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🗓️ 16 April 2025
⏱️ 44 minutes
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0:00.0 | A federal judge calls out the Trump administration saying they've done nothing to facilitate the return of a deported man to the United States, but the president says he has no plans to bring him back. |
0:12.0 | So what happens next? And President Trump issues a new threat to Harvard University as he tries to bend it to his will. |
0:20.0 | A Harvard professor says it is truly Orwellian, |
0:22.7 | and he's my guest tonight. Plus, George Clooney shares why he felt the need to urge Biden to drop |
0:28.2 | out of the 2024 race tonight on Laura Coates Live. All right, welcome everyone. I'm Omar Jimenez in for Laura. It has already become a bitter legal |
0:41.9 | fight over the man mistakenly reported to a notorious prison in El Salvador. And it looks like it's |
0:47.4 | getting uglier. The federal judge overseeing the case is now telling DOJ lawyers, |
0:51.4 | cancel your vacations, clear your appointments, and get me the information |
0:55.4 | I'm demanding. Now, Judge Palacini says the Trump administration has done nothing to show |
1:02.0 | it's complying with an order to facilitate the release of Kilmar Armando Abrago-Garrago-Garcia. |
1:07.4 | Now, she wants two weeks now of intense discovery, which means the government will have to fork over what it's done to get him out of prison. |
1:16.0 | And as that hearing was going on, President Trump appeared in a new interview, again trying to brush off responsibility. |
1:23.7 | We won that case, nine to nothing. |
1:26.4 | And basically, that's really a decision that will be made by the government of El Salvador. |
1:33.9 | And right now, this legal battle is being waged over a single word, facilitate. |
1:40.0 | Trump is trying to argue he won a Supreme Court ruling that ordered him to facilitate |
1:44.8 | Abrago Garcia's return. But his administration is going with a very narrow definition of it. |
1:49.8 | They say they don't have to try to get him back, but they won't block him if he finds his own way |
1:55.0 | here. But Judge Sinez, who originally issued the order, isn't buying that. She says, quote, |
1:59.9 | it flies in the face |
2:01.3 | of the plain meaning of the word. |
2:04.0 | And while all this plays out in the courtroom, |
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