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from washington tonight. trial by error. that's the focus of tonight's angle. ♪ they might be asking why is public trust in the american judicial system declining? well, it's not simply the blm propaganda, flooding our schools, our universities, that's told young people that disproportionate kin car ration of african-americans equals racism. it's not just that respect for our justice system is also cratering due to democrats' crusade both against trump and against traditional americans in general. now, for the most egregious example, look no further than trump's civil trial in new york brought by trump hating activist letitia james. judge arthur engram who looks like any random legal panelist on msnbc. he went so far as to mock trump's phrase about the perfect phone call. even using air quotes as he said

it. now a conversation with the president. let me get this right. a conversation that the president had with zelenskyy is somehow fair game for a fraud trial that deals with actions years ago? look, i saw this and thought nobody will be surprised by. this this guy is a lefty going back to his days an anti vietnam war protester. we all know what is going on here. no case like this has ever been brought in new york overvaluing assets and they are bringing it now only to try to break trump financially. we know it trump never ran for president they never would have targeted him. never would is happened, prim that fascia pork here. the media has made it very clear to any democrat in the doj or the d.a.'s office around the country. joe biden's political opponents by any means a lot application

of the law. that's why they there are no cries for prosecuting those pro-hamas nut bags who damaged white house property and historic monuments last weekend. now, imagine, if it had been conservative protesters who tried to scale the white house fence, or who splattered paint on the gates, think of the resources that would have been devoted to arresting every last suspect. well, we already have a pretty good idea, don't we of how they handled protests that they don't approve of? they do things like carry out early morning raids on the homes of elderly january 6th suspects who committed no acts of violence. >> and 6:00 in the morning i hear boom, boom, boom, boom. fbi, open the door. open the door or we'll knock it down. one was pointing an assault rifle at my head, about four feet away. said please step outside. i stepped outside. they handcuffed me. i said what is this about? they said search warrant. they never produced one.

they never showed it. >> 9:00 in the morning, i am on my bed, doing my emails, which i usually do. i can hear some ruckus going on in the other room. i'm curious, so i get up, come around the corner, and i hear somebody barking hands up, fbi. they proceeded to handcuff me. gave me no reasons why. no search warrant. god forbid they present a search warrant. >> laura: they also launched a massive made for tv manhunt. this happens almost after two years after january 6th. >> the fbi says they arrested a january 6th defendant after a major policeman hunt? >> yeah. that's right. he was a knowledge national guard member who was charged with felonies in connection with the january 6th attack. he was there at the at that point toll. gregory is his name. when the fbi went to arrest him he fled and there was a massive manhunt in new jersey. >> laura: how many times can they say massive manhunt. okay, this week, just to give you a sense of the resources spent. federal, state and local law

enforcement, yeah, huge resources were used in this attempt to arrest this former new jersey national guardsman wanted for allegedly picking up a can of pepper spray and using it against capitol police and other protesters. this guy gregory yetman, 46 years of age turned himself in without incident. the fbi made its point, didn't it? and by the way this was all done to arrest an individual who hot local mayor said was no threat to the community. which begs the question. why did they need to deploy swat teams, police canines, calling the helicopters, road blocks, all of that? why did they need to do that? well, many americans get it, right? they see it for what it is. this is a two-tiered system of justice. arresting this guy was such a big display of force is a message to all of you. not worth attending a rally, any kind of rally. now, was it in any way proportional that the head of the proud boys who wasn't even at the capitol on january 6th

was handed a sentence of 22 years in federal prison? the prosecutors said that the sentence was no, i do not deter others who were, quote: unhappy with the results of future elections. huh. well, how many fentanyl drug dealers whose pills have killed people get that kind of sentence? just last month, the dealer linked to the deadly pill sold to actor michael k. williams, he got a measly 5 years in federal prison. five years for selling a deadly drug that killed man so why have gang members. we have drug dealers, rapists, child molesters, murderers and, perhaps, each terrorists who have crossed our southern border. and, yet, the biden administration they don't seem to care about that. >> there is 280-something people on the terrorist watch list. are they out of the country or are they in the country? >> senator, they very well may be out of the country. >> but you don't know.

>> laura: but they know where those january 6th people are i mean, they don't care about the border crossers because that narrative is bad for them, politically. yet, not so with the january 6th cases because they are key to biden's campaign. thus, the doj is still expending massive resources on those cases. >> they have seen about 1,200 cases thus far. 1,000 other people have been identified. on top of that a thousand others who aren't identified yet who could face charges. the statute of limitations expires in early 2026. >> laura: look, as long as the democrats think that this helps them politically, they are going to keep this charade going. when true threats to society run free. this simply makes us trust them less, though. if that's possible at this point. and that's the angle. joining me now is mike davis, founder of the article iii project and former clerk for justice gorsuch, also with me is sol wisenberg former deputy

independent counsel and fox news contributor. mike, want to start with you. let's get back to this judge in new york. i think he actually is doing the public a favor in a way. and maybe trump, just revealing how biased not only he is but this entire case being brought against president trump. because, if it's covered at all, i think most people see what's going on here. >> first, i want to commend congresswoman elise stefanik. she filed an ethics complaint against this judge today. because he is blatantly biased and he has horrific judicial temperament. and it's very clear that between this democrat attorney general tish james and this democrat judge engoron, they are railroading president trump in new york and they are going to try to bankrupt him and destroy his business and this is part of the democrats' lawfare and election interference. >> laura: sol, you called the proceeding clownish. explain that for us.

>> well, the proceeding is clownish because the judge is a clown. he is obviously biased. look, laura i want your viewers to understand. this this is the absolute truth. this case never would have even been brought against anybody other than donald trump. you have no victim. you have no loss. the loans were repaid. the banks never complained about any of this. it is an example -- what they are doing to trump is what they accuse trump for four years of wanting to do. they are doing totally political prosecutions. so, i don't know what else can be said about it. it's truly -- it's truly outrageous. >> laura: well, mike, when you hear him quoting the perfect phone call. has nothing to do with the case.

i mean, he was reaching for that. he was looking for a moment, i guess, to be quoted. he seems proud, totally proud of his bias against president trump. and even the other day he said i have heard enough from you. i have heard enough from the defendant. okay, on the stand. okay. that is cool. >> yeah, this judge is a democrat activist. he is a democrat operative, so is his law clerk. this is outlined in stefanik's complaints. this judge started these proceedings by grinning for the cameras. he ruled against president trump. entered summary judgment against president trump before the trial even began. he is holding this show trial and is he clearly going to rule against president trump and unfortunately it looks like judges in new york, such democrat operatives that it looks like the supreme court of the united states may have to step in because president trump is getting railroaded. >> sol, letitia james feels the

need to, as the prosecutor, walk out and make comments. pretty much every day. i mean, can you kind of understand trump doing it, but she goes out and she does her little -- her little, you know, her little speech and so she decided to, you know, kind of take after ivanka this week and she said she was clearly involved in negotiating and securing loans, favorable loans for the benefit of the trump organization. for trump and her brothers and herself. almost making the case now about ivanka. i guess she wants the celebrity angle. >> totally inappropriate to do that to somebody who is only a witness. just -- i can't stress enough how inappropriate it is. it's quite -- it's quite a circus. she has gone well beyond -- letitia james far beyond fair comment or fair response to some of the things former president trump has said. and anybody who knows the legal system and is looking at this knows how ridiculous this is.

again, these are sophisticated banks that are the supposed victims here that never complained to anybody. they could have set any interest rate they wanted. that's one of their big theories that he got a better interest rate because of supposedly false statements. these people aren't idiots. they could have charged him any interest rate they wanted to. again, it's a farce. >> laura: mike, a question about what we learned today that judge a lien cannon in another trump case denied his request to move that classified docs trial until after the 24 election. but she did say she would reconsider the case schedule early next year so i guess they can make, what, another motion or she is just going to reconsider the same motion early next year? >> well, i think it's going to depend on how quickly the biden justice department can get president trump the records that any defendant is entitled to have in a case. and, remember, this is all part

of democrat lawfare against president trump. they impeached him twice for nonsense. they indicted him four times for noncrimes. they are trying to bankrupt his business in new york. and now trying to throw a legal hail mary and take him off the ballots. they fear president trump is going to beat biden like a donald trump on november 5th, 2024. they are doing anything they can to stop him. >> laura: all right, gentlemen, great to see both of you. thank you so much. the democrats thought they had a good week. right? we are going to explain how it all went way off the rails and what it means for 2024. stay there. ♪ if we want a more viable future for our kids, we need to find more sustainable ways of doing things. america's plastic makers are investing billions of dollars in new technologies and creating plastic products that are more recyclable. durable. and dependable. our goal is a cleaner, healthier planet for generations to come.

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hour lawyer what a whirlwind couple of days for the democrats. mood has been all over the place kind of a whiplash of emotions. after their wins in kentucky and virginia and ohio, msnbc panels were oozing excitement. liberals were proclaiming biden is back, baby. campaign officials said we're golden now. now you can almost feel the heart palpitations because third party challengers aren't dropping into the race. more are jumping in. >> not just bobby kennedy jr. and joe manchin. it's cornel west and jill stein.

that takes the potential threshold of third party candidates to an unprecedented level. >> you have two third party challengers that get in the ballot in many of these really, really tight states, it could cause a problem for the president. >> when you do the electoral math, what happens more often than not with a no labels candidacy is that donald trump gets elected to the white house. >> there will be no country if we don't have historic and epic voting in 2024. >> laura: doug is scared. and those fears are not without merit though because, first, in 2020, just 44,000 votes in georgia, arizona and wisconsin. 44,000 separated biden and trump from a i do in the electoral college. and, second, money is pouring in from rich donors who think biden is on the brink. and i'm not talking brink of victory. >> manchin is affiliated with a group called no labels that is exploring a centrist unity ticket in 2024. they are already on the presidential ballot in 12

states, including several key battle grounds. former house speaker nancy pelosi has called no labels perilous to democracy. biden has called their efforts a mistake. >> laura: i bet. these from the folks at puck. some are whispering about the brokered convention next summer when biden could be convinced by party leaders, people he respects like obama, clyburn, nancy pelosi to step down if his numbers are still dismal. i don't think that's going to happen. but i say if these folks are too pessimistic, joe biden i think is he getting warmed up. i'm looking in the positive side here. there's a lot of good news out there like he is almost able to dress himself. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪

>> laura: that's the guy who is going to be sitting across the table from china's president xi jinping in less than a week. and all indications are that biden is preparing to begin a new era of capitulation. excuse me. cooperation. with china. now, we know the complicated negotiations have basically been done by biden's crack negotiators over the past six months or so, he is just there for the photo op. but we know this. what's going to come out of this will be good for china and terrible for us. because with biden poised to give up key u.s. leverage, probably the major tariffs on chinese imports, xi knows that he can promise and never deliver we're going to help you joe on climate change. is china prepared to blow up the new coal fire plants they built over the last few years? it will never happen. they will dominate ev manufacturing and put our car companies out of business.

>> they will do that. joining me now is elbridge colby former secretary of defense under president trump. all right, elbridge, 76% of america thinks we are going in the wrong direction. that's the new "new york times" poll. most americans think biden is too old to be president. but his team is going to determine policy with china that could have profound effects, negative effects on american life for decades to come, right? >> absolutely. and, laura, it's actually interesting, three polls by the "new york times," by bloomberg and cnn, all found also that americans significantly don't trust the president on national security. and i mean, there was an article a couple weeks ago saying that the biden team was going to run the re-election campaign on foreign policy. i'm thinking to myself well, you have got a stalemated war in ukraine according to the ukrainian chief of defense. could be going in russia's favor, if we're not lucky. a big war in the middle east that could expand north korea's icbm and the chinese are still

going gang busters on military. you are going to run on that. this also a not been successful. >> laura: meanwhile, china is up to no good as usual in the manufacturing sector with its unfair trade practices and, again, a lot of people on a friday night wouldn't be talking about this but it really is important. it effects pretty much everything that is delivered to us here in the united states. so, they are dumping that you will excess capacity they have. they are ramping up their factory output and dumping it in europe and dumping it in the united sunited states and everys launching investigations into the these unfair trade practices. europe is worried that their car industry is going to get swamped by all this excess product. now, what is the real goal of china here elbridge? is it to get rid of excess capacity or dominate these sectors, ultimately? >> well, the short-term thing may to be get rid of excess

capacity. chinese have been pursuing for generations to hollow out the industrial sector of their competitors, above all the united states, which is what has happened. the administration may be saying that they don't want to decouple and they want to keep us in this position of dependency and vulnerability. the chinese are decoupling and the chinese have developed leverage. they have 200 times the ship building. it tells you the state of our industrial base advice have a i have china. >> the bottom line i think for a lot of us, we are seeing america tilt back to the middle east. not that there is not important things happening there. there are a lot of important things, tilting back maybe disproportionately to the middle east and essentially giving asia, for all intents and purposes to xi. i mean, you kind of feel the priority, you know, shift happening if there ever was a priority on asia. >> i mean, i don't think there was really a priority, but i

think it's as clear as day now the "new york times" has reported today that asian leaders are starting to get nervous. it's about time. we have been talking about this for two years in the ukraine context. now there is a middle east thing. obviously that's where the attention is going. blink and austin making a little three-point quote reassure the asian allies, obviously the political capital, the money, we have dug ourselves a deep hole in the ukraine conflict and now in deep also in the middle east. i thought it was so telling that the president did not each mention china in his second oval office address that he said was this huge thing and he didn't even mention china. what does that say, laura? they are -- they are close to sort of begging china for something and they are going to ask china's help, for instance, to restrain the iranians? you were exactly right earlier. this is fundamentally a rivalry between two great powers. chinese ain't going to do us any favors. look, even the "wall street journal" was reporting this is the news section there is a meeting xi jinping has not changed his fundamental view that the united states is

existential threat. we can be sure we are not -- they are not going to do us any favors. >> laura: he is not moving toward us, we are moving toward him. eldridge, you and i have been way ahead the curve on this. that's why i love having you on. thank you so much. emotions are swirling after tuesday's elections and t the attacks against ronna mcdaniel are mounting. she is here next. she will explain how she going to bring victory. that's next. ♪

iran, if you want to come on stage tonight and look the g.o.p. voters and resign i will yield my time to you. >> joining me now ronna mcdaniel, chairwoman of the republican national committee. ronna, thank you so much for being with us. vivek and others are saying that under your leadership, republicans have lost election

after election and positing the question why should you retain your job given the track record of the party under your leadership and to that what do you say? >> first, i'm going to continue to focus on joe biden and democrats. i think there was a moment missed during that debate by vivek to talk about the fact that we still have 13 american hostages in israel. the fact that for the first time ever in the history of either party we had a jewish co-sponsor for a debate. and we are in very perilous times in our country. and i do think republican voters and i hear this echoed all the time are tired of the circular firing squad within our party and they are saying can we please talk about joe biden and the democrats and the border and fentanyl and crime and what is happening to our kids? and inflation? but i will definitely defend my record as chair. listen, the rnc -- >> laura: i agree with you. i mean, all that -- all that you

just said, i couldn't agree with more. but, and you are right. obviously, that should be a key focus. but, i know you believe in accountability. you talk about it all the time. i mean, everyone. >> laura: that's why i asked you and you went into another conversation. >> i'm sorry, i took too long on the answer but i was getting there i'm not trying to avoid anything. let me promise you that, laura. listen, when vivek didn't vote in 2016, i was leading michigan to the first win in history in 30 years. 2018 we defied the odds. we got three senators people like josh hawley that allowed president trump to build the largest conservative majority on the supreme court. 2022 the rnc, which is turnout machine, right? we're not the messengers. we don't create the messages for the campaign. consultants get very well paid. >> laura: one other thing, ronna that happened i think in virginia people were wondering where the money was, whether they were going to get some help from the rnc and i know at one point you said that you were not

asked for money in virginia but a source -- republican source familiar with the youngkin team in virginia told the angle late tonight that that is false and their, your story keeps changing. anyone thinks virginia republicans didn't want to help when we knew would be outspent isn't serious. they were outspent by $8 million. >> glenn youngkin did a phenomenal job and he raised a lot of money. a lot of people don't understand fundraising. i can't raise state dollars. i don't get unlimited convention and state dollars. and these were state house and state senate races the rnc federal committee. so, come on. can you just -- these are people who come after me all the time. they're on twitter. they are all the time. and let's see their results? what did they do in virginia? how much money did they give? let me stand by something else. in 2022, we took back the house. >> laura: ronna, we got to roll. >> and we're launching bank your vote. >> laura: we got to roll. thank you for joining us

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dissatisfaction within constituency. according to a new abc news ipsos poll a vast majority of americans, 76% say the country is going the wrong direction under biden. that includes 76% of independents, get this, 54% of democrats are saying that. and when it comes to the top issues facing americans, it's the economy, stupid again. because voters rightly trust the g.o.p. to do a better job of handling it than they do the democrats. but that's not the only thing turning people off. well, joining me now are former democrat voters who became so disenchanted with the battery that they turned red in anger and in party. first is georgia state rep mesha mainor originally elected as a democrat and also with me tony senatory and lisa list. representative maynard, you switched parties earlier this year and for our viewers tonight, what was the catalyst for that and how did your

constituents so far respond? >> a lot of people think that it was school choice. school choice was probably the very last thing that was the thing that carried me over. but, in all honesty, it was defunding the police. it was illegal immigration. it was the prosecutor oversight bill. it was workforce development opportunity in underserved community. my constituents on july 11th, when i decided to switch parties immediately started reaching out to me saying, you know what, representative mainor. we do not care what letter is next to your name, as long as you are not trying to defund the police and supporting the kids in our community, we're still going to vote for you. >> i love that story. lisa, you did notice the change in the schools. the schools as a mother and i'm a mother of three teenagers, so i'm with you on the school issue 100 percent. tell us about your exodus from

the democrat party. >> sure. so i got very involved in my children's school. i saw all the programs that were being pulled in. and all the promises that they were making. and the damage that was being done. and it was completely irrefutable, what was happening with our children. what was happening with education, the depriorityization of academics over, you know, social-emotional learning type programs. and i'm also a very, very pro-israel. very big israel supporter some of the escalations happened in the past may of 2021. i saw the way the narrative was being pulled in not to just our media the schools. >> laura: you did in the schools back then? it was more of the anti-israel, anti-zionist pro-palestinian narrative. >> yeah. >> laura: you were really way ahead of that tony, i know you are in the music business, you are a creative person.

and, it wasn't too long ago that were at columbia university and you thousand o. saw something you thought was very disturbing. >> most people feel that you go to a school like columbia and you become indoctrinated. it had the opposite effect on me. i became a conservative republican from hearing some of the things at the school the experience of living my life and seeing how things really are made me realize that some of the stuff was legit in general i didn't really believe in it. >> laura: well, and was it the social issues? was the militancy on the left and irliberallism on the left part of it, tony. >> it was definitely part of it. at columbia, i was sort of like looked upon as like plato's

apology. sock crates youth of athens. i was the older guy corrupting the students at columbia. i would tell them about how this country is like the greatest country and it is still the greatest country no matter whether we speak of rights of any kind. human rights, animal rights. i think people are better off than they ever were. at a school like that the professors and students think the opposite of that. they tell the students that. >> laura: how dare you come to our campus and say anything positive about america. how dare you, sir. i mean, this is representative mainor, i want to pull you back in. in these polls, there is a deep dissatisfaction that is brewing even in the hispanic community and mostly among african-american males where you

see some erosion from the democrats. >> i think the democratic party has traditionally overtime not paid attention to that voter base. but if i were to say one thing in particular, i would say illegal immigration a lot of people are okay with legal immigration, right? that is perfectly fine. but even within the hispanic community. you have people that have come to this country legitimately. they are working hard. they are contributing to society. and they, themselves, do not want to see illegal immigration. right now you guys have reported several times coming over the border right now. and that leads to foreign policy. i think that the democrats are just under estimating the african-american voice and the hispanic voice to just assume that people do not know what's going on. that is going to be detrimental

to them in 2024. >> laura: and, lisa, i think the democrats are so used to women in the suburbs and we saw this play out in the tuesday's elections, where women will especially come out and they are just voting reflexively democrat, whether it's the abortion issue. >> right. >> laura: or pounding on that. what's your message tonight to women, especially mothers, given the dei agenda in the schools and the deeply anti-american tenor of so much of what is being taught to kids who are little all the way through high school? what's your message to them? >> it's to really pay attention. get involved. you know, we are seeing what is happening on college campuses. and i am an avid believer that's not starting in college. that's starting in k through 12 where they are supposed to be building you are children and they are breaking them. >> and we're sending them to college broken. >> laura: breaking them, that's a stark description. but i think sadly, tony, that's

accurate. and then we move into what has happened to the working class. i mean, everyone knows i come from working class background. and i live in this, you know, fancy area. still my heart is working class people. and they are just throwing in the towel with biden's economy. and, tony, your view on that, given the declining real wages in america because of inflation? >> the thing that i really want to say the most important point that i want to make tonight is that at a place like columbia you would be very surprised at the amount of trump supporters in the administration, in the -- among the professors. but they were afraid to come out and say it because they don't want to lose their jobs. your typical republican or trump supporter, you know, the so-called deplocialgs from my mind they are anything but

deplorable because they have the guts to speak out. >> laura: one word to describe biden's economy. meisha? >> failing. >> laura: lisa, one word? >> i have to use the same word, failing. >> laura: tony, one word to describe biden's economy. >> deplorable. >> laura: oh. i love it. panel, representative lisa, tony, all of you, interesting conversation. former democrats tell about why they're leaving the party. thank you. ♪ >> laura: a met that whistleblower said he went to mark zuckerberg after 14-year-old daughter and others were sexually harassed online. you will be shocked what happened after that. the former meta engineer turned whistleblower is here, and that's next. ♪

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instagram. she and her friends begin having awful experiences. including repeated unwanted sexual advances. she reported this incidence to the company and it did nothing. they are deciding time and time again to not tackle these issues.>> so, even the daughter of a meta executive isn't safe from the perps that are currently answering for young girls. arturo behar was facebook's director of engineering and says he went to the very top including to the head of instagram and he raised a red flag about all these dangers but, they didn't really do anything about it. so now he's blowing the whistle. arturo joins me now. arturo, it's good to see you tonight.thank you for joining us. explain what sort of impact instagram and facebook was having on kids and what happened when he brought that information to the executives? >> what i've seen as apparent

is just the expenses they have. my daughter came to me and she was told to get back to the kitchen when she was 14. comments about her body and messages she didn't want to receive. you hope when that happens that she's able to turn to the platform and get some help. she turned and they wouldn't help her. the issue she was happy were not things they could help with. we talked about it. i began working on understanding why are they not doing this because you see your kids on these phones and you see how their faces change while they're using them. i wanted to know why they weren't doing the work that is right by her teens. >> you were written about back in 2014 the new york times. i think they referenced you as mr. nice. you were in charge of that part

that then called facebook. that would regulate or try to encourage people to be nice to one another. to play devils advocate here. as of this all up to the marketplace for people to determine how to be nice or regulate their own conduct? you knew things were pretty gnarly back then, did you not? >> yeah, it was not about being nice. what the work was about 10 years ago was about knowing 13-year-old doesn't want to use the report button. 13-year-old is not ready for the stuff that is happening to them. most of the work was about that and it's about the paper set of come out this week. giving a 13-year-old a tool that works for them where it doesn't matter what the content is. the thing that matters here is a kid knows when they are being harassed. right? no question about the content. they should be able to tell the platform, can you please help me and that help should be helpful for them.

that's was not happening. >> why not do that? it's not that difficult to institute this policy or certainly write it into the code. why not? >> that exactly the question. i think someone needs to ask them. that's when i asked. i went to the top, mark zuckerberg, sheryl sandberg, people with whom i had worked closely with for 6 years on these issues. the question for them was, how many teens should experience and don't want the sexual advantage. what should the number be? they never answer the question? >> response that testimony, a spokesperson told the every date and countless are working on how to keep young people safe online. issues raised here had led us to great features like anonymous notifications, for pertinent hurtful warnings. all this work continues.

basically they seem to be saying this is a work in progress and what do you say to that? >> that is very misleading. this is a simple thing. this is a company where everything is run by metrics. everything has a number. they should be able to say that the percentage of teens that don't want the sexual advantage in the last 7 days was this much. this is what were doing to help with that. it's that simple. there people working on features but, unless that one kid the last 7 days goes down then nothing changes. that's why i'm speaking out. >> arturo, i read somewhere you've made yourself instantly unemployable in the tech industry. i think i tweeted ironically, back that that's courage. i don't know if you could be hired by anyone else at this point after you said what you said. do you have any thoughts on that? >> i'm a parent.

and an engineer and other backgrounds. above all i am a parent. what's happening here is kids are getting these things and it doesn't matter what the content is. what matters is it's distressing to them. i am deeply believe in freedom of expression and what i'm talking about here is giving a kid a button that says please help me. that's how you can find the perps. this is not difficult to build. >> arturo, what you just said essentially is it was worth it. if you never get hired again and in the tech industry. >> absolutely. this week has been incredible. to see bipartisan support. every senator in the committee was trying to outdo each other in terms of, we understand this is important.

it's our kids. it's about time. >> arturo, thank you for joining us. we appreciate it. >> thank you for having me. >> before we go i have big news about next week. i'm going to host the grim angle live from the grand old opry in nashville on thursday, november 16. i want you there. it's going to be a blast. scan the qr code on your screen right now. and then you're able to buy tickets to be part of our live audience. you could just check around for jesse show right after. the whole box show will be there. for the petri boards. jesse, hannity, myself, the 5. we will have so much fun. raymond will even show up. if you can't scan the code go to opry.com. opry.com and click on the calendar and you will find it there. that's it for us tonight. have a great weekend. thank you for watching all week long. remember, it's america now and forever.jesse watters takes it from here. >> welcome to jesse watters prime time.