'Wow': MSNBC host stunned by 'the hypocrisy of Marco Rubio' on free speech issue
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio is defending his decision to revoke visas from legal immigrants who engaged in pro-Palestinian advocacy, but he didn't always feel that way.
MSNBC host Ayman Mohyeldin on Saturday played a video of Rubio defending his recent actions.
"If you apply for a visa to enter the United States and be a student, and you tell us that the reason why you're coming to the United States is not just because you want to write op eds, but because you want to participate in movements that are involved in doing things like vandalizing universities, harassing students, taking over buildings, creating a ruckus, we're not going to give you a visa," Rubio said. "If you lie to us and get a visa and then enter the United States and with that visa participate in that sort of activity, we're going to take away your visa."
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Mohyeldin noted that "there's absolutely no evidence that this young woman has engaged in any of the activity," and then played some video of Rubio at a conservative conference in 2022.
"There's now a speech code, right? Every single person in this room, and the overwhelming majority of people that you know are one word away. It doesn't matter if you're 13 years old when you said it, you're one word, you're one statement, you're one retweet, you're one like away from destroying your life," Rubio said at the time. "There are kids in America that have had their admissions to a college revoked. There are now certain things that you're not allowed to say on a college campus."
The host said, "Wow."
"Beyond the hypocrisy of Marco Rubio," Mohyeldin said, "there's another huge flaw in what the Trump administration is actually arguing here."
He then pointed out the Trump's DOJ was essentially claiming these students interfered with Joe Biden's foreign policy, which Trump himself opposed.