The Takeout with Major Garrett, 2/16/26
The Takeout with Major Garrett
CBS News
4.6 • 586 Ratings
🗓️ 16 February 2026
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Secretary of State Marco Rubio provides reassuring remarks at the Munich Security Conference declaring the U.S. as "a child of Europe" over the weekend. European officials conclude that Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny's cause of death was due to a frog dart poison. Elliott Abrams, Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies at the Council of Foreign Relations and Fmr. Deputy National Security Advisor to George HW Bush, provides analysis for both events. A shooting at a Rhode Island hockey rink results in the suspect killed, two people dead, and three others are hospitalized. Anna Schecter, Senior Coordinating Producer for CBS' Crime & Safety Unit, reports on the breaking news. Plus, Major conducts a wide-ranging interview with CBS Political Analyst Terry Sullivan about his recent trip to Antarctica, and the differences he finds between managing political campaigns and his mountaineering journey. Listen to the full episode 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 | What does the death of acting legend Robert Duval have to do with a Munich security conference? |
| 0:36.5 | We, and we are probably alone in this, |
| 0:39.9 | found the connection. The search for Nancy Guthrie, mother of TV, Savannah Guthrie continues, |
| 0:45.6 | as authorities declare, for the first time, not one member of the Guthrie family is under |
| 0:51.9 | suspicion. Another Winter Olympics update from our intrepid Kelly O'Grady, big news for Team |
| 0:58.5 | USA, from the sledding venue known as the House of Speed. |
| 1:13.6 | Hello, everyone, I'm Major Garrett in Washington. |
| 1:15.0 | Welcome to The Takeout. |
| 1:22.6 | The Munich Security Conference is not the type of event that would typically hold this show or this audience in thrall. |
| 1:28.7 | But as with all things Europe in this second term of President Trump, the Munich plot twists are many. |
| 1:35.7 | Bonds of friendship have been tested and questions about betrayal are no longer fringy or fantastical. |
| 1:45.6 | The transatlantic relationship you see stands bruised and battered amid clashes over trade, support for Ukraine, tech regulation, and the future of Greenland. |
| 1:51.5 | Put in cinematic terms, that will become clearer as metaphor in just a moment, this question looms. Is the alliance still a family? Secretary of State Marco Rubio told assembled European |
| 1:58.0 | leaders, yes, it was. But the family, he said, had to come to terms with what he called the delusions of globalization |
| 2:05.3 | and large-scale migration. |
| 2:09.4 | Under President Trump, the United States of America will once again take on the task of renewal |
| 2:15.3 | and restoration, driven by a vision of a future as proud, as sovereign, |
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