and it says have seen incidence of anti semitism. amongst them is columbia university web demonstrations in solidarity with palestinians spot a national student protest movement. hundreds of students, a face, disciplinary action for them, both meant in the protests. now 3, assuming the university saying they were unfairly suspended for the political views . also it was christians, libby reports from you. the columbia university has been under locked down ever since police were called in to clear out an encampment last year, forcing student protesters to get creative here to students to disrupt a history of israel class at bernard college, columbia sister school. the move led to their explosion, which led to a, sitting outside the school president's office, calling for the students to be reinstated. so far their calls for amnesty light calls to divest from israel have not been answered. at the it was extremely disoriented, but these 3 graduate students are taking a different approach. they're suing the university to how would you describe the disciplinary process to go through a surface,

the columbia university has been under locked down ever since police were called in to clear out an encampment last year, forcing student protesters to get creative here to students to disrupt a history of israel class at bernard college, columbia sisters school. the move led to their explosion, which led to a, sitting outside the school president's office calling for the students to be reinstated. so for their calls for amnesty like calls to die, best from israel have not been answered at the it was extremely disoriented. but these 3 graduate students are taking a different approach. they're suing the university, the how would you describe the disciplinary process to go through a circus, kangaroo court. it's just like use the bar as you go. here's new committee. you rewrite the rules as you go, transparency. yeah. after taking part in multiple, unsanctioned demonstrations like this one, each is facing a suspension of a year or more. the lawsuit alleges the university violated its own disciplinary policies and targeted students for their political views. and it's now hearing no evidence the no

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our next guest is a jewish student at columbia university who just wants a safe if ask and normal collegezack, so good to see you this morning. so you obviously are just looking for a normal college experience. what are you getting? >> yeah. i'm not getting that. i mean, i try to go to class, and can this was more of a problem last year, but with it starting again in this year, i mean, i try the go to class, and i have friends who were rejected from if campus when they had an 8:40 class, they're not able to get their education that they're paying columbia university all this money for. and people especially last year were going through the streets and through campus and being yelled at and being told that hamas' military brigade was going to come for them. and it's really -- these people who are doing these to protests, they feel, as soon as they feel like they're doing it for the right cause, they're only impacting everyone else on campus. i mean, i talked with all of my non-jewish friends too, and they'll say it's just annoying when these protests are starting and the gates have to clos

joining me now is edward fishman, an adjunct professor of international and public affairs at columbia universitye obama administration, where he led efforts on economic sanctions in response to russia's aggression in ukraine. also a member of the team handling sanctions on iran. he's the author of a groundbreaking new book, choke points american american power in the age of economic warfare. edward, good to have you on the show. thank you. >> thanks for having. >> me. >> on today would've been a great conversation anyway. but given where we are in the world with ukraine and tariffs and these tariffs that are coming in on canada and mexico in a few days, remarkably important conversation. donald trump has talked a lot about tariffs being the most beautiful word in the english language. covered tariffs for a lot of years. they're a thing. they are sometimes really useful and beautiful and sometimes not useful at all. and damaging. why is he so attached to this? >> so look. >> tariffs historically have been used really for economic reasons in the very early period of american history. you know, geo

great privilege and a great on a to welcome and here on to the tunnel on, on the international columbia university professor economist public policy analyst with a hill in washington likes to coal, you what kremlin mouthpiece? hello jeffrey sachs. good to be with you. how are you? i'm very well indeed. it's great to have you on the program. you know that speech you just gave the other day of the you call them and he was a bit of a school to speech. i've got to tell you, i mean, you really sucked it to him that jeffrey wasn't just the case of stone, cold stats. what did you get any love from those in attendance? well, from those independence, things were fine. it's. it's those that weren't in attendance, but i'm hoping i made some contact with europe. but as i emphasized it needs to have a european foreign policy. it needs to re engage with russia. it needs to have normal diplomacy. i, europe is, it's a region of 450000000 people in the union. i, a 20 trillion dollar economy, a complimentary to the russian economy. they should be trading and mutually prosperous. instead a, it's, everything's broken

he's up from the bootstraps rise to taken him from small town in ohio to columbia university. and he was there. the head of the famous roosevelt trust during the campaign and as chief speechwriter fdr became more he became fdr is most white house aide and he played a particularly important role in helping to solve the banking crisis. pragmatic, not ideological. molly, was fdr his closest, most intimate advisor. time magazine. according to a popular vote, roosevelt was so powerful he could get you a meeting with raymond moley. so that's moley. then there's louis douglas, the director of the budget. douglas did have an ideology free market capitalism. he was born into a family of wealthy arizona copper barons with a record of mistreating their workers. douglas, his father and were responsible for the notorious. bisbee deportation, in which 1000 union activists rounded up in bisbee, arizona forced onto railroad cars at gunpoint and abandoned the middle of the desert as congressman. douglas was the strongest voice in washington for slashing government spending. douglas, whose cons

he's up from the bootstraps rise to taken him from small town in ohio to columbia university. and he was there. the head of the famous roosevelt trust during the campaign and as chief speechwriter fdr became more he became fdr is most white house aide and he played a particularly important role in helping to solve the banking crisis. pragmatic, not ideological. molly, was fdr his closest, most intimate advisor. time magazine. according to a popular vote, roosevelt was so powerful he could get you a meeting with raymond moley. so that's moley. then there's louis douglas, the director of the budget. douglas did have an ideology free market capitalism. he was born into a family of wealthy arizona copper barons with a record of mistreating their workers. douglas, his father and were responsible for the notorious. bisbee deportation, in which 1000 union activists rounded up in bisbee, arizona forced onto railroad cars at gunpoint and abandoned the middle of the desert as congressman. douglas was the strongest voice in washington for slashing government spending. douglas, whose cons

democratic strategist and professor of practice with the school of professional studies at columbia universityblican strategist. they are both msnbc political analyst. okay, they're they're like 5011 people running for the democratic nomination for mayor. but andrew cuomo getting into the race is i mean, that that is a huge moment. is it his nomination to lose? >> no. >> now, although. the polling has had him. >> way. >> way up, he hasn't. >> really had an up. >> he hasn't really. been challenged. >> by any of his opponents in this democratic primary and. >> with with all the groups. >> that are certainly going to have something to say about those. the reason. >> that. >> he had to step down, right. and the concerns around the accusations. >> about the abuse of women. >> while in office. the working families party has already put out. >> a statement. >> his challenger certainly have done that. so once he gets into that mix, i think those his poll numbers will come down a bit and then we'll see what really happens. we only have like four months, so it's not his. >> to lose. >> but polling says

economist and the director of the center for sustainable development in the earth institute at columbia university. professor sachs, it's great to have you on the show. thank you for making time for us. of course, i thought i'd start, you know, after all of your warnings over the years. and i and i follow your work closely and certainly your public comments closely, i was curious to hear what your take on what we witnessed in the oval office on friday and how you interpret what happened on friday. we're in the end. >> game of a. >> 30 year, 30 year attempt by. >> the. >> united states to. move the us military. >> and the nato alliance into the black. >> sea region. specifically to. >> ukraine and. >> to georgia. this idea goes back. >> to 1994. >> when it was basically decided. >> within the clinton administration. it was laid. >> out. >> in detail by. brzezinski in 1997, in his. >> book, the grand chessboard. >> i've been watching this. >> year by year for these 30 years, and i believe that it would come to grief and it's coming. >> to grief. ukraine has lost. perhaps a million people. to death a

political analyst for nbc news and msnbc and a lecturer in international and public affairs at columbia university. beyond politics, she's a vocal advocate for representation and inclusion. you can read more about her belief in the promise of america in her 2019 memoir, "moving forward." this conversation tonight, prior to joining abc news, brittany shepherd was a regular political analyst on cnn, msnbc, n.p.r. and siriusxm and now you can find her work across all abc news platforms like streaming, radio, tiktok, podcasts, 538, the list goes on. anushka is a senior here at the college studying social studies and african-american studies with a focus in women's rights, racial justice and the law. she's a fellow member of the forum and a trained lobbyist for voting right, gun violence prevention and racial justice. essentially, we have the opportunity to hear from incredible women tonight. please join me in a warm round of applause to welcome our guests to the forum. thank you. [applause] >> hi, everybody. we'll be right on time. i feel compelled just to ask you first, how are you? how are you doing

. >> edward fishman is an adjunct professor of international and public affairs at columbia university, author of the important book choke points american power in the age of economic warfare. all right, still to come on another hour of velshi the uk and france have agreed to work with ukraine on a ceasefire deal to end russia's war, filling a gap left open by donald trump after what can only be described as a diplomatic disaster in the oval office on friday. plus, as the trump white house moves to control and restrict the white house press pool. i'll talk to jim acosta, longtime white house correspondent who spent years holding trump to account. another hour of velshi starts right now. i begin this hour with donald trump's economy and republicans plans, as they laid out in as they're laid out in a newly passed budget to slash the health care program that serves 1 in 5 americans. they're doing that in order to pay for tax cuts that disproportionately benefit the rich. that bill now heads to the senate, where republicans want to put up a smoke screen to obscure that enormous cost from t

[applause] in a matter of weeks and months, and additional hearings, university presidents from harvard, penn, columbiare were forced to resign. five down and so many to go. [applause] now here we are today. just look at the actions of barnard college's so-called leadership last week. on the same day that the world was mourning the murders of babies by hamas terrorists, pro-hamas terrorist sympathizers took over barnard college's campus building, spewing anti-semitic and anti-israel hate, assaulting a staff member and sending them to the hospital. meanwhile, barnard's so-called leadership held off on calling on the law enforcement stationed outside, instead offering up a meeting with the college president to negotiate. this is not leadership. as jewish students -- [applause] as jewish students at barnard and colleges and universities around the nation fear for their lives and safety, college leaders continue to pander to the pro-hamas demands. to the jewish students listening in here today, do not relent or give in. america and the force of a trump administration are behind you, and we will not stop fi

university, his m.a. and ph.d. in history from columbia. but he's and hunter now so he's completed cycle before becoming eighth cuny chancellor. he served on faculty of hunter as professor of black and puerto rican latinos and as director of the center for puerto rican studies. after returning to island to serve as a chief advisor to its governor, he came back to new york as president of hostels community college, and then as president of my alma mater, queens, and is about to mark his sixth anniversary as chancellor, the first latino to head the university in its 173 year history. so welcome home, fellow. needless say it's a thrill to welcome the man the hour civic leader, community activist, political strategist, government official philanthropy and overall force of nature. luis miranda. i. i have the honor of serving with him on the board of nyc tourism, but that's just a one of many organization that he somehow manages to be at small ously gracing all with his strong presence and wise counsel. the hispanic federation which he founded, t

columbia and northwestern. and i know the incoming secretary of education linda mcmahon, attorney general pam bondi and the teams including leo terrel will hold these universitiesle for their failures. and the adl work helping expose the rot on higher ed campuses has been invaluable to these efforts. and i am honored to join president trump in this fight earning his nomination to serve in his cabinet as the next u.s. ambassador to the united nations. we know the united nations is indeed at the den of anti-semitism. infected with the same rampant at the israel and anti-american hate and moral rot that has polluted america's higher

university. she has covered the south her entire career, including 19 years at the journal and, four years at the state and columbia. she has covered presidential primaries. the snack industry, the banks and natural man made disasters from hurricane katrina to the emanuel church, slings. she has written features about nascar roller coasters, mountain men beauty pageants and waffle house. valerie in raleigh with her husband and two children. her book the devil at his elbow is an instant york times best seller and has been described by one reviewer as, and i'm quoting, the definitive account of the murdoch murders. forget the podcasts, the tv specials, the documentaries. this is version of the story that you want to read. and once you pick it up, you won't be able to put it down. i absolutely agree with the statement that i read the entire book on sunday. please join me in welcoming valerie bauerlein. this is amazing. okay. this is something that your friend tommy tomlinson always does. you? yeah. yeah. and i'd like to start with a story. and like all good stories. i think i'll start at the beginning, which is of 202