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Beto O'Rourke: “Columbia made a $200 million deal [with Donald Trump].”

Featuring: Beto O'Rourke, Democratic | Former Candidate, Governor of Texas

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Published | Video Starts at 14:25

… have the resources and the power to fight this guy and to stop him, who instead right now are bending the knee. It's the big Ivy League universities. You saw Columbia made a $200 million deal [with Donald Trump]. Harvard is looking at a 500, half a billion dollars that they're going to give him for what, I don't know. (14:25–14:29)

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