DOJ sues over Alaska Senate race certification, Kushner denies slush fund claims, more | The Takeout

Name: DOJ sues over Alaska Senate race certification, Kushner denies slush fund claims, more | The Takeout
Uploaded: 2026-10-23
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Uploaded: 2026-10-23

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Read a transcript preview of “DOJ sues over Alaska Senate race certification, Kushner denies slush fund claims, more | The Takeout” from CBS News, uploaded on 2026-10-23.

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[0:00] Alaska, the last frontier of

[0:02] frivolousness. At President Trump's

[0:05] direction, the Justice Department sues

[0:07] to block certification of a Senate race

[0:09] that hasn't even happened. There's a

[0:12] limited ceasefire in Ukraine and

[0:14] discussions about three-way peace talks

[0:16] in November, while Trump says he may

[0:18] talk to Elon Musk about Ukraine's

[0:21] Starlink access. We run all of this by

[0:23] Ukraine's top diplomat in America. The

[0:27] Democrat's path back to power in the

[0:29] House of Representatives does not run

[0:31] through Omaha, Nebraska. But a win there

[0:34] certainly could help. We talked to the

[0:35] Democratic nominee Denise Powell.

[0:46] Hello everyone, I'm Major Garrett in New

[0:47] York. Welcome to the Takeout. We're

[0:49] going to begin and end tonight's show

[0:52] with a discussion of territories,

[0:54] stories of American expansion and what

[0:56] that brought to untamed and somewhat

[0:58] unknown parts of this continent. And we

[1:00] will start with Alaska, the last

[1:04] frontier, and a lawsuit brought today by

[1:06] the Trump Justice Department to

[1:08] invalidate a Senate election that has

[1:10] not been decided. Yes, you heard that

[1:12] correctly. Invalidate an election that

[1:16] hasn't been decided. At the end of our

[1:18] show, we're going to devote that to a

[1:20] discussion of the biggest territorial

[1:22] expansion in American history, the

[1:24] Louisiana Purchase, and the unique role

[1:26] President Thomas Jefferson played in

[1:28] that monumental acquisition. A special

[1:31] guest has written a new book on that

[1:33] subject, and that book would by itself

[1:36] justify her appearance. But the author,

[1:38] Laura Brown, happens also to be my wife.