The Takeout with Major Garrett, 4/16/26
The Takeout with Major Garrett
CBS News
4.6 • 586 Ratings
🗓️ 17 April 2026
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Charlie D’Agata joins from Israel to break down the latest going on with the war in Iran. CBS News National Security Contributor Joe Zacks provides additional analysis. With two members of Congress resigning to avoid expulsion resolutions from their peers, Major speaks with Florida Republican Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, who has been behind the recent efforts. Rep. Luna claims that there’s a Senator who may have committed sexual misconduct and breaks the news on our air. Plus, former Virginia Lieutenant Governor Justin Fairfax kills his wife before ending his life in their home. Nicole Sganga joins Major at the desk with more. Listen to the full episode here.
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| 0:00.0 | President Trump forges a 10-day ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon. |
| 0:05.1 | That's the second front in the Iran War. |
| 0:07.7 | And it's a possible linchpin to ending all hostilities and reopening the Strait of Hormuz. |
| 0:14.8 | Anna Paulina Luna said yesterday, the Senate has, quote, some trash to take out in the wake of the Swalwell scandal. |
| 0:23.2 | Who is she talking about? Well, the Florida GOP Congresswoman joins us. Maybe she'll tell us. |
| 0:30.1 | The Supreme Court's shorthand is, you know, it's a 6-3 conservative majority. Is it? A new book argues |
| 0:36.9 | no. The court is actually three, three, and three. |
| 0:40.2 | The author, Scotis blog editor Sarah Isgher, joins us. |
| 0:53.6 | Hello, everyone. I'm Major Garrett in Washington. |
| 0:55.9 | Welcome to the takeout. |
| 0:57.2 | This is the week of ceasefires, fragile ones, with human and economic stakes that extend |
| 1:02.6 | far beyond the long-running territorial disputes and religious animosities that have defined |
| 1:08.0 | the Middle East since the creation of the state of Israel. |
| 1:10.9 | President Trump today announced a 10-day ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon. |
| 1:15.3 | It began a moment ago at 5 p.m. Eastern. |
| 1:19.0 | Israel is not at war with Lebanon. |
| 1:21.5 | It wars with Hezbollah, an Iranian military proxy that has, for decades, menaced Israel from southern Lebanon. |
| 1:29.4 | That conflict intensified dramatically after the October 7, 2023 Hamas attacks in Israel, |
| 1:36.5 | when Hezbollah joined in that, and Israel then attacked Hezbollah. |
| 1:41.3 | A ceasefire was agreed to in late 2024, and it teetered uneasily until the U.S. |
| 1:46.6 | and Israel launched the war against Iran. Hezbollah, sympathetic to Iran, fired upon Israel, |
| 1:51.8 | provoking a massive Israeli ground and aerial assault. I am, of course, compressing a lot of |
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