you'll see hillary vaughn trying to get answers out of, you know, dick durbin. i don't know if we have that footage but, senator marsha blackburn, why won't they approve the subpoena request to unseal the night logs? >> we're seeing footage of hillary vaughn here with dick durbin now and asking why we don't subpoena them. he said i know who episeen was but don't nonyl about the issue. how do you not know anything about the issue? this is one of the most notorious sex traffickers we've ever seen and dozens upon dozens of young girls and you'd think a top senator wants answers around this and for whatever reason, he wants to move onto other things now at this point. this whole thing is strange and will continue to debt stranger every time shotgun something else is released. liz: jeff re-epstein was stricted of procuring a child of prostitution in 2008. federal officials allegedly sexually abused and ayred in july 2019 and federal charges for sex trafficking in new york and it's not a good luck for any snout torr saying we're not going to use is for the american pe

dick durbin's going to get his wish if no -- wish? no.t puts the american voter in the losing spot. we're at a disadvantage if we can't actually see two contenders face to face at a debate stage right before the presidential election. that's wrong. >> that's lightly what they're doing, mara -- likely what they're doing, maria. and i think we're seeing more and more evidence of that, jill biden doing the interview versus president biden. remember 2020? it was the campaign from the basement. now, at the time, they had covid and the pandemic to use as their excuse. they don't have that this time, you know? the world is back to normal. so if the strategy is to put jill biden out there, kamala, which is going to be interesting if that's how they're going to play this -- i don't think they will because she's been a pr mess -- or if you're going to basically, part of that outreach to reporters, to friendly reporters as they will say they're going to try and get them to basically carry water for them because the problem with -- and you mentioned

ahead of that committee dick durbin talked about exploitation on the senate floor. >> mr. chair, tomorrow, our committee will hand hold landmark hearing about the crisis of online child sexual exploitation. this continues our committee's bipartisan work to combat the dangers children face online. this has been one of my top priorities as chair of the committee. last february, we meld a hearing on kids online safety. six witnesses testified about online sexual exploitation, cyber bullying, addictive jn line platforms, and the collection and sale of children's sensitive personal data. at the hearing i noted there were no witnesses from the tech companies present. i promised they would have their chance. tomorrow, the ceos of discord, meta, snap, tik tok, and x will testify. i thank my friend and fellow li graham, ranking republican on the judiciary committee for his bipartisan cooperation in establishing this hearing. the ceos of discord, snap and x will testify pursuant to subpoenas issued by the committee. this follows their repeated refusal to testify voluntarily. i look

we started with the discord ceo, senator dick durbin questioning him. let's listen back in, stay with us, guys. >> i listened closely to your testimony here and it's never been a secret that snapchat -- snapchat is used to send sexually explicit images. in 2013 early in your company's history, you admitted this in an interview. do you remember that interview? >> senator, i don't recall the specific interview. >> you said that when you were first trying to get people on the app, you would, quote, go up to the people and be like, hey, you should try this application, you can send disappearing photos and they would say, oh, for sexting? do you recall that interview? >> when we fist created the application was called pick a boo, the idea was around disappearing images. the feedback we received was they were using it to communicate. we found people were using it to talk visually. >> as early as 2017, law enforcement identified snapchat as the pedophile's go-to sexual exploitation fool. the case of a 12-year-old girl identified in court as l.w. shows the dang

ahead of that hearing, chairman dick durbin speaks on the senate floor. this is 10 minutes. >> mr. president, tomorrow senate judiciary committee will hold a landmark hearing for the first time, the ceos of five big tech companies will testify about the crisis of online child sexual exploitation. this continues our committee's bipartisan work to combat the dangers children face online. this has been one of my top priorities as chair of the committee.k last february we held a hearing on kids online safety. six witnesses test slide -- testified about online sexual exploitation, addictive online platforms, and the collection t3and sale of children sensitive personal data. data. at the hearing, i noted there were no witnesses from the tech companies present. i promised they would have their chance. tomorrow the ceo's of dis discord,meta, tiktok, and snap will testify. i thank my colleague, senator lindsey graham, ranking republican on the judiciary committee, for his bipartisan cooperation in establishing this hearing. the ceo's of discord, snap and x will testify pursuant to subpoenas

even after the me too movement, we are still having trouble getting dick durbin to subpoena the fbi formanifests just to know who is on this dead pedophile plain. why are they still protecting a dead pedophile? >> i don't know exactly what's going on with the flight records. i know that some of them are hard to obtain. >> jesse: tell me about it! >> right. when i was reporting on the case for my podcast, "broken seeking justice," we went to the home of the pilot and we asked for the flight records. he was not as forthcoming with that, said he didn't have them. that was at least what he had told her lawyers. we went to the houseman that worked there, and he ended up being a crucial witness in the ghislaine maxwell trial. he testified and said it was an open secret, that the way jeffrey epstein lived his life, he was a man in his 50s, 60s, around girls who were teenagers. pretty out in the open. it was pretty hard not to see what was going on is what he said, which is why in a big way these people enabled him and helped him come back into society, enabling him to continue the sex traffick

elizabeth: you've been asking senator dick durbin, d moving onto jeffrey epstein case.durbin is senate and not honoring your request for the flight logs for jeffrey epstein's plane. you want justice for the victims and transparency for the american people. why is he blocking that when documents show one epstein victim, a teenage minor, was trafficked by jeffrey epstein to prominent american politicians to obtain blackmail information. why are you being blocked here? >> we will hope that senator durbin will be true to his word that he's recently said he'd work with me on this. he has blocked two previous requests and i don't know why they're doing that . we have had such a surge in human and sex trafficking in this country. the tennessee bureau of investigation tells us that a child is bought or sold for sex every two minutes in this country. human traffic asking a $150 billion a year business over just the last few years. we need to know who was affiliated with jeffrey epstein, who he was working with and we have to break apart the human trafficking, sex trafficking rin

illinois senator dick durbin has been called the oldest friend in congress of apec, the influential prozionisto demand that the second highest ranking democratic senator stops supporting israel's latest war on gaza, but then activists grew tired of being ignored. protesters crossed. from senator durban's high-class residence onto historic lakeshore drive along lake michigan. traffic is shut down in both directions on the most important road in the city, in a rare and powerful example of local political activism. protesters told angry motorists that the person they should be blaming was senator durban. senator dick durban actually represents the biggest palestinian constituent population in the united states. he has to be, he has a duty to be on the front. when police refused to release one of two activists arrested, protesters refuse to move for hours. this is not a religious issue, it's not a politic. issue, it's a humanitarian crisis, it's an issue that is affecting everybody in the world or most people, and everybody wants a resolution, so we hope for a peaceful resolution, that's why we're

i caught up with senator dick durbin. he said it's one of the most overwhelming hearings he's ever participated in, and he's served in the senate for decades. he noted the room was packed with families showing pictures of children who have been exploited. there were several confrontational moments in that hearing as we've become accustomed to seeing between senators and the tech ceos. i want to play one between josh hawley and mark zuckerberg. >> wait a minute, your own study says that you make life worse for one in three teenage girls, you increase anxiety and depression. that's what it says and you're testifying in public there's no link. you've been doing this for years. for years you've been coming in public and testifying under oath that there's absolutely no link. your product is wonderful. the science is nascent, full speed ahead, while internally you know full well your product is a disaster for teenagers. >> senator, that's not true. >> and you keep right on doing what you're doing. right? >> that's not true. >>

democratic chair dick durbin and republican ranking member lindsey graham sat down with cbs news forive joint interview. >> whose responsibility is it to keep kids safe online? is it the tech companies? is it the parents? >> the parents are fighting a losing battle. parents doing their very best cannot keep up with this technology. and these companies have the singular responsibility to police this. >> reporter: the committee's goal, pass comprehensive regulations and amend section 230, a law that shields most tech giants from being sued by users. >> i can't believe that in america in 2024, the largest businesses in the history of mankind, social media, are unregulated. there's not one law on the books protecting consumers, and you can't sue them. >> the fact of the matter is we're going to do something. >> reporter: and rodriguez will be watching. >> why is it important for you to be here for this hearing? >> because we're selena's voice now. that's why. >> reporter: in the lead-up to this senate hearing, three tech companies, snap, meta, and x, have issued a flurry of changes and a

democratic chair dick durbin and republican ranking member lindsey graham sat down with cbs news forexclusive joint interview. whose responsibility is it to keep kids safe online? is that the tech companies? is at the parents? >> the parents are fighting a losing battle. parents doing their very best cannot keep up with this technology and these technologies and know my company's have a singular responsibility to police this. >> reporter: the committee's goal, past conference of regulation and amend section 230, a law that shields most tech giants from being sued by users. >> i can't believe that in america in 2024 the largest businesses in the history of mankind, social media, are unregulated. there is not one law on the books protecting consumers. and you can't sue 'em. >> the fact of the matter is, we are going to do something. >> reporter: ed rodriguez will be watching. why is it important for you to be there for this hearing? >> because we are selena's voice now. that's why. >> reporter: in the lead up to this senate hearing, three tech companies -- snap, meta, and x -- i've iss

an audience that the chair of this committee dick durbin said earlier was the biggest that he has seenn his 22 years on the judiciary committee. and then mark zuckerberg stood up, turned around and spoke to the families. he was off mic, so we don't know exactly what he said. i know that we're trying to get some audible tape of exactly what he said. but that moment is something that believe we are going to be looking back on and talking about for quite some time. >> i have my panel here. happens to be four moms. and you know, obviously, this is "inside politics," this is a washington hearing. but one of the reasons that people are so incredibly animated about this, passionate, angry about this, is because of what this means for children. the fact that there are people in the audience there, on capitol hill, who lost their children. they very much believe because the social media companies were not properly regulated. they're not self-regulated. and we should say, that the united states congress also has not done anything to update the existing legislation which was not written in a way

despite the fact that there is renewed optimism up here on capitol hill, i just talked to dick durbin, a leading democrat on the judiciary committee, who told me he's been more optimistic in the last couple of days about this deal coming together than he has been in months, but issue is even if the senate can getting is passed, even if they can get something approved, will mike johnson put it on the floor given the reality that so many of his hardliners are threatening that this could be a major pitiful for johnson if he makes a decision to put something on the floor that isn't exactly what the house of representatives passed last year known as hr-2. they want tougher border skushts and t and they are really not willing to give many concessions and this is the best opportunity. in the eyes of many senate republicans that lawmakers have had for decades to do something on the border. in fact, we heard this morning from chris coons, a democrat in the senate who has been around a long time, he said democrats' views on this issue, what they are willing to do in this moment, it's very diffe

senator dick durbin introduced a package of bills and a lot of these bills have been introduced already. as i mentioned up top this morning, the senators knew what was coming to them and the tech ceos knew what was coming because the bills have been around a while. what made today different is you had such bipartisan support, i think it is going to be enough to possibly push this package forward. and so what does that mean for tech companies? it means they might have to reroute their rules, might have to make less money in order to make sure they adhere to these legislations that are meant to protect children online? >> i want to play a different moment, this from minnesota democratic senator amy klobuchar. >> when a boeing plane lost a door in midflight several weeks ago, nobody questioned the decision to ground a fleet of over 700 planes. so why aren't we taking this same type of decisive action on the danger of these platforms when we know these kids are dying? >> i mean, it has been decades since the start of the internet. why do you think congress hasn't been able to pass any sort

a lot of these are familiar names, which is why we are still waiting for senator dick durbin to release names of the people who flew to the island. let's bring in julie banderas. so you've got clinton, apparently likes them young, according to this person. >> monica lewinsky is like a grandmother compared to some of these victims. >> jesse: what about stephen hawking? i didn't see that name coming, as someone who was on pedophile island. >> i doubt he was among the men. how do you even get that man aroused? i don't think that's possible. >> jesse: we know that epstein was fascinated with the human brain. as we said earlier in the show, galaxies far, far away, that might have been something he was involved in in terms of dinner party discussion. other names that surprise you, michael jackson, probably not a surprise, but i didn't know he was there. >> i understand there were also young boys on the island. i'm not pointing fingers, but there have been accusations about michael jackson before. it wasn't just young girls, it was young boys, as well. who knows? it's a really scary thing and

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senator dick durbin is the one to watch here today.e's the one championing a set of bills around child protection. the thing, though, is that these bills have been introduced in the senate so many times, and they have gotten nowhere. i expect these senators to feel a little bit exasperated when they're probing some of these tech firms. i expect you to hear from some of the more hawkish people around china. senator hawley has been very hard on tiktok and the safety measures it has been doing with data and privacy. you'll hear things that are wider. expect tech ceos to be pretty prepared. because these bills have been around for so long, they have a pretty good sense of what they're going to get asked and what response they should have. in fact, some companies, like snapchat and meta have already started implemented changes from some of these proposed bills like the kids online safety act to get ahead of any proposed legislation and to get ahead of today's hearing. >> you mentioned tiktok, the ceo going to be on the hot seat when it come

dick durbin is the fourth u.s. senator to call for a ceasefire. ben & jerry's ice cream has joined calls for an immediate and permanent ceasefire in gaza. ben & jerry's board chair said the ice cream company has long stood by the principle of peace. meanwhile, on capitol hill, some 130 protesters were arrested tuesday during a peaceful sit-in in the cannon house office building. demonstrators sang hymns and chanted, "let gaza live!" meanwhile, in the latest crackdown by u.s. colleges on palestinian voices, indiana university canceled the first u.s. retrospective of renowned artist samia halaby. halaby, who is an indiana university alum, was informed her social media posts on the israeli assault expressing solidarity with gazans under attack was the reason for the cancellation. the exhibition had been in the works for over three years. texas republican governor greg abbott is facing more condemnation over his support of anti-immigrant and border enforcement policies that led to the recent deaths of another three asylum seekers attempting to cross t

lindsey graham concluded his opening comments and this is senator dick durbin, chair of the senate judiciaryttee. five of the richest, most successful tech executives in the world are before them and what lindsey graham said during the commercial is interesting. he said mark zuckerberg, you created a product we all use and wanted to connect people and that was your idea. things have gotten so far down the line we need to put guardrails on this. graham said tiktok is being used to destroy the jewish state of israel and said a.i. is just getting started. this is top of the mind for many of these senators in that room. >> dana: he added to all of them that they have blood on their hands so i think this is how you see how this hearing is going to go. perspective from people who are living this. we will bring in two teenagers, a 17-year-old and a 19-year-old. both social media advocates and you want safety for people of your age. i want to show people here. pew research shows that teenagers are online almost constantly. 24% said almost constantly. 2023 up to 46%. it might be higher. people might

big mystery why is dick durbin standing on the way. obviously is he not on anybody's manifest.hy were you standing in the way all this time and denying that you were actually doing it. senator marsha blackburn said this is the beginning. she is not going to stop until all the names are out. other thing to to keep in mind, too. if you looked at allen derby wits last night r.f.k. last week. listen, number one it wasn't me and i could have misidentified him that's alan dershowitz saying that to sean. >> ainsley: he represented jeffrey epstein. >> brian brian i had business with him. did represent him. i do represent tough defendants. other thing to add on r.f.k. jr. my name was on it. he took my family fossil hunting. everyone who cease name on the man's fest okay, guilty. this guy was doing other things. the other thing see about jeffrey epstein, he was giving to a lot of good causes. so in a lot of people's mind they thought this guy is a good guy. is he really rich but he gives to a lot of foundations that could have got them on the plane. >> steve: to that point, brian. his br

and lindsey graham on the one side uh side you know, on the really uh, in the same position as dick durbin, the senator from illinois. and i think a lot of that is because it's pretty difficult for any politician to not sort of claim to be supportive of children and youth safety rights for various reasons. and we have seen across the board of congressional representatives, independent of what party they are part of the express a lot of concern about the directions, big technology platform, specifically, social media platforms have taken, you know, and as we've talked about before i, which is 0, the content that tends to be most visible, and therefore most viral on these platforms often tends to be that which is most hateful, outrageous or conspiratorial. and that's not because the text ceo's or an engineers are reviewing every single piece of content that's posted. it's totally impossible, but they're simply building simple algorithms which are rules apply to bodies of data that say hey, whatever is likely to grab eye balls and attention making that go viral. so the visibility and speech i

dick durbin, democrat senator, when he heard that, he took the information as a senator, he said there. that is the worst thing i have ever heard. he came back and said, well, it is not that bad. every time the radical left democrats, congress and fascists indict me, i have considered it a great badge of honor because i am getting indicted for you. i never even think about it, anyway. never forget our enemies want to take away my freedom because i will never let them take away your freedom. [applause] they want to challenge me because i will never let them silence you. [applause] in the end, they are not after me, they are after you and i just happen to be standing in their way. so, i am thrilled to be joined todayiots, including a very special guest who some of you know and i was very impressed with him. he ran in therimary. i thought he was just outstanding. he has got an incredible record, and really is a businessman. made a tremendous amount of money. very respected in the world of business. he ran for governor of north dakota and he won. got an incredible wife. i would like to ask

dick durbin and john cornyn getting into it, the republicans walking out? prof. yoo:? prof. yoo: when i was general counsel, orrin hatch was chairman and joe biden was a minority member. i saw senator biden quite a bit at those hearings. and they disagreed a lot on constitutional issues, legislation, on who they would like to see on the supreme court . but they never went to the level that i think you saw at these committee hearings go where half the committee members walked out and left. i had never seen anything like that happen. i had never seen subpoenas voted out when there is not a quorum, or when the committee time is over. there is serious doubt over whether the subpoenas are legitimate because they were in violation of senate rules. usually if you are in the senate, although they had shop disagreements, -- sharp disagreements, they would reach a compromise in the end. so i was really surprised. i was surprised relieved by how aggressive the issuing of subpoenas has been. i was also surprised to see the republican senators leave. that had never happened before. i gue

dick durbin and john cornyn getting into it, the republicans walking out? prof. yoo:? prof. yoo: when i was general counsel, orrin hatch was chairman and joe biden was a minority member. i saw senator biden quite a bit at those hearings. and they disagreed a lot on constitutional issues, legislation, on who they would like to see on the supreme court . but they never went to the level that i think you saw at these committee hearings go where half the committee members walked out and left. i had never seen anything like that happen. i had never seen subpoenas voted out when there is not a quorum, or when the committee time is over. there is serious doubt over whether the subpoenas are legitimate because they were in violation of senate rules. usually if you are in the senate, although they had shop disagreements, -- sharp disagreements, they would reach a compromise in the end. so i was really surprised. i was surprised relieved by how aggressive the issuing of subpoenas has been. i was also surprised to see the republican senators leave. that had never happened before. i gue

dick durbin has called on justice clarence thomas to recuse himself from this case over his personal calls for neil gorsuch to recuse himself over personal and financial ties to an executive with stakes in this case. let's bring in danielle holly plus vox senior correspondent and author of "the agenda: how a republican supreme court is reshaping america," ian mill miser. danielle, i think we set the stakes here, but what are the implications of what would otherwise seem like a pretty esoteric case? >> i never thought as an administrative law professor i'd be talking to the american public about what is known as the chevron doctrine from 1984. justice kagan really put her finger right on it. the question is who makes complex decisions about regulations that are passed by our administrative agencies? when we think of the equal protection, when we think of the environmental protection agency, when we think of the s.e.c., all these agencies that make regulations that really impact many of our lives, chevron doctrine simply says that the agencies are both politically accountable and the e