MIT making the courageous decision to reject Trump's compact.

Trump called it a compact for academic excellence.

It was really a compact to control universities.

He issued this compact to nine universities.

MIT, the first one to reject it in this day and age where we see what Trump does to his political enemies

and to people that cross him with Comey and Letitia James. That takes real courage, MIT.

One of the leading universities in the country and in the world has said, no. In fact,

the president issued a statement saying fundamentally fundamentally, the premise of the document

is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit

alone. The best science can't thrive in institutions that have abandoned merit, free inquiry,

and the pursuit of truth. My name is

Dina Dahl with the Midas Touch Network. Let's get into this. Now, as we've seen, we have seen

institutions capitulate and capitulate those that have deep pockets, those that actually have

power, but yet we're willing to enter into an agreement.

It's not only law firms and news organizations, but also, frankly, universities.

Harvard is still in the middle of negotiations with Trump, and we saw Columbia, basically,

give Trump everything he wanted, both Brown and the University of Pennsylvania Pennsylvania also into some agreements with Trump.

They are, though, now also the target of this letter showing, hopefully, to everyone, that it is

never enough with Trump. And this is what happens when you try to make a deal with somebody

whose end goal is really to completely

control you. The nine universities include also the University of Texas at Austin. That was the

one representative who came out and said that they were glad to be on the list. University of

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