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Lukenknoff is here from washington with some of the worst offenders. >> thanks for having me, tucker. >> he cleanings are supposed to be bags of free speech. we give tenure to professors so they can exercise free speech: give me some examples of restrictions on campus. >> well, when it comes to the speech codes, there is good news and there is bad news. the good news is this has been the seventh year in the row in which the the percentage of speech code on college campuses has declind, that's only thanks to tons of lawsuit and lots of bad press about these kind of restrictions. of the bad news...

I am wondering about where your employment status bumped up against your spree speech. >> some of the gresest in the country is by employers and not the government. you're employer can have much more control on what you say or don't say. >> you can't be arrested, be u yo can be fired. >> which is moralistic. so the real speech code in the country is set more by employers, and often it's more oppressive than anything the government does. it's often employers. >> so when we come to that then, i guess part of what i want us to start thinking about in this context of speech and how we're going to ...

Blessings of liberty. for you that's the most important. >> that's right. the constitution says in the first sentence liberty is a blessing. it does not say the same thing about democracy or government in general. the constitution was written to protect liberty against government whether it be a democratic form of government or any other kind of government. >> it also says ensure domestic tranquility. that could be speech code, decency code. it says promote the general welfare. obamacare. but that's only within the framework of the liberty which the declaration says we are all born entitled to...

To basically chill speech with which he disagrees politically. prime example is the i.r.s. scandal where basically he was using the power of the internal revenue service to provide special scrutiny to tea party and other conservative groups because he wanted to shut them down and stop them from speaking prior to the 2012 election. he's doing the same thing with the universities. he's got a new speech code that universities have to abide by which basically says that any utterance that offends someone on a sexual topic is to be considered sexual harassment. so any kind of joke, any kind of play,...

♪ ♪ >> paul: well, another case of government overreach. this time on the college campus in response to some serious allegations of sexual assaults. department of education and justice last month issued a joint letter to the university of montana that my guest says this week amounts to a dangerous speech code for colleges across the country. gregg is the president for foundation of individual rights in education and author of the book "unlearning liberty, campus censorship." i asked him why. >> in a letter to the university of montana when they are investigating serious allegations for som...