WEBVTT 00:00:00.009 --> 00:00:03.589 line:85% position:50% size:80% FREE SPEECH AND SPEECH HAS BEEN IN THE SPOTLIGHT 00:00:03.960 --> 00:00:06.610 line:85% position:50% size:80% THIS WEEK AFTER THE NEWS THAT 00:00:06.960 --> 00:00:09.710 line:85% position:50% size:80% ABC PULLED JIMMY KIMMEL, 00:00:09.960 --> 00:00:10.569 line:85% position:50% size:80% COMEDIAN, 00:00:10.720 --> 00:00:13.478 line:85% position:50% size:80% OFF THE AIR AFTER COMMENTS 00:00:13.919 --> 00:00:16.510 line:85% position:50% size:80% THAT HE MADE ON HIS LATE NIGHT SHOW. 00:00:16.839 --> 00:00:19.908 line:85% position:50% size:80% WHAT WAS YOUR REACTION TO LEARNING THAT HE'D BEEN PULLED OFF THE AIR? 00:00:20.638 --> 00:00:21.190 line:85% position:50% size:80% FEAR, 00:00:21.879 --> 00:00:23.789 line:85% position:50% size:80% JUST WORRY FOR OUR COUNTRY, 00:00:25.318 --> 00:00:26.789 line:85% position:50% size:80% OUR FOUNDATIONAL 00:00:27.158 --> 00:00:28.920 line:85% position:50% size:80% PRINCIPLE IN THIS COUNTRY. 00:00:29.420 --> 00:00:31.958 line:85% position:50% size:80% WHICH HAS ROOTS IN THE COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA. 00:00:32.130 --> 00:00:34.679 line:85% position:50% size:80% WILLIAM PENN SETTLED HERE IN THE 1680S, 00:00:34.689 --> 00:00:35.039 line:85% position:50% size:80% IS, 00:00:35.250 --> 00:00:36.969 line:85% position:50% size:80% IS ABOUT FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION, 00:00:37.408 --> 00:00:38.719 line:85% position:50% size:80% FREEDOM OF SPEECH. 00:00:40.048 --> 00:00:44.429 line:85% position:50% size:80% AND TO SEE THAT BEING UNDERMINED BY THE LONG ARM OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT 00:00:44.598 --> 00:00:46.109 line:85% position:50% size:80% IS EXTREMELY DANGEROUS. 00:00:46.319 --> 00:00:46.529 line:85% position:50% size:80% AGAIN, 00:00:46.639 --> 00:00:48.209 line:85% position:50% size:80% WHETHER YOU AGREE WITH JIMMY KIMMEL OR NOT, 00:00:48.240 --> 00:00:50.200 line:85% position:50% size:80% WHETHER YOU FOUND HIM FUNNY OR NOT. 00:00:51.380 --> 00:00:53.789 line:85% position:50% size:80% TO FIRE SOMEONE BECAUSE HE TOLD A JOKE. 00:00:54.630 --> 00:00:57.459 line:85% position:50% size:80% ABOUT THE PRESIDENT REPEATEDLY AND THE PRESIDENT DIDN'T LIKE IT, 00:00:57.469 --> 00:00:58.548 line:85% position:50% size:80% TO FIRE HIM BECAUSE HE WAS 00:00:58.789 --> 00:01:01.700 line:85% position:50% size:80% INARTFUL IN HIS WORDS IN THE WAKE OF THE KILLING 00:01:01.990 --> 00:01:02.908 line:85% position:50% size:80% OF CHARLIE KIRK. 00:01:02.950 --> 00:01:04.209 line:85% position:50% size:80% WHEN YOU HAVE OTHERS IN THE MEDIA, 00:01:04.230 --> 00:01:07.579 line:85% position:50% size:80% AND I MEAN THIS IS NO DISRESPECT TO ARE IN ARTFUL EVERYDAY, 00:01:07.829 --> 00:01:08.120 line:85% position:50% size:80% RIGHT? 00:01:08.939 --> 00:01:11.980 line:85% position:50% size:80% THAT IS DANGEROUS WHEN WE ARE SELECTIVELY 00:01:11.980 --> 00:01:14.370 line:85% position:50% size:80% FIRING PEOPLE BECAUSE OF THEIR VIEWPOINTS. 00:01:14.459 --> 00:01:16.849 line:85% position:50% size:80% I WANT TO BE VERY CLEAR ABOUT WHAT YOU ARE SAYING. 00:01:17.219 --> 00:01:18.489 line:85% position:50% size:80% DO YOU BELIEVE 00:01:18.819 --> 00:01:21.969 line:85% position:50% size:80% THAT PRESIDENT TRUMP AND THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION 00:01:22.260 --> 00:01:23.448 line:85% position:50% size:80% IS TRYING TO 00:01:23.778 --> 00:01:24.689 line:85% position:50% size:80% STIFLE 00:01:24.980 --> 00:01:25.799 line:85% position:50% size:80% DISSENT 00:01:26.260 --> 00:01:28.569 line:85% position:50% size:80% AND PEOPLE WHO WOULD DISAGREE? 00:01:29.209 --> 00:01:29.439 line:85% position:50% size:80% PARDON ME, 00:01:29.620 --> 00:01:30.418 line:85% position:50% size:80% WITHOUT QUESTION, 00:01:30.900 --> 00:01:32.540 line:85% position:50% size:80% THEY'RE TRYING TO STIFLE DISSENT. 00:01:32.579 --> 00:01:33.469 line:85% position:50% size:80% THE PRESIDENT IN 00:01:33.750 --> 00:01:34.388 line:85% position:50% size:80% HIS OWN WORDS, 00:01:34.430 --> 00:01:36.069 line:85% position:50% size:80% I THINK WAS ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE, 00:01:36.349 --> 00:01:37.500 line:85% position:50% size:80% A COUPLE OF NIGHTS AGO, 00:01:37.750 --> 00:01:41.900 line:85% position:50% size:80% MADE CLEAR HE WANTS TO LOOK AT THE LICENSES AND THE CERTIFICATIONS FOR 00:01:42.388 --> 00:01:45.739 line:85% position:50% size:80% PARTICULAR MEDIA OUTLETS IF ALL THEY'RE DOING IS ATTACKING TRUMP. 00:01:46.129 --> 00:01:46.629 line:85% position:50% size:80% I MEAN, 00:01:46.760 --> 00:01:47.028 line:85% position:50% size:80% LISTEN, 00:01:47.040 --> 00:01:49.278 line:85% position:50% size:80% THE BEDROCK OF OUR FREE SOCIETIES, 00:01:49.319 --> 00:01:50.230 line:85% position:50% size:80% THE FREEDOM OF SPEECH, 00:01:50.349 --> 00:01:54.909 line:85% position:50% size:80% THE FREEDOM FOR SOMEONE LIKE YOU TO ASK ME QUESTIONS AND OPINE ABOUT MY WORK, 00:01:54.959 --> 00:01:56.558 line:85% position:50% size:80% WHETHER I AGREE WITH YOU OR NOT, 00:01:56.659 --> 00:01:58.329 line:85% position:50% size:80% WHETHER I LIKE WHAT YOU REPORT OR NOT, 00:01:58.400 --> 00:01:59.790 line:85% position:50% size:80% YOU'VE GOT THE FREEDOM AND THE RIGHT 00:02:00.040 --> 00:02:01.189 line:85% position:50% size:80% TO BE ABLE TO DO THAT, 00:02:01.198 --> 00:02:03.888 line:85% position:50% size:80% AND THAT IS SOMETHING THAT PROTECTS ALL OF US, 00:02:04.040 --> 00:02:04.879 line:85% position:50% size:80% ALL OF US, 00:02:05.198 --> 00:02:07.638 line:85% position:50% size:80% AND IT IS DANGEROUS WHAT THIS PRESIDENT IS ENGAGED IN.