The Takeout with Major Garrett, 5/15/26
The Takeout with Major Garrett
CBS News
4.6 • 586 Ratings
🗓️ 15 May 2026
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
An Iraqi national has been charged with planning terror attacks. Anna Schecter details what we know so far. President Trump ends his summit in Beijing with Chinese President Xi and plans to head back to the U.S. Ed O’Keefe is at the White House North Lawn, recapping the important topics of the trip. California Democratic Representative Ro Khanna provides his perspective on the summit and explains his endorsement of CA Gubernatorial Candidate Tom Steyer. Plus, Michigan State Sen. Mallory McMorrow is one of three Democratic candidates for Senate. She joins "The Takeout" to discuss why she's the best candidate to beat Mike Rogers in the general election. Listen to the full episode here!
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| 0:00.0 | An Iraqi nationalist charged with planning several terrorist attacks here in the U.S. |
| 0:05.0 | as retribution, according to the criminal complaint for the U.S. war in Iran. |
| 0:10.4 | President Trump wraps up a two-day summit in China with a future of armed sales to Taiwan in some measure of doubt and scant details available at least currently on future Chinese purchases of American jets and soy beans. Plus, the Trump administration weighs an indictment against former Cuban dictator Raul Castro over the downing of civilian aircraft off the Cuban coast in the mid-1990s. |
| 0:46.9 | Hello, everyone, I'm Major Garrett in Washington. |
| 0:48.2 | Welcome to the takeout. |
| 0:50.6 | We've got a lot to get to you in this program, |
| 0:52.6 | and we're going to start with a significant arrest of the man pictured on the right |
| 0:54.8 | in what you see. His arm draped around notorious terrorist Qasam Soleimani. |
| 1:00.2 | Soleimani very briefly was commander of the Quds force in Iran. He was killed in 2020 in a targeted |
| 1:06.1 | effort by the Trump administration to take him out of the battlefield. The man not named Qasam Soleimani is accused and was today of planning terrorist attacks |
| 1:15.6 | here in America. |
| 1:17.6 | Also, President Trump, now heading back from China following a two-day summit, the economic |
| 1:22.6 | and geopolitical fruits of which are, to put it mildly, opaque. |
| 1:28.7 | Additionally, the Trump administration appears to be mulling an indictment of Fidel Castro's |
| 1:33.2 | brother over something that happened 30 years ago. And if you're wondering, the answer is yes. |
| 1:37.5 | It is part of an ongoing campaign, economic, judicial, and diplomatic to pressurize |
| 1:44.0 | the existing Cuban regime. |
| 1:47.0 | Plus on the program, California Democratic Congressman Rokana and Michigan Democratic |
| 1:51.2 | Senate candidate Mallory McMorro. We start with the arrest of an Iraqi national with a track |
| 1:57.3 | record of terrorist attacks in Europe. This story is developing. |
| 2:03.3 | We're getting new details literally by the moment. |
| 2:06.5 | And for that, we turn to Anna Schechter for what we know right now. |
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