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The Takeout with Major Garrett

The Takeout with Major Garrett, 3/09/26

The Takeout with Major Garrett

CBS News

News, Politics

4.6586 Ratings

🗓️ 9 March 2026

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

A new Supreme Leader is chosen in Iran, while President Trump tells CBS the war is “very complete". Major dissects those two themes with Matt Gutman in Tel Aviv, and Weijia Jiang, who scored the phone interview with the President Gas prices for Americans are rising, as the war in Iran continues. Economist Justin Wolfers joins to discuss how the operation affects your pocketbook, right here on The Takeout. Listen here.

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0:00.0

President Trump tells Rwija Jang the war with Iran is, quote, very complete, pretty much.

0:07.0

And the decision when to wrap it up is, quote, all in my mind, nobody else is.

0:12.9

The president has a press conference scheduled this hour, and when it begins, we will take you to it live.

0:19.5

My interview for 60 minutes with Defense Secretary Pete Hegeseth, war objectives,

0:24.6

finding nuclear material inside Iran, what surrender might look like, and regime change.

0:30.4

A federal criminal complaint accuses two suspects of trying to detonate two homemade bombs

0:35.4

near New York mayor Zoran Bombedani's residence Saturday.

0:39.5

Prosecutors allege the suspects acted in the name of ISIS.

0:52.7

Hello, everyone, I'm Major Garrett in Washington. Welcome to The Takeout. We've got some variables in tonight's show, so I just want to give you our rough run of show.

1:01.8

When we opened, I just said the president has a press conference. It's scheduled for 5.30 p.m. What you're seeing right there, that's not it. He is giving prepared remarks to House

1:11.9

Republicans. We are told from that podium he will leave after those remarks and then come back

1:17.5

to make some statements about the war with Iran and take questions. And when that happens,

1:23.1

whenever that happens, my colleague and the anchor of the CBS evening news, Tony DeCopal, will take over

1:28.4

via a CBS News special report. As I just mentioned, in the interim, the president is meeting

1:34.0

with House Republicans to go over strategies for the midterm elections because they're coming.

1:39.2

There's a couple of things on House Republicans' minds. Among them, the average price of a gallon

1:43.7

of gas has risen 50

1:45.7

cents in eight days. Also, airport security lines are growing noticeably longer as staff

1:52.3

shortages mount because TSA employees continue to work without pay. And that is a consequence

1:58.1

of a standoff here in Washington over funding for the Department

2:01.7

of Homeland Security.

2:03.7

Iran has selected a new Supreme Leader, with the Israeli and U.S. governments expressing

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