. a day of emotion and an historic sentencing for families that were waiting for justice, tonight on "laura coates live." you know, it's been two years of grief for those who were impacted by the 2021 oxford high school shooting in michigan. and that pain will never go away. but today they got the chance to at least be heard. ethan crumbly, who was 15 years old when he killed four people

and injured seven others was sentenced to life in prison without parole. this is the harshest punishment possible. in the hours leading up to that very sentence, family member after family member, victim after victim recounted to the court how their lives had been irreparably shattered by the events of that day. and it was their words directed right at ethan crumbley that left the biggest mark, like those from the mother of madisyn baldwin, a 17-year-old senior who didn't live to graduate high school. >> i don't wish death upon you. that would be too easy. i hope that thoughts consume you and they replay over and over in your head. the thoughts won't stop. i'm sure you've heard that paraphrased before. i hope the screams keep you up at night. >> and the words from tate meyers' dad, who spoke of

heartache after heartache since the loss of his just 16-year-old son. >> for the past two years, our family has been navigating our way through complete hell. what you stole from us is not replaceable. but what we won't let you steal from us is a life of normalcy, and we'll find a way to get there through forgiveness and through putting good into this world. >> and those from the father of 17-year-old justin shilling, who says that he struggles most days to even get out of bed. >> disturbing thoughts on life in general do not in any way warrant a second chance. my son doesn't get a second chance, and neither should he. >> and from the father of 14-year-old hannah st. juliana, who is mourning the memories that will never be. >> age plays no part.

his potential is irrelevant. there is utterly nothing that he could ever do to contribute to society that would make up for the lives that he has so ruthlessly taken. >> it's all those words that will be remembered, words that overshadowed those of ethan crumbley, who did address the court directly today. it was minutes before finding out he would spend the rest of his life behind bars. >> i am a really bad person. i have done terrible things that no one should ever do. i have lied, been not trustworthy. i've hurt many people, and that's what i've done, and i'm not denying it. but that's not who i plan on being. whatever sentence it is, i do plan to be better than i am. >> i want to bring in megan and chad gregory. they're the parents of oxford high school shooting survivor

keegan gregory, and also attorney van johnson representing families in the civil suit against oxford community schools. thank you all for being here. what a very emotionally charged day, i'm sure, for everyone in the community. it happened to be nationwide as well as we all were tuning in to see this sentencing today. if i can begin with you, megan, ethan crumbley now has become the first minor to receive an original sentence of life without the possibility of parole. now, i know your child was a survivor, but you're among a community of people where everyone was not as fortunate. i am wondering does this sentence bring you closure? do you have a reaction to what this feels like tonight? >> i don't think closure would be the right word. i'm not sure closure will ever happen, especially for the poor families. for us, i think it gives us a little bit of a sigh of relief, but i'm not sure we could ever

feel complete closure until our kids were safe, and i don't know how you even explain it. if our kids were -- what's the right word? >> whole again. >> whole again. all of the kids in the community are forever changed, and i think that's a hard thing to swallow for most people. most people probably can't understand it until you ever go through it. but it does give us a little bit of a sigh of relief to know that we won't have to ever face him anywhere ever again. >> i'm so glad that you said that, both of you, because although your child is a survivor, and i feel uncomfortable as a mother even describing your child in that way because it diminishes in some respect for people to understand the depth of the emotion of what has happened and the ongoing, ongoing journey that everyone in the community is feeling.

and so i'm so glad that you've pointed out the distinction and the idea what comes next. i will mention one thing that he said, and i was really, chad, leaning in to see what ethan crumbley may have said. what could he possibly have said at the sentencing? i want to play for you his message to the parents of the victims. listen to this. >> any sentence that they ask for, i ask that you do impose it on me because i want them to be happy, and i want them to feel secure and safe. i do not want them to worry another day because i really am sorry for what i've done, for what i've taken from them. i cannot give it back, but i can try my best in the future to help other people, and that is what i will do. >> chad, obviously there are more than the four victims who lost their lives. the community forever touched. there are some feeling a deep loss of safety. there are those who cannot sleep. there are those who are still

battling with what they saw and the trauma of all of it in addition to these four shooting victims. what do you say in response to the message that he conveyed today? >> well, i think the first thing it it's too soon for many of us to forgive although some made the message of they'll seek forgiveness for themselves, but not for the shooter. i think trauma does not respect time. so it doesn't matter that we were in this place two years later, and he decides now he's going to say "i'm sorry." the trauma is very real, and it takes you back to that single day, and we don't get out of it just because he goes to life in prison without parole. so i feel for what he did say, but i think it falls on deaf

ears at this point, and it's a means to an end to get him processed through the system. and now it's on to the parents and the school district. >> absolutely. it's the beginning, in some respects, of the next process here. that does include, as chad pointed out, it does include the criminal prosecution of this person's parents. there is an ongoing litigation and appeal process about the school district as well. you're representing some of the families and survivors trying to hold the school district and some of the employees accountable for failing to act when the signs appeared to be clear that this student was violent, was dangerous. where does all of that stand right now in terms of lit litigation? >> well, laura, as always you're spot-on. we have an appeal in the state court action for the michigan court of appeals. we have an appeal in the federal portion of our lawsuits, plural,

many, in the 6th circuit court of appeals on various rulings, fighting governmental immunity, sove sovereign immunity. basically government saying you can't sue me. what i thought was so incredible today is the overwhelming comments not just by the defense but the prosecutor. they all agreed on one thing, laura, today, and the judge. that is we all know the school made multiple mistakes here, and then it was but for the purposes of today. so for the purposes of the civil k case, and yes, let's do one thing at a time. next will be his parents. then two cases. we have a long road to go. but everybody today, defense, prosecutor, and judge, all mentioned the school district admittedly, according to them, being responsible just like their own internal investigation showed that they're responsible. but, yet, they're still going

forward with their appeals, laura, and they're not coming forwards and say, we give up. we're sorry. our own investigation shows we screwed up. nothing. >> what was your reaction that the parents were criminally charged? >> we believe that there needs to be accountability there, and what we're not trying to do is look inside the home and judge on what happened or didn't happen. the fact is they bough child a weapon, did not put it in a secure, safe storage environment. he had access. the fact is parents need to be held accountable if they do not keep their firearms safe. >> meghan and chad gregory, ven johnson, thank you all for your words tonight. it's so telling. thank you so much. >> thank you, laura. >> thank you. >> joining me now is senior crime and justice correspondent shimon prokupecz. i'm so glad you are here. shimon, you know what happens in

these communities in the wake of mass shootings. your coverage of so many, far too many frankly, including of course makes me want to ask you about this idea of closure. even with a sentence like life without the possibility of parole, what is that like for a community to try to grapple with this? >> it's tough. look, i was in that community in the days after this shooting, and it's a small community. and everyone there, everyone there was so affected by what happened there. and the other thing that made it so difficult is there was warning signs. there were things that could have been done to prevent them and no one took action. so that is what also frustrated so many there. but i think for the community, in any community, when you're able to come into a courthouse and do those victim impact statements, it's very powerful. it's a very important part of our justice system for the

victims to come in and tell a judge how they feel, how they were terrorized by what happened to them. so in that sense, i think it does give them some closure that they can come in there and speak about how they feel. but, you know, as you heard the family there say, they will never be whole again, and they still have a long road ahead because you have the parents, and then obviously you have the fight for justice and accountability on the part of the school. >> it's so true. thinking about the people we just spoke to, their child survived this attack. but for the parents whose children did not, people have to think about this being very expansive. those speaking today were not just the victims of those who have passed, but those who have been impacted by the actions and conduct of this particular defendant, now convicted defendant. it's something we need to focus more on, and also the judge. before the sentencing, shimon, the judge was unforgiving at best when he recounted the horrific acts that took place,

how he planned, how he prepared for this rampage. listen to this. >> the court apologizes to the victim for the bluntness, but defendant shot and killed justin shilling at point-blank range after having him get down on his knees in front of another student. >> i mean when you hear that -- >> i was kind of surprised, you know, hearing a judge go into such graphic detail. but i think given the age of this defendant, 17 -- 15 at the time -- and the fact that he was going to be sentencing him to life in prison, i think he needed to set the record and needed to explain why he was doing something that has never been done before. think about this. this was a 15-year-old kid at the time, 17 now, who will never see the light of day again, will spend the rest of his life

behind bars. so i think that's probably why the judge did it with the understanding that it was potentially going to affect these victims. this is something that they will live with forever, the sights, the smells, the noises, the sounds of gunfire, seeing their friends dying. this is something this community will live with forever. so for the judge to do that there, i mean he was trying to be sensitive. but, you know, i was taken a little aback by that, but it was necessary perhaps given what he was about to do. >> well, you know, there is the expectation when we're talking about a minor, that some level of leniency would be afforded and extended. i think he wanted to impress on that courtroom, that defendant, that that leniency and that mercy had not been shown the children who were killed that day. shimon, really extraordinary to think about this happening yet

again in this country, and this novelty for the first time of this sentence. shimon, thank you so much. >> thanks for having me, laura. this is just in. the supreme court of the state of texas temporarily blocking a woman's emergency abortion. kate cox is 20 weeks pregnant, and she says that her unborn baby has a genetic condition with very little chance of surviving, and carrying a child to term would actually threaten her life. now, she sued to get a high-risk abortion, and a judge actually ruled in her favor. remember the medical information was provided by her own doctor. now, that is until the state's attorney general, ken paxton, threatened legal consequences and petitioned the texas supreme court to intervene in this matter. now her future and her ability to obtain her medically important, as she says, and emergency abortion is up in the air. we're going to stay on this story and bring you the very

latest. up next, trump is going to testify, expected to testify, i should say, in court on monday. you never what could happen, or will he even go off the rails? a former trump attorney joins me next to weigh in.

so we're like two days away, right after the weekend, of the former president possibly taking the stand again in his new york civil fraud trial. he's turned his trips to the courthouse, as you know, into, well, campaign stops. he's been blasting the judge. the new york attorney general. so will it be different on monday? what can we expect? we'll talk about it with the former trump attorney, tim parlatore. you know, we've seen this movie before. he testified once before. the judge was telling him to control himself. do you think it's a good idea for him to testify on monday? it's in his defense, the defense

case. >> you know, that case has devolved into such a circus anyway, i don't know that it makes any difference at this point. i mean, you know, he's going to go in and say his piece. summary judgment has already been decided. this is a damages trial, and it's a bench damages trial too. so i mean really at this point, i think the lawyers are more working on building points for an appeal than expecting anything to actually happen. >> of course if you don't raise it at the trial level, you cannot raise it on appeal. you don't get to have a first bite at the apple on appeal. but, you know, when you think about what you just said, the judge has already decided that fraud has occurred. now it's about how expensive it's going to be, whether he'll lose parts of his businesses. his attorneys have been saying, though, that he would do so against their advice. i was surprised by that statement. weren't you? >> i was. i mean, you know, look, as lawyers we sometimes disagree with our clients because we

don't go out and tell the whole world that, i advised my client of something and he disagreed. >> why? that's not about ego. >> that's about the ethical rules. you can't talk about privileged communications, and, you know, when you provide advice to a client, it's between you and the client, not between you and the cameras. it's insane. >> we're talking about a trial of showmanship. the notion that i'm telling you not to do this can ring very differently. if it were a jury, they might see this as -- how is it going to impact the ultimate decision here? >> not at all. it's not going to make any difference to the judge's decision in this trial. it could have some impact to the appeal, positive or negative, because, yes, he could build some more points for the appeal. but he could also end up hurting himself on the appeal. >> and for the other cases around him. you can imagine all the prosecutors in other jurisdictions who might be

salivating at any crack of a door opening to say, please talk more about what i can now bring in because it will come in possibly in their own trials, right? >> sure. sure. i think that this case, because it is so untethered from everything else in the other cases, it's not going to be as much for that there. but, you know, if there's any testimony that he's going to do in these other cases, it's going to have to look vastly different from this. >> i wonder will he stay on track or be derailed? tim parlatore, thank you so much for your insight. it's been a wild week in politics, and it's friday yet again. it's been wild across the country. and with things only likely to get wilder in, oh, about 333 days. that's the election day, but who's counting? so who stood out in this crazy week? joining me now is comedian matt friend to talk about who made the biggest impressions this week. matt, trump gave us a little bit of a preview of his -- >> that's true. >> yes, he did, laura.

ask the question. go ahead and do it, honey. ask the question. >> the question, i guess, former mr. president, is that the whole dictator for a plan that you unveiled just for a day. how is that going to work with the law? >> well, i will tell you what. i would be a dictator for one day. i knew mussolini. he was a great guy. we had golf last week at the great mar-a-lago. i will tell you look at the great criminals. you see al capone, a great guy. the god father was based off of me. we know the brando people. i consulted him on the role. but a dictator is a good thing. america needs it. thank you very much. china. >> the fact that it comes on that quickly. >> it does. i'm sorry. >> i close my eyes for a second and squinted like this -- b you know, it wasn't just him this week who made an impression. chris christie had quite the bone to pick with vivek ramaswamy at this week's debate

in tuscaloosa. who one that particular battle? >> there was no winner in my opinion. i just love the fact chris christie used the same tactic as with marco rubio in 2016. ron desantis is a bigger threat than a.i. america, could we take a shot every time ron desantis says, let me tell you buckle up because there's going to be a new sheriff in town. also, laura, ron desantis couldn't admit that donald trump is not fit for office. he won't even admit that his heels don't fit. i don't know what's happening h now. also, laura, what is up with republicans holding up signs in the middle of debates? >> on a white legal pad? >> on the debate against newsom, desantis holds up the map of san francisco. >> well, they say retro is in. >> that's right. >> this is called handwriting, young voters.

use this instead of our thumbs to do this. but at least maybe a yellow legal pad. i don't know. a little bit of color in the world. matt, i don't know why you do this to me every week. my cheeks hurt by the end of our conversation. >> one word of advice. i know kevin mccarthy is now out of a job. if you're looking for any advice, make sure you book a cameo from george santos. he's available. i'm sure he'll give you a lot of input. >> matt friend, a man who is not afraid to make a couple of enemies and make us laugh in the process. >> good night, everybody. i appreciate that. thank you. >> there's something wrong with you. coming up, cnn's presentation of hbo's "oveverti with bill maher.""

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well, now let's turn it over to our friends at hbo because every friday after real time with bill maher, bill and his guests answer viewer questions about topic in the national conversation. here is "overtime with bill maher." [ applause ] >> okay. we're here on cnn with the

ferguson. here are the questions that the people of america want to know of our cnn panel. you're often on the cnn panel. >> yes, i am. >> this is not new to you. what does the panel think of choosing taylor swift as "time" magazine person of the year? >> 100% for it. she totally deserves it. i'm not kidding. [ applause ] >> i mean, yeah, who can argue? it's a phenomenal year. we have not seen a year like that in show business, maybe ever. what are the panel's thoughts on hunter biden being indicted? [ laughter ] >> it just shows that equal justice under the law exists.

the president's son is going to get busted for evading taxes. he did it in a moment of grief, and that doesn't really matter because you've got to obey the law no matter whose son you are. >> it does really point up that one side does consider the law a little more seriously than the other. and the fact that they kind of compare it to trump, like hunter biden is not our hero, okay? okay. what kind of interference can we expect from russia as the 2024 election heats up? >> none needed. >> well -- [ applause ] >> actually there's a story that just came out yesterday in the uk that the u.s. was involved as well that russia is doing cyber hacking specifically with the goal of not only disrupting the election but eroding faith in

democracy itself. i think that's the larger stakes. we've seen this on tiktok, a lot of these things that go viral. you've discussed that. now, you know, you see trump losing no opportunity to praise xi in every campaign speech. donald trump loves dictators, but i think that dramatically increases the chance of interference only because people are going to want those autocratic alternatives are going to want to degrade democracy and put us on a path towards decline. >> but are we flattering ourselves in thinking that's what they need to do as opposed to sit back and watch? there was, of course, the misinformation campaign making us all get outraged and fight. it feels like that's taken on an organic life of its own. perhaps we're flattering ourselves by saying it must be interference. we've seen this in other parts of the world whenever people rise up against, you know, their leaders, and everyone says it's a conspiracy. by all means, russia will and would love to interfere. >> they are. >> i kind of wonder if these days they really need to.

this election is not looking too tight. >> we talk a lot about what experts have done to undermine their own credibility in recent years. that's a big thing russia is trying to do as well. unfortunately, they're complementing each other in the worst possible way. >> what did the panel think of vivek ramaswamy's performance at the debate this week? >> i mean i had to watch that? >> did you watch it? >> i did. >> it's not on the test, greg. if you didn't see it, it was -- >> in one answer, he managed to connect every conspiracy theory from the 21st century, from 9/11 -- >> except it was clearly a dog whistle to folks on the far right to connect 9/11, say january 6th was an inside job, to talk about the great replacement theory and saying it was the democratic party platform and to repeat 2020 election lies which are now a litmus test within the party. that symbolizes everything wrong

in our politics. it's totally disgusting. it's pathetic and it's pandering. he's done. [ applause ] >> i think also it really speaks to a level of desperation. you have to be pretty scared to start connecting more and more and more conspiracy theories together. there's got to be like a limit to where, you know, once you've had too many, then you really look like you're losing. >> that will work in pizza-gate. >> right. >> well, he did with the chris christie joke. >> really? >> well, he worked in pizza or something. didn't he say something? i mean he made a fat joke about chris christie. i just want to -- i tried to like this guy. i had him on my podcast. i had him on the show. he's a personable guy. but i just got to say youth shows itself. he kept saying the debates i watched, he kept saying it's time for a new generation, which

they all say when the young guy comes along. this just showed it's not. this generation -- >> not that guy. >> well, not that guy because it just showed, you know, my advice to him, stop. just stop. he's 38 years old. come back in 10 or 20 years and say, oh, yeah, you know what? i can't believe i did what i did when i was 38 because we can all relate to that. >> run for office, not just straight for president because you want to get famous because your idiocy is showing. >> it seems so performative. what he thinks is the republican party likes dicks. it does. with trump, it's authentic. >> now you're kind of complimenting him. is he really a dick? >> i think he's playing worse. >> that's almost worse. >> exactly. it is worse. it's almost worse.

trump can't help being a dick. [ applause ] this guy is playing one. a number of indian americans i know who are friends of mine say, bill, please tell america he does not represent us. there's nikki haley, like do i agree with everything that -- no, but could i easily live under nikki haley's america? yes, and i might even enjoy it. i don't know. >> look, this is all -- what's going to happen in the next two months between iowa and new hampshire is going to be enormously -- this is a time for choosing. republicans have one last chance to not renominate someone who tried to overturn our democracy. >> yeah, okay. jane, dublin is your hometown? >> well, new york city. >> oh. >> i come from northern ireland just north of the border. >> oh, northern ireland. >> it's complex.

>> yes. oh, i know. are the riots in dublin a sign that extremist politics are gaining a foothold in ireland? i read it but you have to explain it. >> it's pretty wild. ireland -- i mean i had to reread the story several times. it was really kind of -- it's a fomenting of a sort of very, very tiny minority that's very loud and very violent, that are basically anti-immigration, and it's all the usual populist kind of conversations. >> what started them up? wasn't it something on twitter? i refuse to call it "x." >> a lot of it comes down to, like, rumors and misinformation, but it's grounded, and so twitter is a big part of that there in this case. >> twitter is better isn't it? i feel like it's so much -- i

refuse to call it x, formerly twitter. >> x used to be a drug. >> i'm also going to call kanye kanye. >> the irish thing, though, honestly the thing that concerns me is that whenever you start having a pretty sort of violent, extremely right-wing riot in ireland, i mean this is just -- this is unprecedented. >> we've had them here. >> yeah. never in ireland. ireland is so antithetical to everything we know about -- ireland was the first country to, by popular vote, legalize gay marriage, you know. ireland is one of the most liberal places -- >> kind of late in the game, though. >> a lot has changed. >> what year was that? >> that was 15 years ago, 10 years ago. >> that's kind of late in the game. >> raise a glass to shane macgowan, by the way, speaking of ireland. >> to ban hate speech in

ireland, that got passed recently. we see the same thing going on in france, and they can't seem to understand that they pass these anti-semitism laws in the '90s and somehow anti-semitism got worse. that's because you told the anti-semites they could only talk to anti-semites. what did you expect to happen? >> this is the same thing on kw college campuses. we need to get especially students on campus, make them sit down and talk. make them debate. make them say this to each other's face. >> this is one of the most important thing your show is doing right now is defining liberal values and saying we need to stand up against liberalism on the left as well as on the right. [ applause ] >> well said. thank you, everybody. we'll see you next week for our season finale. [ applause ]

>> you can watch "real time with bill maher" on friday nights on hbo at 10:00 p.m. and then watch "overtime" right here on cnn friday nights at 11:30. up next, anderson cooper joins me to talk about his podcast "all there is," where he sat down with president biden in an emotional conversation about grief and loss.

hunter biden facing nine criminal charges in a new federal tax case against him. it's the second criminal case brought by special counsel david weiss. a proposed plea deal to resolve the case dramatically fell apart back in july. it's raising a lot of questions about what it could mean for his father's re-election campaign. anderson cooper briefly sat down with president biden for his podcast "all there is," where the president talks about how the loss of his wife and daughter i impacted hihis relationship with his sons. >> i remember riding. we were in the car.

hunter was, i guess, 5 years old, 6 years old, and we're riding along, and the top was down. in those days, you could put a kid in your >> i remember those days. it was crazy. >> we stopped at a stop sign, and we were in the country. he looked up and looked out at these cows around grazing. and he said, daddy, i love you more than the whole sky, the whole sk you know, i get home, and they could tell too when i was down. they'd just be there. >> in your book, your last book, on the back page was a beautiful photo of when he was 8 or 9, and he's turning and he's waving to the camera. you said somewhere that that's the age you always see him in your mind's eye. i'm wondering is that still true? >> yeah, it is.

he had a small on his face, and he was waving and walking into the garden. and, look, beau u and hunt, the finished each other's sentences. they were the closest they could possibly be. i think the loss of beau was a profound, profound impact on hunter. >> cnn's anderson cooper joins me now. anderson, i mean just hearing it, you can't help but sort of clutch your heart when you hear this exchange and about in the voice of president biden, the love, the loss. when he talks about his son, beau, and talking about his love for hunter as well, he shared so much with you in this podcast. i just wonder what did you take away from the story about his resilience, about his grief and what he's going through? >> yeah, i think, you know, what really comes across in this interview is the extent to which it is his son, his daughter, his

grandchildren which have gotten him through the grief he has experienced. i mean from when his wife and 13-month-old daughter, naomi, were killed in a car crash. hunter and beau were very little as well. they were badly injured. but his concern for them and being there for them is what pulled him through those early months of grief. and now in the wake of the death of his son, beau, it's his relationship with his family members, with hunter, with his daughter, ashley, and the grandchildren that has really become the bedrock of his life. >> it's such an important point. just thinking about the ties that bind and this connective tissue that your podcast really explores is so just heartwarming in some respects. it makes people feel less alone in what they're going through to have the president speak about it, to have you speak about it, to have so many people talk about the process of all of

this. it's just so important. and really, you know, i think i'm already on the verge of tears, and i feel like on sunday i'm going to be co-hosting my first time "heroes" with you. i'm so excited. i feel like just the heartfelt emotion that goes behind the work that they're doing to just make the world better, i hope you bring some tissues for me. what am i going to expect? >> i think the cool thing about heroes, as you know, is these are people who don't actually have money or resources or access to power, but they saw needs in their community. and like many of us think, oh, i wish i could do something about x, y, or z, they actually did it. they rolled up their sleeves and they opened up their home or whatever it is. they just go in and start doing stuff. sometimes they start off really small. this is an opportunity to really give them global recognition and get them resources and for everybody to be inspired by their work. >> hey, thanks, anderson. be sure to tune in this sunday at 8:00 p.m. for "cnn heroes: an

all-star tribute." here's a sneak peek of what you can expect. >> sunday on cnn -- >> we provide bilingual education for migrant and refugee children at the u.s./mexico border. >> support the extraordinary people making a difference in our world. >> we are rebuilding the qualities here in the florida keys. >> i'm going to ensure that people in ghana have access to health care. >> i see a pet in need and a person who cares for them dearly. >> trauma can be a pathway for growth. >> we install a friendly reading space in the barbershop. >> we are all connected because of the experience of having an incarcerated parent. >> i don't want to be defined as a victim of my circumstances. >> i do want to make sure they get all the attention and love that they deserve. >> cnn heroes, an all-star

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i want to talk to you about a different kind of superhero. his name is peter park. no, not peter parker. just peter park. he's not even old enough to vote or to have a drink, but he can now officially hold up the law as a practicing deputy district attorney in california. the 17-year-old -- yes, 17 -- is now the youngest person to pass the state's bar in history.

he started high school at just the age of 13 and completed college-level pro-efficiency exams. then he of course focused on law school, graduating this year. park said, quote, it was not easy, but it was worth it. well, that's one way to put it. congratulations. thank you all for watching. our coverage continues.

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