Defunding Harvard + NPR + PBS ft. Russ Vought
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Welcome back, everybody, to the Charlie Kirk Show live from the Bitcoin.com mobile studio. Russ Vogt joins the program. Should we defund Harvard? And finally, the left becomes violent. Email us as always, freedom at charliekirk.com. Become a member, members.charliekirk.com. And if you want to see me on campus, go to tpusa.com. That is tpusa.com. Buckle up, everybody. Here we go. Charlie, what you've done is incredible here.
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I want you to know we are lucky to have Charlie Kirk. Charlie Kirk's running the White House, folks. I want to thank Charlie. He's an incredible guy. His spirit, his love of this country. He's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA.
We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country. That's why we are here. Noble Gold Investments is the official gold sponsor of The Charlie Kirk Show, a company that specializes in gold IRAs and physical delivery of precious metals. Learn how you could protect your wealth with Noble Gold Investments at noblegoldinvestments.com. That is noblegoldinvestments.com. It's where I buy all of my gold. Go to noblegoldinvestments.com. There's some... Major news and some swirling news around one of America's most powerful institutions, Harvard. Harvard University is, of course, America's most famous university.
They have an admission rate of 3.2%. But Harvard is a lot more than just a prestigious school. They are really one of the most powerful institutions in America. Harvard's endowment currently sits at $53 billion. Its annual budget is $63 billion, $6.3 billion. Democrat administrators staffed 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 Buttigieg. 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 Admission Supreme Court case that Harvard has practiced egregious racial discrimination for decades. They discriminated against Asians and white people, especially white people 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. Well, 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.
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