minute since we had seen that as well. a lot to entertain us in washington. gillian turner in for sandra smith. tensions on the rise now as we fast approach a year of war in ukraine. stand strong. ukraine will never be a victory for russia, never. attack against one is attack against all. john: president biden blasting russian president vladimir putin for his assault on ukraine, but issue was left out of the speech. gillian: the president did not address putin s major nuclear warning to the west out this week, russia is suspending the nuclear arms control with the united states, opening the lid for potential weapons expansion. john: all of this as russian is looking to get a boost from communist china. xi jinping plans to visit moscow in the coming months. beijing wants to play the role of peacemaker. some skeptics wonder if xi might have another agenda and if biden will do anything to stop him. tiktok is here, the ford chinese battery plant is coming, farmland is
Blowing up the campuses. Listen, the boys on the College Campuses are the luckiest people in the world. And here they are burning up the books, storming around about this issue. You name it. President Richard Nixon in 1970 referring to Student War Protesters as bums. Just three days before four students were shot dead by the Ohio National guard at kent state. And once again, were seeing the cycle repeating itself. As universities and Police Departments clamp down on campus protests. Also tonight, how trumps lawyers are appealing more to their clients vanity and less to the judge and jury, and why that is a losing strategy. Plus, was there ever any doubt that ron desantis would be back in trumps loving embrace . Hes one of many former trump critics now scrambling to get back into his good graces. But we begin tonight with a question. About a long standing protection supposedly afforded by the u. S. Constitution. Namely, what rights do you have to protest in america . We assume a lot bec
this case is all about, this period after the election. some of those, of course, go through today. we talked about, of course, the threat to judge chutkan, and then we have threats to the district attorney in new york, the district attorney and the sheriff of fulton county, threats to the former judge s chambers providing over the ongoing trial. these are all from the last few weeks, so the notion that there was some dynamic that existed in 2020 that has since abated or gone stale i think is wrong. how do we how do we know what he gets held accountable for? i mean, this is the internet era. he s a high profile public figure who posts. he has lots and lots and lots of followers, but it s also covered on news channels that have listeners and newspapers that have readers and all manner of media can communicate his words to people of the public. how i mean, how do we how does the district court reasonably decide which postings he is responsible for prompting adverse cond
internet to his words, how will the public know the truth. that s the view of the president and i think it s reflected in all of these different efforts. the problem is on the free speech side, we are left with the game of whack a mole. every time, up pops an index. and disinformation and censorship efforts, the democrats have opposed those investigates. we are having a difficult time to find out how extensive the effort has been with the biden administration. john: and then you are left to wonder who is the great oracle, the great arbitor of the truth here. where does that lie? exactly. john: always fascinating to catch up with you. appreciate it. gillian: jonathan turley is one of the best. texas governor says the state is taking things in his own hands
truth. and what is really concerning, she is applauded what the europeans are doing, what hillary clinton enforced, they gave preliminary approval to the digital services act. a huge censorship program, and what clinton suggested is they should pass that right away because it might force twitter to continue to censor, even after musk has assumed control of the country. bill: the last question here. some people are trying a tie-in because musk made the move for twitter last week and perhaps where it s going public and barack obama saying when he was at stanford, a speech about disinformation. yeah, what obama said is truly maddening for those of us on the free speech side. first of all, he said he was a first amendment absolutist, which is not true, but you notice he did not say free speech absolutist, he followed that up with saying except for things that i consider to be lies, disinformation or quackery.