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Chris Murphy: “If the President of the United States gets to deny funds to…”

Featuring: Chris Murphy, Democratic | U.S. Senate from Connecticut

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Shelley Capito SNAPS BACK at Chris Murphy over university civil rights amendment

Published | Video Starts at 02:06

… has any right in order to withhold funding just because they think there are too many liberal professors on campus. And I will just say, if this does become normalized, If the President of the United States gets to deny funds to universities because they don't like particular political viewpoints, that is a Pandora's box. that is hard to ever again close. And no Republican on this committee would want a Democratic president cutting off funds to their state universities just because they think that there are too many conservative voices on campus. (02:06–02:25)

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