ICE is Retreating. Now What?

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🗓️ 5 February 2026

⏱️ 30 minutes

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The White House announces 700 of its nearly 3,000 agents will be leaving Minneapolis, while Congress begins debating conditions for DHS funding. Ukrainians are desperately trying to rescue what they describe as children “stolen” by Russia. And a booming “prediction market” volunteers, unprompted, to offer free groceries in the backyard of its potential regulators. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:25.1	Twinings.
0:27.8	Alive in every drop.
0:32.2	It's Thursday, February 5th.
0:33.5	Ice is retreating, but the congressional battle's just begun.
0:36.3	We start here.
0:39.3	Hundreds of federal agents are leaving Minneapolis with perhaps more on the way.
0:44.3	We have common sense, tough objectives to rain in ice.
0:49.3	Well, back in Washington, lawmakers debate what it will take to fund homeland security.
0:55.0	Russia will never change the minds of adult Ukrainians, but what about their kids?
0:59.0	He's really afraid that they will kill him and he couldn't protect himself.
1:05.0	Inside the effort to bring home a generation of stolen children.
1:09.0	And New York's mayor wanted cheaper groceries. Now a divisive
1:12.9	corporation is volunteering to make it happen. So Polymarket tweeted that it's opening up a free
1:18.9	grocery store. Why companies known as prediction markets are prompting a price check.
1:26.0	From ABC News, this is Start Here.
1:29.0	I'm Brad Milky.
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