This is not the U.K or Iran, Ms. Amanpour. Freedom of speech here in the U.S. is protected by the First Amendment. One would think that she would know since she’s been an American correspondent for CNN and ABC for over 30 years.
Via Free Beacon:
CNN anchor Christiane Amanpour called “lock her up” chants by Donald Trump supporters “hate speech” in a new interview and asked James Comey if he wished he had “shut down that language” in his capacity as FBI Director at the time.
Amanpour recounted the frequent chants at Trump 2016 campaign rallies about imprisoning Hillary Clinton for her perceived crimes and wondered if they should have been legal, but Comey responded it was not the role of government officials to censor that speech.
“Do you, in retrospect, wish that people like yourself, the head of the FBI, the people in charge of law and order, had shut down that language, that it was dangerous potentially, that it could have created violence, that it’s kind of hate speech? Should that have been allowed?” she asked in a clip flagged by The Daily Caller.