Gavin Newsome has said that California uh is going to sue in response to the government's demand um for a billion dollars from UCLA uh over the DOJ's anti-semitism uh findings. Newsome has called this extortion uh and ransom. So, I'm wondering what the White House's response is to Newsome on UCLA.>> Bring it on, Gavin. This administration is well within its legal right to do this and we want to ensure that our colleges and our universities are respecting the first amendment rights and the religious libertie ...

NBC News legal affairs reporter Gary Grumbach joins me now. Uh so the judge in this case, Judge Burroughs, did she give any indication of how she'll rule. Well, she called the matter mind-boggling during the hearing today, so that gives some indication.But one of her big points that she was making was the Trump administration is calling Harvard anti-Semitic. But what she wanted to know who is it the researchers are the professors. Is it the university president.The the the lawsuit doesn't make that clear. N ...

All right, joining us now uh rejoining us, he hasn't left, Ken Langon, Home Depot co-founder, currently chairman and president of Invamemed Associates. The stock market will open at 9:30, but we talk about everything. So, we we will talk about the mayor and the mayor race eventually, but I want to start with this. You were talking about anti-semitism. It just made me try to figure out the the genesis of how bad it's gotten. And and I immediately thought about I don't want to blame colleges. I don't want to ...

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The administration today formally accused Harvard of violating civil rights laws by not doing enough to fight anti-semitism. We know that the president has tal talked to us before about um Harvard potentially having a deal with administration in the coming days. Do you have an updated timeline for that.How's the negotiations going. And is more pressure needed for Harvard to take fighting anti-semitism seriously. Well, there was um quite a direct letter that was sent to Harvard this morning as you know.um th ...