This is CBS. I on the World. I'm John Batchel. I welcome my good colleague Peter Berkowitz of the Hoover Institution, writing this column for real clear politics about Professor Robert George. The title of the column, Professor George is right. Principle sustains American conservatism. We're plunging into the Republican Party

and its head-spinning arguments about the Constitution and the freedom of speech,

and certainly the word conservative as reorganized by William F. Buckley, once upon a time

in the 20th century. Peter, a very good evening

to you. What do we need to know about Professor Robert George? Who is he?

Professor Robert George is a distinguished figure of Princeton University. He's been teaching there

since I think the early 1990s, maybe even the late 1980s.

He is regarded as one of the top teachers of the natural law tradition.

At Princeton he also teaches constitutional law, the constitutional tradition. At Princeton, he also teaches constitutional law, the constitutional tradition.

He's a major, not only scholar, but public intellectual in the United States and recognized

for his contributions around the world, a man of great substance.

It appears inadvertently he's been plunged into the controversy at the Heritage Foundation

of unacceptable language used by various characters and not repudiated by the Heritage Foundation.

But it does not appear that Professor George meant to get entangled.

What happened?

Well, this is a bit of a story, as you know. In late October, Tucker Carlson hosted on his podcast, Nick Fuentes, a white nationalist, an anti-semi-the- to misogynist a promulgator of conspiracy theories

Tucker Carlson treated him with kid gloves this provoked appropriately controversy over why

Tucker Carlson was giving a platform to such a person.

A few days later, for no at least obvious reason, Kevin Roberts, the president of the Heritage Foundation,

videotaped a message to the world in which he said, we stand by our friend Tucker Carlson.

We will not allow, I use Roberts language now, quote,

venomous coalitions, unclose quote, to separate us from Tucker.

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