Welcome to the last debate, a show for politically eclectics. I'm Robbie Gupta. And in a little bit, we're going to hear from Dana Goldstein, the preeminent education reporter at the New York Times. She's been on here before. And what she's going to do is update us on all things, education in the Trump administration, both the administration's actions to downsize the department, the retaliation against states

over things like DEI, and also perhaps some of the actions regarding universities like Harvard.

But before we get there, first of all, thank you to everybody who voted for us in the Webby's.

We were nominated for three different awards, and we won for best

partnership and collaboration around our podcast, Killing Justice that we did with Cricket Media,

which is an investigation into an alleged political murder in India. And that means that we've now

won the Webby two years in a row, And we've been nominated three years in a row.

We've now been nominated five times. So thank you so much for supporting the work that we've done.

This really matters. And I appreciate how everybody rallied behind us. Before we get to Dana,

though, let me deal with two different comments that I've gotten from viewers, one over Twitter and one over voicemail.

I'll start with Twitter, and this is in regards to some comments I made on this and another

podcast around the Brigo Garcia case and the deportations. And so this is a long time

listener tweeted at me saying, tweeted at me and my co-host of another podcast, Jason Kander,

saying, please keep up the good work, can't wait for the midterm ads, when every Republican

candidate run ads saying that the Democrats want to bring foreign gang members into the country.

Obviously, you can detect a little bit of sarcasm there.

And so I think this person is saying that for some reason that me advocating and Jason

advocating for due process is in some ways an endorsement of gang members being in this country.

And I'm with the seven justices of the Supreme Court

who over the weekend issued a stay to the administration and did so in the middle of the night,

which I think gives you a sense of how urgent they are, and that's in keeping with a prior decision

that they had as it regards to deportations.

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