Zohran Mamdani: “Thirty minutes after the meeting, [President Trump] called…”

“I mentioned to him that this was part of a larger trend that we had seen of five individuals being detained in or around Columbia University. I gave him a list of those five. Thirty minutes after the meeting, [President Trump] called me and said he had now made the decision to release her. And so I think we see in those decisions the worth of a relationship that is both honest and direct and looking to be productive. And that honesty means.” (07:46–07:52)

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