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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, we're talking about kids, attempting to change names and bathrooms and gender identification as well as sports team participation. by the way the superior co...

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 there's a difference between sort of ambiguous characterizations of a person and things that up the ante into threatening language. because there's trump and there are an army of people who hang on his every word, what might not be threatening from somebody else's mouth turns into a threat in his, but your point about who the focus is here is even more important to me. he's not going after witnesses in that inves...

Selective presentation of that conversation included in the indictment, which is a common problem we've seen in this indictment that there's a quote here, and a quote there, and the full context isn't there. there's no obligation for him to put his defense in there, but i think it's important to understand that when you see these three or or four-word. >> just to understand, though, you're just saying context is missing, you're not saying he didn't say what's in here. >> i'm not conceding the quote at all that some aspects of mr. jacob's characterizations are accurate or at least roughly accur...

Weiss comes in and says, look, i am not the decisionmaker here. >> it doesn't 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 hadn't been talking about that before. let's 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-exami...

We hadn't been talking about that before. let's 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? what's the fact set which is what we are attempting to determine, and what are the suggestions that shapley is making and what are the gaps between those two accounts? >> ...