Ted Cruz: “In the United States the First Amendment gives you the right…”

“Yeah, but Ben, let me make two distinctions that are important because it's easy to get these confused. Number one, let's talk free speech. Yes, In the United States the First Amendment gives you the right to speech, to speak and not to be criminally prosecuted for it. So you can say the most horrible hateful things. You do have a First Amendment right to say unbelievably horrible hateful things.” (33:23–33:30)

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