On Wednesday, Harvard University President Alan Garber appeared on “NBC Nightly News” and announced that the college is suing the Trump administration because they refuse to compromise in order to retain their whopping $2.2 million in grants.
Garber declared, “What they are indicating is that they want to directly review who we hire on our faculty. That has implications for what kinds of views can be expressed on campus. They also want to be able to tell us who we need to fire and they also want to intervene in our admissions processes. That is what we are objecting to.”
NBC host Lester Holt said, “You’re taking on the most powerful man in the world.”
Garber replied, “We are defending what I believe is one of the most important linchpins of the American economy and way of life, our universities.”
Holt asked, “How much pain can Harvard absorb here?”
Garber answered, “We don’t know how much we can actually absorb, but what we do know is that we cannot compromise on basic principles like defense of our First Amendment Rights.”
Holt pressed, “Is this a fight you can win?”
Garber said. “I don’t know the answer to this question but the stakes are so high that we have no choice.”
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