Good evening. It's Monday, March 10th. We are happy day back from our vacation. We really want to thank Lee Fong, who did a great job as I knew he would, as well as

our team here, who worked with him to produce what I think were five great shows.

And I want to welcome you to a new episode of System Update, our live nightly show that airs

every Monday through Friday at 7 p.m. Eastern exclusively here on Rumble, the Free Speech,

alternative to YouTube.

Tonight, the 2024 Trump campaign

repeatedly vowed during the campaign

to target and punish students on American campuses

for the crime of protesting the Israeli war on Gaza.

And like so many of the campaign's promises,

Trump, for better for worse, is quickly

fulfilling this one as well. Trump first threatened any universities that allowed what he deemed

to be, quote, illegal protest against Israel to suffer a loss of federal funds, whatever illegal

protests might mean.

And then his administration just announced steps to deny Columbia University the epicenter

of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict going all the way back to Barry Weiss when Barry Weiss was

there and tried to get Arab and anti-Israel professors fired, trying to deny them hundreds

of millions of dollars for allegedly

acting with insufficient aggression against their students who were protesting the war, even

though they repeatedly called the NYPD on those students.

But that state-driven attack on free speech rights saw a really major and genuinely disturbing

escalation state as the Trump administration

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