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Ann Coulter, now you see her, now you don't.

Hello again, Marlonalny, back with To the Point.

Anne Coulter is a right-wing provocateur, who was scheduled to speak last week at UC Berkeley where the free speech movement began in the 1960s. University officials say they canceled her appearance due to fear of violent protest, then re-invited her at a quieter time on campus. After angry exchanges about hypocrisy and media manipulation, Coulter never appeared. But Berkeley's not the only campus

accused of liberal orthodoxy. Are students being shielded from challenging ideas, or are ideological

agitators using the threat of violence to market their way of thinking? Later on today's

talking point, one of the world's most controversial figures gets a White House invitation.

First, here's the news.

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Hello again, Mormon Altony, back with To the Point. Many conservatives claim that American colleges and universities are bastions of liberal orthodoxy, shielding students from alternative

ways of thinking. What better place for a protest than UC Berkeley? What better agent of

controversy than Anne Coulter?

That's our main program today.

On our talking point later, President Rodrigo Duterte has encouraged extrajudicial killings in the Philippines.

Eight or nine thousand people have been murdered in the name of his war on drugs.

Now President Trump has invited Duterte to the White House. First is news update. Congressional Leaders have been murdered in the name of his war on drugs. Now, President Trump has invited Duterte to the White House.

First, this news update, congressional leaders of both parties have agreed to a $1.1 trillion

spending program.

According to Bloomberg, it largely tracks Democratic priorities and rejects most of President

Donald Trump's wish list.

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