the phrase "shouting fire in a crowded theater" comes from a supreme court case, schenck versus u.s.,sulted from those arrests. according to a reading of the case that the wilson administration preferredrrea ate time, charles schenck was not exercising his first amendment rights by disagreeing with the white house. he was shouting fire in a crowded theater. he was endangering the public. he was a criminal who deserved jail. joe biden knows all this, of course, he was the chairman of the senate judiciary committee. that isn one of the most famous supreme court cases in u.s. history. joe biden is squarely on woodrow wilson's sideco of that argumen. the side that crushes civil liberties to achieve political imperatives. biden once again referred obliquely to the schenck case while speaking at the white house. >> but no amendment, no amendment to the constitution is absolute. you can't yell "fire" in a crowded movie theater and call it freedom of speech. >> tucker: ah. so you can't yell "fire" in a crowded theater, even if the theater is burning. you must i read the script. that is the me