The Takeout with Major Garrett, 5/21/26
The Takeout with Major Garrett
CBS News
4.6 • 586 Ratings
🗓️ 21 May 2026
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Major begins the show with Ebola, discussing with Dr. Celine Gounder how the virus has spread within the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the travel restrictions to neighboring African countries. Nikole Killion explains her latest reporting, where some Republicans, staunch allies of the President, are not sold on the Department of Justice's Anti-Weaponization Fund. Georgetown Law's Rupa Bhattacharya provides legal analysis on this fund and whether there is precedent for it. Major has a wide-ranging interview with Former Georgia Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene about her reaction to Rep. Thomas Massie losing his primary, the role foreign funding played in that race, and her takeaways on this year's Georgia elections. Plus, former Sen. Lamar Alexander discusses his new memoir, "The Education of a Senator: From JFK to Trump," and his worries about the Republican Party not holding President Trump accountable. All that and more, right here on "The Takeout".
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| 0:00.0 | Attention all passengers. |
| 0:04.2 | The Uber ride for Mark and Jamal's romantic weekend |
| 0:07.3 | will depart in four minutes from Platform 6. |
| 0:10.5 | Your ride comes with a rolling countryside sunset view |
| 0:13.7 | and a table seat ideal for playing footsie beneath. |
| 0:17.9 | Thank you for booking your tickets on Uber. |
| 0:21.6 | Trains on Uber. |
| 0:23.6 | The Ebola outbreak shakes health officials worldwide. |
| 0:27.1 | New travel restrictions to the U.S., more cases, more deaths. |
| 0:30.8 | And today, a fearful and angry mob torched a treatment center in the eastern Congo. |
| 0:41.1 | Payout pot for punks. That is what North Carolina Republican Senator Tom Tillis calls President Trump's proposed weaponization compensation |
| 0:46.7 | fund. Other skeptical Republicans appear on the verge of killing it or scaling it way back. |
| 0:54.2 | And Marjorie Taylor Greed, she's no longer in Congress, but she has thoughts on Thomas |
| 0:58.6 | Massey's defeat in Kentucky Tuesday and the so-called Epstein class of rulers who she said |
| 1:05.0 | punished Massey and her for trying to expose Epstein's crimes and relationships. |
| 1:11.6 | I love what I'm Major Garrett in New York. Welcome to the takeout. |
| 1:24.6 | We are going to start tonight with Ebola, not because I want to scare you or sensationalize a scary sounding virus, quite the opposite. I want to help you understand what feels like a rising tide of headlines about Ebola and the Democratic Republic of Congo, a country more than 900,000 square miles, which makes it the second largest on the African |
| 1:46.2 | continent. The size of that land mass matters when assessing Ebola risks. We'll have more on that |
| 1:51.8 | in a moment. Here is where things stand. 139 suspected deaths, 600 suspected cases. Suspected is the operative word here because surveillance is behind the curve |
| 2:04.8 | and containment possibly has been broken with travel outside of the hot zones in the eastern Congo. |
| 2:12.2 | The Congo, we should remind ourselves, is a poor country, 80% of its population categorized as impoverished. There are armed |
| 2:20.1 | conflicts in the same part of the country where Ebola is now spreading. This makes |
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