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Harvard v Trump

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Politics, Daily News, News

41.5K Ratings

🗓️ 27 April 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Harvard has sued the Trump administration over multibillion-dollar funding cuts in the biggest escalation yet in the battle between the government and higher education. What does the showdown mean for the ideological freedom of American institutions and has Trump taken on a fight he can’t win? 

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Guest: Gerard Baker, Columnist, The Times and Editor-at-Large, The Wall Street Journal. 

Host: Manveen Rana.

Producer: Sam Chantarasak.

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0:50.6

From the Times and the Sunday Times, this is the story. I'm Manvine Rana.

0:57.0

It's almost a hundred days since President Trump took office.

1:08.0

Traditionally, it's the moment when you'd take stock to see if a new government has begun to make its mark, if it's managed to make any changes.

1:17.6

For the Trump administration, it's already a very long list.

1:24.6

The White House has started a global tariff war, caused the markets and the dollar to plummet,

1:31.1

gutted federal departments, deported hundreds of people, and taken on some of America's oldest and mightiest institutions.

1:43.1

I think Harvard's a disgrace.

1:45.0

I think what they did was a disgrace.

1:47.0

They're obviously anti-Semitic.

1:50.0

Harvard has become the focal point of a war on universities

1:56.0

after the Ivy League School refused to comply with a list of demands from the government.

2:01.4

They want to directly review who we hire on our faculty.

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