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Religious executive order. people in the evangelical community said it got watered down and the trump family may not understood its aims or could be construed to be discriminatory and negative. what did you make of the order? i was in the rose garden and discussing this for weeks with the administration. they ve learned how every move they make is being challenged in the courts and they ve grown wise and taken a strategic approach. even so, most people don t realize portions of that executive order have already been challenged in court by atheist organizations. this executive order is one of many examples. look at the selections he has made to the supreme court and the lower courts. look at what he has done on the repeal and replace of obamacare. pro-life provisions in there, defunding of planned parenthood and his speech matters. the rhetoric is not just pure rhetoric. there is a record that he is amassing to back that up and ....
The journalists were seemingly saying. we ve heard before, too, greg the president stand in front of the u.n. and say the future does not belong to the prophet muhammad and had a similar response during the fre attack on charlie hebdo. so yes, you see blame going around in different places against the people who, i think, a lot of people in the media think shouldn t be doing this. and on some level, they asked for it. just to show you how great freedom of speech is in this country, we allow isis to have twitter accounts and they actually telegraph these terrorists. they were going to be doing this on social media and we allowed it. now, we should have caught it. will we allow them to do that because of freedom of speech in our country? exactly. it s pretty incredible. eric is it provocation or is it actually educating people on why speech matters? it s clearly educating people why speech matters. it s also a case study of what ....
Who this decision impacts, in 2012 there were 591 people in the country that hit the federal max that this decision impacts. that is .0000019% of the population. oh. the supreme court is so concerned with the free speech rights of .000019% of the population, that they are willing to trample on the free speech rights of essentially everyone else. quickly, justice briar had a quote that i thought really nailed this. he said the first amendment advances not only the individual s right to engage in political speech, but also the public s interest in preserving a democratic order in which collective speech matters. well, there s also there s an argument to be made here, even by people who don t necessarily like this ruling and people who don t like the increasing role of money, and the super rich people in politics and especially in wake of citizens united in 2010. there s an argument to be made ....
Today? my message, i think, is that the evidence is sufficient that we should move towards the most effective possible steps to reduce carbon loading of the atmosphere. and do it urgently, now. do it urgently. this, i love, this newt gingrich guy, he s great. i would hate he uwas talking to somebody who used to be called a flip-flopper. i would hate to thing that newt gingrich is competing with john kerry for the title of flip-flopper in chief. it was in a debate in the senate conference hearing room talking about taking effective steps and suddenly elevating this i m happy to say this is a serious topic and debate seriously. to then elevate that to more important remember, the phrase he uses is very clear. that s why the speech matters. not a press release. he says, this could be the biggest mass threat. perhaps, he says. just plain not true. we re going to be fighting ....