The Takeout with Major Garrett, 4/02/26
The Takeout with Major Garrett
CBS News
4.6 • 586 Ratings
🗓️ 2 April 2026
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
President Trump announces that Attorney General Pam Bondi will no longer serve in her role, and that Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche would take over in the interim. Nancy Cordes joins from the White House to report on what led to the President’s decision, while Jake Rosen gives a clearer picture inside the Department of Justice. NASA receives the “go” they need for the four astronauts to continue their Artemis II mission to sling shot around the moon. Kris Van Cleave is at the Johnson Space Center in Houston to break the news with Major. Plus, after Trump attends Wednesday’s open arguments at the Supreme Court whether justices will determine whether to uphold his executive order on birthright citizenship, it seems that the judges are skeptical to do so. Jessica Levinson will break it down. 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. |
| 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. |
| 0:30.0 | Pam Bondi, loyal, loyal, loyal, and yet fired. |
| 0:35.7 | President Trump's personal attorney Todd Blanche named acting Attorney General, and yes, |
| 0:40.6 | this is part of the Epstein fallout. |
| 0:43.9 | Day two in space for Artemis II, high earth orbit and moments ago, and all systems go for |
| 0:50.0 | its flight to and around the moon. |
| 0:53.4 | President Trump's prime time address did not, as some expected, say anything about leaving NATO. |
| 0:59.0 | So what's the future of the alliance? |
| 1:01.7 | We asked Trump's first NATO ambassador, Kay Bailey Hutchison. |
| 1:16.0 | Hello, everyone. I'm Major Garrett in Washington. |
| 1:17.4 | Welcome to The Takeout. |
| 1:20.5 | You are expecting me to talk about Pam Bondi. |
| 1:21.3 | I will. |
| 1:23.2 | But first, you know, I can't help myself. |
| 1:30.3 | Let me mention Edmund Randolph, our nation's first Attorney General. Randolph represents two enduring standards for the Attorney General of the first, a close relationship with the president. |
| 1:36.6 | Randolph, a Virginian like George Washington, was also vital to federalist priorities that |
| 1:41.8 | prevailed at the Constitutional Convention. |
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