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Episode 844: Trump's Minneapolis Climb-Down

The Editors

National Review

Charles C. W. Cooke, Madeleine Kearns, Politics, Policy, National Review, News, Jim Geraghty, Current Events, Michael Brendan Dougherty, Society & Culture, Public Policy, Rich Lowry, Conservatism, Government, Conservative, Noah Rothman

4.54.9K Ratings

🗓️ 30 January 2026

⏱️ 77 minutes

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A climb down in Minneapolis and Trump threatens Iran.

0:19.5

Plus, what do we make of his comments on housing? We'll discuss all this and more on this edition of the editors. I'm Rich Lowry, and I'm joined, as always by the right. Honorable Charles C.W. Cook, the grill master, Phil Klein, and the notorious M.B.D. Michael Brendan Doherty, you are, of course, listening to a National View podcast. Our sponsors

0:37.8

this episode are the University of Austin and the Witherspoon Institute, more about both of them in due course. And for some reason, you're not already following us on a streaming service, by the way, can find us everywhere from Spotify to Apple Podcasts. And if you like what you hear here, please consider giving us a glowing five-star review wherever you listen to your podcast. If you don't like what

0:54.4

you hear here, please forget. I said anything. So before we get into it in earnest, let's hear

1:00.9

from our friends at the University of Austin. You know college's broken activist professors,

1:06.0

seminars that feel like struggle sessions, $80,000 a year to hear Hamas chance on the quad while being told

1:12.3

America is evil in class?

1:14.1

So what's the alternative?

1:15.4

There's a new university in Texas that's doing the opposite.

1:18.2

It's called the University of Austin or UATX.

1:21.5

At UATX students read the great books of Western civilization to learn from them, not to tear

1:26.1

them down.

1:26.5

They build actual companies on

1:28.4

campus with mentorship from a vast network of top entrepreneurs and investors. You can be openly

1:33.7

Christian or Jewish without apology. And when you walk into the main atrium, there's a gigantic

1:38.8

American flag. UATX admits students based purely on test scores, so the application takes just five minutes.

1:46.3

And thanks to patriotic donors, tuition at UATX is completely free forever to apply to the University

1:52.8

of Austin, visit uaustin.org. That's ua-U-S-T-I-N.org. Please check it out. So MBD, we have Tom Homan on the ground in Minneapolis, held a press conference yesterday.

2:05.1

We're recording Friday, where he outlined a lot of progress, according to him.

2:12.0

Keith Ellison told them that counties can alert ICE when they're releasing illegal aliens from their jails.

2:21.7

He said he's talked to police officials there who say, and he's made the case that they

2:27.6

seem receptive to, that the police should respond and help immigration agents when they're

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