The Takeout with Major Garrett, 6/3/26
The Takeout with Major Garrett
CBS News
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🗓️ 4 June 2026
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Votes are still being counted in both the Los Angeles Mayor and the California Governor races. Julie Watts from CBS California recaps the takeaways for us. Trump's pick for Iowa Governor, Randy Feenstra, failed to secure the Republican nomination in a rare loss for the President. On the other side, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer's choice for Senator, Josh Turek won his Democratic primary, putting him one step closer to replacing Joni Ernst. Lana Zak joins to discuss what these results mean. Nikole Killion reports the breaking news: the House passed a war powers resolution regarding the conflict in Iran for the first time. Ohio Democratic Rep. Joyce Beatty reacts to the news. She also explains her recent victory against the Trump Administration, declaring that the President had to remove his name from the Kennedy Center. Listen to the full episode here!
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| 0:00.0 | California, a play-it-safe status quo state? No, not typically, but that's where voters landed with Javier Bacera over Tom Steyer. |
| 0:08.7 | And yet, Republicans like Steve Hilton for governor and Spencer Pratt for L.A. mayor beat a surprisingly loud, a drumbeat for change. |
| 0:18.0 | Did President Trump really drop the F-bomb on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over |
| 0:23.1 | Israeli military attacks deep within Lebanon or planned ones? Answer, yes. Mark Caputo, |
| 0:29.5 | the Axios reporter who helped break that story, joins us with more details, including |
| 0:34.3 | BB's reaction. A federal judge recently ordered President Trump's name be stripped from the Kennedy Center for |
| 0:41.1 | Performing Arts and plans to shudder it for years halted. |
| 0:46.0 | Ohio Democratic Congresswoman Joyce Beatty brought that lawsuit and explains what's next. |
| 1:03.0 | Hello, everyone, I'm Major Garrett in Washington. |
| 1:04.2 | Welcome to the takeout. |
| 1:09.4 | The dust is settled in Iowa's primaries, and it is beginning to settle in California. |
| 1:11.4 | We will have the most important races and some undercover races in both states |
| 1:14.3 | with Julie Watson, California, and Lana Zack in Iowa. |
| 1:17.8 | And of course, we'll have your friend in mind, |
| 1:19.9 | Anthony Salvanto, with the numbers inside the numbers. |
| 1:24.0 | Iowa saw a rare setback for President Trump |
| 1:26.6 | in the governor's race. |
| 1:27.6 | His candidate, the one he endorsed, Congressman Randy Feinstra did not win his party's nomination. |
| 1:34.4 | In California, will no doubt be roiled by the long-shot insurgent candidacies of Republican Steve Hilton for governor and Spencer Pratt for mayor of Los Angeles. |
| 1:45.9 | Neither mention Trump much, |
| 1:52.0 | but they do bash bureaucratic lethargy, housing shortages, educational stagnation, and outsized affordability woes, which persist in California, even when inflation nationally is |
| 1:58.8 | relatively tame. And we all know inflation isn't tame right now. |
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