The Takeout with Major Garrett, 3/31/26
The Takeout with Major Garrett
CBS News
4.6 • 586 Ratings
🗓️ 31 March 2026
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Gas prices have hit around $4 for the first time since 2022. Lana Zak joins from Iowa to discuss how the rise is affecting farmers in the state. CBS' Weijia Jiang interviews President Trump about his reaction and whether he's sticking to his four-to-six-week timetable on the Iran war. Ambassador John Bolton, former National Security Advisor during the first Trump administration, also weighs in on the administration's involvement in Iran. Plus, we're a day away from the Artemis II launch, where four astronauts are set to go around the moon. Former NASA Astronaut Chris Cassidy explains. Listen to the full episode here!
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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. |
| 0:21.7 | Follow and listen to Blood is Thicker, The Ferris Wheel on the free Odyssey app or wherever |
| 0:26.6 | you get your podcast. $4 a gallon. That is the new average price for gas. President Trump tells |
| 0:35.9 | Rauija Jang, not much more needs be done before he |
| 0:39.7 | declares victory over Iran. The markets sense a turn. Oil trades lower. The Dow closes up |
| 0:46.4 | more than 1,100 points. But is this all an illusion? Has Iran's regime actually changed? |
| 0:54.6 | Former Trump National Security Advisor John Bolton, |
| 0:57.6 | an Iranian hardliner, has thoughts and warnings. |
| 1:02.0 | One day from the scheduled liftoff of Artemis II, |
| 1:05.3 | climbing the celestial ladder back to the moon, |
| 1:08.9 | Navy SEAL and NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy joins us. |
| 1:21.6 | Hello, everyone. I'm Major Garrett in Washington. Let me welcome you to the takeout. |
| 1:26.4 | President Trump told Rweja |
| 1:27.8 | Jang in a phone interview this morning that gas prices now above $4 a gallon on average |
| 1:33.3 | will drop, quote, when we leave, meaning when we leave Iran. When will that be? The president |
| 1:41.2 | wouldn't tell Ouija's so. She quite naturally asked the super smart |
| 1:45.5 | follow-up question. What has to happen between now and then for you to declare victory? |
| 1:50.6 | Trump's answer, and I quote, not much. Not much. I don't want to use an exact day, but we've done |
| 1:56.8 | our job. Add to this statement, Evanescent reports that senior Iranian leaders might, emphasis on the word, might be willing to end the war and well, the market shook off their volatility and moodiness and began to edge toward giddiness. The Dow closed up 2.5%. The tech-heavy NASDAQ closed up nearly 4%. And the S&P closed up almost 3%. Oil traded lower, but it's worth pointing out that Brent Crude and West Texas Intermediate still traded above $100 per barrel. That matters because at that price, gas prices will remain high, at least for the foreseeable |
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