To delve further into the latest and former President Trump's legal woes, the debate

over parents, influence, and schools, and the future of TikTok in the U.S., we turn now

to the analysis of Brooks and K-PART, that is New York Times columnist David Brooks

and Jonathan K-PART, associate editor for The Washington Post.

And welcome to you both.

It's good to see you.

Jonathan, I want to start with you and pick up where Lisa's report left off this whole

issue of parental rights.

It has come to mean so much, and I just want to start with some definitions.

So let's just talk about this debate and where it is right now, and what that phrase parental

rights means to you, how you look at this issue.

Well, to me when I hear parental rights, I keep thinking, what happened to the PTA, parent

teachers associations, why all of a sudden is this an issue?

And I think it's an issue given who they're targeting because they need a foil, the far

right needs a foil.

It's not to say that parents don't have concerns about what their kids are learning in classrooms.

It just seems like from Governor Ron DeSantis in Florida to Governor Huckabee in Arkansas

to the Republican-led House of Representatives, it seems like they have a problem specifically

with trans kids.

And what I have a problem with is that the party of life, the party of respect for family

and individual freedom has no problem putting a target on the backs of trans kids and their

families.

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