Hello and welcome to the blog podcast I'm Tim Miller today's episode is going to feature my live

conversation with Will Salitan and Bill Crystal on Wednesday night in Philadelphia

It is spicy Will brings me some ponies. I reject one of them. But one of the topics we discussed is how President Biden should talk about the campus protests in response to the conflict in Gaza. And in the intervening time, he took a little bit of our advice.

And so I think it's important to hear what President Biden said about this.

I'm going to play the full commentary.

It's about two and a half minutes.

So if you already heard it. Just hit that

fast forward 30 seconds button. Let's listen to President Biden talking about

the protest. Before I head to North Carolina I wanted to speak a few moments about

what's going on on on our college campuses here.

We've all seen images and they put to the test two fundamental American principles,

excuse me.

The first is the right to free speech and for people to peacefully

assemble and make their voices heard. The second is the rule of law. Both must be upheld. We are not an authoritarian nation where

we silence people or squash dissent. The American people are heard. In fact,

peaceful protest is in the best tradition

of how Americans respond to consequential issues.

But, but, neither are we a lawless country.

We are a civil society, an order must prevail.

Throughout our history, we've often faced moments like this because we are a big diverse free-thinking and freedom-loving nation.

And moments like this are always those who rush into score political points.

But this isn't a moment for politics. It's a moment for clarity. So let me be clear

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