Trump is banning all foreign students from Harvard. What does that mean for our national security? And why is this a good thing? The answer to these questions and more can be heard on this morning's show from Charlie and Alex.
00:00:00.000Welcome to The Charlie Kirk Show, everyone.
00:00:01.000I'm Alexander Marlowe, editor-in-chief of Breitbart News and host of The Alex Marlowe Show, filling in for Charlie while he's got a travel day.
00:00:08.000And I start the show with a nine-minute beatdown on Harvard, where I explain exactly why Trump is banning foreign students from Harvard.
00:00:52.000He's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA.
00:00:58.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
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00:02:36.000You say it is a privilege, not a right, for American schools to be able to host foreigners on their campus.
00:02:43.000Yes, that's exactly right, and this program has been in place for a very long time.
00:02:47.000These policies have been in place for a long time, and Harvard brought these consequences upon themselves.
00:02:52.000They have promoted and allowed violent activity on campus.
00:02:56.000They have allowed anti-Semitism participation with CCP and Chinese infiltration and influence on their campus, and they haven't protected their students.
00:04:09.000So 27% of their students are foreign students and they will have to find some other university to go to and hopefully they find one that cares about them and provides a safe environment.
00:04:21.000They're going to have to find a new place to go.
00:04:38.000It's virtually unchallenged authority when it comes to visas.
00:04:41.000So all it takes is for Secretary of State Marco Rubio to say we're canceling them, and that's it.
00:04:46.000But what Trump is announcing they're going to do is you cannot stay here.
00:04:49.000And this is all about cracking down on Trump.
00:04:59.000And I want to bring this point up because this is so emphatic.
00:05:01.000I think so much of what Trump has done in the beginning of his administration has been about targeting China, be it the tariffs, be it trying to broker peace and new deals around the world, being trying to reshore American manufacturing.
00:05:13.000A lot of this has to do with countering China.
00:05:19.000Because China is encroaching into the Arctic, and we want to be able to counter them with a bigger military presence and defense security presence.
00:05:25.000He's actually called it out in this instance.
00:05:32.000You might not know this, but Xi Jinping's daughter went to Harvard.
00:05:35.000She went about 10 years ago, and Harvard protected her by allowing her to attend with a pseudonym.
00:05:41.000So she was getting the Harvard education that we created, an American institution, quintessential, and it was hidden from the public, that the leader of our biggest geopolitical rivals was getting educated there.
00:05:52.000That is outrageous in and of itself, and yet it was never discussed.
00:05:56.000It's completely new to most people today.
00:05:58.000Maybe you're hearing it on this show for the first time.
00:06:00.000Maybe you're hearing it on another show that you like.
00:06:02.000But today is the day where a lot of people are going to realize, hey, wait a minute.
00:06:05.000Why are we Americans with $9 billion in taxpayer funds headed towards Harvard this year?
00:06:10.000Why are we supporting this type of behavior?
00:06:13.000You're not supposed to be a foreign student who's a foreign adversary to come to America, learn how we do things, and be able to return to your country to be able to take advantage of our That's exactly what Harvard's been a part of for a long time, but not always.
00:06:34.000And this is an incredibly important point.
00:08:02.000I have inside sources inside of the Harvard fundraising apparatus.
00:08:06.000And they specifically court foreign donors to try to get money.
00:08:10.000If you are an American student and you're trying to compete, just note that you have to be better than foreigners who want to come in and get those visas from Harvard to make money.
00:08:20.000Of course this is outrageous and it's never discussed and it takes a bold leader like Donald Trump to finally say, we're no longer going to do this.
00:08:40.000I'm not saying we don't want to get a handful of people.
00:08:43.000We don't want that option of the best and the brightest of people who intend to stay in America, to become an elite in America, and to help America.
00:08:51.000But that's not what we're seeing here.
00:08:52.000We're seeing literally Xi Jinping's daughter coming in.
00:09:22.000The Harvard board led by an Obama appointee.
00:09:25.000And sister of the governor of Illinois who's going to run for president, who has stuck it out even through all the Claudine Gay stuff where she was busted plagiarizing.
00:09:50.000We're taking on the Democrat apparatus.
00:09:51.000We are resetting things in a meaningful way.
00:09:54.000There is no reason why you, the taxpayers, should be funding Harvard to the tune of $9 billion, especially with their $50 billion endowment, and especially when they don't go by basic American rights.
00:10:05.000We can no longer keep giving our intellectual property to the Chinese for whatever pittance it costs their oligarchs to pay the Harvard board to get their kids in.
00:10:15.000This is a brilliant idea from President Trump.
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00:11:39.000Really happy to be in here for Charlie.
00:11:41.000I specifically asked the guys to pull me a great clip of Charlie at Cambridge.
00:11:45.000I love when Charlie goes to these campuses and going to Cambridge, where I actually did a summer school in Cambridge when I was 15 or so, and it was very influential on me.
00:11:53.000And Charlie showed up, and let's see how it went.
00:12:05.000Why do you believe it was a mistake to pass anti-discrimination legislation, and what do you think would be better policy for being treated fairly unequally, which you see as an American principle?
00:12:16.000Nothing against the intent, but it was too broadly written, and it played into something called disparate impact.
00:12:20.000Disparate impact was woven within the Civil Rights Act, and disparate impact basically says if two racial groups have different outcomes, the answer must be racism.
00:12:47.000The Civil Rights Act led the way to affirmative action, which is weaponized, quote unquote, reverse racism against Asian and white people.
00:12:53.000And the Civil Rights Act also blazed the trail for disparate impact as a legal theory.
00:12:59.000I'm saying that if black Americans are doing worse in a group, it might not be because of marital differences or cultural differences or single motherhood issues.
00:13:07.000And so because of that, the Civil Rights Act was too broadly written.
00:13:10.000So the intent, it should have been a single-page or a two-page bill to say that you cannot discriminate against based on the color of somebody's skin, period, end of story.
00:13:19.000Instead, we get a multiple hundred-page bill with lots of chapters and lots of lesser-known amendments that created basically a permanent anti-racist bureaucracy within our federal government to go find racism where it doesn't exist and create it in new places where it otherwise did not exist.
00:15:40.000We should test hypotheses, and we should go from there.
00:15:43.000We don't have to assume certain sciences are settled, like, for example, men in women's sports.
00:15:49.000That's another one of those ideas that Trump has backed Democrats into supporting, which is just, it's so stupid, and history will all agree that it was stupid over time, but he's tricked all these Democrats to going all in on it.
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00:16:49.000That's what Trump's all about, shaking things up in that way, and that's why I'm so excited about the Maha movement in particular.
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00:17:57.000All right, ladies and gentlemen, fan favorite here.
00:17:59.000Mike Benz is here from the Foundation for Freedom Online and probably one of the most prolific online journalists working today in new media.
00:18:08.000Mike, I got a couple things I want to get to with you, but the first one is I just want to watch you cook Harvard for a little bit.
00:19:00.000She was the chair of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, which is one of the oldest think tanks in the country and was a frequent cover for CIA funding and CIA outreach work during the Cold War.
00:19:17.000Documents as early as 1951 show the Central Intelligence Agency planning things in tandem with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
00:19:27.000In fact, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace was run from 2014 to 2021 by Bill Burns.
00:19:33.000And Bill Burns only left the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, which had been previously chaired by Penny Pritzker, to run the Central Intelligence Agency.
00:19:40.000And the Harvard Endowment, the $53 billion Harvard Endowment invests in.
00:20:08.000So one of the most shocking examples that has been publicly declassified because of the U.S. government role in it and the scandals that resulted was how Harvard made billions of dollars looting the economy of Russia during what should have been the period of peace that would have unified the U.S. with Eurasia diplomatically when all of the trillions of state-held assets Of the entire Soviet empire
00:20:38.000converted to capitalism and went through shock therapy.
00:20:42.000Harvard teamed up with the U.S. government.
00:20:45.000USAID at that time paid half a billion dollars to Harvard's USAID.
00:20:52.000It was called the Harvard Institute for International Development.
00:20:55.000And using Harvard economists and Harvard's international relations specialists and Harvard's practitioners of statecraft, Under effectively academic cover, the U.S. State Department and USAID worked with Russian oligarchs in control of the oil and gas sector, in control of the steel sector, in control of all the different sectors that previously held that wealth publicly.
00:21:23.000They worked directly with Harvard and then gave the Harvard Endowment together with George Soros' Quantum Fund, because Soros and Harvard worked together.
00:21:34.000Special private inside access to bid on all those assets.
00:21:40.000They got a first bite at the apple to buy up on the cheap all of these new assets that were previously held publicly for foreign populations.
00:21:49.000They did the same thing all over Central and Eastern Europe.
00:21:53.000that was the same policy that the CIA and the State Department had to take this wealth effectively and that would protect And you can see the logic of it.
00:22:10.000But the fact is, is this revolving door has put Harvard completely at odds with the Trump administration's foreign policy, their foreign policy on Russia, their foreign policy on Ukraine, their foreign policy on liberal interventionism writ large.
00:22:28.000And so you have this kind of economic hitman role that Harvard has played, and every system in that supports it.
00:22:34.000The Belfer Center, for example, at Harvard, which hosts not just Samantha Power, she's there now, the USAID administrator who completely weaponized every aspect of that agency against half of the U.S. population through funding censorship initiatives, through funding initiatives that targeted Breitbart.
00:22:58.000USAID went after the advertisers and had whole primaries on it.
00:23:01.000The Belfer Center was deeply involved with that inside of Harvard as well, where Samantha Power now is.
00:23:08.000The Belfer Center was actually teamed up with the Department of Homeland Security.
00:23:12.000They had a formal partnership with the Department of Homeland Security.
00:23:15.000The Belfer Center actually hosted DHS CISA events.
00:23:20.000To censor the internet, Harvard coached the Department of Homeland Security ahead of the 2020 election, where they targeted 20 million Trump tweets and Trump supporter tweets as mis- and disinformation, and then worked to get a huge proportion of them censored at the narrative level.
00:23:38.000The Belfer Center, and I've all this clipped, it's all on my X account if you just type in Belfer Center as a phrase, they coached them about how to set up, quote, incident response teams, and they actually put Breitbart In the repeat misinformation spreaders and went after domestic media voices through the Department of Homeland Security set up to stop another 9-11.
00:24:03.000But that was done because the U.S. government is banned by the First Amendment from doing it.
00:24:08.000So they reach into their partner network and they reached into Harvard to do that.
00:24:12.000And Harvard also specializes in organizing riots.
00:24:16.000And street protest movements, they call this non-violent action, or the term folks may have heard a lot, the term color revolution, named after things like the velvet revolution, the orange revolution, the green revolution, these sorts of things.
00:24:33.000The end stage of that is a street protest that removes the government from power by destabilizing it and making the police and law enforcement and military helpless.
00:24:45.000Against the throngs of hordes in the streets.
00:24:47.000And Harvard has an entire center on nonviolent action in order to organize those things.
00:24:53.000Well, what is Erica Chenoweth, for example, and Maria Stefan from the Belfer Center now doing now?
00:24:58.000They're organizing the Tesla takedown protests, the street protests that effectively wedged Elon Musk, I think in certain respects, off of aspects of the White House by effectively...
00:25:22.000And so this is the sort of stuff that the Belfer Center was doing in Yugoslavia and in Ukraine ahead of the overthrow of Slobodan Milosevic and the Maidan revolution.
00:25:38.000We've trained this network with a very special set of dark arts skills.
00:25:42.000And they are now using it against our own people and our own government, getting $9 billion worth of federal funding in the process.
00:25:51.000Mike, this is essentially the question I want to ask.
00:25:53.000The history of Harvard is that it was founded by Americans for Americans to educate Americans so we would compete with and eventually surpass the elite universities overseas.
00:26:03.000Now, this is something that is used to empower foreign governments to give our intellectual know-how to foreign leaders to clandestinely – All of this stuff feels fundamentally against the original vision for Harvard and certainly against anything we would want to spend $9 billion on.
00:26:29.000Where is the disconnect here between the Democrats and anyone who is defending this behavior and where we're at here in Trump's America?
00:26:36.000Well, the issue is that because of the supply chains, because of the manufacturing and labor, Harvard began to bet on China.
00:27:04.000Harvard began to bet on a world order.
00:27:08.000That did not put the United States first.
00:27:11.000And so I think you see this reflected in much of the Democrat Party.
00:27:15.000You had the Biden first family directly profiting off of deals with China.
00:27:19.000Hunter Biden famously made $10 billion through CEFC China Energy.
00:27:24.000Hunter Biden was brokering the sales of LNG ports in Louisiana to China.
00:27:30.000You have huge portions of the diplomatic class.
00:27:36.000You have huge portions of the California power base.
00:27:40.000Nancy Pelosi and Gavin Newsom, as China effectively offers California a lifeline and is doing development deals.
00:27:49.000And so you have this skating towards where the puck is going.
00:27:54.000And the problem is, is that puts the United States in a death spiral because They're not actually advancing U.S. interests as they do it.
00:28:03.000And part of that is I think the U.S. State Department, as well as the Central Intelligence Agency and aspects of our Defense Department, have moved into this as well as the contractors have seen the markets in China and have seen the markets in other hostile foreign nation states.
00:28:21.000I think this is a lot of what was behind the Iran deal, this move to open up the oil and gas.
00:28:26.000And Trump put a ban on that during his administration.
00:28:31.000But then two months into the Biden administration, China bought, in March 2021, China signed a $400 billion deal with Iran to buy their oil and gas.
00:28:40.000I think this is also what's giving rise in part to some aspects of the Israel-Palestine conflict on college campuses, is that Bill Burns, the CIA director for Joe Biden, personally negotiated the Iran deal.
00:28:55.000And the whole network is involved in that.
00:28:59.000The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
00:30:43.000All right, one other thing that's huge news, it's actually a leading story at Breitbart.com as we're recording the show, is that Trump has threatened Apple with a 25% tariff on iPhones that are not made in the USA.
00:30:54.000And I have to tell you, he doesn't surprise me too often, but I was surprised by this one.
00:30:58.000Let me read this truth bomb from Trump.
00:31:03.000I used to like when he called him Tim Apple.
00:31:05.000I've long informed Tim Apple that I expect their iPhones will be sold in the United States of America, will be manufactured and built in the United States, not India or anyplace else.
00:31:15.000If that is not the case, a tariff of at least 25% must be paid by Apple to the U.S. Thank you for your attention to this matter!
00:31:23.000I love how he's adding now, thank you for your attention to this matter, no matter what.
00:31:30.000But I will tell you, I was a little surprised here because this is really hardcore.
00:31:34.000When Trump pulled back from having the – when he put the Apple tariffs on or all the tariffs on China, I thought one of the things he was doing was he was going to encourage Apple to not necessarily come all the way back to the United States but at least not do business with China.
00:31:48.000I thought that was a pretty genius move.
00:31:50.000Apple announced a really big plan, a really big deal.
00:31:53.000In India, which India is much more hospitable to the United States.
00:31:56.000Obviously, I would prefer if everything is done here, all the manufacturing comes back to the United States.
00:32:00.000But I thought that was a super intelligent and subtle way to at least get Apple to decouple from China.
00:32:06.000And I was going to take the W on that.
00:32:22.000And I got to admit, I kind of like it.
00:32:24.000And he is just putting his foot on the gas over and over again to prove that it is important for the United States to be a high-tech manufacturing hub.
00:33:20.000There were many gestures early in the Trump admin that funding would be cut to this organization.
00:33:25.000I believe J.D. Vance even got in a spat with them on X saying, well, if you're doing anything useful, why is the cover photo on your X account and your webpage a picture of the Cold War?
00:33:38.000The Cold War's been over for 30 years.
00:33:40.000But the fact is, is the National Endowment for Democracy has taken its CIA origins.
00:33:46.000It was literally conceived of in the office of William Casey, the CIA director, in 1983.
00:33:52.000Its founders told the New York Times publicly that it was created because it was terrible.
00:33:57.000The direct quote is it was terrible when groups in the 1960s That's why the endowment was created.
00:34:07.000So both the CIA and the founders itself openly concede that its role is to be an NGO version of the Central Intelligence Agency, and that played a very useful role in the Cold War in the 1980s.
00:34:26.000In toppling foreign governments that had autocratic features and were left-wing communist socialist in nature and helped open up them to capitalism and to Western liberalism and all the rest.
00:34:42.000In fact, they were so effective that the New York Times in the early 1990s said that We don't even need to confirm.
00:34:50.000I think it was Bob Gates as the CIA director because we don't need the CIA anymore.
00:34:55.000We have the National Endowment for Democracy.
00:34:56.000But they have pivoted completely from countering left-wing communism to countering right-wing populism.
00:35:04.000And we have a populist president here.
00:35:07.000The National Endowment for Democracy bragged about censoring Trump voices, had entire operations to stop Trump from the inside.
00:35:16.000And the fact that they remain what appears to be almost fully funded is like voluntarily giving your own government cancer.
00:35:26.000And I can't for the life of me, other than donor pressure or a need to appease Congress in order to get other parts of the bill passed, understand why this administration would continue to fund that.