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Judge Roy Moore participates in the Mid-Alabama Republican Club's Veterans Day Program in Vestavia Hills, Alabama, U.S. November 11, 2017.
Judge Roy Moore participates in the Mid-Alabama Republican Club's Veterans Day Program in Vestavia Hills, Alabama, U.S. November 11, 2017. | (Photo: Reuters/Marvin Gentry)

Moore's lawyer Trenton Garmon recently went on MSNBC Live With Velshi & Ruhle last week, and attempted to justify the argument that Moore did nothing wrong because he asked the parents for permission to date the teenage girls.

Garmon called it cultural difference, and then said that he "looked up [Ali Velshi's] background" before adding that in "other countries, there's arrangement through parents for what we would refer to as consensual marriage."

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Co-anchor Stephanie Ruhle asked what Velshi's background had to do with Moore dating teenagers, pointing out that Velshi, while born in Kenya was raised in Canada.

"To answer your question: [Moore] said ... his process would be — before he'd date anybody, whether they're 25, 35, or whether he doesn't know their age — he would ask the mother's permission," added Garmon.

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