It's Monday, August 18th.

I'm Jane Koston.

This is Whataday, the show that is excited for Taylor Swift to release a new album

and not excited for the absolutely deranged takes that will result from Taylor Swift releasing a new album.

No. On today's show, Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky returns to the White House to meet with President Donald Trump.

And former Texas congressman Beto O'Rourke is slapped with a restraining order for supporting

the Texas Democrats redistricting fight.

But let's start with universities.

Imagine you're a researcher at a major university.

You're working on something really, really important.

Cures for cancer, ways to mitigate climate change, big-time solutions to big-time problems.

But the president of the United States has decided that he is

very, very mad at your university for reasons that have absolutely nothing to do with you. And your

funding has been cut. But now a judge is saying that the funding cuts were wrong. So what happens

next? That's the very real situation researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles,

find themselves in as the Trump administration continues its war on America's universities.

Case in point, earlier this month, the Trump administration demanded that UCLA pay $1 billion, $1 billion, to the federal government to resolve alleged civil rights violations centering on anti-Semitism.

That was on top of more than half a billion dollars in cuts to federal research funding,

to funding from the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, and other

federal sources. But then on Friday, a judge said, nope, here's LA's NBC affiliate.

Remember that massive funding freeze impacting more than $580 million in UCLA science research

grants? We first told you about it a couple weeks ago. Now a federal judge says that money

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