Billions of dollars has been paid to Harvard. How ridiculous is that? Billions. And they have $52 billion as an endowment. They have $52 billion. And this country is paying billions and billions of dollars [00:00:15] and then give student loans, and they have to pay back the loans. So Harvard's going to have to change its ways. President Donald Trump, who's still at war with Harvard, is now threatening to redirect its federal grants to trade schools instead. [00:00:32] Now, writing on Truth Social, the president said, I am considering taking $3 billion of grant money away from a very anti-Semitic Harvard and giving it to trade schools all across our land. Now, of course, he didn't provide any details on how he would do this. [00:00:51] What are the what are the details of which trade schools would get this money? What's his real reasoning and rationale for cutting these federal grants toward Harvard. He did make a good point in that video we just showed you in regard to the billions of dollars Harvard, [00:01:07] a private institution, receives from the federal government, usually in order to carry out research and stuff like that. But at the same time, tuition is very high at Harvard, and they do accept a lot of foreign students. They argue they do that because they want viewpoint diversity. [00:01:24] I argue that they do that because they get to charge foreign students a lot more in tuition. In fact, the percentage of foreign students that have been accepted to American universities across the board have really increased in recent decades because it's a huge cash cow for them. [00:01:39] And sure, I'm I'm willing to believe that they want to accept some foreign born students in order to have viewpoint diversity. But I think the financial reasoning is the main reason. But on that front, Jake, Donald Trump has banned basically the acceptance [00:01:55] of foreign students across the board in American institutions. They want to essentially vet these students and their social media before accepting them into the country. I'm sure that that's going to be challenged in the courts. A federal judge has already blocked what Trump tried to do in banning Harvard [00:02:15] in admitting foreign born students. But it does seem like he's not going to give up on on specifically targeting Harvard. And Harvard will continue with its lawsuits against the Trump administration. Yeah, I've never rooted for Harvard so much in my life. [00:02:30] I've never rooted for Harvard at all before. And now, you know, Harvard, because of the situation. So. All right, first of all, the idea that Harvard is very anti-Semitic is hilarious. It's the funniest thing I've ever heard. Based on what? [00:02:45] Because they allowed a protest on their campus, which is exactly what you're supposed to do in college. And. But it was against beloved Israel. Of course, of course. It has nothing to do with anti-Semitism. It's not that some college campus protests, didn't do anything wrong. [00:03:05] Like they always like the pro-Israel side says. No. I found three instances on college campuses where they bullied or intimidated a Jewish student. Well, I hate that, and I hope that that never happens, etc. So I can't say that it's never happened. [00:03:20] I can't say that I'm not concerned about anti-Semitism on a college campus or anywhere, because does anti-Semitism exist in the world? Of course it does, right? But is it such a epidemic? Say, Harvard? [00:03:37] Where? Harvard. They're all just all the students are about to put on Klan robes and hoods and go after the Jews. That's how they make it look like. No, that's not at all what's happening. And that's not why they're taking this action. No, they're taking this action because they got paid by the Israeli lobby to make [00:03:54] sure that no one criticizes Israel. Now that's the reality of it. But if you say that, they go, oh, well, that's also anti-Semitic. You can't say things that are true. Like AIPAC was the number one donor to congressional members in this election [00:04:10] cycle by a lot. $126 million just going directly to the congresspeople, let alone the dark money. ET cetera. ET cetera. So apparently $126 million doesn't affect politicians at all. That is the only reason why this is happening, by the way. Jews in America didn't ask for this anti-Semitism task force. [00:04:28] The Jewish senators, have written a letter to to Trump saying we don't want it and we don't want you to attack Harvard like this. So it's not that Jewish Americans have asked for it. It's that Israel has asked for it. And Israel gets whatever it wants. [00:04:43] Here in America, whether you have a Democratic or Republican president. I know you're not allowed to say that, even though it is obviously obviously true. Okay. And that's why Joe Biden gave a blank check to Israel to fund their genocide. That's what Donald Trump is doing. Likewise. [00:05:00] That's why he's doing this crackdown. So now, if you watch other shows and they don't talk about why this is happening, which includes, I believe, literally 100% of mainstream media, they're lying to you about the cause. They're pretending they're helping Israel with their propaganda [00:05:18] of pretending that they're concerned about anti-Semitism, as, by the way, if they were, there's three people who are driving anti-Semitism in this world, more than anyone I have ever seen in my lifetime. Their names are Benjamin Netanyahu, Ben-Gvir and Smotrich. Okay, so those three are driving anti-Semitism. [00:05:35] Through the roof, through the roof. All across the globe to not some peace protesters at Harvard. I mean, who are you joking with? And then, he's going to send the money to trade schools instead? Yeah. My ass, he is. [00:05:51] He isn't going to send any trade schools. That's just some populist, fake populist talk, as always from Donald Trump. And and I see, of course, they're very concerned about any kind of bigotry because, you know, how inclusive the Trump administration wants to be and how they're so worried about racism and bigotry. [00:06:08] Right. That's it. They're showing that in all of their actions. Otherwise. Right. And my God, the degree to which they are concerned about Islamophobia, which is obviously 10,000 times worse than anti-Semitism in this country. Oh, am I sorry. Am I allowed to say that? No, I know I'm not allowed to say anything. [00:06:23] I have to say. The only thing we should care about is anti-Semitism. Screw the Muslims. Screw everyone else. Who cares? They're not going to get a task force. They're not going to get congressional hearings. Nobody's shutting down Harvard over protecting Muslims. Nobody cares about protecting Muslims. [00:06:39] Okay, but we're supposed to believe that Donald Trump all of a sudden grew a soft spot in his heart for Jews and only Jews, and it's not the money he took from Israeli interests of foreign government, but all of a sudden he loves Jews in America and he's really worried. In fact, he's doing die for Jews. [00:06:54] Okay, no, none of that is true. None of it is remotely true. It doesn't have anything to do with Jewish Americans. It has everything to do with a foreign government that has purchased almost all of our politicians. I think I think you're right about that. Certainly Israel has quite a bit of influence on our politicians, and [00:07:10] Donald Trump is even more transactional than most American politicians, brazenly so overtly so. He does as he's paid to do. But I think there's also another wrinkle to the story, or another factor that we should consider, because clearly, [00:07:26] Christopher Rufo has had quite a bit of influence on the Trump administration's behavior or activity in response to university campuses having curriculum that they don't like. Right. So Christopher Rufo is the guy who is very active in the state of Florida, [00:07:44] just as Ron DeSantis was, you know, engaging in this assault on universities and college campuses that had curriculum that he didn't like. And so that, you know, same treatment is kind of now being expanded to other universities, specifically Ivies at the moment. [00:08:01] And Harvard has become a real target for Donald Trump because of the fact that Harvard is one of the institutions that's willing to fight back. They filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration. They're fighting against the Trump administration in regard to the ban on foreign students. [00:08:17] And I want to just add one other detail that was reported today. So he claims he's going to redirect $3 billion in Harvard's federal grants to trade schools. But today he actually took even more specific action. So Trump asked several federal agencies to look into canceling $100 million [00:08:37] in outstanding contracts with Harvard. And so before he made that announcement. And, you know, he says that he wants to, in addition to canceling these contracts, just do more vetting of foreign born students [00:08:52] who get visas here in this country. Before he announced all of that, the head of Harvard had a sit down interview with NPR. And during that interview, he kind of talked a little bit about some of the allegations against Harvard and how its curriculum doesn't [00:09:07] really represent diverse viewpoints. So get a load of what Harvard President Alan Garber has to say about some of the critique coming from the Trump administration. The federal government is saying that we need to address [00:09:23] anti-Semitism in particular, but it has raised other issues, including issues about speech, and it includes claims that we lack viewpoint diversity. There are also claims about, failure to comply with laws [00:09:40] concerning discrimination more generally. For some of this, we have been very clear that we think we do have issues, and I would particularly emphasize the speech issues. We think it's a real problem if particularly in research universities, [00:09:56] students don't feel free to speak their minds when faculty feel that they have to think twice before they talk about the subjects that they're teaching. That's a real problem that we need to address. So I actually really do commend Alan Garber for what he said there, [00:10:14] because I do think that that's been a bit of a problem on university campuses across the country. At Harvard specifically, there was one professor, I don't believe he's there anymore, but his name is Roland Fryer, and he wanted to look into discrimination in policing. [00:10:31] And he started his research with the hypothesis that discrimination absolutely exists with policing. And so he was expecting the data to show that unarmed black Americans are more likely to be roughed up and shot by police. [00:10:49] But through his research, he found out that while harassment of black Americans is certainly more common when it comes to policing, the shooting of unarmed black people is not disproportionately higher [00:11:05] than that of the shootings involving unarmed whites or unarmed, you know, individuals of other backgrounds. That research was what it was, and he got a lot of backlash from Harvard as a result of it. And, yeah, so that kind of stuff does exist. [00:11:21] I think that it's a problem when people engage in backlash, when they see data that they don't like or they don't agree with. So the fact that the university's president is drawing attention to that and saying we need to do better is a good thing. But to your point, Jake, I Definitely agree with you. [00:11:38] I don't think this is really about anti-Semitism. I don't think Trump is like sitting around worried about viewpoint diversity on college campuses. I think he's retaliating against Harvard. He's doing it aggressively. I think there are other influences that are motivating his backlash toward [00:11:54] Harvard and Harvard's fighting back. And he doesn't like that. He doesn't like that Harvard isn't just doing what he wants them to do. For instance, one of the things that Trump wanted, he requested or the government requested the university's disciplinary records on foreign students. [00:12:11] So students who are there with foreign visas, as well as video images of student demonstrations, requests that were part of a far reaching list of demands with which Harvard has only partially complied. And so, since Harvard isn't just complying with anything that Trump wants, [00:12:28] he continues targeting them and continues threatening them with more and more, grant cancellations and cuts to federal funding. Yeah. First of all, I just looked it up. Because now, just to prove the point, this doesn't have to do with anti-Semitism. [00:12:44] Alan Garber is also Jewish American. Okay. So if it was really about anti-Semitism, my guess is that he would also be deeply concerned. What is this actually about? It takes away $3 billion. And a lot of that is scientific research. Most of it is. So they were looking into cures for tuberculosis, multiple sclerosis, working [00:13:04] on all those different kinds of projects. All of those are now halted. All the medical research is halted until Israel is satisfied with, how we are doing surveillance on their behalf. The part that bothers me the most is, okay, I want the student demonstrations. I want all their pictures. [00:13:20] Remember, this isn't about, oh my God, did someone commit a crime? If someone committed a crime as an assault on a Jewish student, I. Of course I want them locked up. I don't want them just, having an issue. If they committed an assault, they crossed the line. They were physical. They were violent. [00:13:35] You got to arrest that person. Okay. By the way, that also applies to pro-Israel protesters who did significant violence at UCLA. And it was barely noted for the record. Okay. So one guy finally got arrested after people are like, you're really not going to arrest anyone. [00:13:52] Their faces are right there, and they clearly attack with sticks and weapons, etc.. They're like, yeah, but it is a pro-Israel site. I mean, we can't. I mean, that site is sacred. They could say the most terrible things about Muslims called all of them terrorists. [00:14:08] No one cares. They could beat up innocent students. No one cares. But oh, my God, Israel's been offended. Take pictures of everyone. And because remember, it isn't just about that kind of legal action. There are people that have said, some billionaires that have said that if that they're taking names from those [00:14:26] demonstrators and not based on people who did anything either violent or even any kind of speech they didn't like. If you are at a peace protest, they're saying they will never hire you on Wall Street. They've got a blacklist. I'm not saying it. They're saying it. And I think they. [00:14:43] And by the way, you think you're fighting anti-Semitism. When you do that, you drive up anti-Semitism. When you loudly declare, we have a blacklist for anyone who opposes Israel and will destroy your career. If you're going to Columbia or Harvard or anywhere else, if you dare protest against Israel. [00:15:00] Jesus Christ, what are you doing? That is terrible for America, the Palestinians, but also for Israel and Jews. So, okay, now my guess is that what's going to happen is he says, I said, no more foreign students, okay. [00:15:16] How much does somebody want to bet that, Israeli students will be let in, that they'll be like, well, of course. I mean, if you're from Africa, I'm going to take you Middle East. You're instantly bad. I don't even want to listen to you? Okay. Everywhere else is banned. [00:15:32] Israeli students or come right in. Come right in. That's. Look, it hasn't happened yet. And maybe I'm wrong. And then you'll get to see Jake. You were wrong. Okay. And is this vetting for America, like, oh, the students coming in, we're going to vet them. He says. So if you're a foreign student applying here, man, we are going to go through [00:15:47] your social media and all of your life and find out how dangerous you are to America. No, to Israel. We're going to see if you've criticized Israel at all, and then we're going to ban you from Israel. No, from America. Guys, this is a freaking joke. [00:16:02] None of this has anything to do with anti-Semitism. So it doesn't mean that people aren't legitimately worried about anti-Semitism, as Israel is committing atrocity after atrocity after atrocity, and then having the Israeli lobby, stand up and do standing ovations for a [00:16:21] terrorist like Netanyahu in our Congress. Is that making people mad? Yes, it's making people mad. Okay. And so I'm worried about the rise of anti-Semitism. I'm also worried about the rise of Islamophobia. But I'm the only one in the country, other than other Muslims. But this is that is not the main issue at all. [00:16:41] That is 100% ally. The main issue is the Israeli lobby has told their dog, Donald Trump, you are to arrest, hound and kick out of the country. Anyone who dares disagree with the terrorist government of Israel. [00:16:57] At any time. An administration engages in this type of overreach when they attempt to censor or punish either a group of people or an institution for not carrying out whatever it is they want to carry out, or doing exactly what they want to do when the government becomes too big. [00:17:15] Well, the next incoming administration, which could be a Democratic administration, could target conservative universities because those exist. And I don't want to live in that kind of world. I don't want to live in a kind of world where any presidential administration [00:17:34] that's politically motivated starts targeting universities that don't do as he or she says. That's when government has become too big. So I think the administration has really opened a Pandora's box here. Let's see what the future holds. But for now, Harvard's fighting back. [00:17:50] And really, it's the only institution, only university that's been fighting back. Yeah. Okay. Last two things. Well, just on your point about language, Anna, I if you're on a college campus, you got to hear everyone out. So I don't want to ban pro-Israel positions. I don't want to ban anti-Israel positions. [00:18:06] Pro-saudi anti-saudi pro this anti that, I don't care. And this applies just as much to the left as it does to the right. And let's be honest and real more to the left than it does on the right on college campuses. Okay. Okay. No, you don't need a safe space. You need a safe space from physical harm. [00:18:25] That's fine. Okay. You don't need a safe space from language. Grow up. Okay. Oh, my God, they hurt my feelings. I don't can't stand that when someone says that about criticism of Israel. [00:18:41] I also can't stand that when someone says it about criticism of anything. Like, I mean, Jesus Christ. Criticism of Muslims is like a tsunami in America. If I was like, debilitated by that, or any Muslim in America was debilitated [00:18:56] by that, we couldn't function. Right. Just let's go. Let's go. You address speech with other speech. You don't melt. You don't need a safe space, especially on a college campus. You need to hear each other out, no matter how much it offends you. [00:19:12] And that's why we have these conversations on the air here. And lastly, if you were truly concerned about anti-Semitism, and there are a lot of people who are truly concerned about anti-Semitism. The number one thing you would do is what? Shut down criticism of Israel, or fight to make sure that Netanyahu [00:19:29] loses power in Israel because there's no one on planet Earth driving anti-Semitism as much as Netanyahu. If you're a logical person, that is not a close question. You would do everything in your effort to make sure that Netanyahu is out of power in Israel. And you would do everything in your power to get a two state solution, because [00:19:48] occupying another people in a horrific fashion for 58 years is not helping the cause of eradicating anti-Semitism. Two states that are perfectly safe and independent would then we could all go [00:20:04] back to cheering for both of those states, Palestine and Israel. And wouldn't that be a beautiful world with a lot less anti-Semitism and a safe Israel? That's what you would do if you were a logical person, really worried about anti-Semitism. But if you're not really worried about that. [00:20:20] You just want everybody to shut up about Israel. Then you would say, oh, I am so concerned about anti-Semitism. We must arrest anyone who criticizes Israel. Yeah, that's not America, man. Go find another country that's not America. And Donald Trump is un-American for trying to limit our speech [00:20:38] on college campus or anyone else. And every time that he talked about freedom of speech freedom. So I want to I want to be able to be racist. I want to be able to say the n word. I want to be able to say all these terrible, bigoted things. Oh, now all of a sudden I'm really worried about offending people. [00:20:53] Yeah, yeah, yeah, my ass, you are. You're un-American. You hate freedom of speech and you never believed in it. And the minute you criticize Trump, you'll find out how much he hates freedom of speech. Oh, I'm gonna sue you. I'm gonna shut you down. You hurt my feelings. I'm so sick of the right not recognizing how pathetically weak Donald Trump is. [00:21:13] Every time you ring the bell below, an angel gets his wings. Totally not true. But it does keep you updated on our live shows.