Last night, Sen. Tim Kaine and Gov. Mike Pence met on the debate stage to
argue before the American people while their running mate would be the best person
to become our next commander in chief.
Joining me today to talk all about the debate and what the Clinton
campaign will be doing in the final weeks before the general election to make
their case to the American people is Zerlina Maxwell who is the Progressive
Media Director for Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign.
The
First Amendment and freedom of speech have been in the headlines a lot
recently, from Colin Kapernick’s protest of the Nation Anthem to Donald Trump
vowing on the campaign trail to “open up” the libel laws so that when
journalists say things he doesn’t like “we can sue them and win lots of money”;
but has this fundamental of American rights always been under such assault? In his new book Indelible Ink: The Trials of John Peter Zenger and the Birth of America’s Free Press Pulitzer Prize winning author Richard Kluger tells the story of the New-York Weekly Journal, the first American newspaper to openly
criticized those in power and the resulting court battle that helped enshrine
the principle of free speech and the institution of a free press into American
society.
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