Well, it sounds like America's farm team for attorneys is standing up for itself, but will this be effective against Donald Trump?

I'm Scott Ott with Bill Whittle and Stephen Green. This episode of Right Angles brought to you by the members at Bill Whittle.com.

And gentlemen, Harvard University has decided that they don't want to play nice with the Trump administration, the way I believe Columbia did when they were trying to protect $400 million in federal funding

and agreed to, at least tentatively agreed to a bunch of things the Trump administration wanted them to do.

Harvard is basically saying, we are not going to allow the Trump administration to squelch our free speech just to hang on to $2.2 billion in federal funding.

And actually, it's a lot more than that coming down the pike.

Stephen Green, I'm sure you're up on this, but basically the Trump administration is saying,

look, Harvard, if you want to spend the people's money from people across the country,

then you're going to need to abide by some common sense rules.

And one of those is not using federal dollars to brainwash people to become anti-Semites

or to help foster protest movements among supporters of Hamas on your campus. Another is not brainwashing people

into thinking that everybody in this country who didn't have ancestors as slaves is complicit in

the slavery of those ancestors. Steve, it seems like a common sense thing that if you want

federal funding, then you need to do what the

federal government requires in order for you to get and retain that federal funding. But do you

see this really as an academic free speech issue? Because that's the argument Harvard's making

is that basically President Trump is reaching into the classroom and changing what this great university or trying to change what this great university can tell students.

Yeah, and Harvard, keep in mind, Harvard's not hurting. They've got an endowment of over $50 billion, which frankly, if it were up to me, I would take that endowment.

I wouldn't take it.

It's theirs.

But I would tax that endowment.

It's the returns it generates, which are considerable returns every year.

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