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Threatening, in a confrontation -- pete: a professor if wielding a machete? nicole: dont worry, they were fired, but with they were still there in solidarity with susan sarandon -- will: yeah. and the daughter of congresswoman ilhan omar. this is it is what she tweeted, im enormously proud of my daughter from organizing a schoolwide -- statewide school walkout at 520 leading the -- 15 to leading the biggest climate rally at 16 and now pushing her school to stand against genocide. stepping up to ...

Ex-Special Counsel Robert Hur testifies he “did not exonerate" President Biden in report on alleged mishandling of classified records, repeatedly correcting Democrat lawmakers’ claims.

Hes a threat to d-d-democracy. couldnt read the word. >> reporter: now, fred, donald trump also downplayed the events that happened on january 6th. he called the prisoners who are currently facing time for their role in the january 6th capitol attack hostages, a comment he has made before. he also called it one of the saddest days in american history. i think just looking back at many of donald trumps characterizations of what happened on that day of january 6th, 2021, it wasnt a surprise to hea...

Anything to do with the american presidency. what will he say in his own defense? >> he knows what hes doing is a lie. we talked about this initially. to your chagrin, i know it seemed like how could he possibly get away with it? in his papers, which have just come in, written by a scalia clerk, very deaf, are just going to play it at a different level, where im convening phone calls or setting up meetings. i just want to note, i agree with you that his claim should not succeed, but its nowhere ...

Will they choose to be at the altar of trump? this is a weekend of worship for muslims and people of the jewish faith, christian faith these days that we have had over the weekend. many people are in their places of worship, and we know that in that warship mode, we believe in a higher power. the question is that even as we do that, we respect the constitution, the laws of the land. i cannot seem to find any republican willing to stand up against an individual who is trying to tear this nation a...

The attorney general in new jersey said in a statement tonight, the state has always respected the rights of parents and agrees that parents should be involved in important decisions regarding their children and any characterizations to the contrary are flatly incorrect. to be clear, the state has never sought and never will seek a ban on parental notification. now, the battle, as you can imagine, also centers around the idea of children, were talking about kids, attempting to change names and b...

His release. that piece goes on to argue that any other defendant would likely face consequences for these types of comments, perhaps even be put behind bars. do you agree? >> i think theres a difference between sort of ambiguous characterizations of a person and things that up the ante into threatening language. because theres trump and there are an army of people who hang on his every word, what might not be threatening from somebody elses mouth turns into a threat in his, but your point about...

Selective presentation of that conversation included in the indictment, which is a common problem weve seen in this indictment that theres a quote here, and a quote there, and the full context isnt there. theres no obligation for him to put his defense in there, but i think its important to understand that when you see these three or or four-word. >> just to understand, though, youre just saying context is missing, youre not saying he didnt say whats in here. >> im not conceding the quote at all...

Weiss comes in and says, look, i am not the decisionmaker here. >> it doesnt support that at all. it supports this one fairly narrow aspect of the story. look, the main thing with shappley, what we are seeing, and, obviously, there is new information presented in this testimony that has changed narrative of the story, right. we are now talking about the d.c. and california charging decisions. we hadnt been talking about that before. lets just affirm that he has placed that into the record. but a...

We hadnt been talking about that before. lets just affirm that he has placed that into the record. but a lot of these other characterizations have not been challenged. we are not seeing him cross-examined by minority counsel on his testimony and he has yet to say that he will appear under oath before the committee as merrick garland has. so the suggestions, the question here is, there are two sets of questions here, right? whats the fact set which is what we are attempting to determine, and what...