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🗓️ 14 March 2025
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0:00.0 | Good evening. I'm Omna Nawaz. Jeff Bennett is away. On the news hour tonight, universities face uncertain futures as they become targets of the Trump administration. Ethics watchdogs raise alarm about the president and others profiting from their positions and using that power to market products. |
0:22.9 | And we examine the impact of the Trump administration's dramatic flashing of the federal |
0:27.7 | workforce. |
0:29.3 | The magnitude of this administratively is unparalleled. parallel. Welcome to the news hour. |
0:47.3 | We begin tonight with the Trump administration's crackdown on college campuses. |
0:52.3 | This afternoon, lawyers released cell phone footage |
0:55.0 | showing the arrest of former Columbia University graduate student, |
0:59.0 | Mahmoud Khalil. |
1:00.0 | The government is trying to deport Khalil |
1:02.0 | over his role in pro-Palestinian protests at the school last year. |
1:06.0 | The video shows plainclothes officers handcuffing Khalil |
1:10.0 | as his wife, whose eight months |
1:11.5 | pregnant, pleads for information while talking to their lawyer. |
1:14.9 | Can you, can you please specify what agency is taking him, please? |
1:20.9 | Excuse me. |
1:21.9 | Nobody, they're not talking to me. |
1:23.7 | I don't know. |
1:25.8 | Federal officials today also announced more moves tied to the Columbia |
1:29.3 | protests, arresting a Palestinian woman who allegedly overstayed her student visa and revoking |
1:35.4 | the visa of an Indian doctoral student who, they say, advocated for violence and terrorism. |
1:41.2 | Meanwhile, the Department of Education today announced new investigations into more than 50 |
1:46.0 | colleges for alleged racial discrimination, part of President Trump's campaign to end |
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