“Now, I’m not saying that everyone should, but I never even thought I would consider telling somebody to do that but that’s how many question marks we have.”

On Friday, a judge blocked the white house from stripping Harvard of ability to enroll foreign students.

Harvard University's links to China, long an asset to the school, have become a liability as the Trump administration levels accusations that its campus is plagued by Beijing-backed influence operations.

"It would be devastating," a former president of Harvard — and frequent critic of the university — said of the government's attempt to prevent Harvard from enrolling foreign students.