well as perspective from an expert on Epstein's crimes and a survivor's attorney. Also today, President Trump and nine pharmaceutical companies announced a deal to slash the prices of popular drugs sold to Medicaid and through direct-to-consumer cash transactions on the newly created Trump Rx website. |
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