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Democrat administrators staff themselves with faculty and administrators and alumni of Harvard. Elena Kagan, the most formidable liberal Supreme Court justice, was dean of Harvard Law School. Ron Klain, Biden's chief of staff, is a Harvard man, Rachel Levine. Remember Rachel Levine, Harvard. So was Pete. But Edgar, Harvard has international pull. They've educated the leaders of many other nations. When Russia became capitalist in the 1990s, Harvard was brought in to oversee much of it. And the fact that it went so badly means that many people in Russia see Harvard as essentially having looted their country. So, yes, our current quasi war with Russia may have been brought to you by Harvard. Harvard has a huge amount of power to set the zeitgeist for American academia as a whole. They are far, far more than a school, and they know it. Last week The Trump administration sent Harvard a letter. It was a long letter with a variety of requests made of Harvard asking if it wants to keep on receiving taxpayer money. The most important of these requests was that Harvard has merit based hiring and admissions without discriminating based on race. Now, let me just take a pause. We sent billions of dollars to Harvard. Harvard has a $50 billion endowment which is larger than some countries. Why are we still financing Harvard? Why are we still giving taxpayer money to Harvard? We know that thanks to the 2023 Students for Fair Admissions Supreme Court case, that Harvard has practiced egregious racial discrimination for decades. They discriminate against Asians and white people, especially white people, for from undistinguished backgrounds. The Supreme Court told them to stop this, that it's racism and that it's illegal. In its letter, the Trump administration told Harvard to obey the court or lose taxpayer funding. Harvard delivered their reply yesterday. No, we will not obey. Their attitude is this. We dare you to stop us. We're Harvard. You would not dare. While Trump is daring it, he's already canceled $2 billion in federal grants to Harvard. Now some judge is going to try to enjoin that President Trump should and could declare Harvard in violation of the federal civil rights law and cut off all federal funding to the school, which of course they are in violation of federal civil rights laws. We need that option to be on the table and ready to be used. Colleges did more than anywhere else to mainstream the idea that it was okay to racially discriminate against white people in flagrant violation of written federal law and the text of our Constitution. They pushed the idea that this discrimination was good. So it was okay that good discrimination is fine, but bad discrimination not so fine. It's time to destroy this myth utterly and completely. And if we can blow up some of the fattened up far left institutions along the way, so much the better. Harvard University, as we know, is one of the most influential institutions on the planet. To give an idea of how far to the left it actually is, in 2021, a survey was done of faculty from Harvard University. 96% of faculty at Harvard University, 96% who gave political donations gave to Democrat candidates. Harvard university is a $50 billion endowment. They have a tax exempt status. They get money for research grants. Why is it as a country which is $35 trillion in debt, we continue to finance universities that hate us? And what good actually is Harvard University going to keep on doing with our taxpayer funding? The garbage and the nonsense that is being spewed out of Harvard, out of Princeton, out of Yale, out of Brown University, out of Cornell is noticeable and it's remarkable. And they say, oh, you know, we're a place for rigorous debate and dialogue. Hey Harvard, I'm about to tweet this. I've been trying to speak at Harvard for years. Constantly rejected by the administration. I'm going to be in Boston in a couple of weeks. Will you let me come speak at Harvard? Are you going to let me film it? Are you going to let me publicize it? Because these Ivy Leagues don't. When you go do a speech at Harvard, they might let you in in a small little cubby classroom like at Brown, but you can't film it because it might embarrass the students online to show they don't actually know anything. Our favorite school, Hillsdale, has to refuse all federal dollars to carry out their mission. So why can't Harvard if Hillsdale College, which is great partner of this program, charlieforhillsdale.com can be a beast without a single dollar of federal money? Why does Harvard need federal money? It's really worth asking. Has Harvard just become a Democrat think tank? And if they are, why are they taxpayer funded entity again? Their endowment is over $50 billion. They have more money than some small countries. Just so you understand, an endowment, that is the cash and capital and asset pile that they are sitting on. They don't need our money, they don't need tuition money. Yet they still charge tuition. The reason being is that Harvard has become a hedge fund with a college attached. Are they doing robust research? Maybe in the medical field, maybe. But these are all the same places that stayed silent during COVID They stayed silent during six feet to slow the spread. They stayed silent during the mask yourself while you're alone in a car. They have a major surplus, unlike our government. And if Harvard wants to go be great again, they can go raise the money from their very, very wealthy alumni. So given this ideological capture and the university's vast private wealth, we should cut all funding to Harvard, period. We should cut all funding to Columbia. We should cut out funding to all of these Ivy League schools one by one. Brown University. How many unnecessary jobs does Harvard University have? And this is the way it works. Obama is out today on Twitter defending Harvard, saying, well, Harvard is a wonderful place for rigorous debate. The only debate that is allowed at Harvard is left wing versus liberal. That is the only debate that is allowed is you could debate left wing ideas. Well, how pro choice are you? Oh, well, how pro trans are you? Or how open Borders are you. But conservative ideas are in no way. Welcome to Harvard University. It's the epicenter of smugness and elitism. Harvard fired its president once for simply speculating, quote, maybe there are fewer women in science because they like science less. And he got run out of the institution because of it. Got run out of the institution. Harvard University is a great example of how the elites and how the experts protect themselves with a hard to reach, hard to grapple, hard to grasp credential. And that credential is largely subsidized by the American taxpayer. Their most recent president is a fraud who just plagiarized her way to the top. Utter joke again. Go raise the money from regular Harvard alumni. And then the tenure of the professors allow them to preach left wing Marxism with no, no blowback whatsoever. So you put all this together, you ask yourself the question, why shouldn't Harvard have to fund itself? We are a nation far in debt. We shouldn't be funding any of these schools. And Harvard university with a $50 billion endowment, they're now trying to play the victim. Harvard says, oh, you know, we don't, you know, we don't have the ability to continue. How about you go sell some stock, sell some buildings out in Cambridge. No more is the US taxpayer gonna fund your racket called Harvard. The protection shield of the elites that have gotten almost everything wrong over the last decade. Hey, everybody, Charlie Kirk here. 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Okay, email us. As always, freedom charliekirk.com There was some breaking news yesterday with Steve Witkoff returning from Russia. Now I have all the faith in the world that President Trump and his team are going to be able to hopefully get as close as one can get to a peace deal. And I don't want to overly black pill. And black pill, to be perfectly honest with you, is a term that the kids use to say it's a little bit of a heavy or depressing take, but I don't get the sense that Russia is running to the table. Russia is winning this war because of how terribly Joe Biden managed this whole calamity. We're in a position right now where Russia is holding the cards and Ukraine is not. And Vladimir Putin knows that. Putin knows that the American appetite to fund Ukraine is nothing as it should be, by the way. And therefore Putin's like, well, we have an appetite to keep this war going. You have to remember that the Russian view of war, they have a normalized view of long conflict. It is part of their culture, it's part of their being. A war of attrition is a. A Russian mode of existence. You raise young men and you send them to the military and they're part of the meat grinder, and you do it all over again. It's brutal, it's somewhat medieval, it's impressively patient. And we in the west view every human being made of the image of God. Russians don't really believe that. I mean, some of them are Christians, but they're statists first and foremost. They are loyal to country. They're loyal to the oligarchy. They're loyal to the idea of the big Russian family, the great Soviet experiment. Less Soviet, but more Russian. And so they just keep on feeding the meat grinder. It's not a strategy based on instant gratification. And so I'm starting to see some things in the press reports that are a little concerning, that this thing might end up going on. By the way, you got that longer than we. Like, we got that lunatic Zelensky that doesn't want peace at all. So you got a problem across the board. This is Trump envoy Steve Witkoff saying that his meeting with Vladimir Putin lasted five hours. If President Trump is able to get this done, he and his team all deserve Nobel Peace Prizes. You got so many different layers of motivations of revenge. You got different layers of elements of the deep state of the Russian government. Placott164 this is the third meeting I've had with him. This last meeting lasted close to five hours. And it was a compelling meeting. And towards the end, we actually came up with, I'm going to say, finally, but what Putin's request is to get to have a permanent peace here. So beyond the cease fire, we got an answer to that. So let me compliment the Trump administration here, and they deserve a ton of credit. In the last week, they did two things that were categorically verboten or forbidden based on the DC Manual of Warmongering and neoconservative. They sat down with the Iranians and they sat down with the Russians. Good on them. You always should talk to your adversaries, regardless of what you're going through. Always try to find out if there's a place for reconciliation, back way of channeling for prisoner swaps, whatever it might be. We finally got Putin's demands for permanent peace. Now, if I were to conjecture or speculate what they are, again, I have no inside information at all. This is just guessing. Based on public reports and knowing a little bit about this conflict, Vladimir Putin is gonna probably want almost all the land of eastern Ukraine buttressing up to probably near to Kiev. Putin is likely going to want a guarantee that Ukraine will never be part of NATO. He's going to want Crimea to be officially recognized as part of Russia and probably many other contentions and demands. And then it's going to be on the Ukrainians to see whether the Ukrainians are willing to actually broker peace to come to the table. It's very much an evolving situation. It is very, very difficult. I do not envy the Trump team at all. I do not envy the Trump team for having negotiate this and God bless Steve Woodcoff for going into that circumstance. And both sides need to be willing to come to the table and broker peace, to cut a deal that is the better for humanity. Because we're about to enter another summer killing season, we have to have a good baseline to start negotiating, which is this. We want peace, we want the war to end. We'll see who actually believes that. Hey, everybody, Charlie Kirk here. Ask 10 people to define the word capitalism. How many different responses do you think we'll get? This is a word that comes up all the time, but does anyone know what it really means? Do you? Hillsdale College offers more than 40 free online courses. That's right, free online courses on the subjects like the Book of Genesis, the rise and fall of the Roman Republic, the history of the ancient Christian church, and it's hard for me to say which is my personal favorite. They've recently launched a new course, Understanding Capitalism, that I've been watching. In seven lectures, you'll learn about the role of profit and loss, how human nature plays a part in our economic system, why capitalism depends on private property rights, the rule of law, and above all, freedom. And why capitalism is ultimately a system that encourages morality rather than undermines it. Right now, go to charlieforhillsdale.com to enroll. There's no cost and it's easy to get started. That is CharlieForHillsdale.com CharlieForHillsdale.com Hillsdale's America's greatest college. Take their brilliant online courses@charlieforhillsdale.com that is charlieforhillsdale.com the stakes in front of us. We have to be able to find hundreds of billions of dollars of spending to cut. But there are also elements of spending that quite honestly have a disproportionate impact on the American body politic. It's not going to get us to a balanced budget, but it requires courage. It requires resolve. We're going to talk to Russ Vote about this in just a second. And put simply, it really is the Trump administration who is planning to deliver on yet another campaign promise to cancel all public spending on PBS and npr. Now, that's a billion dollars a year. Just to make sure that we can make sense of this, NPR And PBS receives $1.1 billion a year. Why can't NPR just go raise money from all their donors? In fact, I'm still old enough to remember when they used to do their little telethons. Remember those, Blake? The NPR telethons. Hello, welcome to NPR. Give us $3 and you get to get a tote bag. You remember the tote bag. But the point being is that so many of this, so much of the media landscape is not funded by the government. Why is it that predominantly left wing outlets receive money from the taxpayer? I've dealt with npr. They've written a lot of stories about Turning Point usa. They are unbelievably unfair. They are wildly and comically to the left. Let's play cut 152. Do you think the white people should pay reparations? I have never said that, sir. Yes, you did. You said it in January of 2020. You tweeted, yes, the north, yes, all of us. Yes, America, yes. Our original collective sin and unpaid debt. Yes. Reparations, yes. On this day. I don't believe that was a reference.