President Donald Trump is going after the oldest United States university in a push to reshape top institutions.
He's demanding Harvard University makes changes to hiring, admissions, and teaching practices to curb anti-Semitism on campus.
The institution says no Government should dictate how a private university operates.
US Correspondent Richard Arnold told Mike Hosking Trump is reacting by freezing close to NZ$3.5 billion in federal funds.
He says the White House is calling for an end to the tax-exempt status for research operations.
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Good morning, Mike.
So Harvard not happy and not surprisingly Yeah.
President Trump has declared yet another battle, not only on tariffs and immigration, but this time it is a showdown with this country's oldest and most successful university, that being Harvard near Boston. I mean, who cares about university gigs and freaks, right, Well, you might look at Harvard's record on things like medicine, for instance, and a theater first used at Harvard. That was a good development. The small pox vaccine was created at Harvard. The EKG for hard health was first used at Harvard's Teaching Teaching Hospital. First kidney transplant nineteen fifty two Harvard. First person to survive polio had their life saved at Harvard. The first MRI was used at Mass General the Harvard Hospital nineteen seventy nine. The pill, the oral contraceptive, was invented at Harvard, and on and on and on. The university was started in sixteenth, which was one hundred and fifty plus years before the creation of the US government. Now Donald Trump wants to run it. He's demanding control over hiring and admissions policies. The university says no way. In a statement, they say, no government should dictate to a private university what it can teach, who it can hire or admit. So Trump is reacting by freezing more than two billion US dollars right now in federal grant money. Harvard is wealthy because but the White House now is calling for an end to the tax exempt status for operations and research unless Trump gets to run just about everything.
Now El Salvador, that's back today, Wizl's head.
It is the Trump team is battling over the fate of this Maryland father of three who is deported to the supermax prison in El Salvador because of what the White House admits was an administrative error, mistake or no. They're now saying this man, a Brego Garcia, cannot be returned to this country, even though the US Supreme Court says the government here should illitate his return. Trump's team says, well, it's not on American soil anymore, So they washing the hands of the whole thing. A federal court very soon today will consider that White House response. Christy Nome the Homeland Security Advisors saying the people that Trump sends to El Salvador should stay in prison there for the rest of their lives. Democratic Leader in the House that Kim Jeffrey says the Supreme Court and or the Federal District Court actually needs to enforce its order. Well. The White House claims that Garcia as a member of the MS thirteen gang. Garcia denies it. Another court said there is no evidence of that two hundred and thirty eight people have been deported to the Supermac's prison in El Salvador from this country. The place is perhaps the most notorious prison on the planet. New York Times Today saying the majority of these people have no criminal backgrounds at all, according to the research they've been doing. As you know, the White House, Salvador's president, who calls himself the world's coolest dictator, Naib Bukeli, says it is preposterous quote unquote to our him to send this man back to the United States. And Trump stirred things even further when he joked with Bikelly about wanting five more of these supermankes prisons built in El Salvador in order to send there. Not only would be immigrants, said Trump, but some quote unquote bad American citizens as well, So exporting supposed convicts. Where have we heard that before?
Exactly, you have a good, long week, Ken, We'll catch up next week. Richard Arnold state. So, by the way, a comprehensive survey out of CNBC, the Supply Chain survey, this is the tariffs. Most companies say high costs will keep them from moving manufacturing back to the state. So all this is doing is confirming what everybody already knows. And we talked to the Zuru people yesterday on the program. Eighty one percent expect automation to be favored over workers. Reassuring would double costs, the trade wars more likely to kick off a new global search for low tariff regimes. Seventy four percent in the survey said cost was the top reason for saying they would not be reassuring production. You can't go back to America and pay American wages to make half the stuff they make in China or Vietnam. Finding skilled labor was a major problem. For twenty one percent of them. The price tag of building a new domestic supply chain would at least be double current costs. That's what eighteen percent of people said would likely to be more than twice as expensive. That's forty seven percent of people. Sixty one percent said it would be more cost effective to relocate to a lower tarer of country, and as well as the current administration's inability to provide a consistent strategy. In other words, everything the Age day makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. They also have supply chain concerned sixty one percent. They feel like the Trump administration is bullying corporate America. So that's corporate America telling Trump that what he's doing is insane. Ten to seven.
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