'You Are A War Criminal!': Pro-Palestine Protestors Shout Down Hillary Clinton During Columbia Event

During an event at Columbia University's Institute of Global Politics, protestors interrupted and shouted down Hillary Rodham Clinton.

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00:00 Thank you very much.

00:01 That's my name.

00:04 That's right.

00:05 Sir, sir, I am not asking you to leave right now.

00:14 We are violating the university code of—I'm asking you to leave.

00:23 The delegates will now escort you out of the building.

00:27 Thank you.

00:28 Can you— Sir?

00:31 Thank you so much.

00:36 Thank you so much.

00:42 Free Palestine!

00:45 Free Palestine!

00:48 Free Palestine!

00:51 Free Palestine!

00:54 Free Palestine!

00:56 Let me thank all of you for coming, because this is such an important subject.

01:04 And as you just heard from Melanne, it is one that she and I and so many others have

01:11 been focused on for decades.

01:14 And yelling doesn't solve the problem.

01:17 The kind of hard work and the work that you will hear from the panelists today, I think

01:24 it's important that we—okay, all right, we're going to stop.

01:30 We're going to stop a minute.

01:33 You know what?

01:34 Why don't all of you just interrupt me so that you won't be interrupting our panelists,

01:39 so that we don't have this kind of disruption when we have people who are real experts in

01:45 this area.

01:47 And so I think it's important to focus on the event.

01:55 We're here.

01:56 People are free to protest, but they are not free to disrupt events or classes.

02:02 And that is going to be the standards that we follow here and going forward.

02:10 So when we think about this issue, it is an issue that is very much top of mind.