Trump’s War Against Students, Musk and Rubio Argue, Trump Threatens Russia Sanctions [Preview]
The Socialist Program with Brian Becker
The Socialist Program
4.7 • 587 Ratings
🗓️ 8 March 2025
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
The Trump administration is cancelling $400 million in contracts with Columbia University because it says the university is not protecting Jewish students, and students who were protesting Israel’s genocide in Gaza are being targeted in a new wave of repression. We discuss this and more breaking news.
Brian Becker is joined by Layan Sima Fuleihan, a Palestinian organizer with the Shut It Down for Palestine coalition, a popular educator, the Education Director at The People’s Forum, and an editor at 1804 Books.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to The Socialist Program. |
| 0:04.0 | This is John Prysner, a producer of this show. |
| 0:07.0 | This is a preview of a patrons-only episode. |
| 0:10.0 | Subscribe at patreon.com slash the Socialist Program to hear the full episode, |
| 0:16.0 | get access to all our patrons-only content, including live Q&A seminars with Brian Becker, and help |
| 0:22.5 | keep this show on the air. |
| 0:27.3 | Trump threatens new sanctions against Russia. Elon Musk and Marco Rubio fight it out at the latest |
| 0:34.0 | Trump cabinet meeting. The Trump administration is canceling $400 million in contracts with Columbia University |
| 0:40.4 | because it says the university is not protecting Jewish students. |
| 0:44.6 | And students who were protesting Israel's genocide in Gaza are being targeted in a new wave of repression. |
| 0:51.6 | I'm Leanne Seema Fullahan here with Brian Becker, and this is in the news, |
| 0:55.9 | a segment of the Socialist program, a patrons-only show. |
| 1:00.1 | Brian, we're recording here at 3 p.m. Friday, March 7. Each hour, there's new breaking news. |
| 1:08.0 | Sometimes one doesn't know where to look. There's so much to talk about, but we're here to sort through all of these breaking news. Sometimes one doesn't know where to look. There's so much to talk about, but we're |
| 1:12.2 | here to sort through all of these breaking news. But I want to start with what we just mentioned in |
| 1:18.4 | the introduction. The Trump administration just announced after sending DOJ officials to 10 |
| 1:26.1 | universities across the country to investigate claims of anti-Semitism. |
| 1:31.8 | The Trump administration said that they are going to be canceling $400 million in grants and |
| 1:38.3 | contracts to Columbia University. There's a New York Times article on the front page at the |
| 1:43.8 | current moment, and let's start with the headline. |
| 1:47.0 | Trump administration cancels 400 million in grants and contracts to Columbia University. |
| 1:52.4 | The White House blamed the university's failure to protect Jewish students from harassment |
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