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CBS NEWS' THE TAKEOUT: HISTORIAN JON MEACHAM SAYS GOP “HAS DESCENDED INTO FANTASY, CONSPIRACY AND FALSEHOODS”

Meacham Spoke to CBS News Chief Washington Correspondent Major Garrett for

This Week’s Episode of THE TAKEOUT Podcast

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For the latest episode of the CBS News podcast THE TAKEOUT, chief Washington correspondent and podcast host Major Garrett spoke with the historian and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of several presidential biographies, Jon Meacham. During the interview, Meacham told Garrett he believed former President Trump helped ignite some of the divisions in the Republican Party: “There was a lot of gasoline on the garage floor of the Republican Party, and Trump was a match.”

The latest episode of THE TAKEOUT is out now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and wherever podcasts are available. More from this episode is available HERE on CBSNews.com.

Highlights from this week’s episode:

  • On the state of the Republican Party: “There was a lot of gasoline on the garage floor of the Republican Party, and Trump was a match.”

  • On the difference between the right and the left: “The left may go crazy and may become dissociated from reality. But if so, it’s going to be this afternoon, not this morning. It hasn’t happened yet.”

  • On the attack on the U.S. Capitol on January 6: “We came as close to losing the country as we know it on January 6 as we have since the Civil War. And I say that with no hyperbole.”

  • On confronting the legacy of slavery: “We have to be candid, because if we aren’t candid, then we aren’t rooted in reality.”

CHEAT TWEET: NEW: Pulitzer Prize-winning author and presidential historian Jon Meacham joins @MajorCBS to talk about how history will remember former President Trump, and the division within the Republican Party. Listen here or wherever you get your podcasts. https://bit.ly/3h83S1d

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