00:00The Trump administration is blocking Harvard University from enrolling international students, escalating its fight with the elite U.S. college.
00:08Existing international students, who actually make up over 27% of the student body, must transfer or lose their legal status.
00:16The ruling will also compound Harvard's financial pressures after the White House cut billions of dollars in funding and future grants, David.
00:24And joining us now is former U.S. Treasury Secretary and Harvard University President Emeritus Larry Summers.
00:31Larry, good morning from the Asia-Pacific. Thank you for joining us today.
00:35We've seen your posts on social media. Take us through what you're thinking right now and your reaction to this.
00:41This is vicious. It is illegal. It is unwise. And it is very damaging.
00:50Why does it make any sense at all to stop 6,000 enormously talented young people who want to come to the United States to study from having that opportunity?
01:06Why is punishing them the right thing to do?
01:11What due process has attended this action against the university?
01:20The United States won World War II because of people who came to be at American universities.
01:27They invented radar. They invented the atomic bomb and much else.
01:33Why is cutting off that kind of interchange sensible for our economy or for our national security?
01:44If the Trump administration has an objection to something Harvard is doing with respect to foreign students, let it pursue the specifics of that objection through the processes of law.
02:00But simply throwing 6,000 students out and denying the many thousands of students abroad who have dreamed of coming to study at Harvard that opportunity because they're angry about a fight on other issues, that is not the way we do things in a democratic country like the United States.
02:24I am just appalled that we would have an administration that would contemplate actions of this kind.
02:33If I had been a member of an administration where such unlawful orders had come from the White House, I would have resigned immediately.
02:44Does that mean, if we had any specific claims, we would have been in a different context of the American history of the American history?
02:57Well, it's the case where it's beenBob.
03:01Well, it's the case where you're not wrong.
03:05It's just because of the American history of American history, that's the former American history of American history.
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