The Takeout with Major Garrett, 4/24/26
The Takeout with Major Garrett
CBS News
4.6 • 586 Ratings
🗓️ 24 April 2026
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner are set to travel to Islamabad to continue peace negotiations with Iran. These conversations follow President Trump's announcement of a three-week extension between Israel and Lebanon. Ed O'Keefe is at the White House with more. Major speaks with former Trump National Security Advisor Robert O'Brien to parse through all the details. A soldier involved in the capture of Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro allegedly placed bets on the prediction market platform Polymarket before the raid went public, gaining over $400,000. Nicole Sganga joins Major at the desk to explain the latest. Plus, Sami Sage, founder of BETCHES, discusses how influencers and mainstream media outlets collaborated to reveal and vet the reporting that led to former Congressman Eric Swalwell's resignation. Join us for the full episode here!
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| 0:30.0 | On the road to Islamabad, presidential negotiator Steve Whitkoff and Jared Kushner |
| 0:34.6 | due to meet Iran's foreign minister for round two of war talks. |
| 0:39.0 | Expectation meter set to low. |
| 0:42.4 | An American soldier with inside information about the raid that captured Nicholas Maduro |
| 0:46.5 | made more than $400,000 on polymarket. |
| 0:49.9 | Now that soldier faces an array of federal felony charges. |
| 0:54.3 | Prediction markets run amok or properly self-regulating. |
| 0:59.0 | We explore. |
| 1:00.6 | Influencers and journalists, do they compete? |
| 1:03.6 | Do they exist in silos? |
| 1:05.0 | Can collaboration lead to breaking big stories? |
| 1:08.3 | The fall of Eric Swalwell might be a case study and all of that. We take a look. |
| 1:21.9 | Hello, everyone I'm Major Garrett in Washington. Welcome to The Takeout and let me welcome you to our |
| 1:26.4 | newsroom studio on the second floor here at the DC Bureau of the big show. Welcome to the takeout and let me welcome you to our newsroom studio on the second |
| 1:28.2 | floor here at the DC Bureau of the big show. That's the CBS evening news with my colleague |
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