BRIAN: I DON'T THINK THERE
IS ANY QUESTION HE IS GOING
TO BE RUNNING.
IT'S HAPPENING ACROSS THE
COUNTRY LIBERAL STUDENTS
SHUTTING DOWN CONSERVATIVE
SPEAKERS, RIGHT?
AINSLEY: AND BEN SHAPIRO IS
NO STRANGER TO SCARE TACTICS
OF THE AHEAD OF HIS SPEECH
AT GEORGE WASHINGTON
UNIVERSITY YESTERDAY A
THREAT WAS MADE AGAINST THE
CONSERVATIVE GROUP THAT
ORGANIZED THE EVENT.
BRIAN: AMY IS A CO-PRESIDENT
OF GEORGE WASHINGTON
UNIVERSITY YOUNG AMERICA'S
FOUNDATION AND SAW SAW THIS
TAKE PLACE LEADING UP AND OF
COURSE AFTER THE SPEECH.
AMY, YOU SAID THAT FIRST,
WHEN YOU SAW THE BACKLASH,
YOU WERE SURPRISED.
>> YES.
THAT'S RIGHT.
I WAS PRETTY -- AT FIRST IT
WAS A DIRECT THREAT TO YAF.
HEY YAF GET SECURITY.
TO SAY ME THAT WAS PRETTY
THREATENING.
AFTER I THOUGHT ABOUT IT FOR
A WHILE, I REALIZE ARE JUST
THE TYPE OF SCARE TACTICS
THAT LIBERALS AND LEFTISTS
YOU ON CAMPUS TO TRY TO SEE
YOU LENS US.
AFTER I GOT OVER OF MY
INITIAL SHOCK, I TOOK THE
CORRECT COURSE OF ACTION.
AND CONTINUED ON WITH THE
EVENT TO SHOW THAT WE WERE
NOT INTIMIDATED BY THEM AND
THAT OUR VOICE IS NOT GOING
TO BE SUPPRESSED ON CAMPUS.
AINSLEY: HOW DID IT END OUT
WORKING OUT LAST NIGHT, AMY,
I KNOW THAT BEN SPOKE THERE.
>>IT WAS INCREDIBLE EVENT.
WE DIDN'T HAVE TOO MANY
PROBLEMS.
THIS IS USUALLY WHAT HAPPENS
ON CAMPUS.
THEY USE THESE BULLYING
SCARE TACTICS.
THEY USE THEIR WORDS.
BUT, AT LEAST AT G.W. THERE
IS USUALLY NOT TOO MUCH WALK
TO THEIR TALK.
AINSLEY: YOU SAID NOT TOO
MANY PROBLEMS.
WHAT WERE THE PROBLEMS?
>> WE HAD SOME PEOPLE
GETTING ROWDY IN LINE.
THERE WASN'T ANYTHING TOO
BAD.
WE DID HAVE SECURITY.
WE HAD EXTRA SECURITY
BECAUSE OF THOSE THREATS.
BUT, LIKE I SAID, G.W. IS
NOT TOO MUCH WALK TO THEIR
TALK.
THERE IS A LOT OF HARASSMENT
ONLINE, A LOT OF THREAT ON
POSTERS AND THINGS LIKE
THAT.
LUCKILY, THERE WASN'T TOO
MUCH ISSUES LAST NIGHT.
BRIAN: AMY, LET ME ASK YOU
SOMETHING.
G.W. ONE OF THE MOST
RESPECTED SCHOOLS IN THE
COUNTRY, DO YOU FEEL AS
THOUGH THERE IS A GREATER
PRESENCE THAN ONE MIGHT
THINK OF CONSERVATIVE
STUDENTS ON CAMPUSES LIKE
YOURS?
>> I THINK WE'RE CERTAINLY
STILL A MINORITY, WHICH IS
WHY WE NEED TO BE BOLD WHEN
WE HAVE SPEAKERS AND EVENT
ON CAMPUS.
YOU KNOW, WE ARE VERY PRONE
TO THINGS LIKE PROPERTY
DESTRUCTION, ALL THE
LEFTISTS ON CAMPUS ARE
USUALLY -- THEY SEE US DOING
AN EVENT AND GO NUTS AND
DESTROY WHAT WE ARE DOING,
THEY DESTROY OUR DISPLAYS,
OUR POSTERS, SO, WHILE WE
ARE A MINORITY, WE ARE A
GROWING GROUP ON CAMPUS, BUT
WE STILL NEED TO BE BOLD IN
WHAT WE ARE DOING BECAUSE WE
WILL BE A MINORITY, I THINK,
FOREVER, ESPECIALLY AT G.W.
AINSLEY: WOULD YOU EVER DO
THIS TO A LIBERAL THAT CAME
TO SPEAK AT YOUR SCHOOL A
DIFFERENT ORGANIZATION?
AND IF YOU, WHAT WOULD BE
THE BACKLASH?
>> ABSOLUTELY NOT.
I WOULD NEVER DO THAT NO ONE
IN MY ORGANIZATION WOULD
EVER DO THAT WE HAVE THE
UTMOST RESPECT FOR EVERYBODY
TO SPEAK AT G.W.
WE ARE USED TO SEEING
LIBERAL SPEAKERS AT G.W.
EVERY OTHER WEEK WE HAVE
BERNIE SANDERS AND MICHELLE
OBAMA.
JOE BIDEN, ALL TYPES OF
PEOPLE COMING TO CAMPUS
BECAUSE THAT'S THE WAY G.W.
RUNS.
THEY DON'T LIKE CONTINUE TO
VARIETY CONSERVATIVE
SPEAKERS.
NO ONE IN MY ORGANIZATION,
NOR I, WOULD EVER DO THAT.
IF WE DID DO THAT I CAN BE
SURE THAT THERE WOULD BE
BACKLASH BY THE
ADMINISTRATION, WHICH IS NOT
THE SAME RESPONSE THAT WE
GET WHEN LIBERALS DO THIS TO
US.
BRIAN: STUDENT EXPERIENCE
PUT THIS STATEMENT OUT.
I BELIEVE IN THE VALUE OF
FREE SPEECH.
RESPECTFUL DIALOGUE AND
CIVILITY.
G.W.P.D. DOES NOT SEE THREAT
AND BE AT THE EVENT AND
RESPECTS THE STUDENTS' TO
BRING BEN SHAPIRO.
I'M GRATEFUL FOR THE FREEDOM
OF CHOICE.
I'M WONDERING, AMY, HOW MANY
MORE CONSERVATIVE STUDENTS
WOULD BE OUT THERE IF THEY
DIDN'T KNOW THEY WOULD GET
SO MUCH BACKLASH FOR DOING
IT?
>> I'M SURE WE HAVE A LOT
MORE PEOPLE COMING OUT IF
THEY WEREN'T SCARED TO COME
OUT TO CONSERVATIVE EVENT.
I MEAN, I HAVE BEEN TOLD BY
SOME OF MY PEERS, I'M THE
FIRST CONSERVATIVE THEY HAVE
EVER MET.
I HAVE HAD PEOPLE TELL ME
THEY ADMIRE ME BEING THE
CO-PRESIDENT OF YAF AND
HONEST ABOUT MY OPINIONS.
I KNOW A LOT OF PEOPLE ON MY
CAMPUS AND OTHER COLLEGE
CAMPUSES WANT TO SPEAK OUT
AND BE BOLD IN THEIR
CONSERVATIVE BELIEFS BUT ARE
SCARED OF THE BACKLASH BY
PIERS, PROFESSORS AND
ADMINISTRATION.
AINSLEY: AMY, KEEP PRESSING
ON.
BOTH SIDES NEED TO BE TOLD.
WE ASKED YOU WHY THEY WERE
DOING THIS AT THE BEGINNING
OF THE SEGMENT.
YOU SAID IT WAS TO SEE YOU
LENS REPUBLICANS OR
