The Takeout with Major Garrett, 6/1/26
The Takeout with Major Garrett
CBS News
4.6 • 586 Ratings
🗓️ 1 June 2026
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
CBS News has learned that the Trump Administration will drop the $1.8 billion anti-weaponization fund. Ed O’Keefe discusses his latest reporting. President Trump posts on Truth Social that conversations are ongoing with Iran, while the country’s state media asserts negotiations are suspended. Aaron MacLean provides analysis on the ongoing war between the U.S. and Iran. Voters in California will cast their ballots in multiple primaries, including the races for the Los Angeles Mayor and Governor. POLITICO’s Melanie Mason joins to preview these races and how the newly drawn maps will affect congressional primaries. Plus, Major will speak with TMZ DC’s co-Managing Editors Jacob Wasserman and Charlie Cotton about the tabloid’s effort to cover politics in the nation’s capitol. Join us for the full episode here!
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| 0:00.0 | The so-called anti-weaponization fund, dead, a victim of political reality that could not abide this form of Trumpian retribution. |
| 0:09.8 | The political pallbearers, Republicans. |
| 0:14.5 | California's primary is tomorrow. |
| 0:16.3 | Despite big races for governor and mayor of Los Angeles, turnout is lower than previous elections. |
| 0:22.2 | Are voters discouraged or discerning? |
| 0:25.7 | TMZ, it is an acronym. |
| 0:27.4 | Do you know what it means? |
| 0:28.5 | Well, we will tell you, and as we do, we will welcome reporters from the TV shows brand new DC Bureau to see what they are up to in the nation's capital. |
| 0:46.5 | Music brand new DC Bureau to see what they're up to in the nation's capital. Hello, everyone, I'm Major Garrett in Washington. |
| 0:48.6 | Welcome to The Takeout. |
| 0:49.5 | Now, you know I think about this show as a continuous conversation. |
| 0:53.6 | That's not the way most TV shows go. |
| 0:56.2 | But hello, this is not most TV shows, right? |
| 0:59.8 | Short time ago on this program, I opened up wondering about what I called Yolo Republicans. |
| 1:05.4 | Those freshly defeated Republicans bulldozed in primaries by MAGA favorites endorsed by President Trump. |
| 1:11.9 | Would they rebel, I wondered? Would they threaten Trump's agenda? |
| 1:16.0 | The Wall Street Journal, which I read with relish, outdid my YOLO Republican terminology, came up |
| 1:22.0 | with a new term, Wounded Bear Republicans. Today's news about the now defunct, and I mean really defunct, anti-weaponization fund to me, |
| 1:32.3 | conjures up a hybrid Republican renegade, the YOLO Wounded Bear. |
| 1:37.3 | All weekend, the White House said it was not budging, not budging an inch on the phone, |
| 1:42.3 | said the 1.8 billion set aside was legally |
| 1:45.9 | valid and politically defensible. This despite ample and vocal GOP resistance to it on |
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