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Jay Greene of The Heritage Foundation · Chuck Douglas

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  Speaker 1: Greeting sanitations of welcome my friends to another edition of
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  Speaker 1: The Power Hour.
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  Speaker 2: I'm Chuck Douglas.
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  Speaker 3: You know who you are.
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  Speaker 1: before I get out of here today, one more thing
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  Speaker 1: I hate about Apple phones. I just I discovered this
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  Speaker 1: and it's just, I mean, it's a whole list, a
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  Speaker 1: whole list.
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  Speaker 2: I'm grateful to have a phone.
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  Speaker 1: And a mode of communication and staying in touch with
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  Speaker 1: the world, to the smartphone stuff and all that, but
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  Speaker 1: how how anybody prefers iPhones to androids is beyond me.
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  Speaker 1: I just and every day it seems like there's another
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  Speaker 1: reason for me to despise Apple phones. So I want
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  Speaker 1: to share that. Also, I've got to talk about this
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  Speaker 1: story out of morro County and this deputy. I've I've
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  Speaker 1: talking about it so far this afternoon because I did
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  Speaker 1: not want to, uh, I didn't want to UNLEASHO on
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  Speaker 1: you too hard. I mean I already I already tore
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  Speaker 1: you apart over the fact that we can have a
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  Speaker 1: blasted taco festival in this city without people getting into fistfights. H.
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  Speaker 1: But this is uh, this is something that's been weighing
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  Speaker 1: on me since I heard the story. And uh, I
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  Speaker 1: just I've got some thoughts I want to share, And
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  Speaker 1: of course your phone calls always welcome with that as well.
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  Speaker 1: Donald Trump is in the news every day for one
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  Speaker 1: thing or another. Usually it's bad because it's the news,
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  Speaker 1: it's the media, it's the manibula manipulative mindset that these
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  Speaker 1: people are in. They've got to find some way to uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know, continue to convince you Orange man bad.
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  Speaker 2: And as I've.
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  Speaker 1: Said repeatedly, uh, because so many of my Democrat friends
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  Speaker 1: want to tell me.
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  Speaker 2: You know, you guys are just a cult. You just
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  Speaker 2: believe walks on what.
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  Speaker 1: I don't love Donald Trump. I just love America more
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  Speaker 1: than I hate any person. And up you, on the
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  Speaker 1: other hand, as a a leftist liberal nutcase. You know,
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  Speaker 1: you hate him so much that nothing, nothing good will
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  Speaker 1: ever pass your frontal cortex and submerge itself into your
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  Speaker 1: brain and make any.
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  Speaker 2: Sense to you.
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  Speaker 1: And that makes me sad, because there are good things
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  Speaker 1: about people that even you don't like. And I've tried
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  Speaker 1: to set the standard. And you know, there were times
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  Speaker 1: when Joe Biden had a moment of coherence and he
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  Speaker 1: did something that I thought, Okay, that's that's productive. There
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  Speaker 1: are times when Barack Obama did some things that were productive.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, I continued, I was outraged when Barack Obama,
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  Speaker 1: as President of the United States, stood on a stage
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  Speaker 1: in South Africa and had some fake translator ten feet
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  Speaker 1: behind it. There's no way anybody should have able to
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  Speaker 1: get that close to our president. Whether I liked him
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  Speaker 1: or not, it didn't matter. But I stood up for him,
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  Speaker 1: and I just screamed from the highest radio mountaintop that
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  Speaker 1: the Secret Service has to do a better job. I
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  Speaker 1: defended Michelle when she was taken a task for saying
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  Speaker 1: she was jipped, because people say.
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  Speaker 4: That's a racist term. You can't say that's racist. Jipis
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  Speaker 4: from Gypsy. It's shut up. I credit Bill Clinton. Although
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  Speaker 4: the economy was largely artificial based on the dot com phenomenon,
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  Speaker 4: he did put in place policies that sprung our economy
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  Speaker 4: to life. He did put in place work fair regulations
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  Speaker 4: which forced people who were receiving public assistance to go
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  Speaker 4: out and do something at least to try to provide
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  Speaker 4: for themselves to some extent before getting those government benefits.
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  Speaker 4: I can admit that. And I am a registered Republican.
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  Speaker 4: I am a supporter of what Donald Trump is doing
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  Speaker 4: in the White House, and I am a lover of
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  Speaker 4: this great thing we call the United States of America.
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  Speaker 4: That's simple. If Orange Man bad is your your battle
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  Speaker 4: cry and you cannot see anything good that comes out
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  Speaker 4: of this presidency, I feel bad for you. I really
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  Speaker 4: truly do.
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  Speaker 2: Now.
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  Speaker 1: One of the things that we continue to hear is
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  Speaker 1: the the cuts, the cuts at Harvard. They're concentrating on
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  Speaker 1: Harvard had there are several schools involved, including Colombia and UH.
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  Speaker 1: But anyway, anti Semitism seems to be the banner with
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  Speaker 1: which they want to uh. They want to fly this
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  Speaker 1: story antise. And I don't understand anti Semitism. I don't.
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  Speaker 1: I don't get it. I it's like, you know this,
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  Speaker 1: we sound like Middle Easterners fighting. Oh you know, is
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  Speaker 1: it the Sekhs or is it that who knows? It's stupid.
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  Speaker 1: I don't understand the whole concept of disliking somebody because.
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  Speaker 2: Of their their Jewish faith or their their Jewish.
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  Speaker 1: Heritage, but apparently it's out there and it's what they're
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  Speaker 1: using to uh, to justify the cuts that Harvard is
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  Speaker 1: seeing from federal funds. There's at least one person with
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  Speaker 1: a national platform, if you will, wrote a comment piece
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  Speaker 1: for US News, which the US News used to be
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  Speaker 1: and World Report. Maybe they just gave up on the
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  Speaker 1: World I don't know. But his name is Jay Green,
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  Speaker 1: and the headline of the article is Trump cuts to
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  Speaker 1: schools like Harvard over anti semitism are justified. I want
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  Speaker 1: to get him on the Legacy Retirement Group dot com
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  Speaker 1: phone lines right now.
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  Speaker 2: Say Hello, Jay, how.
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  Speaker 3: Are you good, How are you doing? Thanks for having
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  Speaker 3: me on the show.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I appreciate you being available so quickly. I got
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  Speaker 1: your working I guess in conjunction with Heritage Foundation. They
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  Speaker 1: said you were available, and I couldn't believe you were
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  Speaker 1: available with such short notice. But I do appreciate it.
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  Speaker 1: Does happen to be on this is I said, It's
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  Speaker 1: not just Harvard. There are several schools that are being
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  Speaker 1: either defunded or seeing their funds minimized, and anti Semitism
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  Speaker 1: is the banner headline. It's not the only reason, but
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  Speaker 1: it is the banner headline here, and you're one of
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  Speaker 1: the few people with any sort of national forum that says, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: this is a good idea, it's a good thing, and
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  Speaker 1: President Trump has reason to do so.
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  Speaker 3: Look, it is and you're right that it's not just
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  Speaker 3: anti semitism, it is discrimination, frankly against whites as well
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  Speaker 3: that Harvard has engaged in that other universities have engaged
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  Speaker 3: in the Supreme Court issued decision in the Students for
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  Speaker 3: Fair Admission case saying that these universities had been discriminating
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  Speaker 3: against Asians and whites in their admissions process and that
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  Speaker 3: this was impermissible and that they could not continue. And
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  Speaker 3: there's good reason to believe that they're continuing to do
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  Speaker 3: those things as well. So it's it is a set
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  Speaker 3: of selective universities that have adopted a worldview that there
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  Speaker 3: are different sets of rules. There's one set of rules
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  Speaker 3: for people they oppressors and another set of rules for
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  Speaker 3: people they consider oppressed. How they decide who's an oppressor
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  Speaker 3: and who's oppressed is a whole no other thing. But
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  Speaker 3: they have different rules and they're going to treat them differently.
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  Speaker 3: And that's really not the American way. The American way.
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  Speaker 3: The thing we aspire to is to treat everyone the
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  Speaker 3: same as individuals and by the merits of their accomplishment,
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  Speaker 3: and that that is what Harvard and these other selective
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  Speaker 3: universities should be doing. And that's what I think the
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  Speaker 3: Trump administration is getting at in freezing funds from taxpayers
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  Speaker 3: because they're violating the civil rights of their students by
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  Speaker 3: failing to treat all students equally.
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  Speaker 1: From a lat end point of view, you know, one
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  Speaker 1: of the first things that popped into my mind when
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  Speaker 1: this whole storyline began is why does Harvard need government
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  Speaker 1: money anyway? I mean, it's full of rich people. I've
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  Speaker 1: never seen and I've never understood how so many rich
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  Speaker 1: white people can have problems with rich white people.
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  Speaker 3: That just gasters me.
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  Speaker 2: But what do they get, like eleven billion dollar endowment
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  Speaker 2: or something.
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  Speaker 3: Like it, over fifty billion dollars.
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  Speaker 1: That could keep me at fast food windows for the
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  Speaker 1: rest of my life.
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  Speaker 2: Why do they even need federal funds?
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  Speaker 3: You know, they don't need it. They just want it
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  Speaker 3: because they could take it from you. So I don't
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  Speaker 3: think people understand the scale of it, but they they
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  Speaker 3: have an annual operating budget of close to six billion.
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  Speaker 3: So sure they have a lot of money, but man,
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  Speaker 3: they have a lot of expenses too, because they live high.
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  Speaker 3: And about a quarter of that six billion dollars comes
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  Speaker 3: directly or indirectly from taxpayers. So even though they're a
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  Speaker 3: private university, they are getting a large chunk of their
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  Speaker 3: money from hard working Americans who pay taxes so that
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  Speaker 3: they can indulge whatever craziness they want to indulge. And
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  Speaker 3: I'm with you, I don't see exactly why they need
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  Speaker 3: all this money. And frankly, if they would simply say
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  Speaker 3: we don't want it, they'd be free to run their
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  Speaker 3: university the way they want to. But because they accept
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  Speaker 3: that money, they're obliged to follow certain rules. And in particular,
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  Speaker 3: there's Title six of the Civil Rights Act, and the
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  Speaker 3: Title six of the Civil Rights Act says that they
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  Speaker 3: cannot deny someone and access to the benefits of an
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  Speaker 3: education based on race, color, or national origin, and Jews
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  Speaker 3: are covered under that in the national origin clause. And
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  Speaker 3: so Harvard has been violating the civil rights of Jewish students,
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  Speaker 3: but they've also been violating the rights of white and
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  Speaker 3: Asian students on the basis of color.
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  Speaker 1: This was framed initially as all international students, and I
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  Speaker 1: think that that storyline backfired miserably and quickly, which is
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  Speaker 1: why the anti semitism line became more of a headline.
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  Speaker 1: But initially this they tried to make this all about
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  Speaker 1: just Harvard couldn't bring in any more international students period,
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  Speaker 1: which I think was probably very overturnable this because.
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  Speaker 3: So, yeah, there's a new and there's always a new thing.
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  Speaker 3: You're right with Trump, and and the new thing now
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  Speaker 3: is that is that Harvard has been declared ineligible for
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  Speaker 3: enrolling international students starting in the fall, according to the
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  Speaker 3: Department of Homeland Security because they are failing to cooperate
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  Speaker 3: with enforcement of visa rules. According to the administration, Harvard
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  Speaker 3: has obtained a restraining order from a judge in Boston
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  Speaker 3: and the matter will ultimately be settled in courts. But
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  Speaker 3: that is also a legitimate dispute, which is that Harvard, uh,
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  Speaker 3: you know, has about a third of their enrollment for
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  Speaker 3: overseas from overseas, which is consistent with other selective universities
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  Speaker 3: where it's between a quarter and a half of their
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  Speaker 3: enrollment is foreign students, and they need to help the
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  Speaker 3: US government in enforcing visa rules. That is, when the
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  Speaker 3: students misbehave, if they violate the law, if they break
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  Speaker 3: rules that result in suspension or expulsion, the universities have
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  Speaker 3: to tell the government, so the government knows to revoke
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  Speaker 3: the visas of those students and deport them. And it's
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  Speaker 3: pretty clear that selective universities have been shielding their international
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  Speaker 3: students from the consequences of their actions simply by not
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  Speaker 3: disciplining them. So they don't have the protesters get arrested
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  Speaker 3: for fear that international students will get arrested and then deported.
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  Speaker 3: They don't discipline international students with suspension or expulsion for
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  Speaker 3: fear that they'll be deported. And the problem with that,
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  Speaker 3: in addition to undermining the ability of the government to
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  Speaker 3: enforce visa rules, is that these same international students who
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  Speaker 3: are breaking rules, and it's not the average Internet students,
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  Speaker 3: it's just a critical mass of bad actors. But they're
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  Speaker 3: organized to go after Jews and they've been doing this
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  Speaker 3: at a number of selective universities, and they've been getting
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  Speaker 3: away with it because the universities are reluctant to enforce
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  Speaker 3: their rules because they don't want those students to have
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  Speaker 3: their visas revoked. And that's how these two issues are connected.
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  Speaker 3: And it's legitimate of the Trump administration to want from Harvard,
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  Speaker 3: and they'll soon want from other universities disciplinary records so
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  Speaker 3: they could see whether international students in fact have broken
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  Speaker 3: rules that require their visas to be revoked.
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  Speaker 1: Miss Jay Green joining me right now. By the way,
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  Speaker 1: we're down the last ninety seconds. But as I was
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  Speaker 1: bringing you on, I don't know if you were listening
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  Speaker 1: to you or not. I rarely listen to me, but
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  Speaker 1: I was talking about the whole concept of anti Semitism.
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  Speaker 2: What is it? I mean?
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  Speaker 1: Is it?
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  Speaker 2: Do you you don't believe in Jesus, so we hate you?
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  Speaker 1: Is it?
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  Speaker 2: Your ancestors come from Israel? So what's the base? I
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  Speaker 2: don't get the basis of anti Semitism.
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  Speaker 3: Well, it's hard to say in ninety seconds, but for
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  Speaker 3: our purposes here, I think the way to recognize it
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  Speaker 3: is that it's actually a canary in the coal mine
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  Speaker 3: of anti Americanism with these people, these foreign students who
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  Speaker 3: hate Jews and are going after Jews. It's not just
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  Speaker 3: Jews they hate, it's America they hate, and the Jew
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  Speaker 3: represents to them America and are more vulnerable, like the
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  Speaker 3: one they can kick. America is a little harder for
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  Speaker 3: them to kick right now. But they're going after the
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  Speaker 3: Jew first. But their goals are not to end with
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  Speaker 3: the Jew. They have broader ambitions to go after America.
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  Speaker 3: And I was listening to you before, and I agree
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  Speaker 3: with you. I'd love this country, which is why I'm
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  Speaker 3: concerned about ill behaving foreign students on campuses and how
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  Speaker 3: we need our universities to help the government enforce rules
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  Speaker 3: on all students, including international students.
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  Speaker 1: We will get this up on the podcast page. I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to link your article on my social media as well.
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  Speaker 1: In the future, Jay Green, can I get you on again?
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  Speaker 2: Are you?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, if you call the people at the Heritage Foundation,
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  Speaker 1: go this guy's an idiot. But it would be wonderful
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  Speaker 1: to get a chance to talk to you again in
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  Speaker 1: their future.
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  Speaker 3: That sounds wonderful. I'd look forward to it.
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  Speaker 2: I appreciate you, sir, have a good evening. I thank
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  Speaker 2: you for your time tonight.