The Takeout with Major Garrett, 3/02/26
The Takeout with Major Garrett
CBS News
4.6 • 586 Ratings
🗓️ 2 March 2026
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to The Takeout. The U.S. and Israel have launched air strikes against Iran and Tehran's retaliatory assaults have killed six service members. Matt Gutman has the latest from Tel Aviv. Retired Navy rear admiral Mark Montgomery analyzes U.S. strategy. Next, Elliot Ackerman and David Bellavia offer two different views on Operation Epic Fury as President Trump refuses to rule out ground troops in Iran. Dan Levinson talks about U.S. operation and how it can hold the Iranian regime accountable. Plus, Daniella Diaz and Nicholas Wu join the reporter panel to discuss the president's war powers, the contentious Texas primary, and Maine's progressive Senate hopeful Graham Platner.
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| 0:29.9 | The big wave is coming. |
| 0:31.9 | We've knocked out 10 ships. |
| 0:33.6 | Whatever it takes. |
| 0:34.8 | We're ahead of schedule. |
| 0:36.4 | Direct quotes from President Trump on war with Iran. |
| 0:39.3 | We examine all the angles. Was this the time to topple the Iranian regime? Do the opportunities |
| 0:45.3 | outweigh the risks? On those questions, we give you two distinctly different opinions. |
| 0:51.4 | The Texas primary is tomorrow. Absent war, this would be our big focus, |
| 0:55.6 | but Ed O'Keefe never loses sight of big political stories. He joins us from Austin. |
| 1:08.7 | Hello, everyone. I'm Major Garrett. Welcome to the takeout. We come to you tonight and quite |
| 1:12.8 | probably for the remainder of this week from New York. U.S. and Israeli airstrikes, which started |
| 1:18.4 | Saturday and continued apace, have done the following. Decapitated the Iranian theocratic |
| 1:23.2 | regime, unsettled global oil markets, made battlefields of several Gulf states, and, least |
| 1:29.3 | consequentially of all, altered my work assignments. So, New York it is. And quite obviously, |
| 1:36.5 | war it is. In interviews over the weekend, President Trump said regime change was part of this |
| 1:42.4 | endeavor. He even implied there was some sense |
| 1:45.2 | within the U.S. government of who might come next in Iran. Those references, interestingly, |
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