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Talking Feds

Cracks in the ICE

Talking Feds

Harry Litman

News, Government, Politics

4.84.5K Ratings

🗓️ 2 February 2026

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

It was a tumultuous week on the streets and in the courts, with panelists Kristen Holmes, Juliette Kayyem, and Josh Marshall joining Harry to break it all down. ICE's reign of terror in Minnesota continues, even as top Trump officials sing a softer tune after nationwide outrage over the death of Alex Pretti. The panel marches through the latest fallout from Pretti's killing, as well as the newest attempts by the DOJ to advance Trump's agenda elsewhere, from the arrest of Don Lemon to the shocking raid on a Georgia election office.  Mentioned in this episode: Kristen’s reporting:  https://www.cnn.com/profiles/kristen-holmes-bio Juliette’s writing in the Atlantic:  https://www.theatlantic.com/author/juliette-kayyem/ Josh’s analysis:  https://talkingpointsmemo.com/author/josh_m Also, check out some big changes coming to the Talking Feds Substack: https://harrylitman.substack.com/p/big-changes-for-the-talking-feds Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:31.3

Welcome to TalkingFeds, a roundtable that brings together prominent former federal officials and special guests for dynamic discussion of the most important political and legal topics of the day.

0:47.4

I'm Harry Littman.

0:48.9

It seems scarcely possible for Pam Bondi and the Department of Justice to go any farther upriver.

0:56.3

But Bondi managed it to the evident delight of the president.

1:00.7

Ignoring the objections of career prosecutors,

1:04.2

Bondi's spearheaded charges,

1:06.0

which a magistrate previously had rejected,

1:09.5

against Don Lemon and another independent journalist

1:12.9

for their part in covering, and now in the department's official view, fomenting, a protest

1:19.9

in a Minnesota church.

1:22.1

Meanwhile, the administration dispatched border czar Tom Homan to the state to try to rescue its ultra-controversial

1:30.6

immigration operations. Hohman arrived with talk of compromise, even as Trump himself continued

1:38.1

to tar Alex Preti, who's killing still fuels national outrage as, quote, an agitator and perhaps insurrectionist.

1:48.0

The appalled reaction around the country to ISIS abuses in Minnesota have given the Democrats a card to play in the latest shutdown showdown.

1:58.0

A fragile deal is in place to fund the government while putting some

2:03.4

small restraints on ice. And in another entry in the WTF annals of the DOJ, the department

2:12.7

served a warrant on the Fulton County Election Office, apparently pursuing Trump's dearly held illusion

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