Olivia Troye and Nick Akerman on Breaking News from Harvard
The Jim Acosta Show
Jim Acosta
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🗓️ 23 May 2025
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Olivia Troye and Nick Akerman join Jim to discuss breaking news about a judge temporarily striking down the administration's latest attack on @harvard University. The Judge says NO, the administration cannot ban Harvard from admitting foreign students. Plus Nick Akerman, who was a prosecutor in Watergate, discusses what the threshold should be for impeachment. We also have new video from our videographer colleague Bethany Swain who was at protests today in Annapolis, Maryland outside of the US Naval Academy where JD Vance was speaking to the graduating Midshipmen.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, welcome everybody to the Jim Acosta show. |
| 0:05.8 | Happy Memorial Day weekend. |
| 0:07.4 | It is a good weekend to reflect on what is happening in this country as we are entering the summer months on our way to vacations, |
| 0:15.2 | camps for the kids and so on. |
| 0:17.0 | But please make this weekend more than just a trip to the beach or the baseball game. |
| 0:21.5 | Talk to your neighbors and your friends and your relatives about what we are up against right now in this moment. |
| 0:27.4 | Joining me on this Memorial Day weekend is my pal, Olivia Troy. |
| 0:32.5 | We're going to talk about our upcoming live town hall that is going to be taking place right here in Washington, D.C. |
| 0:38.3 | And a little later on in the program, I'm going to talk to Watergate prosecutor, Nick |
| 0:42.3 | Ackerman, about what Trump has been doing, basically thumbing his nose at the courts. |
| 0:47.2 | So he's been on a collision course with the judicial system in this country. |
| 0:51.1 | And it's obviously, you know, pretty a scary moment for democracy. |
| 0:55.5 | Let's talk about some of these issues now, though, with Olivia. Hey, Olivia, great to see you. |
| 1:01.0 | Happy Memorial Day weekend. A lot to reflect on. And I mean, where do we start? My goodness. |
| 1:07.4 | I don't even know. Do we start with a Harvard attack? Do we start with the crazy press conference on Africa? |
| 1:13.4 | Because I covered Africa, by the way, and the images he was using that were naturally from South Africa, but that's a different story. |
| 1:19.6 | Anyways, go ahead. No, I mean, I think we should start with Harvard because there is breaking news, NBC news reporting a federal judge has blocked the Trump administration |
| 1:28.4 | from revoking Harvard's ability to a role and keep international students. The judge in the case |
| 1:35.5 | granted the temporary restraining order after the Department of Homeland Security terminated the |
| 1:40.4 | university's international student certification. This is according to NBC News. The move barred the school from not only admitting international students, |
| 1:47.8 | but also ordering current foreign-born students |
| 1:51.3 | to lose their legal status or transfer. |
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