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A university comply with it. so its time universities to stand up and fight back. >> paul: they run the rick of losing their federal funds. they have the ability to sue in court to resist and sue and the fight on first amendment grounds. have they done that? >> so far, not yet but its impossible to comply. >> paul: are they intimidated by the department or is it sinking in this new policy is taking effect and this will be challenged officer time? >> i think all of that is happening right now. i ...

University to comply with this. its time universities stand up and start fighting back. >> so you saying that they run the risk if they challenge of losing their federal funds. >> right. >> they are -- they have the ability to sue in court to resist and sue and fight on first amendment grounds. has anybody done that so far? >> so far nobody. no university has come forward to say this goes too far. its impossible to comply. >> are they intimidated by the departments do you think or just sinking i...

Mary katharine. >> i think thats dangerous. i think the universities unfortunately are often on the vanguard in putting in speech codes which punish people for basically having opinions which are not illegal if were to believe the constitution in america. and the other thing i would say, the university is conducting an investigation of sorts of this. >> inclusion and diversity department. >> let me add one more thing. george washington university you know who was a than palestinian anwar al-awla...

Mary katharine. >> i think thats dangerous. i think the universities unfortunately are often on the vanguard in putting in speech codes which punish people for basically having opinions which are not illegal if were to believe the constitution in america. and the other thing i would say, the university is conducting an investigation of sorts of this. >> inclusion and diversity department. >> let me add one more thing. george washington university you know who was a than palestinian anwar al-awla...

Differently. >> bill: and you say? >> in a lot of ways i agree with kristen, liberals are less use to defending themselves. they get a pass when it comes to college universities. if you disagree with the liberal orthodoxy you get slapped with violating the campus speech codes. they dont have to defend their liberal orthodoxy, frankly they are not able to. i do think liberalism is much harder to defend. when somebody does attack them they pull out the name calling and when that doesnt work they t...

>> bill: and you say? >> in a lot of ways i agree with kristen, liberals are less use to defending themselves. they get a pass when it comes to college universities. if you disagree with the liberal orthodoxy you get slapped with violating the campus speech codes. they dont have to defend their liberal orthodoxy, frankly they are not able to. i do think liberalism is much harder to defend. when somebody does attack them they pull out the name calling and when that doesnt work they try to shut do...

Differently. >> bill: and you say? >> in a lot of ways i agree with kristen, liberals are less use to defending themselves. they get a pass when it comes to college universities. if you disagree with the liberal orthodoxy you get slapped with violating the campus speech codes. they dont have to defend their liberal orthodoxy, frankly they are not able to. i do think liberalism is much harder to defend. when somebody does attack them they pull out the name calling and when that doesnt work they t...

Speech. i hope in the united states we can maintain the first amendment. it is great until it leads to harm, violence. what is the law? >> i have done it before, nothing will happen. >> there is a huge argument about how the united states is going the way of europe, france, greece in particular and fiscal policy pass. i just hope we can maintain our freedom of speech in the first amendment. that is paramount, and thats what sets us apartment. >> and 50 years ago in france they would have had spe...

Publicly reading a book. florida state university has red light speech codes that would be blast out-of-court if challenged. >> what is a red light speech code? >> the way we rate codes unconstitutional on public campuses and dont live up to pub private ones. i believe it is offensive or hurtful comments. you can see your code at the fire.org and check out everything that happened at florida state university. that is the thing that everybody thinks their school is the exception. >> dont we want ...

>> it is not just you. >> everybody? >> i would think so. >> and sunglasses. >> me and my german shepherd diablo would disagree. we have an awesome skiing trip planned for this weekend. >> are you building a fire on the beach? f >> you know what when no wn is looking we will go and have a beer. >> i love your acoustic of "jeremy. jts. >> that is actually a beach boy song. >> bill mcgowan, you mentioned a lot of european countries have the speech codes. also our lovely neighbor to the north. >> i...