On Friday, ABC’s Selina Wang reported for World News Tonight the latest developments between the Trump Administration and Harvard. The latest battle is over Trump’s move to ban the school from enrolling foreign students, but based on Wang’s reports, someone might assume that Harvard is the only university in the country. At the same time, on NBC Nightly News, Andrea Mitchell echoed Harvard's claim that the move was an assault on the First Amendment while providing precious little from the Trump perspective.
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Saturday’s Good Morning America would replay much of Wang’s report, including both her and Summer’s laments, but would at least manage to expand to mention Harvard’s DEI programs and inability to control anti-Semitism led it to this point. The same could not be said of NBC. Mitchell reported:
Less than 24 hours after the administration ordered Harvard to stop admitting international students, a federal judge has swiftly stepped in and granted Harvard's request to put a temporary hold on the order after Harvard argued that banning thousands of new and returning students, a quarter of the student body, would throw their lives into disarray and result in cancelling countless academic programs. Harvard called the Trump order ‘a blatant violation of the First Amendment’ and claims ‘without its international students, Harvard is not Harvard.’ President Trump said today, ‘Harvard is going to have to change its ways. So are some others.’”
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