The Takeout with Major Garrett, 4/15/26
The Takeout with Major Garrett
CBS News
4.6 • 586 Ratings
🗓️ 15 April 2026
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Today marks four years since the Sudanese civil war started. Major speaks with Mercy Corps CEO Tjada D'Oyen McKenna, whose organization is helping provide aid to the people in the region. As President Trump continues to threaten taking the U.S. out of NATO, the Wall Street Journal reports that European nations are expediting a back-up plan if that comes to fruition. Former NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg joins to discuss. Plus, former InfoWars Video Editor Josh Owens has a new memoir: "The Madness of Believing," describing his time working for Alex Jones. He tells all about his experience on "The Takeout." 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. |
| 0:30.6 | Quoting President Trump, I think it's close to over. He meant the war with Iran, of course. |
| 0:36.9 | But Trump said this on March 24th, quote, |
| 0:39.4 | I think we're going to end it. This war has been won. So, you know, we wait. No one likes it when a food |
| 0:47.6 | delivery is late or even paying all those fees. Well, how about this? How about dodging gunfire |
| 0:53.6 | to get to a makeshift market |
| 0:55.6 | so your children can eat one meal a day? That's life in Sudan for millions as the war there |
| 1:02.3 | enters its fourth year. Trump keeps threatening to leave NATO or dramatically reduce |
| 1:08.5 | America's commitment to it. How serious is he? Well, we ask former |
| 1:12.6 | NATO General Secretary, Jan Stoltenberg. |
| 1:24.6 | Hello, everyone. I'm Major Garrett in Washington, coming to you from the second floor of our DC Bureau because the big show, the CBS evening news with Tony DeCopal, is in town, meaning they've got the big studio downstairs. |
| 1:35.7 | So let me welcome you to a relocated episode of The Takeout. And let me welcome you to something I think we should think about this way. |
| 1:43.5 | It's not the only way to think |
| 1:44.4 | about it, but this time today is one of hovering anxiety and emerging optimism, because no one |
| 1:51.5 | seems to know exactly how to read the next stage of the war with Iran. Oil markets today traded |
| 1:58.2 | in a narrow band around the mid to low 90s, not nearly as high as they had been, but not as low as they could be, which is melding that anxiety and optimism. |
| 2:07.9 | Global stock markets, meaning those in the United States, Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong, and Germany, all traded up today. |
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