The Takeout with Major Garrett, 2/24/26
The Takeout with Major Garrett
CBS News
4.6 • 586 Ratings
🗓️ 25 February 2026
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Tonight is the State of the Union address, where President Trump will provide his remarks on topics like the economy, immigration and the Epstein investigation. Former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy will provide a preview of what to expect from the President, while Arizona Democratic Senator Ruben Gallego will state why he’s skipping the event. Plus, Epstein survivor Annie Farmer, who will join the address as a guest of California Democratic Rep. Robert Garcia. She will reiterate why it’s important to continue pushing for the files to be released. All that and more on The Takeout!
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on the takeout, have you heard, have you heard, the state of the union is tonight? |
| 0:04.1 | I know you've heard. |
| 0:05.8 | Previews from former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and Arizona Democratic Senator Ruben Gallego. |
| 0:11.2 | More legal action in the United Kingdom arising from Epstein files disclosures. |
| 0:15.9 | What about here? |
| 0:17.4 | Not one new investigation. |
| 0:19.2 | We discuss with Epstein's survivor, Annie Farmer. |
| 0:23.0 | Your elections and surveys friend, hey, he's my friend too, Anthony Salvanto, |
| 0:27.7 | a brand new CBS News poll on what voters want to hear tonight. |
| 0:31.8 | It's more on the economy and more on Iran. |
| 0:44.0 | Music And more on Iran. Hello, everyone, I'm Major Garrett in Washington. |
| 0:46.1 | Welcome to the takeout. |
| 0:47.0 | We're on the second floor of our D.C. Bureau because evening news is in town, and with our express written permission, |
| 0:53.6 | they've taken over the main studio. |
| 0:55.0 | So we're up here, hey, new signage, do you like that? I think it's pretty cool. |
| 0:58.0 | So tonight's main event. |
| 1:00.0 | It's a speech. |
| 1:02.0 | Yes, in primetime, wall-to-wall TV and internet coverage, lots of White House pre-game hype and opposition party prebuttal. |
| 1:10.0 | But it's still just a speech. And very few of these |
| 1:13.9 | speeches have stood the test of time. Here's one that did. Franklin Roosevelt's 1941 addressed |
| 1:19.3 | to Congress outlined four freedoms. He said the Western world must preserve. Importantly, |
| 1:25.1 | this speech came 11 months before Pearl Harbor and America's entry into |
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