yalda safai. fascinating.se we are mark earlier today on fox and he said this vik i want to see if you agree or disagree. >> it's not the aren't pa's school, it's the school's school and they allowed him to return to the class. so obviously they didn't share the same concerns that the jury apparently thought the parents should have had. >> trace: so he's saying if the school is not being held libel, why should the parents bee held libel? do you agree with the decision or not vik. >> absolutely not. the criminal offenses in every state in the union require a union between the state of mind, what a person is thinking, and the act, what they do. a general liability couched in those terms is fatal. it will not hold water because there's no union of a mental state of mind which further the crime. in direct comparison with an individual who knows or should have known of a specific danger but takes no action to prevent it. it's apples and oranges trace. >> trace: really is amazing which brings us to yalda safai talki

houman hemmati and congressman yalda safai. dr.n hemmati the point of denying the biological fact for inclusivity i don't get it. do you? is there a reason we should be paying closer attention to this. >> i don't think nsf should be funding things that are political or ideological or social and that is an issue that is not necessarily a scientific one it's one that is rooted in social constructs, right? doesn't mean you don't have respect for students who identify with a different gender at all. >> trace: no. >> you can respect them completely and acknowledge whatever they believe is their own truth while at the same time saying that science is science and i think the nsf's job is to fund actual scientific research rather than going down the political or social lines which is what appears is happening. >> trace: it's amazing to me because this was the administration dr. safai that said again and again we have to follow the science all we do is follow the science and now we don't appear to be following the science, denying there's o