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At a press briefing on Thursday, Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) said that UCLA won't gave to Trump Administration pressure to get grants back.
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00:00Americans still hold dear.
00:01Everyone asked me about the half a million dollars of research grants
00:05that the president has taken for UCLA.
00:08Should the U.C. strike a deal to get that money back?
00:10And with your involvement...
00:12I want to be careful here, but with all due respect,
00:17and I don't mean to diminish, we're not Brown, we're not Columbia,
00:23and I'm not going to be governor if we act like that.
00:27Period. Full stop. I will fight like hell.
00:30To make sure that doesn't happen.
00:32There's principles. There's right and wrong.
00:34And we'll do the right thing.
00:38And what President Trump is doing is wrong, and everybody knows it.
00:43His biggest supporters know it.
00:47And you are not just...
00:50This is not about...
00:51This is the finest system of higher education anyone in the world.
00:55It's the reason we're having this conversation.
00:59It's the reason we dominate in every critical area.
01:03It's the reason we have more scientists, engineers, more mobile laureates,
01:06more patents than any other jurisdiction on planet Earth.
01:09It is because of the system of higher education.
01:11It's that conveyor belt for talent defines the best this country.
01:15The reason our national defense and national security is as strong as it is,
01:19is the partnerships and the funding that comes through those grants.
01:24So this is about our competitiveness.
01:26It's about the fate and future of this country.
01:29It's about our sovereignty.
01:30It's about so much more than the temperament of an aggrieved individual
01:37who happens to currently be president of the United States.
01:39Do you involve those conversations in all about schools
01:42and possibly negotiating with them?
01:44They'll do the right thing.
01:45I have the confidence, and I'll do everything in my power
01:48to encourage them to do the right thing
01:51and not to become another law firm that bends on their knees,
01:57another company that sells their soul,
01:58another institution that takes a shortcut and takes the easy wrong.
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