Education Secretary Linda McMahon on Friday defended President Donald Trump 's attacks on elite universities like Harvard and Columbia , while saying that she is seeing "progress" from the institutions on the administration's demands.

"I have seen progress. And you know why I think we’re seeing progress? Because we are putting these measures in place, and we’re saying we’re putting teeth behind what we’re looking at," McMahon said in an interview with NBC News at her office in Washington.

Still, McMahon said Harvard still needs to do more to combat antisemitism on campus and a better job vetting international students.

“It’s very important that we are making sure that the students who are coming in and being on these these campuses aren’t activists, that they’re not causing these

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