Clay Travis (21:41)
We've got some news here that is breaking just today that a judge has blocked the Trump administration from revoking Harvard's ability to enroll federal students. Federal judge in Boston, no surprise just happened today. She plans to issue a preliminary injunction blocking the Trump administration. This is from Fox. From revoking Harvard certification to host foreign students. What a shock. An appointee of Barack Obama has stepped in. I mean, this is, this is all they've got. Now, just to be clear, the judicial resistance is, is so out of line and so unconstitutional and has gone so rogue because this is all they have right now. They don't really have other. Yeah, I understand. We've got a very small margin in the House. Yes, I understand. You can't trust Republicans too. There are challenges to enacting the Trump agenda in general, but the only way they have to really slam it down and stop it in a day to day sense are these federal judges with these universal injunctions which are, which are absurd. This, this whole thing has gone and you look at the numbers, it's absurd. But on the one hand, I just want to bring to your attention that that's why they don't care anymore. They're in the break the glass phase. They don't care about the danger or the damage done to public faith in the judiciary. They don't care how partisan and how absurd this looks. It's all they've got. Nobody cares what CNN says about anything. Nobody thinks the New York Times is honest. That's gone. Okay? Even the people who like what those places say know they're a bunch of liars. Look at the whole Biden book tour going on right now. But let's talk about why the administration's fight with not just Harvard, but the fight over these universities in general and their policies is important. It's important to this country. I'll explain more in a second. My beloved New York Knicks. I actually do kind of Love, because I used to watch them growing up. They need a win. Tonight it's winner go home. It's a home game. I think that's going to help. But the Pacers are tough. I'll just tell you, they move the ball better. They've got more shooters on the floor at all times. I think their number one offensive option is unfortunately stronger than our New York Knicks number anyway, but I'm hopeful and Prize Picks allows me to get in on the Action Prize Picks app. Once you download it, you can choose more or less on 2 to 6 players projections for your shot to win up to 2000 times your cash. Prizepix is the best way to get action on sports in more than 30 states, including California, Texas and Georgia. 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And they're like, oh, you can be White House communications director, like, it's a different world. So they have brought in people who understand that if you allow the process to get bogged down and if you allow them to weaponize the process essentially to thwart the agenda, you're dead in the water. So you have to just keep going. So that's why, even though this is what I do for a living and I'm every day reading, researching, reading, researching, it's tough to keep up on, oh, wait, what's the latest universal injunction? And what are they. What is this judge saying about Trump or that judge saying about Trump? Because they're not taking the approach that I think was really just more of the Republican way. Oh, we're going to do this thing. Oh, the judge is going to fight us on this. Hmm. Ok. Well, we don't want to seem like we're pushing too hard on stuff. So let's see how this goes. Is, you know, is it going to go to the appeals court? Ok, let's wait. Is the Supreme Court going to hear it? You know, and next thing you know, a year has passed and on this issue, you've allowed them to run out the clock and that's their whole game. So much of what they did, and this was one of my great frustrations with the Russia collusion lie. People always say, oh, it wasn't successful. And I have to correct them, it wasn't totally successful. In the end, I think you can argue it was defeated and shown to be a fraud. But there were costs. You know, we took casualties, so to speak, along the way in the Trump movement because they were able to make people show up for depositions and, you know, testify under oath and get lawyers and the media and you know, and the whole thing was just kicking mud up in the air being, haha, you can't, you can't do what you were elected to do because we're, we're saying, no, we're saying, I don't hear you. La la la la, I don't hear you, I'm a Democrat. You know, whatever childish nonsense they had to do, they did well this time around, the Trump team is going, okay, let's do this. Oh, universal injunction. Cool day, Day two, Next day, let's do this. Oh, universal injunction. Guess what, we got something else. And this is the only way available within the system. We have to continue to play offense. So now what this means is that the, the left and the Democrats are going to be saying, look, oh, he's a dictator and he's a tyrant. Look at all these things he's doing. Because there's a lot going on. But we want there to be a lot going on. We want this movement to be happening on all these different fronts and these processes are playing out. So once again, we all want the same result on this stuff. The people that are trying to do this in this White House, they are pursuing this. I've never seen anything like this before. Most of my life in conservative media has been telling the truth about Democrats when their media outlets have altogether much bigger, you know, ecosystem and have us outgunned, so to speak. I know, you know, the biggest talk radio shows are conservative and yes, Fox is the biggest cable channel. But when you add all those, and remember now we're like the unsinkable aircraft carriers are free speech and the Democrat media is like a little dinghy, you know, beep, beep you know, I don't think they have horns, but you know what I'm saying, maybe boats have horns, right. I'm not a boat guy, but, you know, they're not what they used to be, right? They're, they're, they're ships that they look like the hull is dipping low, close to the water and you know, they're sputtering a little bit. It's not working the way it used to. But one of the big things that I think we had to do on the conservative side of the media was just to deal with the constant incoming. And so we were playing a lot of defense, playing a lot of defense in the Trump term, first Trump term, playing a lot of, with all the, like I said, Russia collusion stuff, right. They tried to make us play a lot of defense on the Biden. Now that didn't work as well as they had, had hoped. But you know, what we see here with Trump is action. Action is its own, is its own strategy. Just keep going, just, you know, motion creates emotion, like make things happen. And that's why I think the stuff you see with the colleges, I know they say you can't do this, they say you can't do that, they say you can't deport. Okay. Trump's team is going to fight that out in court. But while that's happening in every area where the agenda can be pursued by the executive branch, they continue to go and this is excellent. Okay, now let's talk what's going on here with Harvard. You have this, this injunction now from an Obama judge. Obama, I'm going to be honest with you. One of the smartest things, one of the most damaging things about Obama's eight years in office. And I think he did horrific long term damage to the country in a whole range of ways. I think the Obama presidency was a disaster for America that has continued to do harm well beyond his eight years. So many issues, I can't get into them all now. Also, I'll address Michelle Obama now that people are seeing what she actually thinks. I don't think we're going to hear anyone talking about how she should be a presidential candidate anymore. I'll put it that way. Michelle Obama, not a grateful person and not a wise person and doesn't seem like a very nice person either. Not a surprise to some of you. But when she's on these podcasts, she's not, not doing herself any favors with the, with a broader electorate, that's for sure. I mean, I'm sure there are, you know, super fans of Michelle Obama who think everything that she says is brilliant. It's not. And I think that people feel more comfortable just speaking the truth about that now than ever before. But Obama did a lot of damage to the country and Trump is trying to undo that damage. But one of the most lasting points of damage in all of this has been the seating of the federal judiciary with activists. People who just do not care. You know, call it the Sotomayors because she's a, she is really the, the pinnacle example of this. She just knows she's supposed to deliver for her team, team Democrat, team left wing team race and identity politics, you know, team wise Latina. Like she, she knows that she is supposed to make it happen for them in whatever now, she's only one vote of nine. But that's every, every. She never, there's never a moment where you go, wow, Sotomayor is really angering her own side with that. How is that possible? She, she never lets the home team down. The progressive, leftist, communist Democrat is never frustrated with Sotomayor. Now. She, we're aware of this because of her role in the Supreme Court. There are hundreds of Sotomayors in the federal judiciary, hundreds of them because of what Obama and Biden were able to, in Biden's case, the people around him, as we know, but what they were able to accomplish. So this is a major challenge for the administration on the issue of foreign students in this country. I have objections to this on many levels. Not all foreign students. Please don't tell me. Oh, but you know, I, you know, my family, we were so close. You know, we had a foreign exchange student from Singapore and he was lovelier. We had somebody visiting our, you know, was in class at Brigham Young with my son and he was from, you know, wherever. And I know, ok, it's not that we don't want any foreigners here. That, that would be too much. But we also don't want nothing but foreigners in the top echelon of critical industries, critical academic disciplines for our economy and our national defense. And that is happening. We also don't want foreigners, non Americans of, of any kind, to be here in numbers where they get to box out essentially Americans from access to the schools that, as we now all know, are getting billions of dollars of taxpayer money and they really want that money. So they're taking taxpayer dollars, but they're not prioritizing Americans. You know, you start to do this, what percent of Harvard students are foreign? You start to look at these numbers and you say to yourself, 30% of Harvard are foreigners. Do you know that? 30. It's like 27, 28%. We'll just say 30%, because it's basically a third, okay? A third of Harvard are foreign. So this is our most elite university. Blah, blah, all that stuff. I mean, Stanford and Yale people send. Your Clay's on vacation. Send angry emails to him. We're supposed to sit here and say that that's okay. That's insane. That's completely preposterous. The only reason that Harvard can have all these people sitting around with tenure, including. Oh, this is beautiful. Including a professor of honesty, I kid you not, who was just fired from her tenure job at Harvard Business School for dishonesty. It's real. You can look it up. I'm not making it up. And it just happened. Her expertise is whether people are honest or not. And they fired her for being dishonest about her expertise and about the data. They say. One of the highest paid professors at Harvard Business School, I might add. I mean, these are the kind of people that. I remember what this is like. Cause I was in this rat race for a while, remember, until Glenn Beck came along and saved me. I was on my way to Columbia Business School. And I don't mean I was thinking about it. I was in. I was going. And Glenn was like, buck, come work with me. You know, did his Glenn thing. I was like, yes, sir, that is a great. Let's do that thing. The Blaze, early days. Got to work with Pete Hegseth and Will Kane. And I mean, I can't even. I can't even name everybody. I mean, early days, it was just like everybody that you see on Fox now practically came through the Blaze, either as a, you know, somebody who was a guest or whatever. So it was. Those are fun days. Those are fun days. I got a lot of nostalgia about it. My point is merely, I understand this world where people are going through all this stuff there. They'll do anything to shove people out of the way to get into these places so they can study under a professor of honesty who's actually really dishonest at Harvard at heart. What has happened to these places? Do I think that Harvard. I mean, you look at some of these schools, you know, they used to have, like, an ancient, Ancient Greek and Latin requirement. Requirement at some of these. At some of these universities, you look this up. I mean, the core curriculum, you actually had to be smart to go to these places and pass these classes. You know, whether it's, you know, talking about back in, I don't know, the the 50s. I think the 60s ruined everything. Sorry, boomers. I think the 60s ruined, you know, because that's when you seeded the radicals in these schools. And that's. But you go back earlier than that and you had to actually be pretty smart at these places. You had to know my, my college, Amherst, when I went there, and it's only gotten more competitive since then. It's a small school. Those of you in the Northeast know it. The rest of the country doesn't know it. But because it's kind of like an insider. First of all, you can't pronounce the H. It's not Amherst. It's Amherst. Just so you know. And that's always the tell. If somebody says Amherst, it's like, oh, sweetie. Or what do you say in the South? Bless your heart. Oh, bless your heart. The whole thing was they would take. I think they had a 15% admission rate. So 100 people apply, 85 of them get sad letters home. 85 of 100 people get sad letters home. Okay. And, and I think now it's less than that. Harvard's like 1% or 2% or something insane. And there was remedial math and remedial English basically required for a big chunk of students coming in. And I'm sitting, I remember sitting here thinking, like, how, how elite can this place be when you have people who can't, you know, can't math good and, and need help on, on, you know, writing and basic reading? Like, how, how can this be an elite institution? When that's like, well, this is where the left uses these places as credential factories to do social engineering in the broader society. And we all see it. So I have, I want to come back to this issue of the foreigners in schools, though, because this is also a national security thing. I'm passionate about this. I don't think this is a small thing at all. You sit there, you say, how is it that the Biden administration was putting out White House communi. Official White House communications about how 12 year olds should be able to pick their gender and get like, castration drugs? How could that have happened? Look at college campuses. It's where it all starts. That's where. That's where the disease initially, the virus of left wing insanity takes hold and replicates. I will take some calls on this and dive deeper into it because I think it's super important. You know, 600 days ago, life in Israel changed forever. That's the number of days it has been since Hamas terrorists killed innocent people in Israel with reckless abandon and took hostages, many of whom have died. You and I both know how painful this has been for everyone involved. The people of Israel have appreciated the support of this audience and that of the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews, or ifcj. They're on the ground in Israel every day, blessing lives in real, tangible ways. They're feeding elderly Holocaust survivors who have no one else. 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