Trump Ramps Up Conflict Against Defiant Harvard

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Trump justified their pressure campaign on universities as a reaction to what they say is uncontrolled anti-Semitism and support for the Palestinian militant group Hamas.

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00:00amazing admirable that's how reactions are pouring in from the harvard campus as the elite

00:12u.s university stands its ground against growing pressure from president donald trump on tuesday

00:18trump has created to strip harvard's tax exempt status if the country's most famous educational

00:25establishment refuses to summit to white ranging government oversight right now uh donald trump is

00:32withholding like or his administration is trying to withhold funds right now from the campus the

00:38warning comes just a day after the administration froze dollar 2.2 billion in federal funding for

00:45higher education i love it i think it's amazing i think schools needed i think more schools across

00:51the country need to i mean it shows that you're not going to bow down you're not going to let free

00:54speech be taken not from the campus not from the students not from anyone um i think it's a real

00:59thing to stand up for i mean harvard has been around here for 100 years before the founding of our

01:03country and they will be around for a very long time i mean it's a great school and i'm glad they're

01:07standing up for something like that unlike several other universities and top law firms that have

01:13backed down under white house pressure howard is taking a different stance howard president alan garber

01:21stated formally that the institution will not negotiate over its independence or its constitutional

01:27rights i do think that with an institution with uh with the amount of social intellectual and material

01:35capital that this place has the stand up i think it's admirable it's the least of hard to do

01:42the trump administration claims its actions are aimed at curbing anti-semitism and what it calls support for

01:50the palestinian militant group hamas on campus for trump's opponents the harvard refusal to bend

01:57marks a chance to draw a line in the scent against an authoritarian takeover they wanted them to comply

02:05with many different regulations and harvard said they weren't going to comply to it along with like

02:09their own free speech narratives that they have former president barack obama praised harvard's decision

02:16calling it an example for other universities to follow and a clear rejection of what he described as an

02:23illegal and heavy-handed attempt to stifle higher education

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