The Takeout with Major Garrett, 3/18/26
The Takeout with Major Garrett
CBS News
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🗓️ 18 March 2026
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
After her deputy Joe Kent resigns due to the administration’s actions in Iran, ODNI Director Tulsi Gabbard faces questions from members of Congress about whether Iran posed an imminent nuclear threat. Fresh off of her Democratic primary win in the Illinois Senate race, Lieutenant Governor Juliana Stratton discusses her policy priorities as she heads to the general election. Major interviews Massachusetts Democratic Representative Jim McGovern about his response to the ongoing partial shutdown affecting the Department of Homeland Security and the President’s comments on Cuba. On the other side of the aisle, Indiana Republican Congressman Marlin Stutzman joins to defend the President’s operation in Iran. All that and more on The Takeout!
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| 0:00.0 | When beloved family patriarch, Gary Ferris went missing, his family looked everywhere on their |
| 0:05.8 | property until they came across something horrifying. It's a homicide. Absolutely. The blame game in |
| 0:11.8 | this family went round and round. This is Blood is Thicker, the Ferris Wheel. I don't see how |
| 0:18.9 | anyone can look at this story and think they were happy. |
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| 0:26.6 | you get your podcast. Stay with me on this. You have to enrich uranium to build a nuclear bomb. |
| 0:34.3 | The Director of National Intelligence reported to Congress that in Iran there |
| 0:38.2 | have been no efforts since last year to rebuild their enrichment capability. And yet, |
| 0:43.8 | that's the part Tulsi Gabbard omitted from her Senate testimony today. She just won the |
| 0:51.1 | Illinois Democratic Senate primary. Lieutenant Governor Giuliana Stratton joins us on her agenda, abolishing ICE and opposing Chuck Schumer as Democratic leader. |
| 1:02.4 | TSA agents caught in the partisan scrum over DHS funding. Two congressmen, Democrat Jim McGovern of Massachusetts and Republican Marlin Stutzman of Indiana, |
| 1:13.2 | give us the state of play. |
| 1:23.3 | Hello, and I'm Major Garrett and Washington. |
| 1:26.1 | Welcome to the takeout. |
| 1:27.3 | In this, the third week of the war with Iran, President Trump has hammered away at one overarching justification, the imperative to deny Iran a nuclear weapon. |
| 1:38.0 | Polls show the country generally supports this particular objective, much more than it supports regime change, destroying ballistic |
| 1:45.6 | missiles capable of hitting southern Europe, or dismantling Iranian proxy armies in the Middle East. |
| 1:51.3 | Those are other objectives the president has cycled through since this war began. |
| 1:56.1 | We note here that Operation Midnight Hammer carried out last June obliterated, Trump's favorite word, |
| 2:02.5 | Iran's nuclear infrastructure. But it left behind an estimated 970 pounds of uranium enriched |
| 2:09.8 | close to weapons grade levels. So what's happened to that uranium since? Was Iran trying to enrich |
| 2:17.3 | it to levels necessary to produce one or more |
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