On today's show, Alex Blumberg talks about the ongoing case against President Trump and the El Salvadoran government, and why the Supreme Court should take up the case. Alex also talks about Harvard University's decision to refuse to bow to President Trump's demands that it be stripped of tax-exempt status, and what it means for the future of American higher education.
00:00:00.000You have the government of El Salvador, the president of El Salvador, make this deal with the Trump administration.
00:00:05.640I think it's $15 million that the Trump administration is going to be paying El Salvador to essentially take these folks from the United States who have been denied due process in the case of Kilmar.
00:00:19.440And again, Republicans seem to be happy to take photo ops at this site and celebrate the fact that the president of the United States is ignoring court orders and that the government of El Salvador is keeping this guy locked up who's committed no crime at all.
00:00:38.080So I do think, though, as we continue to put the spotlight on this injustice, that they ultimately will have to let him go.
00:00:48.700I just I believe that will be the case because I believe people will keep pressing for justice.
00:00:56.600Deport all undocumented immigrants. Voters favoring the government trying to deport all 11 million of them.
00:01:03.880Back in 2016, just 38 percent of voters wanted the government to try to deport all 11 million undocumented immigrants.
00:01:11.640Compared to where we are in 2025, 56 percent, the majority, the American people have come a long way on this issue, much closer to Donald Trump.
00:01:21.100And I think that's a big part of the reason why Americans are increasingly saying the country is on the right track when it comes to immigration policy and why Donald Trump's net approval rating on that issue is in the positive.
00:01:30.980Part of their mission is to use their power in the US government to destroy American higher education, to destroy US colleges and universities, not because of any particular thing that colleges and universities are doing, but just because they think they're bad and they shouldn't exist and they are going to try to destroy them.
00:01:49.160They have been saying this for years. Now, it is clear we should believe them tonight.
00:01:56.160Tonight, CNN and The Washington Post are reporting that President Trump has directed the IRS to strip tax-exempt status from Harvard University after Harvard said this week that it would not accede to Trump's threats.
00:02:09.100It would not enter into some kind of receivership where Donald Trump gets to dictate the school's internal policies and academic decisions.
00:02:17.760Now, there are, of course, laws about tax-exempt status.
00:02:21.820Yes, the IRS can't legally take it away from a university or from any entity just because Trump pounds his chest and says so.
00:02:28.920So we'll be talking about that more on tonight's show.
00:02:32.000But the fact that Trump is trying it tells you, I mean, tells anybody paying attention that, yeah, now's the time. Move fast, right?
00:02:39.620Any school that wants to survive what Trump and Vance are doing here, what their agenda is here for American universities and colleges,
00:02:47.840any school that wants to survive what's coming their way better find a way to not have to fight alone.
00:02:53.340And so, yes, now we are seeing all kinds of colleges all across the country move toward mutual defense pacts with other schools.
00:03:01.780Basically, little NATO treaties for all the colleges. An attack on one is an attack on all.
00:03:06.740I will tell you, I have no connection to any of these efforts, but I would just say as an observer, just speaking strategically,
00:03:14.440my only note on this might be go faster.
00:03:20.900Once he's targeted you, it's too late to have a mutual defense treaty in position.
00:03:26.860You have to have these things in place ahead of time before he signs that executive order or yanks your funding or does whatever he's going to do to you.
00:09:17.080First off, Catholic charities, the bishops, they're all big talk and social thing and they want to, you know, help the poor and be part of the migrant pack and welcome the stranger and have everybody come up here.
00:09:29.120As soon as government money was cut off to the NGOs, the bishops, hey, we had a great 50-year relationship, but we can't do that anymore.
00:09:38.660The moment it came to get into any of the money that keeps them living like the House of Lords, I don't see any of those guys in the shoes of the fishermen.
00:09:49.160I haven't seen a vow of poverty from any of those folks.
00:09:51.760As soon as you tap into their cash, all of a sudden, hey, the other, maybe, you know, maybe they ought to wait in northern Mexico.
00:10:00.220They're all in it when you're giving Catholic charities a billion dollars a year to invade the country.
00:10:06.760And I still don't understand where the investigations are on that.
00:10:11.760I hate to be so, you know, persnickety here on a Holy Thursday because it is Holy Thursday.
00:10:18.540Jack Posobiec. Thoughts about that and also the Democratic Party.
00:10:22.820You saw Harry Enten. We got Benson with Obama.
00:10:24.920I don't understand in a election where securing the border, getting our sovereignty, restoring our territorial integrity,
00:10:33.820that, you know, Star County, that we 97 percent, you know, hard-bitten, blue-collar Hispanics, South Texas,
00:10:41.480because they, we lose it by 60 points to Hillary in 16.
00:12:25.160But also, it seems, though, his own lawyers had hidden this from judges, had hidden this certainly from media, claimed that it wasn't real.
00:14:39.840They're going to go down and worry about the due process rights of a criminal terrorist that President Trump has done as commander-in-chief.
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