Is Minnesota Heading for a DHS "Drawdown" and The Rise of Gambling Among Teen Boys

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Episode: Is Minnesota Heading for a DHS "Drawdown" and The Rise of Gambling Among Teen Boys

Date: January 29, 2026
Host: Yasmin Vossoughian

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Episode Overview

This episode examines two headline topics:

1. Immigration enforcement in Minnesota: The Trump administration's evolving approach, focusing on a potential "drawdown" in DHS operations and internal political rifts shaping national policy.
2. Rising gambling among teen boys: A new Common Sense Media report reveals alarming statistics about how boys—some as young as 11—are gambling online, with discussion about the role of games, sports betting, and digital advertising.

The episode features interviews with NBC News Senior Homeland Security Correspondent Julia Ainslie and NBC News Daily Anchor Kate Snow.

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Segment 1: DHS "Drawdown" and Immigration Enforcement in Minnesota

Guest: Julia Ainslie, Senior Homeland Security Correspondent
Timestamps: 00:03 – 09:03

Key Discussion Points

• Tom Homan announces a "drawdown" plan in Minnesota ([00:03])

  • Homan emphasizes a shift to targeted operations, focusing on "criminal aliens," but asserts this is not a reversal from President Trump.

  • He calls for state and local authorities to fully cooperate with ICE, particularly around honoring ICE detainers.

    “We are not surrendering the president’s mission in immigration enforcement. Let’s make that clear. Prioritization of criminal ambulance doesn’t mean we forget about everybody else. That’s just simply ridiculous.” —Tom Homan ([00:49])

• Is the drawdown substantive or political posturing? ([01:19])

  • Julia Ainslie points out that Minnesota claims it's already honoring ICE detainers, which raises questions about what the administration is really seeking.

  • The tone from Homeland Security has notably cooled since the weekend, shifting from defiant to more measured.

    "The tone could not have been a bigger 180 shift from what we saw on Saturday." —Julia Ainslie ([02:48])

• Internal divisions within the Trump administration ([03:22])

  • Description of a power struggle: Kristi Noem and Corey Lewandowski favored broad, aggressive raids; Homan and others advocate for targeted enforcement.

  • Under Noem, ICE leadership was replaced with Border Patrol leaders, with a focus on large-scale sweeps and hitting deportation quotas set by Stephen Miller.

    “She was the one who got rid of top ICE leaders, replaced them with Border Patrol leaders...taking her marching orders from the White House to have a massive crackdown.” —Julia Ainslie ([03:22])

• Shift in strategy: From broad sweeps to targeted enforcement ([04:23]–[06:54])

  • Homan's approach wins out as Noem and Lewandowski are sidelined.

  • Targeted enforcement means focusing on known criminals and cooperating with state prisons, rather than large public raids.

    "He has always advocated for doing your homework and actually entering a community with a list of people who are targets based on their criminal convictions." —Julia Ainslie ([06:15])

• Political implications and uncertainty ([07:00]–[09:03])

  • This pivot is about managing optics ahead of the midterms, cooling controversy until after elections.

  • If Trump senses that the party is losing support among immigration hardliners, policies could shift back quickly.

    “It's often going into midterms that you'll see presidents really want to try to take anything off of their agenda that might be perceived as controversial.” —Julia Ainslie ([08:17])

Notable Quotes

• Yasmin: “Saturday was this defiant tone. Right. Whereas this seemed more even keeled, I would say.” ([02:48])
• Julia Ainslie, on the policy power struggle:

  “If you were watching this as a miniseries somewhere, this would be Act 2. Basically the tensions that were rising all through the first year really ended up with the Noem-Lewandowski-Bovino hardlined...Now those underdogs, the people who were calling for targeted enforcement...they have just triumphed.” ([04:23])

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Segment 2: The Rise of Gambling Among Teen Boys

Guest: Kate Snow, NBC News Daily Anchor
Timestamps: 10:13 – 19:43

Key Discussion Points

• Overview of alarming statistics ([10:13]–[11:07])

  • Common Sense Media report: Over a third of boys aged 11–17 have gambled in the past year; nearly half of 17-year-olds.

  • Definitions include sports betting, online casinos/slots, traditional card games, and "gaming-related" gambling like loot boxes.

    "Nearly a third of 11-year-old boys saying they've gambled...that number jumps to nearly half of 17-year-old boys. That is astounding." —Yasmin Vossoughian ([10:50])

• How gambling is happening ([11:09]–[12:46])

  • Loot boxes and "gaming-related gambling" are prevalent among younger boys (11–13), involving in-game purchases with real money.

  • Many parents are unaware—some only discover gambling when a credit card bill arrives.

    “My advice would be to look at your kids credit card statements because...they see like a $2,000 bill on a credit card.” —Kate Snow ([13:07])

• Sports betting companies and age verification ([13:26]–[14:17])

  • DraftKings asserts strict age verification, but data shows minors are still finding ways to access betting services, sometimes using parent's accounts or by lying about their age.

• Are in-game purchases illegal gambling? ([14:17]–[14:33])

  • In-game loot boxes are not legally classified as gambling but are seen as "gateway activities."

  • Sports betting by minors remains illegal, but age restrictions are being bypassed.

    "They do call it in the report a gateway activity...it's just sort of similar to gambling, but it's not technically gambling makes sense." —Kate Snow ([14:33])

• Potential harms and the mental health crisis ([15:03]–[17:58])

  • Clinical psychologists warn this could be “the next mental health crisis for our teen boys.” Risks include addiction and compounding existing mental health challenges.

  • Watching influencers gamble online is emerging as a new risk factor.

    "She said, I'm worried this is the next mental health crisis for our teen boys." —Kate Snow ([15:11])

• How social media and advertising target kids ([16:03]–[16:21])

  • 60% of boys aged 11–17 report seeing gambling ads in their YouTube/social feeds.

  • Tech companies claim to enforce restrictions, but lawsuits are ongoing over algorithmic promotion and harm to minors.

    "We just covered this trial where kids and parents accuse companies like meta, Google, TikTok, snap of causing harm to minors..." —Yasmin Vossoughian ([16:21])

• Advice for parents ([18:00])

  • Have open conversations about loot boxes, gambling, and digital spending.

  • Check financial activity and learn the terminology (loot boxes, gacha pulls, etc.).

    “Ask about if he knows what a loot box is. Or ask a gotcha poll. You heard of that?...it's like you're playing a slot machine.” —Kate Snow ([18:18])

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Segment 3: Brief Headlines

Host-led roundup ([22:17]–[26:17])

• FBI searches Fulton County’s election hub in Georgia for 2020 election records.
• Senator Amy Klobuchar enters the Minnesota governor race as Tim Walz drops out.
• Federal charges filed against Anthony Kazmir for assaulting Congresswoman Ilhan Omar.
• Tesla halts Model S/X production to focus on robotaxis and humanoid robots.
• Melania Trump documentary "Melania" premieres, with Amazon MGM paying nearly $75 million for rights/marketing.
• Return of all-you-can-eat buffets with a 250% surge in searches in 2025.

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Memorable Moments & Notable Quotes

• Julia Ainslie capturing the policy drama:

  “If you were watching this as a miniseries somewhere, this would be Act 2...” ([04:23])

• On youth gambling as a looming crisis:

  "She said, I'm worried this is the next mental health crisis for our teen boys." —Kate Snow ([15:11])

• On the return of buffets:

  “The promise of a full plate with seconds and of course, thirds feels less like indulgence and more like really good math.” —Yasmin Vossoughian ([22:17])

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Key Timestamps

• 00:03 – Episode introduction, Tom Homan’s press conference
• 01:19 – Julia Ainslie on ICE detainers and the drawdown
• 03:22 – Policy splits: Noem/Lewandowski vs. Homan
• 06:54 – Explanation of shifts from broad sweeps to targeted enforcement
• 08:08 – Midterm political implications
• 10:13 – Introduction to gambling among boys, Kate Snow joins
• 11:09 – Definition and scope of youth gambling
• 13:07 – Unintended parental involvement, checking credit card bills
• 15:11 – Clinical perspective: Gambling as a mental health crisis
• 16:03 – Gambling advertisement exposure on social media
• 18:18 – Practical advice for parents
• 22:17 – Rapid headlines: elections, Tesla, Klobuchar, buffets

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Tone & Style

The episode maintains a newsy, conversational style, blending analysis with real-world advice and grounded anecdotes. Yasmin strikes a personable but urgent tone, especially on youth gambling, while her correspondents deliver deeper dives and sharp policy perspectives.

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For Listeners Who Missed the Episode

• Immigration enforcement is entering a new, more targeted phase in Minnesota, driven as much by political optics and internal rifts as by policy shifts. How long this lasts depends on midterm dynamics.
• Digital gambling is rapidly infiltrating young boys' lives—not just through sports bets, but insidious mechanics in online games. Experts warn this trend could fuel a new wave of mental health issues.
• Rapid-fire headlines keep listeners up to date on top news, from FBI probes and gubernatorial races to the next big trend at all-you-can-eat buffets.

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For further resources on gambling addiction, call the National Problem Gambling Helpline at 522-4700.

Transcript

[A]

Hey, everybody. Welcome to here's the scoop from NBC News. I'm Yasmin Vesugian. Coming up on the show today, teen and tween boys are gambling online at alarming rates. A new report from Common Sense Media reveals how they're doing it. Plus, Tesla goes all in on robot vehicles and why the all you can eat renaissance is a sign of the times. Up first, though, you got border czar Tom Homan laying out his new plan for immigration operations in this press conference. Earlier today, Homan said he'd been in close contact with local leaders in Minnesota and that his focus would be on targeted operations going after criminals and that he was working on a drawdown plan. But he emphasized that this is not a reversal from President Trump.

[B]

We are not surrendering the president's mission in immigration enforcement. Let's make that clear. Prioritization of criminal ambulance doesn't mean we forget about everybody else. That's just simply ridiculous.

[A]

So what does this tell us about how enforcement operations might actually change in the Twin Cities after the departure of Border Patrol's Greg Bevino? I want to bring in NBC News senior Homeland Security correspondent Julia Ainslie. By the way, back with us for a second time this week.

[C]

Thanks. Yes, Busy week, but good to be back.

[A]

Very busy week. Let's talk about Tom Homan. He seemed to both blame state and local law enforcement for the chaos of Minnesota, but also said that federal officials needed to improve. The headline, though, overall of this was that there was going to be a drawdown plan and that CBP and ICE were gonna work on that in Minneapolis. What do you make of that? Do you think this is real, that there is gonna be a drawdown plan, or is this just rhetoric?

[C]

I think what's clear is that there's a real crisis in the Trump administration. What Homan said, he couched it a little bit, is that there is a plan, but that they're only going to enact this plan to draw state and local leaders start handing over immigrants and cooperating with him. Now, what he said is that he wanted the state to honor ICE detainers. What that means is a detainer is a request from ICE to a local prison that would say, anyone in your custody who is an immigrant, when you get ready to release them, rather than releasing them back on the streets, give them to ice. Now, the Minnesota governor's office said they're already doing that. So it's unclear if this drawdown is the bargaining chip that the Trump administration is putting forward. But what they want from the governor is something he's already done. It's not clear exactly what it is that they're gonna be able to do to get them to agree to this drawdown. So I already have questions around that. But the tone could not have been a bigger 180 shift from what we saw on Saturday.

[A]

Right. Cuz Saturday was this defiant tone. Right. Whereas this seemed more even keeled, I would say.

[C]

Even keeled. Talking about going after targets that is a long way from Bovino's roving. Raids that he's been doing across the country started in Los Angeles this summer. It's something that Noem applauded. Bovino did not report up the chain to the head of the cbp. He reported directly to her because he was doing what she wanted and what the White House wanted. Let's be clear. This wasn't like Noem was off on her own doing something the President didn't want.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

She was the one who got rid of top ICE leaders, replaced them with Border Patrol leaders. She and her right hand man, Corey Lewandowski were talking to Pavino as he went out to these different cities that they were choosing to do these huge enforcement operations. And she was the one who was really taking her marching orders from the White House to have a massive crackdown and to get those deportation numbers as high as she could. Those deportation numbers, these quotas came from Stephen Miller at the White House.

[A]

I understand from your reporting, along with what we've been hearing is there has been kind of a real fracture when it comes to how they have been going after their immigration policy. And the fracture is between the Lewandowski and the Kristi Noemes of the world on one side of the spectrum and the Homan on the other side of the spectrum. And Lewandowski and Noem was. They were kind of running the ship. Right. They were running the show. Whereas now Homan has come in to.

[C]

Pick up the pieces and he was completely sidelined. If you were watching this as a miniseries somewhere, this would be Act 2. Basically the tensions that were rising all through the first year really ended up with the gnome. Lewandowski, Bavino hardlined. Let's go big and let's go hard. That team was winning every day. We saw ways that Homan and people who believed in a targeted approach had their power diminish. Rodney Scott, who stood with Homan on stage today as the head of cbp, had his emails monitored, he believes by Corey Lewandowski, because he was raising questions about when Lewandowski might be leaving. We understand that the head of ice, Todd Lyons, had been sidelined. He was told he needed to start firing people who worked for him because they weren't deporting enough people. And Homan, who was the base of all of this at the beginning, really stopped going out on any of these public appearances. And now those underdogs, the people who were calling for targeted enforcement because they thought something might go too far, they thought they might lose the American people, they thought someone might get hurt. Now they have just triumphed. As we enter into this second year, the question is, will it stay that way?

[A]

And I want to be clear here. For folks that don't necessarily know that it was Bevino, it was Lewandowski and it was no, they were the ones that were the advocates for these large scale sweeps, these aggressive tactics, asking folks in a parking lot, where are you from? Rappelling into buildings to seize people and take them into ICE detention. That was their tactics. That is what they have been doing. Whereas Homan was all about, hey, let's target, let's go after the people who we know are known criminals.

[C]

Yeah. Homan has always said that he is okay with arresting what he calls collateral arrest. That means if you go into an apartment, for example, to arrest someone with a criminal background and you find other people there who are in violation of immigration laws, who entered the country illegally, it's okay to arrest them. He has never advocated for arresting people who entered the country legally with pending asylum claims, like the father and five year old boy that were arrested and put in detention last week. He has always advocated for doing your homework and actually entering a community with a list of people who are targets based on their criminal convictions.

[A]

So as of today, Homan is winning out. So how is that gonna play out on the ground? What will that look like?

[C]

Well, it will look like if they do draw down that they would enter into areas where they know there is a criminal. What he wants is for the jails and the state prison system to cooperate so that they don't even have to go into communities so that they're picking them up in the waiting room of a prison rather than in a neighborh. So he wants that. I think though, how long that stays the case on the ground has a lot to do with what's happening in Washington. And just today we saw that Kristi Noem didn't even get called on in the cabinet meeting with the President. That's incredibly unusual. He's had nine before. She's always spoken at these meetings. And now after this huge story has dominated headlines. She did not even get a word in. It seems that Homan and that strategy is winning. But you're going into midterms. And if Trump is presented with any whisper that his base doesn't like this cooling off on immigration, wants to see more conflict in blue cities where people have resisted Trump's policies, it could go the other way.

[A]

So you're kind of answering my next question, which is this is all about politics. At the end of the day, they just want to win in November, and they're basing this on the polling numbers that they're seeing coming in from their base.

[C]

Well, yeah, I was talking to Peter Nichols about that today, who covers the White House for us here. We're just talking in the newsroom about how we can't forget the fact this is a midterm year. Yeah, it's often going into midterms that you'll see presidents really want to try to take anything off of their agenda that might be perceived as controversial. It's also a reason why in the Obama administration, they didn't push for a lot of their reforms until after the midterms in Obama's second term. But here he might be trying to get some of these controversial policies out of the way. But if he ever finds that he's losing faith with his base and immigration has been his key issue with his base for a long time, that could end up having reverberations where they feel like they have to go back the other way if the MAGA base isn't on board with this.

[A]

Julia Ainsley, thank you.

[C]

Thank you.

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All right, coming up, the kids might not be all right. A report showing a disturbing rise in gambling amongst young boys. We're gonna have the details after a very quick break. Stay with us.

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We are back with here's the scoop from NBC News. So gambling seems to be everywhere these days. From the Sports betting ads splashed across football games to the casino apps that are actually on your phone. And while the legal minimum gambling age is 18 years of age, there is this alarming new report out today from Common Sense Media and it found more than a third of boys ages 11 to 17 years of age have actually gambled in some form in the past year. So I wanna bring in NBC News Daily anchor Kate Snow who's got an exclusive on this. Hi Kate. Hi, it's great to have you.

[D]

Good to be here.

[A]

So I just mentioned this Common Sense Media report finding nearly a third of 11 year old boys saying they've gambled in the past year. That number jumps to nearly half of 17 year old boys. That is astounding. Being a mother of two by the way, young boys.

[D]

Yes.

[A]

What kind of betting are we talking about here?

[D]

Yeah, as a mother of a 20 and 23 year old, I'm on the other end, but astounding to me too. So the way that Common Sense Media decided to define gambling when they talked to 1,000 kids between boys between 11 and 17 was interesting. It's a little broader than you might think. They include everything from sports gambling, which we all know is huge right now for adults sports betting, they include online casinos, online slot machines, things you can do online. They include in life like getting together with your friends and playing a game of poker for money. And they include what they call gaming related gambling.

[A]

What's that?

[D]

Okay, so this is what a lot of the younger in sort of the 11, 12, 13 year olds are telling Common Sense Media that they're doing. You're in a game, I don't know if you've heard of loot boxes.

[A]

No.

[D]

Okay, so you're playing a game with your, and a lot of your friends are playing the same game probably and you're trying to compete to like you know, whatever the game is to build. Or in your universe you can get like gear like swords or like uniforms or like clothing or something inside the game.

[C]

Right.

[D]

A loot box is where you like store all this stuff that you have. And there might be this time when the game says hey at 8 o' clock tonight, be here because we're gonna do a drop of a new, they call em skins like a new uniform or a new whatever it is and you could win that and you have to either pay inside the game with like the coins you've earned or a credit card or some form of payment.

[A]

So it's either fake money or real money.

[D]

Real money. And 23% of 11 to 17 year olds are doing this kind of gaming related. You're in a game and you're sort of gambling and more than half are using real money to do it. The thing is, it's a game of chance is what Common Sense Media says. Does that make sense?

[A]

Yes. If they're using credit cards though, do parents know they're actually doing it? Do they know that they're gambling with their money?

[D]

Good question. Not always. My advice would be to look at your kids credit card statements because in some cases common sense was telling me that they've obviously met families where a kid gets out of control and gets in the hole and the parents didn't even realize till they see like a $2,000 bill on a credit card.

[A]

So if we talk about, for instance, DraftKings, right, which we all know, DraftKings, sports betting. Sports betting. They have a whole system in verifying.

[D]

Age and they gave us a statement about that saying, look, we're really serious about age verification.

[A]

How is it though that kids are able to gamble in these ways? Is there any kind of age verification here? Are they doing this purposefully?

[D]

I don't know enough to speak specifically to DraftKings. They were emphatic that they do age verification. What I can tell you is that the numbers in this report indicate that there are kids under 17, which is illegal in every state. Every state has its own law, but every state's minimum 18 for gambling. So maybe they're using a parent's credit card and maybe dad knows that they've, you know, some, in some cases, some kids said, I sometimes do this with my parent or with somebody in my family.

[A]

Well, okay, before we dig into that sports betting aside, even for instance, this gaming thing that you were talking about where you could get this box full of stuff, right? This doesn't have necessarily an age limit.

[D]

That's not illegal, right? That's not illegal in gaming things that.

[A]

We'Re talking about, it's still teaching betting.

[D]

Well, that's the point that Common Sense media is making. They do call it in the report a gateway activity. That's the in gaming stuff that is frankly legal. It's just sort of similar to gambling, but it's not technically gambling makes sense. But then separately, like when you're asking about sports, that's not legal. Kids are getting around it somehow. I mean, you would have to assume that some kids are lying about their age and getting through that age verification process by cheating, you know, by saying that they're over 18.

[A]

What damage could gambling at a young age Do I know that you spoke with a clinical psychologist that treats teens that are involved in gambling?

[D]

She's really worried. Well, she treats a lot of different kinds of patients. She treats kids, teens and adults. She said, I'm worried that this is the next mental health crisis for our teen boys. That she literally said those words to me. And I think that's because you can imagine that it's an addictive behavior. I mean, there are. Every time you see an ad for gambling, you also hear the call this number if you have a problem. Right. Because it's a clinical diagnosis to have an actual gambling addiction. Gambling addiction, yeah. So I think that's the concern that a lot of clinicians are raising, is that do kids really know how to tame their impulses or are they going for that dopamine hit? And, you know, I mean, some of these kids are using like online slot machines or watching influencers using online slot machines to teach them how they're spending hours watching influencers do this.

[A]

It's interesting you talk about the ads, right, because we actually covered this trial that's just getting underway when it comes to social media. And I know that within this report, 60% of 11 to 17 year olds see ads for gambling across YouTube and social media to content that is getting pushed into their social feeds. Right?

[D]

The algorithms.

[A]

We just covered this trial where kids and parents accuse companies like meta, Google, TikTok, snap of causing harm to minors on their platforms, basically creating algorithms that make kids addicted.

[C]

Right.

[A]

What are these platforms, if anything, doing to combat that?

[D]

I can read you a statement real quick from YouTube because they're one of the biggest. They're one of the biggest platforms out there. And it's where a lot of kids are going to kind of get some of the, at least the influencer content like what I was talking about, which means people actually sitting there and gambling and you're watching them gamble, you're getting tips from them and all that. So they said, and this is a quote, they said that they rigorously enforce their gambling policies. Age related content that promotes online casinos. So age related means you have to be old enough and they don't allow advertisers to target minors is what YouTube is telling us. But I think you raised a really valid point that this is playing out in courts now, right? There have been a number of suits.

[A]

And kids are finding their ways around some of these restrictions that are put into place either by these companies, these guardrails that are put into place by these companies and. Or by their parents.

[D]

Sidebar, Like I cover mental health a lot for NBC News and so I see. I mean, we're in a crisis with mental health too. Right? That's a layer over all of what we're talking about. So we've got vulnerable kids and then if they're, you know, betting the farm on something and losing and feeling bad about themselves, that's gonna compound mental health issues.

[A]

Parents, what can parents do?

[D]

So parents can talk to their kids, first off. And believe me, I'm a parent too, and I know this is hard. Like it's. You don't think about sitting down with your 11 year old and your kids are younger. Right.

[A]

Seven and nine. But it actually makes me feel like I have a conversation. What my 9 year old plays on his iPad when he plays and ask about how he plays games.

[D]

Ask about if he knows what a loot box is. Or ask a gotcha poll. You heard of that? I went and looked. I went down the rabbit hole looking at YouTube videos of people looking at gacha polls. It's basically like a sl. It's inside of a game, but it's like you're playing a slot machine. It's like this bright, vibrant thing is happening and, oh, you might win or you might not. So, yeah, talk to your kids.

[A]

Yeah, I'm going to. Because it definitely worries me. You have something else that's kind of bright and shiny that's happening as I do. You have a new podcast out.

[D]

Yes, it's called the Drink. It's a whole separate thing. It's called the Drink with Kate Snow. We've been around for a while doing interviews. I've been doing interviews since 2017 with prominent people. It's always sitting down over a drink. That's why it's called the Drink. Asking them how they got to where they are, that's the whole theme. Right? And they pick the drink, by the way, and it's not always alcohol. People always think it's like always martinis. No, they pick, but.

[A]

Well, then I'm not into it.

[D]

But it's been so enlightening and so fun and I learn something every single time from whoever I'm sitting, you know. Now we've launched a podcast. The first episode is Mel Robbins, who's amazing, you know, the life guru.

[A]

Yes, I'm obsessed with Mel Robbins, but.

[D]

Her story, like you might. We all know her, but we don't necessarily know how she became Mel Robbins is really fascinating.

[A]

Keith Snow, thank you.

[D]

So fun to talk to you.

[A]

Thank you.

[D]

And about serious stuff too.

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If you or someone that you know is struggling with a gambling problem. Help is in fact available. You can call the National Problem gambling helpline at 522-4700. Okay, we're going to take a very quick break, but when we come back, Tesla is shifting gears. Why? The carmaker is halting production on two of its car models. Stay with us for the headlines.

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And we are back with here's the Superman we see news. Let's get to some headlines. The FBI searched Fulton County's election hub in Georgia on Wednesday. According to county officials, they were looking for records relating to the 2020 election. NBC News correspondent Aaron Gilchrist is in Atlanta.

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We watched for at least seven or eight hours as FBI agents were filling moving vans with items they were taking from the Fulton County, Georgia Election center today. Fulton county leaders say that they believe agents took 700 boxes of documents related to the elections of 2020, and they have concerns about where those documents have been taken to and they don't exactly know what's going to happen to them in the long run.

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National Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard also visited the election hub. Fulton county was central to Trump's challenges to the 2020 results. A state criminal case against President Trump for election interference related to his phone call with Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to, quote unquote, find votes was dropped earlier on in this year, the prosecutor there cited in part the extreme difficulty and impracticality of prosecuting a sitting president. Senator Amy Klobuchar is jumping into the Minnesota governor race after Tim Walz dropped his bid for a third term. The four term Minnesota senator is now the likely Democratic frontrunner, with no other major party contenders currently in the race. Meanwhile, you have a crowded Republican gubernatorial primary taking shape with former state Senator Scott Jensen, MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell and others vying for the nomination. However, GOP candidate Chris Medell, the lawyer representing the ICE agent who fatally shot Renee Goode, dropped out of the race earlier this week, saying he couldn't support the GOP approach to immigration enforcement. The Justice Department filed federal charges against the man who allegedly sprayed Congresswoman Ilhan Omar with apple cider vinegar during that Minneapolis town hall Tuesday. Anthony Kazmir check rushed at Omar just after she called for Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem to resign. Elon Musk is saying Tesla is going to stop making Model S and X vehicles to focus on robotaxis and humanoid robots. Those cars helped propel Tesla's rise from startup to the world's most valuable automaker. Tesla released fourth quarter earnings this week, beating analysts earnings expectations, but showed signs of some weakness, with overall revenue down 3% from 2024. Melania Trump's documentary Melania is premiering at the Kennedy center in D.C. before this worldwide release on Friday. The film chronicles the 20 days leading up to Donald Trump's second inauguration. Amazon MGM acquired the nearly two hour film for an estimated get this, $40 million and spent an additional 35 million on marketing and promotion. It is still unclear how much the first lady actually received. The film, though, will stream exclusively on Amazon Prime Video after its theatrical run. And finally, it's the endless salad bar, the hot trays, the desserts galore. The all you could eat buffet that felt like gourmet dining when you were a little kid. It is staging this major return searches on Yelp were up over 250% in 2025. Maybe it's nostalgia, maybe it's comfort. Maybe it is a sign of the times when stretch and a dollar matters. The promise of a full plate with seconds and of course, thirds feels less like indulgence and more like really good math. So the next time that you pull up to your favorite version of a grand buffet, make sure you have some sharp elbows. All right, that is going to do it for us at here's this group from NBC News. I'm Yasmin Vestugin. We'll be back tomorrow with whatever the day may bring. And if you like what you heard, subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. We'll see you tomorrow.

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Where was she? The disappearance of Carrie Farmer was quite unlike any other because Carrie hadn't exactly vanished, but retreated beyond the shadows to release rage in torrents of text messages.

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And it just went on and on.

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And on, beyond diabolical, beyond the macabre. To murder a story straight out of left field. You're on edge as to what's going to happen next. I'm Keith Morrison, and this is Something About Carrie, an all new podcast from dateline. Listen to all episodes now. Wherever you get your podcasts.