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Visit Shopify.com to upgrade your selling today. All right, here we go. Welcome to One Nation. I'm Brian Kilmeade.
Hope you're having a great weekend. Coming up tonight on the show, well, we're going to look at one of the most explosive Oval Office meetings you will ever see. Watch. We gave you through your stupid president $350 billion. We gave you military equipment and you men are brave, but they had to use our military equipment. If you didn't have our military equipment, if you didn't have our military equipment, this war would have been over in two weeks. Wow.
Right. Senator Mark Wayne Mullen is going to be up shortly. He actually was one of the people to meet with President Zelensky before the confrontation in the Oval Office. On our show, though, on other items, we got Senator Mark Wayne Mullen as well as Governor Brian Kemp of Georgia.
He's doing something really exciting in his state and he might have a big announcement about his next career goal and Jimmy Fala will break down the media for us. Meanwhile, how about this? A tale of two presidencies.
We are witnessing a presidency that I would nickname the Truman Show. Good morning. Morning. Good morning. Oh, and in case I don't see you, good afternoon, good evening and good night.
Give me a paper there, will you, Harold? Oh, and one of these. My wife.
Loves her fashion bags. That'd be all for you, Truman. That's the whole kit and caboodle. Yeah, that was the original Trump term, too. President Trump and his team are transparent, right? Just like that. Working at warp speed in the first 30 days. Truly unprecedented. Like Jim Carrey, the president is putting almost all of his life and his job on camera.
No script, no format, no problem. But I understand Maine. Is Maine here, the governor of Maine? Are you not going to comply with it? I'm complying with state and federal laws. Well, we are the federal law. Well, you better do it. You better do it because you're not going to get any federal funding at all if you don't. Your population doesn't want men playing in women's sports. So you better comply because otherwise you're not getting any federal funding.
Every state. Good. I'll see you in court.
I look forward to that. This is every day, almost every hour. Reality, real reality from immigration to border security to executive orders, trade, doge, pardons. Trump, the sequel, wants you to see everything like a real reality show in real time. And after four years of Joe Biden's administration being the most secretive, inaccessible in history, few press conferences, few interviews, few friendly features even.
And for the most part, most of the media did not seem to care. In Trump's first month, for example, he answered over a thousand questions, seven times more than Joe Biden did in his first 30 days. If you would have any questions, please ask.
You could ask me or you. Go ahead, please. Little different, right? Not since Robin Williams donned a skirt and became a female housekeeper just to see his kids. Have we been so faked out?
I think he was married to Sally Field in that, wasn't he, Matt? We now know why Joe Biden was the invisible man, because he wasn't all there. The media knew it.
They stayed busy ignoring it. One man who was complicit in that coverup, CNN's Jake Tapper, repeatedly blaming Biden's gaffes in general, fogginess on a childhood stutter, recoiling in anger if anyone said anything else. I think what we see on stage with Joe Biden, Jake, is very clearly a cognitive decline. That's what I'm referring to.
It makes me uncomfortable to watch the money on stage shirts for questions and try and figure out an answer. A cognitive decline. You're trying to tell me that what I was suggesting was a stuttering? I think that you were mocking his stutter. Yeah, I think you were mocking his stutter and I think you have absolutely no standing to diagnose somebody's cognitive decline.
Mocking his stutter, right? We heard that repeatedly. And this week it was revealed, hold on to something tight, that Tapper is cashing in on his complicity, co-authoring a book on the Biden coverup.
I know you think I'm pulling your leg like a one horse pony soldier, but it's true. He's rewriting history by writing history. He publicly ignored. I assume this is in lieu of an apology. The name of the book is called original sin.
President Biden's declined his coverup and his disastrous choice to run again. I strongly encourage no one you know, to buy it, including you. I've seen that confusing show. I saw it live. I know how it ends.
I much rather rather see this one. You're on television. You're live to the whole world. In case I don't see you. Good afternoon. Good evening.
And good night. No one's taken a bow yet. Let's analyze it. Joining us now, the co-host of the ruthless podcast who have celebrating.
I don't know. I'm sure they celebrate big time, 500 episodes. Nobody thought it would last one. Josh Holmes, Michael Duncan, John Aspera, and comfort comfortably smug. Welcome guys. And seriously, congratulations.
You know how much I love the show and love the podcast. Here we are again. We can't even take a breather. How do you characterize what we've been seeing over the 30 plus days, including that oval office meltdown with Zelensky? I mean, Brian, first of all, thank you.
We appreciate you, everything you do. Thanks for, for being a listener, but I will say to everyone, are you not entertained? Is this not what we thought was going to happen? This is the most transparent administration in the history of this Republic. Each and everything from a sensitive negotiation, as we saw on Friday spilling out in real time with the national press, to every single aspect of this administration, just being right there for the world to see. I think the great irony here is you still have journalists that are walking around saying, well, you know, if we can't control the white house press, like the American people won't be let in on the joke. They won't understand what this administration is doing. Nonsense. We can see with our own eyes.
And speaking of entertaining, how about that super cut that Brian played with all these great old movies, you know, in the, in the nineties, Mrs. Doubtfire was like a cross dressing comedy. And in the, in the year of our Lord 2025, that's like a Biden USA ID program that Elon Musk has to say, I think I'm pretty sure it was the deputy health human services secretary. Yeah, that's right. So, so guys, I think the thing you made the perfect point, Brian, is that this is a polar opposite between you saw the Joe Biden administration, which was absolute inertia where nothing would happen. People expected the government isn't going to do anything. And now you have, like you said, the Truman show, it's kinetic. Things are moving. Things are actually happening in real time and everyone can see it. All the promises that president Trump made while campaigning are happening in real time, right in front of our eyes. Yeah.
Smug said it. Well, that's the contrast. What we got for the last four years was nothing but weakness. And what we have in president Trump is nothing but strength. That's exactly what he promised us. And he's delivering it in spades for the last 30 days.
And before we move on, Josh, real quick, Jake Tapper is going to pretend like he knew all along, didn't know all along about the coverup and he's going to pretend like he's above and is going to crack the code on Joe Biden's cognitive decline. Are you kidding me? He's got a cash in on it.
It's on. It's unbelievable. Yeah. I want to know what kind of blackmail he has in Alex Thompson.
Is it over at axios? Thompson was actually writing about all of this stuff and took a ton of the ton of heat. I mean, there was a couple of writers, Annie Linsky, Siobhan Hughes over at the Wall Street Journal that also tried to report the truth and was immediately inundated by the left of lying about his condition. But Jake Tapper, he was amongst them. And I don't know how he got his name on this book, but it seems ridiculous. Smug, hold, hold, hold off for a second.
I want you to hear Ro Khanna. He's looking at the Democratic Party and he's honestly admitting, with maybe only John Fetterman would have said before, there's a failure at leadership. And that to me is the failure of leadership in the Democratic Party. We are just being tactical. We're hoping that they self-destruct. But there's not enough focus, as Bernie Sanders is, on a concrete vision going forward to solve the massive inequality and to understand that many people who voted for Trump were not just angry, they were justifiably angry.
Smug, go ahead. Well, I mean, I guess that's what happens when Kamala Harris runs the perfect campaign. They're just right there. I mean, not only did the media lie to the public, Jake Tapper included, saying that President Biden is perfect.
He does arithmetic and backflips in private. But then they tried telling the American people, Kamala Harris, oh, she's she's the perfect campaign, perfect candidate for the time she's going to win. And now they're stuck looking for answers. The answers that the American people are looking for were with President Trump. And that's why he won. And President Trump's media strategy of being a transparent administration, it works to his advantage. And even more importantly, it works to the disadvantage of the Democrats, because it's like catnip for these people. It throws them off message because the Democrats can't focus on one thing.
Donald Trump is out there accomplishing his agenda, keeping the promises that he made on the campaign trail. Right. And they're three steps behind before they can play catch up. Yeah, yeah, I think I speak for all Republicans when I say Kamala got a raw deal. Three months was not enough. What we need is a four year run up to a 2028 campaign for president. Democrats just don't seem like they want to give it to her. I mean, they've got Alyssa Slotkin, a senator from Michigan who was doing the response to President Trump's State of the Union next week. This is somebody who voted for stimulus checks for criminals like Larry Nassar. She voted to get rid of gas powered cars from the state of Michigan. And she's like all in on China invading her state to build out all kinds of infrastructure that they want. She's the wrong person. It should be Kamala responding to that.
Before you comment, let me have you I want to want you to roll this. I want to talk about a Democrat who envisions himself in the White House one day, but first he wants to take a pit stop at a podcast. Listen to Gavin Newsom.
He announced that he is going to do a podcast while Los Angeles is trying to recover from the worst fires in their history, which they forgot to have water for. And they forgot to fund a fire department. Josh, this is unthinkable. Oh new scum. I mean, this guy, he's got a demonstrated record of being the one of the worst governors in the history of the Republic. I mean, I'm not sure how you could create policies or create just a general feeling within a state to make everyone evacuate and go to Texas and Florida. But this guy's tried his absolute hardest.
And then you saw the wildfires and all these other things. He's like, I know, I got it. What we need is more content out there.
We need we need a DSC from the left in technicolor. And I'm going I'm just the guy to provide let's put a little hair product in. Let's go folks. It's like he saw Joe Rogan leave. He saw Joe Rogan leaving in Florida, Texas.
And he's like, now's my moment. I mean, there's gotta be an easier way to get a table of French laundry than having to do a podcast. I wish him the best of luck, guys. 500 shows.
I wish you 500 more. And then of course, a reevaluation where one of you leaves for more money to another renegade podcast. That's how I see this playing out.
Because it says money's gonna because success will ruin you. I have that sense. Thanks so much, guys. Congratulations. Thank you, Yoko.
We change gears. And one of the most explosive exchanges we have ever seen and will ever see. President Trump going at Ukraine President Vladimir Zelensky for his attitude and what he says is unthankfulness. The president reminded him that without his aid that he gave, he wouldn't be the tough guy who may whose he's made out to be.
When it comes to negotiating, President Trump reminded Zelensky of his current position. You don't have the cards right now. With us, you start having cards right now. You're gambling with millions of people. You're gambling with World War three.
You're gambling with World War three. And what you're doing is very disrespectful to the country. This country.
Far more than a lot of people said they should have. Your country is in big trouble. No, no. You've done a lot of talking. Your country is in big trouble. Pretty wild, right? So my next guest, Senator Mark Wayne Mullen, he's on the Armed Services Committee, had a chance to meet with President Zelensky before, and I think they had a different tone then. Senator, great to see you. What's your reaction of what happened Friday in the Oval Office? And who was the president Zelensky that you met with? Oh, Brian Zelensky messed up. The way he went in there and went right at the president in the Oval Office in front of our press was just very poor, calculated decision. But it was the same decision that they made when they wanted to go to Pennsylvania with the Harris campaign and not outright endorse, but show their support for the Harris campaign instead of the Biden or instead of the Trump team.
I don't think, Brian, this meeting could have gone any worse. What they should have done is come in, agreed to the mineral deal. Keep in mind that a year ago, Brian, we've passed the national security bill that had Ukraine funding in it, had Israel funding it, had Taiwan funding it. But part of the Ukraine deal is that we had first rights of refusal to their minerals. And that was part of the deal moving forward.
From that point on, we were supposed to be able to start extracting or moving forward with the mining and getting the minerals, the rare earth minerals out of Ukraine at a fair price that's good for both countries. That's what this meeting was supposed to be about. The way Zelensky handled it was absolutely wrong. Now I'll tell you, I've met with Zelensky at least four, maybe five times. This side of him I haven't seen before. When I met with with the president in Mar-a-Lago, he explained that he had been on a phone call with him and he didn't like the guy. I can see why now. Their personalities completely clash and Zelensky needs us.
Take a step back for one second. Do you think fundamentally it's this? That the thing that maybe he understands maybe better than most is that Vladimir Putin is a brutal killer that stole 20,000 Ukrainian kids, lied in 2014 and he was there, lied again about 2022. He was elected to try to bring peace with Putin.
He lied then. And maybe he feels as though he's about to lead us down a path again and he's known as an inveterate liar. And maybe perhaps he doesn't think we, we think we're giving him too much credit. Well, I, I think what Zelensky is trying to do here is he's, he's trying to show strength to his countrymen because he's in, he's in a very tough situation. I will, I would assume, and this is just me making the assumption that his life is in danger as we speak. Plus as the, if the country were to go into peace, he's trying to come out of this place from a point of strength. President Trump also understands the weakness perception, perception that they're, that they find themselves in. And part of the negotiation is when you're at your street at your strongest point, that's when you want to negotiate it, him picking a fight with, with the president, with president Trump right now, all that does is put him in a weaker spot. And so if you're going to go to the table with a bully like Putin and you're in a weaker spot, you're not even at an even spot, you're going to get a much worse deal. I think president Trump was able, was going to be able to negotiate the best deal possible for the Ukrainians to get them out of the fighting and keep people from dying. President Trump has made this very clear. He wants the killing to stop.
What Zelensky is trying to do is come out from a point of strength and he thinks there's a way for him because the United States is backing him, that he can get all of the dumb ass back. All are Crimea back. I don't see that happening. No, that, yeah, that's not going to happen.
I think we all agree on that. But the killing stopped in 2014. It just started again in 2022 and I think he's trying to avoid it. Clearly it didn't work out for him this time. And we'll find out where we go from here.
If this is so unprecedented, nobody knows for sure. But the one thing about president Trump, you don't need a leak from the white house. He brought the cameras in and you could see for yourself and make your own call.
It is really, he's cut out the media and he's just let us see for himself what's happening. I know I for one appreciate it for better or for worse. Senator Mark Wayne Mullen, great to see you. Thank you so much. Thank you.
All right. Meanwhile, following president Trump's lead, Georgia just passed its own version of a transgender sports band, a little bit different from Maine, right? Governor Brian Kemp has a message to the tone deaf states fighting back next and later I'll take you on a tour of America's new anti woke university, Austin, Texas, the campus, their mission and why we need more universities just like this.
So to be able to really create a university that's going back to its original roots as a place of free thought is just a thrill. There are many ways to deliver it. So the Georgia house just passed a bill that bans transgender athletes from participating in female sports. So we covered this, this on the heels of president Trump's executive order doing the same thing. Still, there are some tone deaf states that refuse to comply.
They're digging in on this issue. Joining us now to react is the governor of a different state that gets it. Georgia governor Brian Kemp.
Governor, great to see you. Why do you think it was important for you to pass separate legislation from the president's executive order? Well, listen, first of all, this is just good old common sense. The state of Georgia back in 2022 passed some legislation dealing with, you know, boys being in girls sports and an act to help save girls sports as a father of three daughters that all played basketball growing up and into high school. You know, I certainly understand the need for this legislation. What we're doing this year is codifying further what we did back in 2022 and also making that go into post secondary education. And I feel like the legislature, you know, this is a good issue that they want to weigh in on.
I'm certainly supportive of that and certainly appreciative of what president Trump and his administration is doing at the federal level. So governor is going to know governors, democrats and republicans, you guys got to bond. So can you explain why made New Jersey, California and Minnesota are holding out? I guess they are anti girl, anti woman. I mean, what are they thinking? Well, you know, Brian, I was up in D.C. last week with the nation's governors and with my Republican governor colleagues. And one of the things that I told a lot of the media I was talking to and just people in general is, you know, the problem with the Democrats right now, they don't know what they believe in. You know, they're just scared to tell people what they actually believe in. On the Republican side, you know, we can have fights amongst ourselves because of different things that we believe in or policy that should be one way or another.
But at least you know what we what our principles are and what we believe in. On the Democratic side, they're having to ask a consultant like, should I be for this or against this? Because they're trying to think through the politics of it, not what's right. I mean, what is right is to not have, you know, someone that was born with a male gender playing in girls sports, especially in places like, you know, high school or college or even in middle school. It's an unfair disadvantage. It's dangerous. And it does not make good common sense. And, you know, the other part of the bill that we have is not just the participation part of the sport, but also dealing with locker room, sleeping arrangements and things of that nature.
So you do it. You just did tort reform like Texas didn't had huge success. It's great for business. And you also are handling the rising cost of insurance. Two of the hot issues for the average household around the country.
If you're a small business owner and if you're a if you are a homeowner, insurance is something that's front and center. How were you able to handle this? Yeah, so we've got our tort reform package through the state Senate. One of the bills was really a tough fight. We passed the other one yesterday unanimously.
So we're now going to the house and starting the process there. But look, we just have to do this for our business environment and making sure that we're stabilizing insurance rates. I mean, people in Georgia now, I've talked to business owners that are scared to put the name of their company on their truck. You know, they've seen insurance rate increases of 20 to 30%. It's unsustainable. But even worse than that, you have people pulling out of the marketplace so you can't even get insurance at all. And as a business owner, small business owner, both Marty and I, for almost 40 years now, if you can't do that, you can't stay in business. And I just feel like this is starting to affect our business environment.
We need the right size. How the system works in Georgia. There's been a lot of other great governors around the country that have been doing this and and we're fighting hard to get it done. But it is a tough fight. I will tell you, Governor, when you're successful at your job and you win two terms like you did in your term limited, people say what's next? People are thinking now that there's a Senate seat up that you'd be the perfect person for if the Republicans are going to flip it. When are you going to decide if you're going to run for that seat? Well, I can tell you, regardless of what I decided to do, I'm gonna be engaged in helping us flip that seat. We need a Republican back in the United States Senate from the great state of Georgia. We're gonna have an open governor's race that I'm gonna make sure that our nominee wins that.
But look, I got a lot on my plate right now. Brian, we were very active in the general election helping President Trump win Georgia, making sure we held our legislative majorities. We won four house seats against them. Three one sitting Democrat and held three other seats in districts that Kamala Harris beat Donald Trump in. And so it's a tough environment down here. And I've told people because we won those elections, we've got to do what we said we were going to do.
Tort reform is one of those things. You got about six weeks. Good luck. People are really hoping that you'll run the Republican Party for that seat against John Ossoff. You just don't lose, Governor.
So they want to see you keep up that winning streak. Thanks so much for your time. Hey, God bless.
Thank you. Next, the one and only Jimmy Fala with the media moments that matter. I hope he's in a good mood. I asked him to watch a lot of shows.
I want to see what he came up with. Jimmy, gradually walk over here. No, no, don't walk. Stay. Keep coming. Never mind. Welcome to Fox News Live.
I'm Marianne Rafferty in Los Angeles. President Trump's 25 percent tariffs on Mexican and Canadian goods are set to take effect on Tuesday. The U.S. Commerce secretary saying those rates, though, could be lower. The president is also threatening to impose an additional 10 percent tax on Chinese imports that same day.
Trump links the tariffs to illegal migration and the flow of fentanyl into the U.S. Mexico, China and Canada are top U.S. trading partners and new tariffs on all three could drive up prices for Americans. And President Trump signing an executive order this weekend making English the official language of the United States. This is the first time in history of the country that has had an official language.
People who go through the naturalization process to become a U.S. citizen were already required to learn English. I'm Marianne Rafferty. Now back to One Nation. Time now for the media moments that really matter. This week we gave our campus VCR and all the cords and the assignment and the TV guide to Jimmy Fala, the same Jimmy Fala who's the host of Fox News Saturday night.
How about it? Right. And you were able to put it together to get the VCR rolling?
Yes. Let me be upfront with the American people. The kind of shows I record can't be shown on this program. I asked you just for this week. I went out looking for some suitable content for your program.
Are you ready? Here we go. So this was a meltdown at the Washington Post. Jeff Bezos announcing that the opinion page was only going to start covering like free markets and American personal liberties, which of course resulted in the resignation of the editor at the Washington Post. Just to show you how nonpartisan they are.
Democracy dies in fair coverage. Joe Scarborough did not take it well. Watch. Most of us when we saw this, we just said, what the hell? It is.
It's like something that we've never heard. I mean, it's obviously opinion pages can go their own direction. But to say we don't publish opposing viewpoints seemed shocking at best.
Joe Scarborough. So the L.A. Times did the same thing. They just said everything is anti-Trump. You have to broaden it out.
I need more subscribers. Yes. And they had people quit. They got fired, paper and the same thing.
Jeff Bezos. Hey, I own the paper. I'm losing money on the paper. I'm just asking you to broaden out your editorial page.
And everyone had a meltdown. A thousand percent. But the one thing I will defend the post on, OK, is they're trying to create a market larger than cat litter boxes for their newspaper. And it's not working. The problem right now is like they'll get a sponsorship from Petco. But you're right.
They have to broaden their horizons a little bit. Jimmy, I ask you to fill the whole segment. Was that it? Is that all you did? No, I went the extra mile. I'm a cab driver. Don't forget, I go the extra mile, Kilmeade. And I do believe this next story is a setup. I just want to be honest with the American people.
It contains a bad word. And Kilmeade's making me say it. This is a veteran newsman right here. This is a guy who does this for a living.
Like, again, TV star guy who looks like he installed your TV. And I was set up. I was rocked. Are you ready for this? And I believe I was rocked. OK. New York City mayor Eric Adams.
OK. Got into it. Kurt Menefee is involved. But anyway, Adams under fire for referring to himself and using the word Negroes at a Black History Month event.
Congratulations, Kilmeade. I just did it on TV. I was like, how am I going to get around this? Aren't you a fool? I blame you, Adams.
Watch this. Well, you spoke about Black History Month. And in it, you said, quote, all these Negroes who are asking me to step down. God forgive them. Are you implying that if you're black, you have to support you?
No, not at all. I'm asking for all New Yorkers to support me. So who are you specifically talking to when you say Negroes? Well, who has stepped down? Who has asked me to step down? So you're saying all New Yorkers and Negroes?
I thought I was very clear in my definition of what I said. Rosanna Scott has never been so happy not to be involved. And it's like I've never seen this. I've never seen Rosanna Scott a quiet before. Do you know who was really in the worst position there? The sign language interpreter.
God, I hope they're not paying attention right now. That was a no win situation for everybody. I like your interpretation of his sign language. Yeah, yeah. That's all I got. A lot of skills here.
Kill me. Eric Adams is melting down before our eyes. Yeah, he really is. And he has to be careful because if he keeps using language like that, they'll give him a Grammy.
He'll win best rap album with Kendrick Lamar. Are you ready for the third one more? Yeah, I do.
Yes. You had no faith in me. I didn't.
You literally at the end of the first question, you're like, oh, fail is probably hammered Sunday night. He's not even going to work on the yeah, we'll get an extra eight out of this. Here we go. Tip three. Okay, so the leftist media, you saw this, they lost their minds because Trump had his first cabinet meeting this loved it.
I've got was amazing. And to watch that happen in real time. The transparency from this administration is amazing. Knowing the last administration thought transparent was a man who has a baby, right? Okay.
Stick with me. Trump has the meeting out of the open. Elon Musk takes questions.
CNN does not take that. Well, here's the back and forth with Scott Jennings. He hasn't been confirmed or elected to this position. Also concerned for our national security to have this unelected, unconfirmed person and all of these times.
Can I, can I ask a question? Did Joe Biden have staff at the white house and how many of those staff members were elected? Well, but Scott zero.
The answer is zero. Every president appoints people to do things for them to call him on. It was like the most naive and ridiculous talking point I've ever heard. God, I can't believe you would believe something like this because if this was Joe Biden allowing for a billionaire, allowing people who weren't elected to run the country for the last three years. Yeah, I wouldn't believe that actually. Well, for the thing, it was not our choice to run non non video from the actual cabinet meeting. They were just running stuff from me from the rally, but this is unbelievable.
Don't take it. Understand that you can be a czar. Make a statement, especially when you have the most interesting assignment in the history of politics. Who elected John Kerry to fly around the world and yell at us about making sure we minimized our carbon footprint while he was on a private jet band plastic for us while he had it in his face.
I didn't appreciate that. I never thought there'd be a John Kerry reference in a segment about Elon Musk, but I totally enjoy the swag we have. All right, so, uh, before we go, where are we going to see you on stage everywhere, but the next place I got to go is clean up Brian Kilmeade's mess at the Florida theater in Jacksonville.
That is March 29th. I heard you killed it. Well, all I can say is they can't wait to see Jimmy fail already. They were promoting it as I was leaving. So you're going to sell that place out. It goes, it's a hundred years old. Is that seven years old? Oh my gosh. It could run for Congress. Absolutely.
I was a Senator at least. So Jimmy, we'll look forward to seeing you. Where do we go to get your Fox across america.com.
You can get all my tour dates there. Fantastic. I love it.
Thanks so much, Jimmy. Can you please give the VCR back? Cause I don't want it. America's first anti woke university is bringing free speech back to college campuses. You feel free to say anything you want to do.
Oh, very free. I do. Your opinions are okay.
Yes, they're okay. Now you hope so. Critics say it's just a conservative campus that will fail. So I went to the university of Austin to find out for myself, do not miss it. It's only on one nation. Bring up the music.
I'm Maya. And these are free speech under fire in colleges across the country, like right here in New York city. But one school was fighting back against canceled culture. The university of Austin. It's on one mission to bring open dialogue back to college campuses, creating a space where students feel safe to learn, to debate, to share their views, no matter their political beliefs.
Can this succeed? You decide. So they say everything is bigger here in Texas, the state itself, the people, even the state house is bigger than the U S Capitol. Look at that. But here on sixth street, right in the capital city of Texas is an institution that doesn't want to be the biggest. They just want to be the best is the university of Austin. You come here starting this year with the first freshmen class ever. And you make history at the university of Austin, their constitution.
Yes, they have one and their charter makes them stand out. Let's go see the magic. How did this thing get started? So, um, the origin story of university of Austin begins early in 2021. The entry point to this institution for me was a conversation with Barry Weiss. We need a new university. That's going to model the way university should be. We said, we're building a brand new university dedicated to fearless pursuit of truth, committed to principles of open inquiry, freedom of conscience, civil discourse. And the response was electric. People said, this is exactly what we need.
So within three years and we did it, our first freshman class began in fall 24. So does your application Panos have male, female, white, Hispanic, Caucasian, is that even on there? No. In fact, our, our constitution, which is our governing document prohibits us from asking those questions. So, uh, so it's not on there. Our application, uh, is, uh, we have, we rely heavily on quantitative scores. We have, uh, we do have essays, but the essays are designed to ask them questions that bring out what makes them nonconformist, what makes them think differently to show us that they're risk takers. Michael Schellenberger, the chair of politics, censorship, and free speech at the university of Austin.
He moved to the city to be part of something he believes will be truly special. A place that champions free speech in academia. The university is supposed to be a sanctuary for truth seeking and truth telling. And it's incredible that the universities in the United States, so many of them have become the exact opposite about of that. They've been about censorship, cancel culture, about con about self censorship.
Professors are terrified to say what they believe or to pursue the truth. So to be able to really create a university that's going back to its, its original roots as a place of free thought is just a thrill. You got DEI is going out of the white house.
They're trying to get rid of out of the government, out of private business. They're trying to 16, 19 projects no longer the course to take or welcomed in these academic institutions. So is there still a need for the university of Austin? I mean, sadly, yes.
I mean, and happily, yes. I mean, it shows that there's a huge demand for this kind of institution. I mean, I was shocked because I have not been in the universities for 30 years. That's how long I've been outside of the universities. But when you talk to professors that are people applying for jobs here, people that are here, all of them, all of them talk about a culture of repression and dare say totalitarianism of being in fear of exploring new ideas, talking about new ideas.
So unfortunately, I think that that culture of, of conformity and dogmatism is still the rule rather than the exception. Assistant Professor Alia overlay isn't just shaping the future of space exploration. She's also got a story to tell. After a powerful experience with free speech, she made the decision to bring her expertise in bioastronomics to the University of Austin. I was president of a woman's organization for a couple of years and there were no really issues there.
I was hosting a lot of events, promoting the organization. Um, but when a professor said something unpopular over email and I tried to temper, you know, people's outrage towards it a little bit, um, bring up free speech issues, I guess the right to make these point of views. The word free speech was actually kind of a trigger word that set off a cascade I wasn't entirely expecting. Um, I ended up getting impeached and removed from that organization. So you're president of a woman's group and you got thrown out because you use the word free speech.
That set off the chain reaction. Correct. You're supposed to be open minded. I thought it was supposed, I thought academia was supposed to be like the wild blast of ideas.
Right. The University of Austin is really interested in updating education for the modern world that we live in. Some people think on the outside. They'll say, well, they just started University of Austin. They just started a conservative campus. They think it's too liberal in the ivies. So they just started something conservative. Are they wrong? They're wrong. Um, look, it is indisputable that higher education is dominated by one side of the political spectrum. That is the left and increasingly the left of the left.
Uh, that's highly problematic. Not necessarily because it's the left, but because institutions like universities should not be dominated by any particular ideology, by any particular political persuasion. Rhett Jones, one of just 92 students in the freshman class founded a bike park that he built by raising an impressive $3 million.
Now he's working to secure a new land and attract more investors, all while juggling classes and running his own clothing business. So what attracted you to the University of Austin? Um, the network in UATX is insane. There are extremely impressive people that like genuinely want to make sure that this founding class is as accessible as possible in the future. And you don't get that direct, like literally like there's billionaires that like supporting us accurately in our day to day lives.
You don't get that at another college. You feel free to say anything you want to? Oh, I'm very free. I do. Your opinions are okay?
Yes, they are okay. So if you have different political thoughts than somebody else in your class, how do you feel about saying it? I feel fine saying it among the students and I'm more left-leaning myself, but I feel very comfortable saying what I want to say. So does the state of the country help launch University of Austin? The state of the country was the catalyst. I will say we were ahead of the curve in identifying the problems that were out there when we announced the launch of the university. So there's a crisis in higher education. There's a crisis around speech, around cancellations, around academic freedom, cost structure. So will the University of Austin transform higher education?
Think about it. Coming up next week, we're going to talk to the students who made the cut for the first historic semester. And by the way, catch me on stage.
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It's supposed to go her way. Also on Monday, Senate votes for the protection of women and girls in sports act Tuesday. I'll be in Washington, DC for president Trump. He'll address, address a joint session of Congress. That should be exciting and explosive. What else is new Wednesday? A hearing for sanctuary city mayors who refuse to cooperate with ice. I'm talking Boston, Chicago, Denver, and New York city. That will be explosive.
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