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Tucker Carlson: “Free speech...was in the Bill of Rights because it's in the…”

Featuring: Tucker Carlson, Conservative, Right-wing | Political Commentator, Former Fox News Host | National

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Tucker Carlson LIVE: America After Charlie Kirk

Published | Video Starts at 09:30

So when Charlie Kirk said, I believe in free speech, he didn't simply believe in free speech because it was in the Bill of Rights. He understood that it was Free speech...was in the Bill of Rights because it's in the New Testament. He understood that's a right that comes from God bestowed on all of us at birth. And he felt his job, his duty, was not simply to protect it, but to live it, to show people what that looks like. (09:30–09:39)

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Asserts that the right to free speech is rooted in the New Testament.

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