Trump: We Don’t Need No Education Department

Start Here

ABC News

Politics, Daily News, News

4.6 • 6.1K Ratings

🗓️ 13 March 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Educators react to the gutting of the Education Department. Lawyers press the case of Columbia protester Khalil Mahmoud. And Canada and European nations press ahead with retaliatory tariffs against the US. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Ready to launch your business? Get started with the commerce platform made for entrepreneurs.
0:04.8	Shopify is specially designed to help you start, run and grow your business with easy customizable themes that let you build your brand.
0:12.5	Marketing tools that get your products out there. Integrated shipping solutions that actually save you time.
0:17.5	From startups to scaleups, online, in person, and on the go. Shopify is made for
0:22.9	entrepreneurs like you. Sign up for your $1 a month trial at Shopify.com slash setup.
0:30.1	It's Thursday, March 13th, and what happens when you erase half a department? We start here.
0:38.5	Hundreds of federal education workers have been expelled from their jobs.
0:43.3	I felt really weird to wake up this morning and be like, wow, what am I going to do?
0:49.4	The Trump administration says students won't be hurt, but education officials say the math just doesn't add up.
0:55.8	Federal prosecutors take a protester to court.
0:58.5	And I hear freedom of speech, freedom speech, freedom of speech. Can you stay in a movie
1:01.9	theater and yell fire?
1:02.9	Why, U.S. officials say they're within their rights to kick him out of the country, and they're
1:07.1	done being polite.
1:08.3	He's attacking Canadian families, workers and businesses,
1:12.7	and we cannot let him succeed.
1:15.9	With a new prime minister at the helm,
1:18.1	Canadians are stealing themselves for an even bigger trade war.
1:23.3	From ABC News, this is Start Here.
1:26.8	I'm Brad Milky.
1:27.5	Thank you. From ABC News, this is Start Here. I'm Brad Milkey.
1:35.8	When President Trump announced he would sign an executive order to eliminate the Department of Education, people were shocked, but not necessarily surprised.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from ABC News, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of ABC News and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.