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Linda McMahon: “If you shut down the speech of one side to allow the freedom…”

Featuring: Linda McMahon, Republican | Secretary of the U.S. Department of Education | National

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Secretary of Education Linda McMahon interviewed by Washington Examiner News Editor Marisa Schultz

Published | Video Starts at 06:32

Make sure that you have broad diversity of views on campus, that each side can be represented, that no side can be shut down. Because If you shut down the speech of one side to allow the freedom of speech for another, you have actually compromised the entire principle. and that we cannot have. I wanted to ask you perhaps a delicate question, and it has to do with transgender issues, which have been part of some of the recent campus shootings. (06:32–06:43)

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Asserts that restricting one side's speech to allow another's compromises the principle of free speech.

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