2025-08-18
21 分钟It's Monday, August 18th.
I'm Jane Koston.
This is What A Day,
the show that is excited for Taylor Swift to release a new album and not excited for the absolutely deranged takes that will result from Taylor Swift releasing a new album.
On today's show,
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky returns to the White House to meet with President Donald Trump.
And former Texas Congressman Beto O'Rourke is slapped with a restraining order
for supporting the Texas Democrats' redistricting fight.
But let's start with universities.
Imagine you're a researcher at a major university.
You're working on something really, really important.
Cures for cancer, ways to mitigate climate change, big-time solutions to big-time problems.
But the president of the United States has decided that he is very,
very mad at your university for reasons that have absolutely nothing to do with you.
And your funding has been cut.
But now a judge was saying that the funding cuts were wrong.
So what happens next?
That's the very real situation researchers at the University of California,
Los Angeles find themselves in as the Trump administration continues its war on America's universities.
Case in point, earlier this month, the Trump administration demanded that UCLA pay $1 billion,