Speaker Johnson Issues New Warning To Foreign Students After Mahmoud Khalil Arrest

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When asked about Mahmoud Khalil, Speaker Johnson issued a new warning to foreign students.

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00:00to have these policies play out. That's where we are.

00:03In your estimation, what crime did Mahmoud Khalil commit

00:08to warrant his arrest, detention, and potential repatriation to the State Department?

00:11Let me tell you something. I went face-down to Andrew Mahmoud Khamenei at the height of that stuff.

00:15When the pro-Palestinian, pro-Hamas protests were there.

00:20I'm telling you, this is my own observation. It's not something I read in the newspaper.

00:23It was dangerous. I met with Jewish students before we went to campus

00:26who were pulled away off campus because they were instructed by the administration

00:30not to come to class, which they paid for, for fear of their physical safety.

00:34The administrators there refused to take control of that campus.

00:38They refused to allow the PD, the police department, to come in and take control.

00:42And it turned into chaos. The president has since been removed.

00:46And now they've got the same problem again. Columbia and other universities.

00:49They have to keep control of campus. The first responsibility of the administration

00:54is ensuring the safety of the students who are paying tuition to be there.

00:57I'm crying out loud. This madness has to stop. We have to get control of it.

01:02This guy apparently was a mastermind of those very things with the gnashing of teeth

01:06and the ripping of clothes and the people screaming at me, wanting to rip me limb from limb

01:10because I was there talking about moral clarity and how there's a right and a wrong.

01:13They were doing that. They disrupted the campus.

01:16They were threatening physical violence of fellow students.

01:19If you're on a student visa, I'm going to say this clearly.

01:22If you are on a student visa and you're in America and you're an aspiring young terrorist

01:26who wants to prey upon your Jewish classmates, you're going home.

01:29We're going to arrest your tail and we're going to send you home where you belong.

01:34And this is just getting started.

01:36So, look, I appreciate free speech. I used to defend it in court.

01:41But this is far beyond the pale of that.

01:44When you are threatening your classmates and spewing anti-Semitism and all this hatred, it's enough.

01:49And I think the American people understand that. They're supporting it.

01:51And I'm glad we have a president who's strong enough to lay down the law.

01:55Thanks a lot.

Speaker Johnson Issues New Warning To Foreign Students After Mahmoud Khalil Arrest

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