Rand Paul

Can you imagine what you would think if after this interview, before you aired it, the government came to you and you had a meeting with the FBI after the interview to see what they thought was misinformation and disinformation? I mean, how repulsive that would be to you. It's the same, though, if they do it to Twitter or Facebook, and they did for years.

And so that's been probably the biggest affront to the First Amendment since... the beginning of the country. Now, this administration is also putting forward things that I think abridge the First Amendment. One is going after speech on college campuses. So they attempted to pass a bill that I've had trouble with for a long time, an anti-Semitism bill.

And so that's been probably the biggest affront to the First Amendment since... the beginning of the country. Now, this administration is also putting forward things that I think abridge the First Amendment. One is going after speech on college campuses. So they attempted to pass a bill that I've had trouble with for a long time, an anti-Semitism bill.

And so that's been probably the biggest affront to the First Amendment since... the beginning of the country. Now, this administration is also putting forward things that I think abridge the First Amendment. One is going after speech on college campuses. So they attempted to pass a bill that I've had trouble with for a long time, an anti-Semitism bill.

Well, I think anti-Semitism should be as a thought or a theory or speech should be condemned universally by people in polite society. But the First Amendment, the most formative case on the First Amendment is Brandenburg v. Ohio. And Brandenburg was an admittedly despicable person, a Nazi Ku Klux Klan guy who said terrible things about African Americans and Jews.

Well, I think anti-Semitism should be as a thought or a theory or speech should be condemned universally by people in polite society. But the First Amendment, the most formative case on the First Amendment is Brandenburg v. Ohio. And Brandenburg was an admittedly despicable person, a Nazi Ku Klux Klan guy who said terrible things about African Americans and Jews.

Well, I think anti-Semitism should be as a thought or a theory or speech should be condemned universally by people in polite society. But the First Amendment, the most formative case on the First Amendment is Brandenburg v. Ohio. And Brandenburg was an admittedly despicable person, a Nazi Ku Klux Klan guy who said terrible things about African Americans and Jews.

But the great irony is that the ACLU defended his right to say these, and the two lawyers that won the case, one was Jewish and the other was Eleanor Norton Holmes, who's a longtime African-American representative from D.C., and they defended language that was not only despicable but repulsive and offensive to them personally, but they thought that speech was so important that it needed to be defended.

But the great irony is that the ACLU defended his right to say these, and the two lawyers that won the case, one was Jewish and the other was Eleanor Norton Holmes, who's a longtime African-American representative from D.C., and they defended language that was not only despicable but repulsive and offensive to them personally, but they thought that speech was so important that it needed to be defended.

But the great irony is that the ACLU defended his right to say these, and the two lawyers that won the case, one was Jewish and the other was Eleanor Norton Holmes, who's a longtime African-American representative from D.C., and they defended language that was not only despicable but repulsive and offensive to them personally, but they thought that speech was so important that it needed to be defended.

With the new bill, they're saying that if you make stereotypical comments about Jews, it would be regulated and possibly banned on campus. But this is exactly why some Jewish comedians don't go to college campuses. Jerry Seinfeld famously said he won't go there. So during the hearing recently on this, I introduced a list of 479 Jewish American comedians

With the new bill, they're saying that if you make stereotypical comments about Jews, it would be regulated and possibly banned on campus. But this is exactly why some Jewish comedians don't go to college campuses. Jerry Seinfeld famously said he won't go there. So during the hearing recently on this, I introduced a list of 479 Jewish American comedians

With the new bill, they're saying that if you make stereotypical comments about Jews, it would be regulated and possibly banned on campus. But this is exactly why some Jewish comedians don't go to college campuses. Jerry Seinfeld famously said he won't go there. So during the hearing recently on this, I introduced a list of 479 Jewish American comedians

comedians who had all made stereotypical jokes about Jewish people. And I said, well, what are we going to do? Are you going to send the police after them, the college campus police, if any of them were to appear on campus? So no, it's just a terrible idea. But it comes out of people, rah, rah, rah, look at me, I support, and I'm against these other people. And

comedians who had all made stereotypical jokes about Jewish people. And I said, well, what are we going to do? Are you going to send the police after them, the college campus police, if any of them were to appear on campus? So no, it's just a terrible idea. But it comes out of people, rah, rah, rah, look at me, I support, and I'm against these other people. And

comedians who had all made stereotypical jokes about Jewish people. And I said, well, what are we going to do? Are you going to send the police after them, the college campus police, if any of them were to appear on campus? So no, it's just a terrible idea. But it comes out of people, rah, rah, rah, look at me, I support, and I'm against these other people. And

but without being very thoughtful about the First Amendment. And my fear is we become like Europe, where if you say anything about the Holocaust or if you say Johnny who thinks he's Susie is still Johnny, they'll put you in jail for all of that stuff. So they are doing that in Canada. They're doing that in Europe. And I don't that's not the kind of country I want to live in.

but without being very thoughtful about the First Amendment. And my fear is we become like Europe, where if you say anything about the Holocaust or if you say Johnny who thinks he's Susie is still Johnny, they'll put you in jail for all of that stuff. So they are doing that in Canada. They're doing that in Europe. And I don't that's not the kind of country I want to live in.

but without being very thoughtful about the First Amendment. And my fear is we become like Europe, where if you say anything about the Holocaust or if you say Johnny who thinks he's Susie is still Johnny, they'll put you in jail for all of that stuff. So they are doing that in Canada. They're doing that in Europe. And I don't that's not the kind of country I want to live in.

So I think really even speech that we despise has to be protected precisely because that's the nature of the First Amendment is to protect all speech.