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♪ if. rachel: straight to a fox news alert. the israeli military confirms hezbollah's leader, hasan nasrallah are, is dead the after a massive strike of hezbollah headquarters. will: the the idf launching another wave of flights as they work to dismantle the terror group. pete: nate foy is live on the ground in tel aviv with more. >> reporter: hey, guys, good morning. massive breaking news, the leader of hezbollah, hassan nas nasrallah is dead after an israeli airstrike over beirut yesterday according to the idf. this is a man who has been called one with of the most dangerous terrorists in the entire world. the idf says this morning he has

the blood of thousands on his hands. he was a founding member of hezbollah and that he oversaw the group's integration into lebanon's politics and hezbollah's rise to becoming one of the most heavily armed, nonstate militias in the entire world. take a look at the strike, it happened in the beirut neighborhood, the idf says nasrallah was in an underground bunker at the time of the strike. shortly after it, israel warned residents to the evacuate nearby areas before taking out other hezbollah command centers and weapons facilities. take a look at these next explosions. [background sounds] [inaudible conversations] >> reporter: -- will change the way that hezbollah operate, but the idf says that it is ready for an education calculation.

an escalation. overnight hezbollah launched rocks into the city of haifa in northerns israel. the world now waits for the next step in hezbollah's response as leaders in the biden administration scramble to promote a diplomatic solution. according to "the new york times", iran's supreme leader, ayatollah khamenei, called an emergency meeting at his home compound last night after news of the strike on nasal a la. this is a massive blow not only to hezbollah, but the iranian-backed militias that are aligned across the entire region. also amid news of the strike, israeli prime minister benjamin net if an ya hue cut his trip short in new york after speak at the u.n. and did something quite rare, he flew back during the shabbat. so a situation here that is still developing, at least the reper if cushions of it, a massive -- repercussions of it, a massive situation right now in the middle east. back to you. rachel: thank you, nate. stay safe. >> reporter: you got it. pete: let's bring in retired

major general dana petard, thanks for being here this morning. the leader of hezbollah, the leader since 19932, designated a terrorist organization shortly thereafter, been involved in attacks on americans but mostly on the state of israel for decades, with his death what does that mean? >> well, good morning, pete, racheling and will. if i mean, this is huge. he's been in charge of hezbollah since 1992, so for 322 years. -- 322 years. not only as the leader who has helped put hezbollah on the map, per se, moving it to both military capability and, of course, what they've done politically in lebanon, but also almost as a spiritual leader also. so this is a big deal. yes, he's been a terrorist for decades, and hezbollah's been designated as a terrorist organization by most of the world over the past couple of

decades. his most senior adviser who was just killed last week, ibrahim akill, was responsible for or took a part in the beirut bombing that killed 241 of our usama chiens and -- marines and soldiers back in 193. -- 1993. will: what do you make of the series of events that has unfolded over the past week, week and a half with what appears to be starting with the pager explosions, then the follow-up strikes across lebanon and now this? israel has embarked on a major offensive against hezbollah. why now and what is -- where is it leading next for israel? >> well, again, it was a brilliant operation farce the opening stages of -- as far as the the opening stages of this campaign starting with the exploding pagers, the second round followed with the exploding walkie-talkies. israel, obviously, since october

7th has been really focused on gaza. as gaza has taped down somewhat, it's not over with, but it's taped down what, it allowed israel to divert some resources to the north because hezbollah, with impunity, has been sending rockets and missiles against northern israel. 70,000 israeli citizens is had to flee. so what israel wants to stabilize its northern border and allow its citizens to go back peacefully to their homes. that's what they want. and hezbollah was refusing to do that by continuing to send missiles and rockets into israel. so that's what israel wants out of this. rachel: major general, i don't have to tell you that the middle east right now is a tinderbox and that right here at home there's a lot of uncertainty because we don't really know exactly who's in charge whether it's joe biden or whether he's handed off those duties to kamala harris and whether she's

focused on this as she's so busy campaigning. so i guess the question i think a lot of our viewers have as they look at what's happening there is what does this mean for america? if could this lead to the a wider war? would it draw us in? what do you see happening in regards to that? >> well, it always -- something like this can certainly lead to the a wider conflict in the middle east. what israel's doing is taking unique advantage right now of the fact we have a president who's a lame duck, and so between now and not just the election, but between now and the inauguration of the next president in january, is taking the opportunity to, you know, attack its enemies. that's not a bad thing because what israel's doing is really defending itself. but if you look at the overall middle east, in iran and certainly behind so much of it, nasrallah studied in iran, he's very, very close to the iranian leadership. but i what, by being so

aggressive what israel's doing is getting into their enemies' timeline window as far as decision making. what hezbollah and others like to do is plan and plan and then at their choosing strike israel. by israel striking them like this, it is, it's causing iran and others to the stand back, if they're not sure what to do because they're not ready to do anything right now. now, they will have a response eventually, but they are not ready right now. so this is a tough time especially for iran, because iran's circle of fire which included the houthis down south, of course, gaza, she that -- shia militias, syrians as well as hezbollah was surrounding israel in many ways. that is unraveling to an extent right now. will: what do you make, general, of the news that the ayatollah has called at meeting, bringing in his top commanders now

immediately, or his top advisers? what do you expect the response to be from iran? >> iran will need to respond in some way, but they're not sure what to do because, you know, hezbollah was one of their arms, and hezbollah's not -- hezbollah still has capability, but its leadership is in disarray at this point. so they're going to look at ways how do they rebuild hezbollah's leadership and structure and then how do they respond to what israel has done. pete: major general petard, thank you for your time. rachel: thank you, major yen. >> thank you. pete: their entire leadership is decimated. you're right, rachel, in that question, there's always a possibility things could widen. i also think israel's calculation is by hitting overwhelmingly right now, you're preventing something wider. you're putting iran so far back on its heels, the entire leadership structure of hezbollah is dead, that their fighters are largely scattered. they don't know how to respond other than probably symbolically because israel's probably making a bet that iran doesn't want a

full scale war. let's hope that's the case. if. rachel: i'm just worried, does america want war with iran. you're seeing a lot of the drug beats -- pete: i don't think this administration does, to your question. rachel: well, i hope they don't. whether it's the assassination if attempts on donald trump, we're hearing a lot more about iran's involvement although the last guy who tried to kill donald trump seems, from what i can read, to probably be more of an asset of our government than iran. so i'm a little worried whenever i hear the word iran lately. i'm just hoping it isn't meant to draw us into war. so -- will: meanwhile, security back at home, kamala harris made a trip to the united states' southern border. he was there for approximately -- she was outside of her vehicle at the border, the legitimate border, at the border wall, for approximately 30 minutes. pete: 30 minutes. will: she visited a 2011 section

of the border wall -- pete: couldn't go to trump's wall. will: couldn't go the trump's wall, of course. it was a high liquor yo graphed situation. -- highly choreographed. this is what she had to say. >> there are consequential issues at stake in this election. and one is the security of our border. the united states is a sovereign nation, and i believe we have a duty to set rules at our border and to enforce them. and i take that responsibility very seriously. these men and women who work there and at other places along our southern border help keep our nation secure. and they need more resources today their jobs. [applause] and the american people deserve a president who cares more about border security than playing political games and their personal if political future. [cheers and applause] and so even though bob trump

tried to saab -- donald trump tried to the sabotage the border security bill, it is my pledge to you that as president of the united states, i will bring it back up and proudly sign it into law. [cheers and applause] pete: it's a pretty cynical move, clearly leaning into attempting to recreate an image that she has not been a part of the harris-biden administration for the last three and a half years and truly cares about border security. i guess, guys, the question is whether that last line actually works, whether this border security bill, so-called bipartisan that would have handcuffed the next administration, is enough to make people think he really is pro-border. rachel: it wouldn't just handcuff the next administration, pete, it actually was funding ngos to process. whenever you hear border security coming out of a democrat, it just means more processing, more of a welcome wagon to make sure we don't have a hold-up at the border and we don't have bad images that they don't like. and that's what that's about. by the way, image is the right

issue. i think more thought was put into what she was going to wear there so that she could look, you know, like she's down to business. and when you pulled the shot out, i wish we had that video, you could actually see her team was surrounding and trying to get the right shot and directing press. i mean, they were -- they wanted the shot. they wanted her by that barbed wire so it could look like she was doing something. but if you were one of the parents of the women who were recently killed by illegal immigrants who have come -- 20 the minutes and nothing, nothing more. will: well, to me, the defining image of the biden-harris administration when it comes to the border wail can be stats which we'll share in one moment, but it is the kamala harris and joe biden. each individually defaming border patrol agents as emblems

of white supremacy and whipping haitian migrants as racistsen on horses. complete defamation. and it's the defining image for me of how they treat those who would secure our southern border. but here are the statistics. if imagery isn't what paints the picture, perhaps numbers do. under donald trump in 2017, migrant encounters under the biden-harris -- under the trump administration showed in '17 it was 135,000, that's february through september, down in '18 to 5 22,000, and '202 -- '20, 57,000. compare that to biden-harris where the numbers are 250,000, 373,000 and almost half a million. president they exploded. and this is the same administration that, as you pointed out, rachel, the border wall that the trump administration had that could have been put up, they made sure it was not put up.

instead, standing in front of a wall built under the obama administration. that's their view. obama built a wall, wall good. trump builds wall, wall bad. kamala shows up and says i want wall now too because i want votes. and i don't think people are going to buy that as much. i mean, i'm sure they screened exactly who these two agents will be, to the find two border patrol agents that would say nice things about kamala harris. rachel: yeah. exactly. by the way, the numbers that came out by i.c.e., i thought the timing was interesting. what do you guys think was behind that? pete: we're going to talk more about those additional numbers, hundreds of thousands of known criminals including murderers and rapists in our country, they came out the day kamala harris showed up? i don't know, i mean, they could have been planned that way. i guess it was based on a request that had been waiting for months, so maybe they held on to it knowing she was going to the border. if so, smart politically -- really really really --

rachel: really smart. pete: in fact, we're moving to that topic right now, i.c.e. is releasing shocking new data. will: it rell veals tens of thousands of illegal immigrants with sexual assault and murder convictions are roaming free in the united states. rachel: madeleinely very are rah joins us with the details. >> reporter: hi, guys. i.c.e. says they've expelled the majority of migrants they've encountered at the southwest border, requiretizing those who pose -- prioritizing those who pose if safety risks. i.c.e.'s acting director says as of july the 21, 2024, there were more than 660,000 noncitizens with criminal histories on i.c.e.'s national docket. that number includes migrants detained by i.c.e. and those not in federal custody. more than 400,000 have been convicted of a crime and roughly 2227 the ,000 have pending -- 227,000 have pending criminal charges. among those not detained, more than 13,000 are convicted of homicide and nearly 16,000 have

sexual assault charges. almost 2,000 have pending homicide charges, and more than 4,000 have pending sexual assault charges. east identifies -- i.c.e. identified sanctuary cities in its letter saying their policies can shield dangerous criminals. democrats pushed back, still there is bipartisan concern over the resources dedicated to immigration enforcement. >> men and women at i.c.e. are working their guts out, and they're professionals and they want to do the job but they lack resources, they lack manpower. and you look at the problem set, you look at the sheer number of people just -- and this was as of july, this isn't as of today. the number's only compounding. we really need to dedicate resources, give them the resources they need but also the policy. as soon as you start deporting some of these people, it lowers. >> reporter: the white house has not yet responded to the report. will, pete and rachel. will: thank you -- rachel: thank you, madeleine are. >> reporter: you got it.

rachel: the people coming across the border are not being dna tested, and by law we're supposed to be doing that. and the whistle blowers at homeland security, there were three of them that came out and said they're not doing this, which is why we have so many. it's one thing to open the border for everybody, but you might want to the just at least kind of screen these rapists and murderers, and if you did that, you might be able to screen some of them. they're not doing it. there are a couple whistleblowers who called that out. they had their careers destroyed. this is what they're doing on the democrat side. they don't want anything to stop the flow. pete: i know a guy who said they're not sending their best. turns out to be -- by the way, this is only from the countries that share that kind of data, which most don't. rachel: correct. pete: and known gotaways, 2 million, this doesn't include the known gotaways so this is, at a bare minim -- minimum, the -- will: to the a fox weathers

alert, at least 45 deaths since helene made landfall in florida. right now in eastern tennessee a flash if flood warning in effect for areas below the knoll la chuck key dam. areas downstream are already flooded out, and a breach would be catastrophic. rachel: not far from that dam, 54 people were rescued from the roof of a hospital after flood waters surrounded that fit. officials used rescue boats and and helicopters to get the staff and the patients to receivety. pete: right now over 3 million homes and businesses are without power across the southeast. let's turn now to chief meteorologist rick reichmuth for our fox weather forecast. rick: that hospital, guys, was a fairly new hospital, one of the rural hospitals built across the country and maybe never if opens up again. take a look at just the extent of the flooding. obviously, you have the immediate impacts especially with that storm surge which was the case down around the big bend, but look at all of the flooding we had across interior

areas where we saw some spots over 2 feet of rain. 28 flash flood emergencies were issued, the most we've ever seen in any day. before that the record had been 13. tell you just how much this flooding was. atlanta, your 3-day rainfall event almost at your record and asheville, the other area, that's once you get up into the mountains, that much rain falls and it just funnels down through those ravines so quickly, and that causes this flooding. by the way, still millions of people without power. when you get this many people without power, it's going to take a long time. a lot of those people might be without power for weeks. guys? will: thank you, rick. rachel: thanks, rick. we showed you the kamala harris border photo op. pete: arizona sheriff mark mark dannels met her at the airport before her visit. the message he sent her coming up next.

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>> stopping transnational criminal organizations and strengthening our border is not new to me, and it is a longstanding priority of mine. i have done that work, and i will continue to treat it as a priority -- [cheers and applause] when i am elected president of the united states. rachel: vice president harris getting a photo op while visiting an arizona border town

yesterday after trying to talk tough on immigration. but after nearly four years on her watch, i.c.e. reveals tens of thousands of migrants or illegals with sexual assaults and murder convictions are now roaming free in the u.s. cocheese county arizona sheriff mark can els met kamala harris yesterday, and he joins us now. sheriff, thank you for joining us this morning. you met with her. did you get the talk with her? if did you have words with her about the situation for people like you? >> i did. thanks for having me, rachel. rachel: of course. >> let me just say this, america's sheriffs have been very vocal on this because we represent communities here throughout the united states. cochise county, we extend the invite just like with president trump to president harris and president biden to come visit us on this border, especially with the election going on. but one thing that i shared with president -- vice president harris along with president biden through correspondence is

the fact that america's sheriffs have to have some kind of a gate with this white house. that has not happened. i presented her with a letter yesterday that outlined that to include a letter from the lines of america's sheriffs about our frustrations and the fact that we tried to meet with her. i told her yesterday that we have tried to meet with this white house, we even spoke to tom perez who works in the white house, and she asked me why i felt that they were not meeting with us, because they haven't. let's just be honest, he hasn't and neither was the president. if so, again, it was a meeting that was honest, it was impactful but also shared our stories our realities and our tragedies here in to cochise county. in 31 months we arrested almost 3800 people for border-related crimes, that's the cochise county sheriff's office and local law enforcement. rachel: yeah. i mean, you're arresting 3800 crimes from illegals, that means you're not able to focus on the

crimes that would naturally happen in any community, you're overwhelmed. so what was her reaction? you're telling her this is what our community is facing, this is the strain on our system and law enforcement, and she says what? >> well, i told her this too, out of almost 38000 people arrested in this county, people from all over the united states come in here to smuggle. and i know will's been down here, he's rode with us, myself here, and he's seen the impact, the tragedies we're seeing, the murder in this county and the 12.5 million that the federal government has not supported a dime on this. so we shared those stories, the impact and the frustration -- rachel: and did she seem concerned? >> she actually did, i'll give her that. i'm not going to sit her and politically talk about it, i told her politics has no business in this. this is an ugly picture with a beautiful frame around it. but she committed that she would work with america's sheriffs is what we as sheriffs want to hear. sadly, for three and a half

years we haven't seen that, but she did put that commitment, we're going to hold her to it if she's elected, and that's what we're looking for. i told her this too, her visit comes with mixed reviews based on the time timeliness of it and based on the political season. rachel: yeah. it makes no sense why she hasn't done this before, and i'm sure that people in cochise county feel the same way. sheriff, thanks for joining us, appreciate it. >> thank you, rachel. rachel: you got it. fox news alert ors israel confirming they've killed the leader of hezbollah. could a possible ground invasion into lebanon if still be in play? our expert analysis next. ♪ crystals pop and fizz when you throw them back. and who doesn't love a good throwback? ♪ now with vitamin d for the dark days of winter. lowe's knows it's easier to make the right calls, when you have the right team. cj stroud putting up points with mylowe's rewards.

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all this after prime minister netanyahu vowing to win the war in a fiery speech to the u.n. general assembly yesterday. >> as long as hezbollah chooses the path of war, israel has no choice, and israel has every right to remove this threat and return our citizens to their homes safely. and that's exactly what we're doing. pete: senior vice president for research at the foundation can for defense of democracy, dr. jonathan schanzer joins now. thank you for being here. break down for our audience is -- the significance of the developments of the last 24 hours. we've been focused so much on gaza is, now between the pagers and the killing of senior leadership and the killing of nasrallah, where is israel in its fight against these groups? >> this was major momentum shift last night across the entire middle east. this is something that lebanese are cheering, that syrians are cheering. you've got to remember hezbollah took part in the civil war there that led to the slaughter of

tenses of thousands. s israelis are obviously cheering it, there are iranians that are cheering it. americans and french should also be cheering this. but this is significant. this is a man who led hezbollah, one of the world's most formidable terrorist organizations, hassan nasrallah was in that chair since 19932, 322 years of running this organization, developing it into a really formidable force, one that has 200,000 rockets that has essentially held the middle east hostage on behalf of iran. this is an iranian subsidiary. and if so now he's gone, a lot of the other top leaders are gone, the israelis are now openly mulling a possible ground operation in south lebanon to finally take care of the threat that i think you rightly know has gone unnoted here in our media. hezbollah's fired something like 8,000 rockets, missiles and drones at israel since october 7th. it's a war in its own right, and

you finally see the israelis turning the tide after 11 is months. it's really a remarkable day. pete: unlike hamas, which is tied to iran and its goals, hezbollah has been a compliant state of iran from the very beginning founded by the iranian revolutionary guard to be an extension of their fight against israel. what does iran do now? what is their calculation? >> that is really the million dollar question, you know? when you're watching the media in the region right now, everybody's waiting for an official response from thes us ham lick -- the islamic republic. there is supposed to be a speech coming up by the so-called supreme leader of the islamic republic. last night the iranians were, you know, threatening that the iranians had opened up the gates of hell and that they were coordinating with hezbollah, promising that there were leaders waiting in the wings to fill the shoes of hassan nasrallah, but i've got to say when i look around right now at what hezbollah has left in terms of leadership, i don't think

there's a lot there. i think right now that the iranians look like they've been beaten at least on this front. you've got to remember also the iranians have been fighting israel on seven fronts. they still have shiite militias in iraq and syria that can be deployed, they've got the houthis in yemen that can be deployeded. the iranians have, of course, their own ballistic missiles and drones that they can fire. they did back in april, they can do it again. so this is a big moment to see whether they, you know, try to step in and try to push israel back or whether they cede that they've lost this round, they go back to their corner and then we see what happens from there. pete: yeah, that will tell us a lot, ultimately, about the condition they believe they're in. it's one thing to replace a leader, it's the another thing to replace a leader when your entire organizational chart underneither it is gone which is what's happened with hezbollah at this point. dr. schanzer, thank you for your time. >> pleasure.

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evacuate. so far at least 45 deaths across multiple sateses have been reported since helene made landfall as a monster cat four hurricane. let's turn now to to chief meteorologist rick reichmuth for our fox weather forecast. rick: yeah, this flooding across the southern appalachians is going to be record breaking. probably never seen anything like this. ly tell you when you get into the more active part of hurricane season, a pattern can set up, and we're watching the next system. this is where helene formed down across parts of the western caribbean, now we've got another disturbance, a 40% chance of development somewhere in the gulf. not saying this is going where helene did go, but with we're going to start to touch turn our eyes to to it and watch. in the meantime, helene is raining itself out across parts of dye and tennessee the. the flooding goes on across the southern appalachians, and that's going if to be the case for quite a while. take a look at all these rivers at their all-time highest crest. go up here towards north carolina, south carolina and parts of north georgia, those

are the areas that are the worst of this flooding, but some of it across central georgia as well. it's going to take a long time for this water to drain out into the ocean basin, so it will remain these lives -- rivers at very high levels certainly for quite a while as this cleanup, i think, will, is going to take years in some cases with this record flooding that we've seen. will: thank you, rick. embattled new york mayor eric adams pleading not guilty to the federal corruption charges yesterday in aen manhattan court. his attorney doubling down on his client's innocence and distancing the mayor from an adviser whose phone was seized by the feds. >> the entire body of evidence is one staffer, one staffer that says there was a conversation. what you have not learned is that that staffer has lied. when that staffer was first interviewed, that staffer said that mayor adams knew nothing about this, he was not involve in this -- involved in this and that the he is innocent. they have that information.

will: so here to react is new york criminal defense attorney and constitutional expert ken belkin. let's go over the charges first. they read as a follows, one count conspiracy to commit if wire fraud, federal program of bribery and to receive campaign cricks by foreign nationals. -- contributions. another count of wire fraud, two counts of solicitation of contribution by a foreign national. there are allegations he was an unregistered foreign agent. this ties back to the turkish, government. is so we have two things going on i think we need to hold -- serious allegations, influence on a politician by a foreign government, but yet not, not that salacious in terms of the details of what he is alleged to have received. flight upgrades, discounted hotels? >> yeah. we've got allegedly a scheme that dates back to 2026-- 2016 where the mayor, then-brooklyn borough president, received about11 upgrades to flights to

turkey and china and paris, and he received discounts at the st. and what did he get for this 10-year scheme for upgrades? well, the turkish government may have gotten their consulate's fire inspection expedited. seems a little headache key that a 101-year scheme -- shaky. that a 101-year scheme would result in this. will: it's obviously, first of all, do you think this indictment, we know only so much. we know that there are some staffers involved as we mentioned yesterday, a phone seized from one of his staffers. he sounds, his response sounds a little bit like donald trump's response in some of these doj investigations. he feels like he has been targeted by a weaponized doj, and i think the implication is because of the stance he's taken on illegal immigration. >> let's be clear or the mayor of one of the largest cities in mesh, and he is the only prominent democrat who has voiced criticism of the biden-harris administration's

failed immigration policy. that's a fact. and, look, you've got donald trump on camera a year ago saying, hey, look, this guy's critical. he may end up indicted. while donald trump's not a psychic as far as i know, there is something going on. and people have raised the specker that maybe our prosecutors are being weaponized for political purposes, and it's certainly something every american should be concerned about. will: i think it's something we have to throw into our consideration. and we also have to consider, as we've talked about, you and i, here, that it doesn't feel like a huge bribery scheme at this point in terms of what he received and what was perhaps returned to the turkish government. at the same time, american politicians under the influence of foreign governments, a massive issue. >> massive issue. we don't want it. and there is a second aspect to this indictment that he solicited foreign campaign contributions. but remember, all the evidence hinges on one adams diswhree staffer -- adams' staffer who's not named in this indictment, he's referred to as staffer

number one, i believe. he's not named in the indictment, he's not named as a coconfident which means this guy is cooperating -- co-defendant. and he may have an axe to grind with his former, boss, he may have his own problems. whether or not the mayor knew about it remains to be seen. will: we'll see if this thing holds weight, if the charges are as valid as insinuated, but the issue of american politicians under the influence of foreign governments is something i think that we should be giving a lot more attention to, and let's hope that mayor adams isn't just a victim of this, but maybe the start of looking at how many politicians are under the influence of foreign governments. appreciate you shining a light on this specific case as we need to start following this. thank you so much, ken. >> thanks for having me. will: all right. tanking confidence in higher education. but a new school in texas promising to bring back america's trust in college.

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♪ rachel: with the fall semester underway, more americans are struggling to trust colleges across the country. pete: a new survey reveals only 36% of americans are confident in higher education, down 19 from 2015. finish but a new school is

looking to change that. will: joining us now is the provost and dean of intellectual foundations at the university of austin. professor, thank you so much for being with us. so i think a lot of people are excited about the university of austin to the extent that people know about it. tell us a little bit about the university, how many students so far you've managed to attract to the university of austin and what your promise is. >> well, thank you. our university is dedicated to the fearless pursuit of truth. we were founded -- actually, we were on the back of a napkin less than three years a ago, and is we just opened our doors three weeks ago. we were founded because universities are supposed to be about the fearless pursuit of truth and the preservation, extension and transmission of knowledge and wisdom. too many of them, especially among the elite universities, are really joyless centers of indoctrination where students are afraid to speak up because

they're afraid of being canceled if they make a mistake. if so we've launched and we have outstanding faculty, we have outstanding students, and we're off to a great start. will: and how many students, just as a follow-up, did you attract here as you open your doors? >> oh, yeah. so we have 99 2 student student. these students, by the way, are so intellectually and entrepreneurially energetic that over the summer, before they had even started class, they got together to write and producean excellent dramatic film. they started two reading groups, and they started a substack called the austin beacon which has already published an issue which is on the question, what is a university. rachel: wow. >> and that's just the liberal arts side. let me tell you about the other kinds of students who are highly entrepreneurial. just in the past three weeks we've had three students whose start-up received its first six

figure customer. we have another student who received a $50,000 injection for his prototype, and we have two other students who already have financed and operating income for their companies. so it's a very, very energetic, intellectually enthusiastic group of students. rachel: wow. i understand that those students, by the way, in this first year had their tuition paid for because you have some donors for this first year. clearly, you're attracting a, as you said, a very motivated student body. your critics say, well, there's nothing behind this. you talked about how quickly you got the university up. what would you say to those who are already criticizing a school that's only been around like, what, a month? >> watch us, watch what we do. [laughter] we accepted 26% of the students who applied. our students are in the 91st percentile on their standardized

exams. we look for academic achievement and leadership and creativity potential. and these students are just exceptional. there was just an event the other night at ut-austin, and it was, you know, a lecture by lord andrew roberts who's the world's leading biographer of churchill. if we told our students, if wow you're interested in this, this guy's a great speak, the -- speaker, you should show up. a third of our class showed up, and they asked almost all the questions. seven or eight students. they're the best students i've ever seen in three and a half decades of being a university professor. pete: and your faculty must feel liberated as well to actually speept speak their mind inside the classroom which is not what it's like in other colleges and universities. professor, we've got to leave it there. thank you for your time, appreciate it. >> thank you very much. pete: check it out, the university of austin. will: alabama ahornacek is live in orlando as ucf face off

against colorado today. abby. >> reporter: good morning, will. oh, my gosh, it is electric here already. we have -- can you gaves -- guys give me a cheer? [cheers and applause] this is what we've been experiencing all morning long, and this is probably the most people i've ever seen at a college football game this early. when did you get here in. >> 7 p.m. last night. >> reporter: last night. okay, i was walking around saying who was the person who got here earliest, and everyone pointed to you. did to you sleep here? >> yeah, ety. -- i did. i've slept on worse. it wasn't that bad. >> reporter: we're going to come back and talk to you because this game is going to be amazing, and i want to hear more about you and just what kept you here all night long. all right, guys, we'll see you in a bit. we'll check back in later. [cheers and applause] pete: stick around, you can hear from the dude in the cowboy hat. more "fox & friends" still ahead.

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