00:00How much do you think this is about substance and how much of this is about optics and playing up to that or fulfilling that pledge and that, you know, electoral promise of, you know, a hard line stance on immigration?
00:13It's impossible to separate the two. There is a serious problem at Harvard. Harvard has become an institution of the hard left.
00:21Its faculty is very, very left wing. Its student body is very left wing. And we don't have a kind of intellectual diversity that would make the school an even better place.
00:33But then, of course, politics plays into it, too, because the average voter hates Harvard. Fifty three billion dollar endowment. Why are they getting federal funds?
00:43So it's a no lose proposition for the administration politically. But I think both Harvard are hurt and the United States is hurt by having too broad an application of these untargeted punishments.
00:57So we ought to target them and make sure that they're directed only at people who are causing the problems, legitimate, real problems when students are prevented from going to class, when two students prevented an Israeli student from moving on the campus and threatened them and harassed them.
01:16And then both of them got rewarded, one by being the class marshal at Harvard Law School's graduation ceremony for the Divinity School and the other getting a $65,000 scholarship.
01:29These are students who should have been disciplined.
