issue. border security, immigration reform is critical. i'm a proud son of immigrants and also proud to be the son appends the work incredibly hard, pay their taxes. and the legislature i prioritize public safety but it's an issue that we have to solve now and this immigration crisis is only going to be solved will be a bipartisan solutions that are making it easier for us to stop the four fentanyl, to stop human trafficking, and there was a bill, there was a bill and use senate, a vipers and build but by a republican u.s. senator that could have been passed right now. and if it would've passed it would've been one of the most fundamental steps forward in border security supported by border patrol agents. but it's republicans in congress that stop this. donald trump told every single republican, take away the

solutions to solving our border crisis. because it's going to hurt my election. what did every single member of congress to? they did work to try to bring that bipartisan bill to the floor. if they did it would've passed. they sat on their hands. congressman bacon didn't try to tell the speaker of the house to bring this to the four either. he could have. republicans are the ones standing and away of real border control and border security measures and immigration reform. >> congressman, and it desperate first of all i want to address the previous question. what is uncivil is lying. i have an obligation to correct the record when my opponent lies when he talks about saying i want to defund the police. i voted against middle-class taxes and i have an obligation to speak up. he provides no meat, just throws out with no specific bill or individuals and donors. i do. i backup my comments. but lying is what's whatl and i got to come back from the leadership of the police

department saw a state senator leading his rights as a washing as they completing the yells against more others were throwing rocks at our pleas. more police were injured during the summer rights but tony, tony backing of those protesters that were injured on generous six in washington, d.c. washington, d.c. let's talk about the border. under president trump with 2500 folks a day on average across our border under president obama visiting fit over a thousand was emergency under trouble 2500 joe biden when is running said, he welcomed everybody to come. went up to 10,000 a day. the bill tooth tiger and want to get it back to 5000 a day. that's not good enough. we've got to do better than 5000 a day. a lot of the things the administration is doing is what president trump was doing with executive order that biden always has in his reach do but refuse to do it until it was election time. i got to come back to sleep tony has never said the word border

until about a a month and half ago. he's had a new word in his vocabulary as he's trying to win the election. >> thanks. the question is what's we can westerlies be change? center, 45 seconds to address that. >> border security is critical and is important. democrats are the ones now that are compromising on this. what you saw in u.s. senate was a compromise bill that got killed by donald trump. when donald trump tells members of congress like don bacon what to do, they say what do you need me to do? this is the fundamental problem right now what we're seeing in our country. when i am working on issues voting for $6 billion worth of tax cuts, when i tried to not only fund our law enforcement at a public safety, it's because i care about your safety and your pocketbook. when there's a a real bipartin solution on the ground in congress, congressman bacon just avoids it doesn't do anything about it.

>> congressman cotton 45 second seconds. >> under president trump we average 2500 a day coming illegally. under the built in to send the compromise bill quote was going to be 5000 a day. many american that's not good enough. people can disagree. tony may be good with 5000 a day. i want more legal immigration, lest illegal immigration or tony talks about leadership. let's forget the former president he campaigned against me to discover i had a primary this primary people said i wasn't trumpet enough or not magazine update now he sang just the opposite. i have been rated the most effective and most bipartisan republican in congress. that's because it do what's right for this district, what's right for a country just like i did 30 years serving in military defending our country. >> next question comes from julie. >> we touched on this, please give us details. we seen the ads for mig about allegations that were you both stand on abortion. so right now what is your exact

stance on when it is acceptable for women to have an abortion, and how has your voting record and in the proposed legislation supported that stance. >> was congressman bacon, and it has. >> i'm going to support the nebraska law. the nebraska lands restriction on abortion at three months. by the way but i talked to folks i was doing door-to-door a couple times sweet, pro-choice three months is right because there's a science better tony talks up signs. most people see the signs of a heart beat, two u and two legs and at some point they know so right. i'm going to support the nebraska law. three month restriction as of the exceptions for health of the mother so if any health issues pop up, doctors have every right to work with the mother and do whatever is right for that mom. but also for rape and incest as well. i think the unicameral without tony's help i think they came up with a good balance, a consensus

for most nebraska and are added. so julie ongoing to supporting this legislation, , going to voe for the and i got to point out, in contrast for my opponent is at, he's been asked dozens and dozens of times what restrictions would he take. is it nine months? eight months? seven months? he is never able to give a restriction for healthy month and healthy baby. in fact, he is clearly an abortion up until birth. if you look at the what most countries are going where nebraska is at. most european countries are real from us right now. only seven country in world show the radical views of tony vargas when it comes to your restrictions. even a day before birth. >> thank you. look, i was a former public public site schoolteacher. i trained stem teacher trainers and it worked in education for years. this is a very personal issue

because i have a five-year-old daughter. and when the decision got overturned, it was incredibly hard for my family. first off i saw my daughter realize realized that she had fewer rights than my wife. i realize it wasn't just my daughter. this was every single woman across the state of nebraska come across this country we are going to how to navigate the this. i believe in restoring roe v. wade. that's what i'm going to do when i'm in congress. but also need to make sure i fight back against individuals like congressman bacon is not a physician and believes he can do people like my daughter when she can and cannot do with her body. and he is very much hiking and changing his position on this. otherwise, why would he have cosponsored full abortion ban in the constitution three different times? he was the original cosponsor of the life at conception asked. google. we see you will not only see coverage of news of this before

abortion ban with no exceptions for the life of the mother or rape or incest. he's voted against protecting contraception access and even right now he is going to do everything he possibly can when he has the opportunity to tell women what they can and cannot do with their bodies. >> congressman, 45 seconds per particularly on the const perception that total baloney. a lot of women are also pro-life. my wife is the mayor of omaha our senator is. there are many women who are leaders in a pro-life movement and we should make that clear. i been working with pro-life causes my whole life. i was a christian. i believe we're made in his image. i've worked in foster care. i felt young mothers. my wife is been a leader on this and i'm so grateful to her. tony, you're a science teacher. when does a beta of any rights? doesn't hate month old baby

unborn being of rights? does a nine-month unborn baby of rights? i healthy mom and healthy baby? at some point most people in the world have said they do. most of the world is coming to what we are at, are policies in nebraska. >> senator, 45 seconds. >> when congressman bacon cosponsored a full abortion ban in the constitution, he is desperately trying to hide his position on this. in his world there's no exceptions whatsoever for the life of the mother, for rate or incest. you may hear him say he believes that now, but the truth is his cosponsorship three different times of this tells the real story and how extreme he is. we can't believe in when it's his own name on these bills. it's his own and he put on it three different times. it's no surprise the same authors of project went with fun we said he's not going to read but their same donors of his in this document for apportionment in the constitution is part of

their main priorities. where to stop don bacon and other republicans from enacting the. >> next question comes from bill. >> artificial intelligence, address and i come just in the public sector and in advertising. other states are passing the eye laws. there's a concern some and that this will deter patchwork of laws that could crush use of it in interstate commerce. what legislation which is bored in congress when it comes to artificial intelligence? >> senator, a minute and have. >> one, this is our real issue. it's all a a partisan issue we should be working on. i've worked in the the legie on issues of time to do with how ai is impacting our day-to-day work we've been part of committee hearings and studies and his clue we do need a framework of law in congress to make sure we are reacting, actually try to be responsible

as possible to this policy issue. because it is very quickly developing. doesn't matter if you're using ai now in the work you are doing or using ai through social media for for something that you are potentially working on on your personal life. and i is basically within her hands come within our phones. but it also concerned because we're seeing these deepfakes, seeing it in politics. people trying to impersonate other individuals and also the concern of ai i have is making sure we're also advancing technology but also making sure we're generating the kind of jobs that lead in this sector and also protecting the kind of jobs and a lot of labor and you need job so we make sure we're not going too fast too quick. it's clear to me there's more that can be done. we need a framework, policy framework that has been working in an with ai companies and

individuals, both sides can come to the table. this is what i want to work on. >> congressman, a minute and a. >> i want to touch but on the previous question since i had to correct the record once again. the bill is referring s mention the word abortion in it. it's a statement of principle that the unborn child has rights. i say most of us do, agree with that at some point, right? secondly, for a person makes this number one issue of abortin on demand stillbirth, he had a chance about a bill in 2020 on 2020 on abortion, he voted present not voting. 20% of the time he does not vote. he says he's from the working-class poor working-class people get fired what it don't show up of the ai, and the cyber operations subcommittee chairman or i'd been that way for about three months now. i have a cyber offense and defense for the military. i also have the ai portfolio and electronic warfare portfolio. the big thing when you do you are now as a government is not

get in the wake of industry. we got the industry working on this and finding the discoveries come during the program it, doing the quantum computing because we get in front of that and hinder it and china gets his first they can break all of our codes. whoever gets ai first address into the golan will be a significant advantage to any conflict. i also think we have to protect against the deepfakes. we can someone misrepresent someone and making up a total fabricated story. this should be legislation to protect against that. >> the question is what legislation would you support on ai? that issue, what legislation would you support? center, 45 seconds. >> i i will work on legislation that addresses not only the deepfakes, we can agree on that, and also working in had to make sure their better protections for youth, better protections under social media apps. we have to do a lot more.

.. why would the department -- we can't agree on the stuff putting the base and image on a more portly and this is where i have

a huge role, they have to able to do it more quickly. right now it's a four or five year process from commercial companies in silicon valley, it's got to be able to become that year so we get the latest technology and helps fund a.i. research and right now too difficult for here technologies. >> next question from julie mack with longer life expectancy and working-class families finding themselves raising multigenerational families. millennial's, gen x caring for their parents.

>> is a blessing to take care of our parents. so honored to have her mom with us at 88 years old, it's something i believe for all of us. when it comes to aging society what i worry about is social security and medicare. the average person on social security will lose 21% of their benefits. medicare be 3611% so neatly gone. i support the commission have republican and democrat. we got to sit down and bipartisan -- how do we save medicare and balance the budget? they that nobody wants to tackle so we got to sit down and make it bipartisan.

we'll have to sit down in room and work with/50 wins and losses on both sides. leaders deal with it. >> , father can we talk about childcare and aging population. we've been able to do everything we can to make sure we invest more into it. childcare is very important to me. my wife and i tried to figure out how to make ends meet and

this sector is incredibly hard. he has not. they have endorsed me and raise the cap so more people can pay their fair share, i want to make sure we are protecting social security and medicare and invest in childcare so it's easier to be able to get by. his exact words were yes, it tells me he's not prioritizing

for everyday middle class and hold them accountable. >> aca had the existing. they put out a new bill and support. it is a way can get a bipartisan calendar bill passed. that's why we have all these ads did leave and bipartisan for

this. it has enough reading for the national education association. these americans holding accountable, individuals say they care about childcare and working and middle-class. the final question and for the sense of timing, one minute to answer the questions for 32nd rebuttal.

>> we have accusations, we heard each of you say there are lots of character. we want to know what you think your opponent is doing right. >> two things. it's important we have more opportunities for served and are military. i think that is important and i hope more people will consider that. something we need to make sure we are in the hallmark republicans and democrats alike for the engagement and solve problems.

>> been working this for a years and the fact that they noted the i have shown courage of this issue. the camera. you voted presence with the 20% failed to vote. i love how we watched from a father that cares for the children and i appreciate that. my father four, three are married. i love my eight grandchildren and i love their personality.

i can see the love toward his two children. >> appreciate you knowledge and not only to be a good father but a good husband. i want to make it clear that has nothing to do with the discussion. and he tears them down. >> what is the really uncivil thing?

and the endorse me at one 100%. >> now we move the closing payment. >> i want to thank the distinguished panel. my parents came here with little to nothing helping your community in the middle class is something we.

prioritizing spilling with the tax cuts money in your pockets did it because there's the right thing to do and was named taxpayer defender because of probably party. it matters who is presenting us and it was clear to me the independence and burn donald trump's endorsement within a couple of weeks. when he took 6 million worth of donations, 80000 against bipartisan legislation taking so much from insurance companies

voting against flowing and 700,000. finally hiding from this abortion stance with no exception of full abortion ban cosponsoring three different times, it seems like you) sponsorship and be to hold them accountable this november. >> this is a great american tradition. i talked about experience, two years of teaching purses the most senior levels but just as importantly for issues and results. the economy, the border and crime. all three issues the voters favor my positions and impose the inflationary spending that

resulted in 4.2% and income or value for every american. the comes to the border, he never mentioned the border at all. i voted for the strongest border security possible. by the people on the streets which decreases crime against americans and having a full-time. the most effective republican congress.

what does it result in? 5 billion in infrastructure. i ask for your vote tonight in the second district of nebraska. >> we want to thank the candidate for their willingness to participate in this debate. inflating a healthy democracy for all. >> c-span traveled to nebraska

to learn about how the state splits its five electoral votes. we spoke with fred knapp at the state capitol on how the second congressional districts single electoral vote could play a role in the 2020 four presidential election. fred knapp: nebraska is one of only two states that divides its electoral votes in part due to a congressional district. you get to votes for carrying the state as a whole and each of the three congressional districts gets its own separate vote. there is an electoral college rope up for grabs in a closely divided district and people try to get it. since the system was changed in 1991 there have been eight residential elections and insects the same person that carried the state as a whole carried the second congressional district and that was for the republicans. but in 2008, barack obama won

this omaha area in the second district and in 2020, joe biden won. this bill passed in spite of the fact that republicans donated the legislature in half. it is truly i partisan or used to be. when the bill passed, it passed with a sprinkling of republican votes though it arguably would disadvantage them by creating a contested electoral college district. an interesting side note is that when it was being advanced through the legislature, there was one day when the republican speaker of the legislature voted with the democratic sponsor or cosponsor of the legislation because, as a gesture of congeniality, where one of her republican can -- colleagues that had supported her was missing that day so someone stood up to vote for it.