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John Duarte: “They shut down free speech. I mean, we had Ann Coulter here…”

Featuring: John Duarte, Republican | Former U.S. House, California, District 13

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John Duarte speaks at Lincoln Stanislaus GOP Dinner

Published | Video Starts at 04:08

If you go there, it's an indoctrination, it's not an education. And they're no longer striving to be a world class center of excellence for research and empirical studies. They're just a. They shut down free speech. I mean, we had Ann Coulter here a few years ago. I wasn't even going to her dinner, but when Berkeley shut her down, we bought a table because free speech is worth standing up for at any time. And what we're learning here in America, more and more every day. Boy, we see stuff back in DC. I mean, how do we tackle that? This is already coming in. (04:08–04:23)

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Asserts that free speech was shut down at Berkeley when Ann Coulter was prevented from speaking.

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