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00:31I also recognize that the president of the United States has the authority under the Constitution
00:38to decide if...
00:39Why are they there?
00:40And then you see the same people picketing and screaming at the United States and screaming
00:45at, you know, they're anti-Semitic or they're something.
00:49We don't want troublemakers here.
00:53So how is this going to impact Harvard?
00:57Immensely.
00:57Almost a quarter, 25% of their enrollment is international students.
01:03And Secretary Noem pointed out that Harvard is very wealthy and that they will be fine
01:10without this tuition to, as she put it, pad their endowment.
01:14So I just want to make clear that tuition dollars don't go into endowments.
01:20Tuition money is used for things like student aid, student programs, payroll, paying staff,
01:27paying faculty.
01:29And so the loss of tuition is not going to hurt Harvard's endowment.
01:33It's going to hurt their ability to take care of the students, faculty, and staff that they have.
01:39Right, so Secretary Noem, either in her letter or in a recent statement, has said,
01:59um, I'm not quoting directly, but that Harvard is a hotbed of dissent, of anti-Semitism,
02:06and it somehow harbors future terrorists, perhaps.
02:12And so they're using that, this is why it's coming through Homeland Security and not another agency.
02:19They're saying that the international students at Harvard are somehow a threat to the security of the United States.
02:25I mean, obviously schools have had their service registration terminated, but it's usually for fraud or they just don't keep records.
02:39They've never done it for anything remotely like this, which basically is,
02:44we don't like the fact that you're not listening to about who you should hire, so we're going to terminate it.
02:50That's what they did here.
02:51But perhaps this was not necessarily just about Harvard.
02:54However, this was a message to all of higher education, that you have to come into line with the thinking of what this administration thinks higher education should be.
03:06We're going to see, clearly what we're going to see, is a massive drop-off in foreign students coming to the United States starting in September.
03:15Well, I think a lot of the administration sees universities as a hotbed of liberals, progressives,
03:20people that are aligned against the principles of MAGA.
03:23And to them, it's a breeding ground.
03:26They see it as a breeding ground.
03:28So if you can disrupt the breeding ground, you won't have as many progressive, i.e. educated people,
03:35who oppose the administration's nationalism and nativism.
03:38But what's also going to happen is the students and the researchers that have been coming to the United States since the end of World War II are now being courted by France.
03:49They're being courted by Germany.
03:51They're being courted by Canada.
03:52They're being courted by China.
03:54Hey, why go to the United States?
03:55Because people are crazy over there.
03:57We will fund your research in France.
03:59We will fund your research in China.
04:01Come here.
04:01Again, but overall, there's 1.2 million students in the United States.
04:06I mean, there's a lot of foreign students there, many of them keeping schools afloat.
04:10You know, not only do foreign students bring to the campus, university, this international interaction with American citizen students that are there,
04:18but they also provide massive funding because they all pay full tuition.
04:22So, you know, tuition will go up for U.S. citizens at almost every university if we didn't have foreign students.
04:30It will 100% go up.
04:31This is another action that the administration is trying to take against Harvard is to revoke their tax-exempt status,
04:38which, again, based on their very large endowment, would cause Harvard to then owe a tremendous amount of money in taxes,
04:46which is, again, hampering research.
04:49But tax-exempt status, I mean, it's a privilege.
04:52It's really a privilege, and it's been abused by a lot more than Harvard, too, by a lot more than Harvard.
04:58So we'll see how that all works out.
05:00Just the requests that they're making of Harvard and other universities doing what are called viewpoint surveys on both faculty and students,
05:12trying to find out ideological beliefs, any sort of political activities,
05:18those have not been seen in the United States for quite some time.
05:24Certainly during McCarthyism and the Red Scare, people were more inquisitive, to put it nicely,
05:31about people's political views and activities.
05:33But, you know, McCarthy faced a tremendous amount of backlash,
05:39and for the rest of the Cold War and most of the 21st century,
05:43America has prided itself on freedom of speech, freedom of thought, right?
05:48And in a recent report, Harvard did admit that there's been a problem with anti-Semitism on their campus,
06:08and they are looking into ways to mitigate that.
06:12Of course, nobody wants anti-Semitism.
06:15There's no place for that in the United States.
06:18There's no place for that in the United States.
06:20There's no place for that in the United States.
06:21There's no place for that in the United States.
06:22There's no place for that in the United States.
06:23There's no place for that in the United States.
06:24There's no place for that in the United States.
06:25There's no place for that in the United States.
06:26There's no place for that in the United States.
06:27There's no place for that in the United States.
06:28There's no place for that in the United States.
06:29There's no place for that in the United States.
06:30There's no place for that in the United States.
06:31There's no place for that in the United States.
06:32There's no place for that in the United States.
06:33There's no place for that in the United States.
06:34There's no place for that in the United States.
06:35There's no place for that in the United States.
06:36Right, so they've recently, I think the number is about $2.75 billion that they have immediately
06:56taken from Harvard.
06:58Harvard, of course, is requesting that they be allowed to keep those funds.
07:02You know, faculty at Harvard are very concerned talking about how the revocation of that amount
07:09of funds, what that's going to do is essentially shut down some of their labs.
07:14We've talked about how universities in America are vital for all kinds of research, but particularly
07:20scientific research that leads to medical discoveries, advances in technology.
07:25And so revoking those funds without a very clear reason or without a very clear process
07:33is incredibly harmful to Harvard.
07:37And I also just want to make it clear that, well, Harvard is being used as this.
07:55Academic freedom protects the core mission, the core mission, protect, protect, the vulnerable,
08:03protect, protect, our core mission, our core mission.
08:07Tell me what democracy looks like.
08:09This is what democracy looks like.
08:12I'm a union co-chair for Greenwood.
08:14Oh, nice.
08:14So, unfortunately, I'm not sure.
08:15I'm not sure.