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Restrictive bad news is there are still a lot that clamp down on free speech. >> absolutely. i think it's important to note that although this fire study does show important progress that progress has been really hard fought. we have seen students, part of college republicans and other groups at berkeley, at columbia, at middle burry, at numerous schools who have not backed down in the violence and restricted speech codes and all kinds of restrictions on their first amendment rights. steve: fire found that roughly one in three schools still maintain policies that drastically limit freemp on ca...

Sessions launching into the legal battle over free speech on college campus declaring freedom of thought and speech to be under attack. this is a thing now. the big issue. marc thiessen, fox news contributor. mcmanus from the dnc. the fundamental question to both of you men. have the institutions in america gone too far? >> absolutely. i mean as general sessions pointed out yesterday 33% of public universities in this country have speech codes that ban quote, unquote, offensive speech. there is no -- that speech is protected by the first amendment. what is offensive speech? not talking about n...

>> good evening. attorney general sessions charged today that american colleges and universities have become "echo chambers for political correctness." speaking at georgetown university law center, sessions lamented a recent incident at kellogg community college in michigan in which two students were arrested and briefly jailed for handing out copies of the constitution on campus without a permit. sessions also cited a recent survey of 450 colleges and universities conducted by the foundation for individual rights and in education that found 40% of those schools maintaining speech codes that v...

>> good evening. attorney general sessions charged today that american colleges and universities have become "echo chambers for political correctness." speaking at georgetown university law center, sessions lamented a recent incident at kellogg community college in michigan in which two students were arrested and briefly jailed for handing out copies of the constitution on campus without a permit. sessions also cited a recent survey of 450 colleges and universities conducted by the foundation for individual rights and in education that found 40% of those schools maintaining speech codes that v...

White supremacists. >> martha: we are talking about the tips of these two movements. when you go down the chain a little bit, jonathan, you have regular college students who think that they are on board with something that is meaningful. why is that? >> that is what worries me. first of all, you have academics who have become enablers. people like professor brady who has written this book and seems to support many of the values of this group, not necessarily all of them. but you have a lot of faculty that support, not just antifa but also speech codes and the erosion of free speech. we have ha...