The White House is seeking fines from several universities it says failed to stop antisemitism on campus, including from Harvard University, in exchange for access to federal funding, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday,

Columbia win has paved the way for Trump team to elecit hundreds of millions from other top schools, including Cornell, Brown, Duke and Northwestern

Harvard president Alan Garber, an economist and doctor, is battling the White House in court on behalf of all higher education.

Columbia University's agreement to pay more than $220 million to the U.S. government to resolve federal probes was not capitulation but a means to restore vital public funding, the university's acting president said on Thursday.

According to the WSJ's exclusive, the Trump administration has placed Duke on a short list of universities that may be required to make financial concessions to get federal funding.

HARVARD LAWSUIT: A federal judge appeared to lean in favor of Harvard University during arguments today in its lawsuit over the Trump administration's cuts to the school's research funding.

Sen. Katie Britt (R-Ala.) and 13 other Senate Republicans are urging the Trump administration to release National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding that has been held up for months. The GOP senators warned in a letter to White House budget chief Russell Vought that the “slow disbursement of funds” that Congress appropriated in March

The White House does not have the direct power to revoke accreditation, but it has alerted Harvard’s accreditor about the university’s non-compliance with standards.

Harvard Constitutional Law Professor Laurence Tribe joins MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell to discuss the university’s case against the $2.6 billion in cuts to research grants and contracts by the Trump administration.