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There's a battle playing out right now over who should control American universities.
In season one, we were guessing what was to come.
Now, We know.
We want nothing less than $500 million from Harvard.
From the Boston Globe and on the media, it's season two of The Harvard Plant.
This time, it really is personal.
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This case mattered to me personally, obviously,
but it matters most because a message has to be sent.
that the President of the United States cannot use the Department of Justice to target his political enemies.
I don't care what your politics are,
you have to see that as fundamentally un-American and a threat to the rule of law that keeps all of us free.
I know that Donald Trump will probably come after me again and my attitude is going to be the same.
I'm innocent, I am not afraid, and I believe in an independent federal judiciary.