Berkeley professors sign petition to boycott ‘Free Speech Week’ — Transcript

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1. 0:00more than 150 Harvard professors are
2. 0:03protesting against the university's
3. 0:05administration after it rescinded a PhD
4. 0:08program offer to X inmate Michelle Jones
5. 0:10and withdrew a fellowship invitation to
6. 0:13convicted leaker Chelsea Manning they're
7. 0:15upset I'll tell you well just give the
8. 0:17thoughts of Charlie cook with
9. 0:19turning-point USA Charlie come on in
10. 0:21what's your thoughts on that situation
11. 0:23at Harvard you know when you have this
12. 0:25many Harvard professors upset something
13. 0:27must be going right in all seriousness I
14. 0:30mean come on Harvard is is known as as
15. 0:32the beacon of American you know
16. 0:35educational kind of advancement of these
17. 0:39ideas and this is the best that they can
18. 0:40do I'm glad they rescinded this and look
19. 0:42instead of trying to get convicted
20. 0:44leakers or former criminals to come
21. 0:46speak at Harvard and lecture why don't
22. 0:48they fight for intellectual diversity
23. 0:50you know fight for conservatives to come
24. 0:52to Harvard or get some different type of
25. 0:54ideas you know it's more than entirely
26. 0:56possible to be a political science
27. 0:58student at Harvard University for four
28. 1:00years and not hear one good thing about
29. 1:02a conservative idea for more than ten
30. 1:05minutes think about that so I don't care
31. 1:07what these 150 professors think it means
32. 1:09nothing to me and the fact that they're
33. 1:11kind of in a cross firing squad and
34. 1:13actually makes me chuckle a little bit
35. 1:14well I tell you what I can meet your 150
36. 1:17uh professors and raise it 277 with UC
37. 1:20Berkeley the professors there assigning
38. 1:23a petition to boycott free speech week
39. 1:25another example of you know we don't
40. 1:28like your message so therefore we're not
41. 1:29gonna allow you to speak what's going on
42. 1:32on college campuses especially at
43. 1:33Berkeley the you know the cradle if you
44. 1:35like a free speech used to be the cradle
45. 1:38of free situations yes sirs they're
46. 1:40saying oh we're gonna boycott free
47. 1:41speech week not because it's you know
48. 1:43anything racist or incendiary but
49. 1:45because they disagree with the people
50. 1:47that are speaking now it's very funny
51. 1:49they're gonna have to pay $300,000
52. 1:52actually a total cost a six hundred
53. 1:54thousand dollars to keep the campus safe
54. 1:56so free speech is not really free
55. 1:58anymore it's actually quite expensive
56. 2:00this is exactly what the left wants to
57. 2:02do that they want to make it so
58. 2:04difficult and cumbersome to bring
59. 2:07conservative speakers and people who
60. 2:09give conservative lectures on campus
61. 2:11that universities cite the cost
62. 2:13an issue not to have intellectual
63. 2:14diversity and so I always lean back and
64. 2:17I say look if you're a conservative
65. 2:18student on campus you have to sit
66. 2:20through all this left this nonsense
67. 2:22right and garbage for years why can't
68. 2:24the left be okay with an optional
69. 2:26conservative speaker to come on campus
70. 2:28well all I can say is they must be
71. 2:29incredibly threatened by those
72. 2:31conservative ideas and thoughts so much
73. 2:33so that they want to clamp it down
74. 2:34otherwise should give you a shout out
75. 2:36President Trump tweeted a thank you to
76. 2:39you after you commented on his UN speech
77. 2:42that's kind of nice to get a shout out
78. 2:44from the president isn't it charlie not
79. 2:46a bad ways not a bad way to start the
80. 2:48morning you know love the president
81. 2:49support his agenda and I think his
82. 2:50speech at the UN was absolutely historic
83. 2:52they both historical though you know the
84. 2:54usual critics came in dark and dangerous
85. 2:56said Hillary Clinton the French say you
86. 2:59can't talk about Iran like that and
87. 3:00they're on you deal but it was unique in
88. 3:03as much it was very bold and you think
89. 3:05very effective and most definitely my
90. 3:08favorite part of the entire speech was
91. 3:10how he targeted Venezuelan socialism you
92. 3:13know you look at the rise of socialism
93. 3:15throughout Central and South America and
94. 3:16I was completely destroyed once vibrant
95. 3:19rich countries such as Venezuela and
96. 3:21President Trump was unafraid on the
97. 3:23national stage that could to call out
98. 3:24these failed Marxist ideologies and I
99. 3:26think we need more of that from our
100. 3:28Western leaders you're not gonna get it
101. 3:29from Trudeau you're not gonna get it
102. 3:31from the European leaders and that's
103. 3:32what I love most about his UN speech one
104. 3:34last one for you Charlie what are your
105. 3:37thoughts on the president reaching out
106. 3:39to Democrats and getting the the
107. 3:41spending plan in place for the RET till
108. 3:43the end of the year raising the dead
109. 3:44Lehman all of that stuff purely because
110. 3:46he couldn't get his own party to work
111. 3:48with him certainly upset those on the
112. 3:50far right what does Charlie Koch say so
113. 3:53I consider myself part of the vast
114. 3:55right-wing conspiracy but I love it and
115. 3:56let me tell you why I love it the only
116. 3:58reason we're gonna have a healthcare
117. 3:59vote next week is because President
118. 4:02Trump put pressure on Republican
119. 4:03leadership by showing he can work with
120. 4:05the Democrats if there is no deal on the
121. 4:08debt limit let's be perfectly clear this
122. 4:10grand cassidy bill would be nowhere so
123. 4:12he opened up the legislative calendar
124. 4:13and said all right Republicans show me
125. 4:15what you can do got the debt limit got
126. 4:17hurricane funding out of the way you
127. 4:19you're up and look now the singers theme
128. 4:21the Republicans work harder than ever
129. 4:23before you in fact they're complaining
130. 4:24they have to stay in the halls of
131. 4:25Congress till 10:00 a.m.
132. 4:26o'clock like oh we're working really
133. 4:28hard day there a command this is the
134. 4:30hardest they've worked if the Country
135. 4:31Club actually has to become an office
136. 4:33now but I love it the president
137. 4:34demonstrated fantastic leadership there
138. 4:36ok Charlie cook as Stewart likes to
139. 4:40refer to you the future president of the
140. 4:41United States and we hope that's true
141. 4:43Charlie cook thank you so much for
142. 4:44joining us on this Friday thank you