The Takeout with Major Garrett, 4/06/26
The Takeout with Major Garrett
CBS News
4.6 • 586 Ratings
🗓️ 6 April 2026
⏱️ 46 minutes
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President Trump delivers remarks in an afternoon press conference to summarize the U.S. rescue mission in Iran. Weijia Jiang joins from the White House North Lawn to report on the administration’s comments, while Aaron MacLean provides the tactical perspective on how it was carried out from the touchscreen. The Artemis II crew officially broke the record for the furthest distance from the Earth. Mark Strassmann is at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, and former Astronaut Cady Coleman reacts. Plus, President Trump endorses Steve Hilton, one of the two Republican candidates for California Governor. Fresh off of his endorsement, Major interviews Hilton about his candidacy. Listen to the full episode here!Â
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| 0:00.0 | When beloved family patriarch, Gary Ferris went missing, his family looked everywhere on their |
| 0:05.9 | property until they came across something horrifying. It's a homicide. |
| 0:10.3 | Absolutely. The blame game in this family went round and round. This is Blood is Thicker, |
| 0:16.5 | the Ferris Wheel. I don't see how 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 you |
| 0:26.9 | get your podcast. Crazy bastards or smarter and far less radical. When it comes to President |
| 0:36.4 | Trump's take on Iran's leaders, who the F knows? |
| 0:40.5 | Hey, hey, he started it. |
| 0:42.8 | What is known? |
| 0:44.3 | Tomorrow's deadline holds, apparently. |
| 0:47.3 | Strike a deal or be bombed back to the Stone Ages. |
| 0:51.9 | Artemis II sets a new record for human spaceflight flying farther than any crude vessel |
| 0:57.3 | away from Earth. |
| 0:58.5 | Next, new pictures and perspectives on the far side of the moon. |
| 1:04.0 | We weigh deeper into the California governor's race, Republican Steve Hilton at the top of |
| 1:08.5 | the polls and just endorsed by Trump joins us. |
| 1:17.6 | Hello, everyone. I'm Major Garrett in Washington. Welcome to the takeout. Welcome to the |
| 1:25.3 | conversation corner. Look, I am not going to wade into the entire F-bomb thing that played out over the weekend. We have long grown accustomed to, and some of us, not my, not me, but some of us have grown wary of President Trump's caustic relationship to the English language. That caustic relationship to the English language is by |
| 1:45.9 | several orders of magnitude, more profane this second term than it was President Trump's first term. |
| 1:52.9 | So it matters. What matters is the president attached to this language leads the world's most |
| 1:59.4 | powerful military and has at his disposal the largest |
| 2:03.2 | arsenal of the most lethal weapons, conventional and nuclear on earth. And though the president |
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