Senator Sasse on free speech

This Republican senator reminds President Trump what the First Amendment is really about...

Transcript

00:00There's an important distinction to draw between bad stories or crappy coverage and the right

00:05that citizens have to argue about that and complain about that, and trying to weaponize

00:11distrust.

00:19We differ about really big and important things in this country, and then we come together

00:23around the First Amendment, which is an affirmation of the fact that people are free before government.

00:28This is the Fourth of July weekend.

00:30The only way the republic can work is if we come together and we defend each other's rights

00:35to say things that we differ about.

00:37We defend each other's rights to publish journalism and pieces and things that we then want to

00:42argue about.

00:43I agree with the president that there is a lot of crappy journalism out there.

00:47We need to come together as a people and reteach our kids what the First Amendment is about,

00:52and it's not helpful to call the press the enemy of the American people.

00:56There are a whole bunch of particular journalists who should be called out for particular stories

01:00that aren't good enough.

01:01There should be journalistic ethics and integrity.

01:04Journalistic agencies and media organizations should admit when they make mistakes, and

01:07they should issue corrections, and they should fire people, and we've seen a little bit of

01:11that the last week.

01:12That's a good thing.

01:13We should be celebrating it.