Welcome to this episode of the award-winning Best of Left podcast. If you've been paying attention,

the weaponization of the government against Trump's political and ideological enemies is exactly

what you would have seen coming. And now, it's here. For those looking for a quick

overview, the sources providing our top takes in about

50 minutes today includes American Prestige, Democracy Now, the Tom Hartman program,

Velshi, Factually with Adam Conover, and Hassan Piker.

Then in the additional deeper dives half of the show, there will be more in four

sections.

Section A, free speech can be terrorism, followed by Section B, opposing Trump can be terrorism.

Section C, the DOJ, FBI, and the Judiciary.

And finally, Section D, Government Function.

Music And finally, Section D, Government Function. This development really puts, I think everything this political moment faces right on the table.

Mahmoud Khalil is a leading demonstrator on behalf of the cause of, I don't know what

you would even say at this point, Palestinians being able to survive at Columbia University.

My understanding he's a recent graduate of one of their grad schools there, the School for International Public Affairs.

And on Saturday night, as he was returning from an Iftar dinner with his eight-month-old

pregnant wife, Mahmoud, who is a green card holder and his wife, who was an American citizen, uh, were

intercepted, uh, in their building by plainclothes officers who turned out to be, uh, with, uh, with

ICE and told that he was going to be taken into detention, uh, in which, according to his wife and

his attorney, or one of his attorneys, he was

taken with a dubiously legal warrant for his arrest. It's unclear if that arrest was in fact

signed by a judge. And also, the housing that the Khalil family lives in is Columbia University housing, raising a lot of questions about the extent to which Columbia is allowing ICE on their campus and their campus extending to its facilities.

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