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Federal judge blocks Trump admin_s ban on Harvard_s ability to enroll international students(M4A_128K) · NO FILTER

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  Speaker 1: Is The nation heads into the Memorial Day weekend with
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  Speaker 1: its commander in chief seemingly not in a solemn or
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  Speaker 1: reflective mood, but perhaps a more vengeful one. Today, in
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  Speaker 1: the Oval Office, the President was asked about his administration's
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  Speaker 1: latest attack on Harvard University. Just yesterday, the Department of
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  Speaker 1: Homeland Security announced they were revoking the school's ability to
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  Speaker 1: enroll foreign students.
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  Speaker 2: Are you considering stopping at other universities besides Harvard from
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  Speaker 2: accepting forums.
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  Speaker 3: Well, we'll take it a look at a lot of things.
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  Speaker 3: And as you know, billions of dollars has been paid
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  Speaker 3: to Harvard. How ridiculous is that billions? And they have
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  Speaker 3: fifty two billion dollars as an endowment. They have fifty
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  Speaker 3: two billion dollars, and this country's paying billions and billions
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  Speaker 3: of dollars and then give student loans and they have
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  Speaker 3: to pay back the loans.
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  Speaker 4: So Harvard's going to.
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  Speaker 3: Have to change his ways episode or some other.
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  Speaker 1: Well, Harvard is, of course, not the only university that's
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  Speaker 1: been targeted by the Trump administration, or even the only
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  Speaker 1: university targeted. Yesterday, the Department of Health and Human Services
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  Speaker 1: accused Columbia violating federal civil rights law by acting with
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  Speaker 1: what they call deliberate indifference toward harassment of Jewish students
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  Speaker 1: on campus since the October seventh attacks. It caps off
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  Speaker 1: a very busy week for the President those in his
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  Speaker 1: administration regards to investigations. Peter Baker, chief White House correspondent
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  Speaker 1: for The New York Time, posted on x a list of.
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  Speaker 4: Those who were, as he wrote, charged.
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  Speaker 1: Investigated, or threatened with investigation by Trump or his team
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  Speaker 1: just in recent days. Here's his list, Letitia James, Andrew Cuomo,
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  Speaker 1: Lamonica mc iver, Democratic Member of Congress, Kamala Harris, Bruce Springsteen,
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  Speaker 1: Beyonce Bono, Oprah Winfrey, James Comy, unnamed treasonist. Biden aids
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  Speaker 1: the city of Chicago and the Kennedy Center. As for Harvard, DHS,
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  Speaker 1: Secretary of Christy nomanown she was essentially banning these students
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  Speaker 1: from attending after she says the university failed to hand
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  Speaker 1: over five years of records on international students, specifying they
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  Speaker 1: should include any disciplinary actions as well as audio and
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  Speaker 1: video footage of any protest AX activity the students participated in.
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  Speaker 1: Harvard says they complied with the record's request. Today, the
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  Speaker 1: university filed student in federal court. They argued it was
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  Speaker 1: clear retaliation for Harvard exercising its First Amendment rights to
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  Speaker 1: reject the government's demands to control Harvard's governance, curriculum, and
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  Speaker 1: the ideology of its faculty in students now, the the
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  Speaker 1: suit went on to say, with the stroke of a pen,
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  Speaker 1: the government has sought to erase a quarter of Harvard's
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  Speaker 1: student body. Foreign students do make up twenty seven percent
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  Speaker 1: of Harvard's enrollment this year. Even for a school with
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  Speaker 1: an endowment as large as Harvard's, potentially losing such a
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  Speaker 1: massive part of its students is no small threat. There
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  Speaker 1: are also concerns at other universities that whatever happens, it'll
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  Speaker 1: lead to a chilling effect that the best and brightest
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  Speaker 1: students from around the world will not want a risk
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  Speaker 1: coming to any American institution for fear of their lives
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  Speaker 1: and their studies could be upended by a mercurial administration.
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  Speaker 1: This is just the latest financial blow dealt to Harvard
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  Speaker 1: by the Trump administration. The White House already froze more
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  Speaker 1: than two point six billion dollars in federal grants and contracts,
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  Speaker 1: and the IRIS is making plans to revoke Harvard's tax
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  Speaker 1: exempt status.
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  Speaker 4: Late today some breaking news in the case, a.
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  Speaker 1: Federal judge granted a reprieve, temporarily halting the ban on
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  Speaker 1: foreign students, saying the school quote will sustain immediate and
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  Speaker 1: irreparable injury if the governments were allowed to revoke the
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  Speaker 1: school's certification before the court could consider the matter.
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  Speaker 4: The hearing is set for next week.
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  Speaker 1: When I check in with Jason Carroll, who's in Cambridge,
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  Speaker 1: Massachusetts right now, near Harvard University, you spoke some international students.
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  Speaker 5: What do they tell you, Jason, Well, certainly I understand
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  Speaker 5: there's a lot of uncertainty here on campus, a lot
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  Speaker 5: of unease. These students that we spoke to really feel
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  Speaker 5: as though this is not just an attack on Harvard.
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  Speaker 5: They feel like this is an attack generally on higher education,
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  Speaker 5: and the international students here basically feel as though they're
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  Speaker 5: just being caught.
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  Speaker 4: In the middle of it all.
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  Speaker 6: For many international students at Harvard, being accepted in coming
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  Speaker 6: here is a dream come true, a dream many now
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  Speaker 6: fear is coming to an end.
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  Speaker 7: I came to this place because I love this country,
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  Speaker 7: and I love the values that it stands for, and
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  Speaker 7: it's openness, to people of different backgrounds, and I truly
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  Speaker 7: believe that that is still America. But right now Trump
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  Speaker 7: is attacking all of those values. I'm in limbo, and
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  Speaker 7: you know the government has showed its hand here, and
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  Speaker 7: it's showed to what lengths it is willing to go.
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  Speaker 6: Vic Karen, students like him are now faced with big decisions.
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  Speaker 6: Do they stay and hope the courts permanently block the
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  Speaker 6: Trump administration's order banning Harvard from admitting international students, or
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  Speaker 6: not take the risk and leave.
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  Speaker 4: Right now, we are not shown. No one is with
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  Speaker 4: We're legally allowed in the US or not.
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  Speaker 6: Abdellas idcl is Harvard's student Boddy President, and a sophomore
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  Speaker 6: studying applied mathematics.
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  Speaker 5: Do you feel confident that you will be able to
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  Speaker 5: come back and study in the fall.
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  Speaker 4: Not at all, not even close. I'm not confident.
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  Speaker 6: About thatdministration says its efforts are in part an effort
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  Speaker 6: to get Harvard to do more to stop anti Semitism
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  Speaker 6: on campus. This international student from Israel says while the
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  Speaker 6: university could take more action, she does not believe the
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  Speaker 6: Trump administration's decisions are helping.
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  Speaker 8: This specific measure targets a population that is not actually
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  Speaker 8: in position to fight any of it, and that is
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  Speaker 8: also going to include, among others, Jewish and Israeli students
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  Speaker 8: who have been experiencing this anti semitism and hostile environment
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  Speaker 8: for the past two years and now are also experiencing this.
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  Speaker 4: I'm mess.
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  Speaker 6: Harvard professor Ryan Eno says, even if the courts ultimately
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  Speaker 6: decide in Harvard's favor, the damage may already be done.
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  Speaker 2: I am not sure I can look to a student
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  Speaker 2: now at a straight face and say I can guarantee
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  Speaker 2: what's going to be in the future for you. And
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  Speaker 2: that's a really sad thing.
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  Speaker 4: And Anderson.
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  Speaker 5: One other point that the professor wanted to make is
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  Speaker 5: he says, oftentimes there are so many of these students
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  Speaker 5: who come to him looking for advice. These international students
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  Speaker 5: now have been coming to him asking what they should do,
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  Speaker 5: what they should do, And he told me, he said, look,
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  Speaker 5: I can't look at them straight at the eye, straight
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  Speaker 5: in the eye, with confidence and tell them specifically what
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  Speaker 5: their next step should be.
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  Speaker 4: Thanks Cheryl, thanks very much.
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  Speaker 1: Want to get perspective out from Massas Congressman Jake Auchincloss,
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  Speaker 1: who's also a Harvard alumnus, so Congressman the White House
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  Speaker 1: has Enrolling foreign students is a privilege, not a right.
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  Speaker 2: What do you say, Anderson, Good evening, Thanks for having
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  Speaker 2: me on. I think Donald Trump is behaving just like
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  Speaker 2: the unhinged anti Israel campus protesters that he's claiming. He opposes.
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  Speaker 2: He's performative, he's illogical, he's cruel, and he's doing nothing
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  Speaker 2: to help address anti Semitism on campus. Bullying students from Nigeria,
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  Speaker 2: from China, from Europe does not help students from Israel.
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  Speaker 1: You were actually critical of Harvard's for some of their
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  Speaker 1: response to protests. DHS says it took this action because
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  Speaker 1: Harvard didn't sufficiently respond to its demand for information about
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  Speaker 1: every student who's there on a visa. The university said
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  Speaker 1: it did provide that information and says that the government's
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  Speaker 1: real mode of his retribution from the ideologicals stemming from
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  Speaker 1: ideological demands it made to the school in April to
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  Speaker 1: ban DEI initiatives and restrict campus protests.
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  Speaker 4: What do you think is at the heart of this.
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  Speaker 2: I am a ferocious critic of how Harvard responded to
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  Speaker 2: October seventh. There's a direct line from the anti Semitism
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  Speaker 2: that was allowed to flourish on Harvard and other elite campuses,
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  Speaker 2: and the type of anti Semitic violence that we saw
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  Speaker 2: two days ago in Washington, d C. Anti Semitic words
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  Speaker 2: do become anti Semitic murders, and the inability of progressives
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  Speaker 2: to check and condemn that anti semitism on the lad
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  Speaker 2: left has allowed these tragedies to unfurl, whether at Governor
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  Speaker 2: Shapiro's house or elsewhere. So I remain very critical of
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  Speaker 2: progressive institutions that won't check anti semitism on the left.
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  Speaker 2: But MAGA is not the organization or the movement that's
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  Speaker 2: going to address that. I mean, the hypocrisy on the
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  Speaker 2: hard right is just as galling. You've got Tucker Carlson
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  Speaker 2: and others who are courting Holocaust denials. You've got the
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  Speaker 2: Republicans on the same night that these two young Jews
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  Speaker 2: were gunned down in Washington, DC, voting to subsidize the
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  Speaker 2: purchase of silencers for pistols. So hard right extreme left,
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  Speaker 2: neither side is equipped to help build out a liberal
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  Speaker 2: truth seeking culture on these campuses, which is what Harvard needs.
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  Speaker 1: Well, what do you think the impact of getting rid
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  Speaker 1: of I mean, if it happens, getting rid of all
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  Speaker 1: the foreign students, which is twenty seven percent of the
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  Speaker 1: student body this year, not just has on you universities
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  Speaker 1: but also on American businesses. I mean, these are often
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  Speaker 1: the best and the brightest students from around the world
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  Speaker 1: who will then go on to work for American companies
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  Speaker 1: or tech companies. Here doing cutting edge research, cutting edge innovation.
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  Speaker 2: Without doubt, Anderson high schooled immigration to our universities is
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  Speaker 2: an economic boon. I'll give you one example of that.
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  Speaker 2: Everyone's talking about generative AI and the impact of AI.
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  Speaker 2: The twenty seventeen paper Attention Is All You Need was
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  Speaker 2: a seminal piece of research that really launched this new
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  Speaker 2: AI era that we're in. There were eight authors on
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  Speaker 2: that paper, seven of them Anderson, were immigrants, and the
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  Speaker 2: eighth was the grandson of refugees. The cutting edge research
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  Speaker 2: that this country does is done with an accent.
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  Speaker 1: Do you think that President's allies just want to be
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  Speaker 1: able to say that they brought Harvard.
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  Speaker 4: To its knees.
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  Speaker 1: I mean it's a world famous, wealthy, liberal leaning institution
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  Speaker 1: in New England. Is it kind of the ultimate target?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, This is about culture, not about politics. Or policy.
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  Speaker 2: They're attacking Harvard for the same reason they're attacking the
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  Speaker 2: National Institutes of Health, they're NATO or National Public Radio.
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  Speaker 2: They view these various institutions, which are at the commanding
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  Speaker 2: heights of Western culture, as having been taken over by leftists,
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  Speaker 2: and so they're launching guerilla warfare against these institutions. And
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  Speaker 2: our job is to defend these institutions without defending the
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  Speaker 2: status quo. We can say that we believe in academic
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  Speaker 2: freedom and the freedom of expression on university campuses without
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  Speaker 2: having to reflexively defend everything that happened on these campuses,
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  Speaker 2: because they do need to fix themselves, and they can,
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  Speaker 2: but we are not going to allow Donald Trump to
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  Speaker 2: use them as a punching bag for his own political ends.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, Keresman, Jay Auchincloss, I appreciate your time. Thank you,