"PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the court said you have freedom of speech but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds, they've never seen anything like it on both sides and you end up with riots. So we're going on that basis. We're looking at it from not from the freedom of speech, which I always felt strongly about, but never passed the courts."
"Well, I don't think that's an accurate representation of what's happening. I'll start with the flag burning thing. Donald Trump's executive order did not make it illegal for flag burning. I got to be honest, I didn't see that clip. But given that last week, CNN told me children were being zip tied and that didn't turn out to be true. I don't want to comment on if that's true or not."
A CNN NewsNight panel featured Cornel West, Phil Williams, Brianna Lyman, and Congressman Dan Goldman. President Donald Trump declared at a White House event that "We took the freedom of speech away" in reference to flag burning and argued such acts incite riots. Anchor Abby Phillip showed a clip of that statement to the panel. Brianna Lyman said she had not seen the clip, argued Trump's executive order did not outlaw flag burning, referenced a prior CNN reporting error about children being zip-tied, and attempted to downplay or reframe the implications of Trump's remarks.
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