Border Czar: ICE & CBP Working On Minneapolis “Drawdown Plan”
The Lead with Jake Tapper
CNN
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🗓️ 30 January 2026
⏱️ 83 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | So why did the FBI need to raid a Georgia election office? |
| 0:06.0 | A lot of people want to know. |
| 0:07.0 | The lead starts right now. |
| 0:09.0 | Hundreds of 2020 ballot boxes seized by the FBI, but why? |
| 0:15.0 | And Tulsi Gabbard, the Director of National Intelligence, was on the ground there. |
| 0:20.0 | Again, why? |
| 0:22.3 | Our guests coming up has a theory, plus an attempted jailbreak at the New York facility holding |
| 0:27.1 | Luigi Mangione, how an alleged FBI impersonator tried to free the accused killer. |
| 0:33.1 | But first, a new plan for Trump's immigration crackdown in Minneapolis, straight from his border |
| 0:38.0 | czar, Tom Holman. |
| 0:39.0 | Welcome to lead. |
| 0:48.0 | I'm Phil Mattingly in for Jake Tapper. |
| 0:49.7 | We start in our national lead, where we are learning more about how the Trump administration's |
| 0:54.2 | approach to immigration enforcement might actually shift. |
| 0:57.6 | Now today, White House Borders'R Tom Hohman outlined a new plan for operations in Minnesota. |
| 1:02.7 | This plan after days of backlash over federal agents shooting and killing protester Alex |
| 1:08.0 | Pretti in Minneapolis. |
| 1:10.1 | Hohman ordered federal immigration authorities to work on an eventual drawdown plan for law enforcement in the city |
| 1:15.6 | and said the operations will be more targeted. |
| 1:19.6 | Targeted strategic enforcement operations. |
| 1:26.6 | That's traditionally been the case. strategic enforcement operations. |
| 1:33.3 | That's traditionally been the case, and that's where we're going. That's what we're going to continue to do and approve upon that. |
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