00:00Mr. Chairman, there is a clear and present danger to free speech in America, but it is not across the Atlantic Ocean.
00:08It is right here in Washington, sitting in the Oval Office.
00:12At a time when the greatest threat to the First Amendment rights of Americans resides in the White House,
00:16our Republican colleagues have brought us here today to talk about Europe.
00:21They've invited a fringe politician from the United Kingdom to attack the laws regulating certain conduct online in his country and the European Union.
00:28Laws that are intended to combat disinformation by hostile foreign actors, hate speech, and other fraudulent or criminal conduct.
00:37They have sounded the alarms about these foreign laws, but when it comes to the Trump administration's suppression of speech in this country,
00:43Republicans are curiously and dangerously silent.
00:47There is virtually a fringe parliamentarian, as you were called, and probably the future prime minister.
00:54What say you?
00:55Yes, for Mr. Nadler's benefit, it's a very big fringe, and we're doing rather well, but there we are.
01:03Look, you know, if you were to follow, Mr. Isler, the logic of your argument that you were to ban people from entering America
01:11who would pass legislation that was prejudicial against American companies or American citizens
01:17and would threaten them with potential arrest if they came across the other side of the pond.
01:22I think the practical difficulty with that is you'd have to ban the British government, the entire Labour Party.
01:29So I'm not sure in practical terms that it works, but I understand the sentiment.
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