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Apr 15
42m 41s

No Surrender

CNN
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First: Harvard is refusing to give in to White House demands the university says threaten its independence, even though billions of dollars in federal funding are on the line. 


Plus: The Trump Administration is refusing to bring back a man they admitted in court was mistakenly deported to a notorious prison in El Salvador. 


And: Dana talks to Kara Swisher about the landmark antitrust trial happening right now that could dismantle Mark Zuckerberg's trillion-dollar empire. 

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