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00:00I don't have updates, I have not seen that report, but I can certainly check in with our National Security Council.
00:16Sure. First, when it comes to Harvard, as I said, the President has been quite clear they must follow federal law.
00:22He also wants to see Harvard apologize, and Harvard should apologize for the egregious anti-Semitism that took place on their college campus against Jewish American students.
00:37Everyone was looking to see who would be the first universities to stand up to to the Trump administration.
00:44And I'm really, really heartened that it is Harvard, one of the nation's oldest institutions, certainly one of the most well endowed with, you know, a lot of, frankly, political connections.
00:57I mean, this could be this could be a game changer in terms of saving saving the sector.
01:14The Harvard University Office of the President is taking a very different stance.
01:39They're saying, look, we have taken very, very strong stances and positions to curb what you might perceive as being anti-Semitism on our campus.
01:50We do not think that what you're doing is lawful.
01:54And we will not allow the federal government to essentially decide what happens on university campuses.
02:00I don't think that there is necessarily a grand plan that Donald Trump has to destroy higher education.
02:18But I do think that it is an instinct of leaders who have authoritarian tendencies to want to get rid of dissent and critique.
02:29And so much dissent and critique historically comes out of college campuses in the 1930s, during the Great Depression, in the 1960s and 70s, during the civil rights movement.
02:42And, of course, what we saw with protests on campus last year.
02:46This is the place where where people have the time, energy and ability to dissent from popular consensus or certainly from state consensus.
02:57And so I think that it's not surprising that Donald Trump sees university campuses as being not just hotbeds of activism, but places that pose a threat to him.
03:13And Dr. Gay, at Harvard, does calling for the genocide of Jews violate Harvard's rules of bullying and harassment?
03:21Yes or no?
03:23It can be, depending on the context.
03:25Yes.
03:27You know, depending on their viewpoint.
03:42And it's, again, this is not just about pro-Palestine speech.
03:45And I really want to get that across here.
03:46This is people who do gender research, people who do research on race, people who do research about like, you know, uterine fibroids.
03:55Anything that kind of broadly can be seen as conceived as somehow woke or relating to diversity, I think those people are feeling an extraordinary chill.
04:07And certainly I feel it myself.
04:09Shut it down!
04:23Shut it down!
04:24Shut it down!
04:25La Colombia administrativa took the position
04:28that if we just accept this,
04:30it's going to go away.
04:32It's better than engaging in years and years
04:34of litigation.
04:36We saw in that instance
04:37that it wasn't an effective approach.
04:40Now the Trump administration
04:42is talking about federal oversight
04:44of the private university
04:48and implementing
04:49its demands.
04:52There is also a great deal
04:54que nuestros miembros de facultades van a sentir en los próximos meses
05:00cuando los 2 millones de dólares empiezan a impactar los trabajos,
05:05su investigación, su scholarship,
05:06si pueden contratar postdocs,
05:09si pueden contratar personas para sus labios,
05:13si pueden hacer investigación crítica.
05:24El menacing espectro de left-wing repression ha estado creciendo
05:32por años y no ha habido nada como lo que ha sucedido en los últimos 3 años.
05:36Ellos tooken over our colleges and universidades
05:40y luego infiltraron our grade schools.
05:42Creo que se ve un ataque
05:45en lo que la Trump administration ha llamado
05:49woke ideology, sin definirlo.
05:51En la misma manera que ellos han atacado a DEI
05:55sin definirlo.
05:56Y así, creo que hay un ataque en la currículum,
06:02en los libros,
06:03en todos los diferentes mecanismos que son utilizados
06:07para expulsar a diferencia.
06:09Y así, como se empiezan en este proceso,
06:13creo que hay más advocacia para los votos,
06:17para los actos de la administración.
06:20Pero en el immediate termo, en el short termo,
06:23creo que la main defensa de la institución
06:26que van a tener que engajar en es
06:28dependiendo a los courts.
06:31El Congreso no ha stood up
06:33para el presidente.
06:35Y así, creo que si estamos esperando
06:37para el Congreso,
06:38de acto,
06:39podemos esperar un tiempo.
06:40So there is no free speech
06:43or academic speech
06:44or autonomy exemption
06:47to the civil rights conditions
06:49for receiving federal money.
06:51Now, the exact procedures
06:53for how one is to enforce civil rights rules
06:57is a little bit ambiguous
06:59and there's some question about
07:00whether the administration is following
07:02all of the necessary procedures there.
07:04But the general issue is
07:06that the administration is concerned
07:08about the universities failing
07:09to uphold civil rights.
07:10And since the funding
07:12from these agencies is conditioned
07:14on compliance with civil rights,
07:16they are threatening to withhold that money.
07:25And I think the method
07:28of the Trump administration
07:29is to raise issues
07:31in the hopes of reaching compromises
07:35or outcomes that are more to their liking.
07:37So even if this doesn't result
07:39in the change of the nonprofit status
07:42of the university,
07:43raising that prospect may make university leaders
07:47think about what a reasonable compromise
07:49might look like.