LESTER HOLT: Meanwhile, the Trump administration continues its push to reshape higher education, with President Trump signing an executive order making changes to the university accreditation bodies and another calling for a review of colleges' financial ties with foreign donors. It comes as the Harvard University president is speaking out for the first time since the school sued the federal government.
Did you have to take a deep breath before you agreed to file a lawsuit? That's a big step. Especially given who you are suing.
ALAN GARBER: It is a big step. And it was more than one deep breath.
HOLT:That was a tough one?
GARBER: It was tough.
HOLT: Harvard president Alan Garber on campus today reflecting on the university's showdown with the Trump administration, over its demands that the school accept government-ordered changes. Harvard accusing the administration of illegally withholding $2.2 billion in federal funding as a form of leverage. Among the list of the federal government demands, eliminate DEI programs, make broad changes to admissions and hiring practices. At the center of it all, allegations anti-semitism on campus went unchecked.