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The Megyn Kelly Show

Free Speech Under Attack and Crime Wave in American Cities, with Greg Lukianoff and Ray Kelly | Ep. 243

The Megyn Kelly Show

SiriusXM

Society & Culture, News Commentary, News

4.438.5K Ratings

🗓️ 19 January 2022

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Summary

Megyn Kelly is joined by Greg Lukianoff, president and CEO of Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE), to talk about free speech under attack on college campuses, the push to make words "violence," free speech as an antidote to authoritarianism, the Supreme Court deciding in favor of speech this week, a professor being punished for an expletive-filled joking video, the way social media has changed speech, the real, damaging effect of "defund the police" policies, the rising crime wave in American cities, New York City's newest DA, how America failed to vet terrorist in Texas synagogue, the FBI's tip-toeing around anti-Semitism, what might happen next with crime in America, and more.

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Megan Kelly Show, your home for open, honest and provocative conversations.

0:07.0

Hey everyone, I'm Megan Kelly. Welcome to the Megan Kelly Show, America in Disarray, as

0:18.0

Criminal Justice Reforms lead to violence and our Constitutional protections take a hit.

0:24.0

A little later in the show, we're going to be joined by former NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly

0:29.0

about the spike in violence and these soft on crime DAs, which are becoming a real problem.

0:34.0

Recall efforts in cities already underway. The guy here in New York City, just two weeks in office,

0:39.0

we don't have a recall provision, but the citizens are now asking themselves what their other options are

0:44.0

as some dozen DAs underneath them, ADAs leave the office.

0:48.0

There have been something like 70 leaving, I think it's the San Francisco office, 50 leaving an office in L.A.

0:55.0

and I could go on and I will in just a bit. But first, free speech is also under siege and it has been for quite some time,

1:03.0

but it's reaching peak concern. Students shout down professors or anyone else who dares to disagree with them.

1:10.0

Administrators threaten to take action against professors and students for sometimes unspecified misconduct.

1:17.0

They just know it when they see it. They know you're wrong when they see it.

1:21.0

One of the latest examples involves a Michigan professor, he's a professor at a school in Michigan,

1:27.0

whose attempt to humor apparently did not sit well with the powers that be. Well, it sat well with me.

1:32.0

The foundation for individual rights and education, you need to know about this group if you don't fire is how we all refer to them,

1:38.0

is defending this guy as they do with so many free speech cases on college campuses for any and all issues.

1:44.0

Greg Lukyanov is its president and CEO and he joins me now. Greg, what a pleasure.

1:49.0

I haven't spoken to you since you came on the Kelly file years ago, but thank God for you.

1:53.0

Thank God because you're fighting the good fight. It's great to chat with you again.

1:57.0

I really love last time we talked. Yeah, same. And you know, everybody knows in general that there's a problem with free speech on college campuses these days,

2:05.0

which is now morphed out into our society. But I don't know that they know just how bad it's gotten, how oppressive, how stifling.

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