What the Trump Administration Is Doing to Boost Historically Black Colleges

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🗓️ 24 January 2020

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Leonard Haynes, an official at the Education Department, has years of experience in the education field. "President [Donald] Trump has done an outstanding job in assembling a team of dedicated and committed individuals who are willing to ask the hard questions, turn over the rocks, and to raise the issue of how do we make [historically black colleges and universities] more competitive so that they can address the priorities of the nation," he says. We also cover the following stories: President Trump is slated to make history as the first president to attend the March for Life. The Trump administration moves to curb "birth tourism." Veteran journalist Jim Lehrer has died. The Daily Signal podcast is available on Ricochet, Apple Podcasts, Pippa, Google Play, or Stitcher. All of our podcasts can be found at DailySignal.com/podcasts. If you like what you hear, please leave a review. You can also leave us a message at 202-608-6205 or write us at letters@dailysignal.com. Enjoy the show! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is the Daily Signal Podcast for Friday, January 24th. I'm Virginia Allen.
0:11.8	And I'm Kate Trinco. Today we'll feature an exclusive interview
0:15.0	from our colleague Rachel Del Judas. She spoke with one of the speakers at a
0:19.0	forum at the Heritage Foundation about historically black colleges and universities.
0:24.8	She talked with Leonard Haynes, a senior advisor in the Department of Education.
0:30.6	Don't forget if you're enjoying this podcast, please be sure to leave a review and a five-star
0:35.1	rating on Apple Podcast and please encourage others to subscribe. It really does make such a huge
0:40.2	difference. Now on to our top news. Today marks the 47th annual March
0:50.0	for Life which is expected to draw tens of thousands of pro-lifers to Washington, D.C.
0:56.0	to march in support of the lives of unborn babies.
0:59.6	President Donald Trump will appear at the march and speak the first time any president has done so.
1:05.8	When President Trump addressed the March previously, he did so from the Rose Garden via video. On Thursday, the Senate impeachment trial continued.
1:16.0	One of the House impeachment managers, Representative Jerry Nadler,
1:20.0	made the case that it was irrelevant if President Trump had committed an actual crime or not.
1:25.2	Via NBC News.
1:27.1	The President's lawyers argue that impeachment and removal are subject to statutory crimes or to offenses against established law,
1:36.0	that the president cannot be impeached because he has not committed a crime.
1:41.0	This view is completely wrong. It has no support in constitutional
1:46.6	text and structure, original meeting, congressional precedents, common sense,
1:52.1	or the consensus of credible experts.
1:55.0	Nadler also said this, playing an old clip of Senator Lindsey Graham.
2:01.0	And I might say the same thing of then House Manager Lindsey Graham. And I might say the same thing of then-house manager Lindsay Graham, who in President Clinton's
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