The Takeout with Major Garrett, 2/18/26
The Takeout with Major Garrett
CBS News
4.6 • 586 Ratings
🗓️ 18 February 2026
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Mark Zuckerberg takes the stand in California, where the prosecution alleges Meta was aware that kids under 13 used their platforms, and created mechanisms that made them addicted. Carter Evans is in Los Angeles with more. White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt mentioned in today's briefing that the U.S. has many reasons to conduct strikes against Iran. Charlie D'Agata joins Major at the desk to discuss CBS' latest reporting where national security sources indicate that President Trump has discussed a possible timeline as soon as this weekend. Maryland Congressman Johnny Olszewski comes on "The Takeout" on his effort to give Congress power to review and potentially reject presidential pardons. Plus, Kelly O'Grady continues her coverage of the Olympics from Milan. Listen to the full episode here!
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| 0:29.0 | The White House looks to flex its midterm messaging muscles, but first it has to work out what the polls say and sweat the talking points. |
| 0:38.5 | Meta's future will sue me in the hands of a Los Angeles jury. |
| 0:41.7 | Mark Zuckerberg testifies today the question, are Meta's apps by design addictive and harmful to children? |
| 0:49.4 | You know we love history here. |
| 0:51.7 | Colleen Shogun, the U.S. archivist, fired by President Trump, |
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| 1:09.7 | Hello, everyone. Let me try that again. Hello, everyone. I'm Major Garrett in Washington. Let me welcome you to the takeout. Wow, I'm really off to a bad start today. I hope I get to get it together here. Here we go. We're going to start. The White House knows it's in political hot water. The president's average approval rating is in the very low 40s. By some measurements, |
| 1:28.7 | he is less popular than Joe Biden was at this stage of his presidency. Trump is also less |
| 1:34.1 | popular than he was, that is to say Trump at this stage of his first term. To extend the metaphor |
| 1:39.6 | a bit, possibly ridiculously, that means the president is underwater and in hot water. Even so, |
| 1:45.6 | the White House believes economic indicators are trending in positive directions. Inflation down, |
| 1:51.3 | wages up, gross domestic product and stock valuations also up, billions in new domestic and |
| 1:57.5 | foreign investment. The only nagging and lagging statistic jobs. |
| 2:01.8 | Last year, the economy added, on average, 15,000 jobs per month, something approximating |
| 2:08.1 | what Goldman Sachs warned about it, a much-discussed analysis released last fall, |
| 2:12.6 | a coming era of jobless economic growth. |
| 2:16.3 | Last night, the president's top pollster and chief of staff convened a cram session |
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