A morning. I like to welcome you to word solid. My name is josh wheeler. I am the director of the Thomas Jefferson center the protection of free expression. The source of great pride for us at the Thomas Jefferson center that we have been involved in every one of the 23 virginia festival of the books. Often you only think of free speech when you think of speech we dont like. Then we hate actually. But we forget sometimes that free speech also allows us the great kind of expression that we can find in the art. Science and everywhere. Besides that can only be achieved were free to explore any idea or subject. Thats why were proud to be a proud of this. Where else is there a better example of the height that can be reached by having free speech todays program but i have a bout of housekeeping notes. This is brought to you by the Virginia Foundation of the community. If you would silence your cell phone, if you want to tweet about the event you can do so at at virginia books 2017. They had
A morning. I like to welcome you to word solid. My name is josh wheeler. I am the director of the Thomas Jefferson center the protection of free expression. The source of great pride for us at the Thomas Jefferson center that we have been involved in every one of the 23 virginia festival of the books. Often you only think of free speech when you think of speech we dont like. Then we hate actually. But we forget sometimes that free speech also allows us the great kind of expression that we can find in the art. Science and everywhere. Besides that can only be achieved were free to explore any idea or subject. Thats why were proud to be a proud of this. Where else is there a better example of the height that can be reached by having free speech todays program but i have a bout of housekeeping notes. This is brought to you by the Virginia Foundation of the community. If you would silence your cell phone, if you want to tweet about the event you can do so at at virginia books 2017. They had
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In the House Chamber when hes giving his state of the Union Address and shout out you lie when in fact he was telling the truth. When you try to undo a policy that has helped hundreds of thousands of young men and women come out of the shadows, and go to school and go to work, and you vote in favor of that, then youre no different from the guy who yells out that immigrants are rapists, that they bring crime and drugs to this country. And so you cant try to separate yourself from the stick you come from. And no one should try to distance donald trump from the republicans in congress. They are one and the same. He is just an offspring of what we have seen over the years coming from republicans in congress. And so its time to change, because if youre a bystander, youre allowing things to happen, and for many people, including me, this becomes very personal, because donald trump and republicans in congress are talking about my parents, and about me, and its time for us to stand up and say