Government. in a case involvinges a construction of free speech that we believe is important and we will be filing a brief to the court explaining why we think this is an important national right. tucker: you are hearing a debate arise this week about free speech in the wake of the president s demands the nfl fire players who protest the flag and other symbols of the country. do you think that his remarks contravene the spirit of the first amendment? absolutely not. theco president of the united states has free speech. hedm believes, and i believe, tt people should take a moment before a football game and stand when the national anthem is played.om what s wrong with that? it s not political. it s not an affirmation of trump or hillary clinton or any other agenda. it is simply an affirmation of respect for the united states of america and this great heritage of freedom and for these football players, prosperity, that they have. i think that s a perfectly
National. anthem if it has nothing to do with the national anthem, with the national symbol? why not write a piece or give a speech i mean it, i would say that s a fair thing to be mad about. you can t define how i exercise my first amendment or these players. tucker: i m not seeking to define it. but you are. if you tell me i can t protest when the anthem is playing, then you are telling meet when, where, and how i can protest. my right to do that. tucker: that s ridiculous. don t even go down that that s beneath you. it s beneath you. no, it isn t! tucker: night after night i defend the first amendment, free expression against attempts by the left except these ballplayers. tucker: i am not attacking their right. except these ballplayers. so i don t have to sit i don t have to stand for the national anthem then, right? tucker: of course you don t have too stand for the national anthem. but youhe should. i m not arguing that government should intervene. i m
not at all, because i have a first amendment. let me tell you how i know let me tell you how i know i m right. people of color live with racism and racial oppression every day in their community. op tucker: but it is still a decent country oh, white america i wonder why. i have been offended by the police. tucker: you are wearing thousand dollar cufflinks. don t give me the victim card. race is the tie that binds us, economics separates us.d. the police have wrongfully stopped me. they have spread me out in front of my georgetown home. tucker: you are diverting haven t to you but you can t relate to it. tucker: so because i m white you are saying that i have no voice in this conversation. you are fundamentally unreasonable. a racist one because you are dismissing the position of someone on the basis of his skin color. i m dismissing you because of your experience or lack thereof.
President to say. they have a right. we have no legal case to condemn a person, a football player who doesn t stand. the owners may have rightsa to deal with the employees on the football field. so i think they have all the rights every american does to speak out, they ve got access to the internet. they have all kinds of ways to express their own opinions, but i think. every american, no matter what their views on the issues, should stand for america, should salute the flag. i think otherwise we don t have the kind of nation that is healthy. that we need to have to be strong and be able to have contentious debates within it. tucker: what do you think it s about? why do you think that some of the most successful people in our society would be taking a publicf stand against symbols of the country itself? first, my thought is they
Appropriate thing for the president to say. they have a right. we have no legal case to condemn a person, a football player who doesn t stand. the owners may have rightsa to deal with the employees on the football field. so i think they have all the rights every american does to speak out, they ve got access to the internet. they have all kinds of ways to express their own opinions, but i think. every american, no matter what their views on the issues, should stand for america, should salute the flag. i think otherwise we don t have the kind of nation that is healthy. that we need to have to be strong and be able to have contentious debates within it. tucker: what do you think it s about? why do you think that some of the most successful people in our society would be taking a publicf stand against symbols of the country itself? first, my thought is they