Tuesday, April 15, 2025
The 7
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🗓️ 15 April 2025
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Tuesday briefing: Kilmar Abrego García; Harvard funding freeze; JD Vance drops trophy; severe weather; Katy Perry; and more
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| 0:00.0 | The question is preposterous. How can I smuggle a terrorist to the United States? |
| 0:04.5 | I don't have the power to return him to the United States. |
| 0:08.6 | El Salvador's president said he won't return a wrongly deported Maryland man. |
| 0:14.8 | That's where we're starting The Seven from the Washington Post. |
| 0:18.1 | I'm Hannah Jewell. It's Tuesday, April 15th. Don't forget it's tax day. |
| 0:23.1 | Let's get you caught up with today's seven stories. Yesterday, President Donald Trump met with |
| 0:30.6 | Salvador and President Nayy Buckele at the White House. Buckele is a key player in Trump's mass deportation plans. El Salvador has agreed to |
| 0:40.4 | accept deportations from the U.S. One case in particular has become a flashpoint. Kilmar Abrago-Garcia |
| 0:48.8 | is a Salvadoran immigrant who is married to a U.S. citizen. Last month, he was mistakenly deported to a brutal |
| 0:55.8 | mega prison in El Salvador. Federal courts have ordered that the Trump administration takes steps |
| 1:02.3 | to bring back Abrago Garcia. The Supreme Court has largely agreed, but Trump officials have |
| 1:08.6 | suggested that they are not bound to follow the court orders. |
| 1:12.8 | And Buckele said yesterday that his country will not return him. You heard him speaking in the Oval |
| 1:18.6 | office at the top of the show. Trump officials and Buckele have alleged that Abrago Garcia is a |
| 1:24.3 | member of a criminal gang. But his lawyers and a federal judge say there is no evidence for |
| 1:29.8 | this. Trump also told reporters yesterday that he was open to deporting U.S. citizens if they had |
| 1:36.3 | committed violent crimes. If it's a homegrown criminal, I have no problem. Now, we're studying the laws right now. Pam is studying. |
| 1:47.3 | If we can do that, that's good. And I'm talking about violent people. I'm talking about really bad people. |
| 1:52.1 | Really bad people. Every bit as bad as the one's coming in. |
| 1:56.0 | According to experts, there is no legal way to deport a U.S. citizen. |
| 2:10.5 | Thank you. experts, there is no legal way to deport a U.S. citizen. The Trump administration froze $2.2 billion in federal funding to Harvard. That's number two. Since Trump returned to office in January, |
| 2:21.9 | his administration has been cracking down on what it calls rampant anti-Semitism and leftist ideology |
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