The Takeout with Major Garrett, 5/26/26
The Takeout with Major Garrett
CBS News
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🗓️ 26 May 2026
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to The Takeout. President Trump asserts his third medical exam "checked out perfectly” as questions are raised over his health. Nancy Cordes has the latest from the White House. Wisconsin Republican Senator Ron Johnson joins The Takeout to discuss the Justice Department’s “anti-weaponization” fund and what it entails for the Republicans. Next, Aaron MacLean explains the Qatar talks aimed at ending the war in the Middle East and Iran's end goal. Finally, political panelists Kendra Barkoff Lamy and Terry Sullivan explain the heated Cornyn-Paxton Senate primary runoff in Texas.
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| 0:00.0 | Deal or no deal. It's not a game show. It's the war with Iran. Talks continue. Details remain scarce. Trust is low. Firing continues. All this is global markets, stock and energy fidget nervously. It is runoff day in Texas. The end of the line for GOP Senate warhorse John Cornyn? |
| 0:22.1 | Could the foreterm or become the latest victim of a Trump political vendetta? |
| 0:27.4 | Ten African nations now at risk in the widening Ebola outbreak. |
| 0:31.8 | Deaths and cases keep rising. |
| 0:34.3 | The World Health Organization admits it is playing catch up. |
| 0:46.3 | Hello, everyone, I'm Major Garrett. So very happy to be back in Washington and here at the family table. Let me welcome you to the takeout. |
| 0:55.5 | President Trump's health is perfect. |
| 0:58.3 | He said so today following his third physical in 13 months. |
| 1:03.3 | Trump, as you know, turns 80 in less than three weeks. |
| 1:06.6 | We also know this. |
| 1:07.6 | He has swollen ankles and a bruised hand. |
| 1:10.7 | At events at the White House, when others speak, Trump sometimes nods off. We also know this. He has swollen ankles and a bruised hand. |
| 1:10.8 | At events at the White House, when others speak, Trump sometimes nods off. |
| 1:15.3 | The White House calls these events extended blinks. |
| 1:19.3 | And there are times when Trump's strides are uneven, as you can see here in his summit |
| 1:24.5 | in Alaska meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin. |
| 1:28.2 | As we all know, the president results to vulgarity in speech isn't on social media now |
| 1:33.1 | more than ever. These are taken together accumulating signs of absolutely nothing. |
| 1:40.0 | Trump says he's perfect. Right. You sense there's something amiss. |
| 1:46.0 | Polls show half the country at least worries Trump is too old for the job, |
| 1:50.0 | and well over a third of the country fears he's suffering meaningful cognitive decline. |
| 1:55.0 | These fears, we should recall, were present with President Biden, |
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