like newt gingrich explicitly argued we need to amend the first amendment to control the ability of muslim radicals to be able to spread their hateful message. so often these crises are seized upon by leaders to demand more power. this idea that for example the first amendment doesn t protect hate speech is completely false. i think what is critical to note is that every political ideology, every last one has psychopaths or extremists who carry out violence in the name of that ideology and to try to blame your political opponent or do prescribed guilt to people who share that ideology is a completely atrocious act, because you are exploiting the corpses and not expressing sadness over them. tucker: shouldn t there at least be a pause? all of us can learn lessons from tragedy, a lot of people do what they do. how did this happen? i think that about all tragedy is. but it seems like the period where we pause and let the
attorney generals and others all across the nation about what we can do to address hate as you know the first amendment doesn t protect hate speech. particularly when hate speech follows up with acts. i want to bring in a cnn national security analyst. juliette, good to see you. this manifesto shows that race was his primary motivation. one line reads, zip code in buffalo has the highest black percentage that is close enough to where i live. he called himself a white sp supremacist and fascist. and cited the great replacement theory. white americans are being replaced until white culture is erased. what you make of this? so, basically he was not
two, saying they d be willing to reconsider it. that s in play in this case and in other cases. it s very dangerous for journalists across the ideological spectrum. now, of course it means it s a higher standard, but ted, let me ask you this, it s dangerous for journalists but it s also dangerous for those who are the subject of their actual reporting, right, is there something that can be done for those who say, look, maybe the bar is high, but maybe it s too high? i am wronged as a person, and why should journalists have sort of a free pass, what do you say to that? well, the actual malice standard and the first amendment doesn t just protect journalists, it protects everyone and the supreme court and the new york times versus sullivan case in 1964 said, in a democracy, we want open, costed, vehement, sometimes nasty debate to flourish, to be a check on the government, to be a check on the figures. it doesn t borrow libel suits so a private person can bring a
information. then qanon, who has grown, because facebook collects peoples data, construct social pro virus, and encourages the growth of qanon groups on their platforms. it is out of control it s time to have rules in regulations for social media. but, is all of that actually protected by the first amendment? fair question, lawrence. it s not, as you know, you can not have incitement to violence. it s pretty specific. you can just have a vague threat, but if you have people say i am going to assassinate a political leader, on a specific day, that doesn t pass. a lot of the speech isn t incitement to illegal conduct. also, the first amendment doesn t protect you from collecting data, and targeting
standard and the first amendment doesn t just protect journalists, it protects everyone and the supreme court and the new york times versus sullivan case in 1964 said, in a democracy, we want open, costed, caustic, vehement, sometimes nasty debate to flourish to be a check on the government, to be a check on public figures. the new yorktimes standard doesn t borrow all libel suits. so a private person can bring a libel case and doesn t have to prove actual malice. a public figure like ms. palin, if she could prove if the new york times intentionally made a false statement, if she can t prove it here, they corrected it quickly. it s extremely important to our democracy and it s going to be interesting to see how it plays out. i think ms. palin is going to lose. we ll soon see. ted boutros, thank you so much. good hearing from you. we ll be right back.