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At a State Department press briefing on Monday, Spokesperson Tammy Bruce was asked about the revocation of Bob Vylan's visa.
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00:00All right, Sean.
00:01Can I go back to the music a bit?
00:04Yes, sir.
00:04On Glastonbury, just getting to the decision to revoke the visas,
00:08members of this administration, particularly the vice president,
00:11have been very vocal about free expression,
00:13saying that even if things are hateful,
00:15particularly if the vice president took to task Germany
00:17and to a certain extent the UK,
00:19saying that there are laws that prohibit hateful content
00:21and insults that those are inappropriate.
00:23What's the difference here?
00:24I mean, I'm not justifying, I'm not supporting the...
00:28Of course.
00:28But why is it that this speech is out of line
00:31while you have, at the same time,
00:33a push to not outlaw free expression elsewhere
00:36when it comes to insults?
00:37Right.
00:37I think that, again, this is not about the nature of a concert,
00:42I suppose, but it really is about our standards,
00:44about who we let in the country,
00:46that we're not telling people what they can sing about
00:48or what they can say.
00:49It's not involved here at all.
00:51They obviously felt free to say what they were saying
00:53and chanting at Glastonbury, and they can do that.
00:56And we can do what we do.
00:57So it really is about the issue of national security,
01:02about issues of violence,
01:03the increase, certainly, of anti-Semitism,
01:05but of terrorism in general.
01:08That dynamic, the crime in the United States,
01:11what happened with the open border,
01:13the transnational gangs that are here,
01:16this kind of wanton dynamic that has ruined American lives,
01:21that has created cities that are unlivable,
01:24and every American deserves better.
01:27They deserve to know they have leadership,
01:29as we do now.
01:30And that's why they voted for Donald Trump,
01:32was simple, basic law and order,
01:35respect for your neighbor,
01:37and if you're coming to this country,
01:39respect for the people who are here.
01:40So I think that when we think about who we,
01:45why you have a visa system,
01:46which is in part to vet and to stop and to ask questions,
01:50is to take that seriously.
01:52Okay.
01:52Okay.
01:52Okay.

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