the sponsor of the bill is senator rich crandall of mesa he says a parent's can read their kids text messages they can keep their kids safer but of the cell phone carriers say verizon says the bill they run afoul of federal privacy laws can be hard to do technically a lot of opinions among teens and parents too. the bill would require so phone providers to look here and review any messages coming to or going from kids phones if the parent makes the phone i mean i kind of assume that a parents want to read their kids text messages they already just. well do that what really bothers some was the justification by one of the lawmakers was that if they had a thirteen year old child who was being bullied you know they don't they can't have access to the texts oh yeah you do you have a child phone you can have show you the tags like this isn't about bullying and protecting your kids it's about spying on your kids and being in their presence i love the idea that the government can now you know allies and spying on your kid because it was hard enough i think the real issue there was the if th

sponsoring the bill arizona rich crandall who we note is proud father of seven.a politician and father, senator, why do you think this bill is important? >> well for the last two years in the senate education committee i chair we've been talking about bullying, specifically cyberbullying. what thing we're finding there is very difficult area to legislate around. there are some rules and bullying takes on so many different forms. my wife was with one of my daughters to verizon store, mentioned to clerk if i want to see my daughter's text. no problem you bring us a court order. that night we're talking about it, doesn't seem right that the federal government tells us we have to have a court order to see our children's text. jenna: how old is she, that daughter in particular? >> that daughter happened to be 17. i have several down to twins eight years old. jenna: i have a hunch, dad you probably pay the phone bill? >> exactly. jenna: for most of them which begs a broader question we'll talk about that the legal ramifications of this. not everyone is on board especia

arizona state senator rich crandall is the lawmaker who's proposing more open access for parents, andjoins us live from phoenix. it's good to have you with us, senator. let me just ask you, right off the bat. it sounds like an awesome idea, and i'm the parent of a 6-year-old, who's soon to be a texter, i'm sure. but methinks there's got to be a catch here. is there? >> well, it's a challenge. the big four are really putting up a fight on this. so it's interesting to see where we go from here. >> so here's the -- maybe i buried the lead on you, you have six daughters and a son, so you have seven kids. so clearly you know what you're up against with the texting. but there's also that pesky little thing called federal law. and federal law tells us that we just can't have that kind of access, unless we're the creators of the content, right? so how are you going to get this bill to pass muster when the feds will be coming down to crack down on the issue of, you know, privacy and that sort of thing? >> you bet. you know, ashleigh, let me just give you a little bit of brief background. in ou