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Know, like they are out of this amazing choice that they're making to think that there are better and worse circumstances in which they could be working back page is one of these tools that enables, like digital tools allows people to work in safe conditions and screen clients and do a lot of things that actually keeps them safe. >> laura: keeps them safe? >> yeah. >> laura: have you read any of the 93-count indictment? >> i have read all of it and i like to point out that none of it -- they are not charged at all with sex trafficking and there has been a massive congressional investigation. t...

For raising this issue. not enough people are talking about it. it is a stain on our national character that we are seeing an increase in trafficking in this century. lot of it's because of the online presence of these websites that are selling people online. i got involved because we heard about this. we did an investigation over 18 months. we looked at websites. one website called back page.com had 3/4 of the commercial sex trafficking on that website. we were able through subpoenas which we had to get through a judicial process, to find out they actually knew that people were selling under ...

In sex trafficking, human trafficking and everyone who has looked at it comes up with the same conclusion. it's moved from the street corner to the smartphone which is what sex traffic victim survivors have told me. it's online and very efficient and a heinous crime, as you say. when individuals who have been trafficked and when prosecutors try to go after these websites and the biggest one is called back page.com. they have 80% of the commercial sex traffic. they're blocked. they're blocked by a provision of federal law which gives immunity to these entities facilitating sex trafficking. that...

Reported indications of any widespread fraud. what is truly troubling about this, i believe, are these bogus claims of voter fraud. they're routinely used to justify voter suppression. and thanks to the supreme court's disastrously -- decided shelby county decision which gutted the voting rights act, it is easier than ever before for states to take -- make it harder for people to vote. now, senator sessions, you have a complicated history with the voting rights act. ten years ago when voting rights was a bipartisan issue, you voted to reauthorize the voting rights act. everyone did, passed 98-...

Actual dispute about that except in the politics of washington, d.c. >> i recognize the great interest in time and you've committed to the issue and i value your opinion. >> i do come from an ocean state, and we do measure the rise in the sea level and we measure the warming of naraganset bay and we measure the ph. it's serious for us, senator. thank you. my time has expired. >> thank you. >> now it looks like it will be senator from texas, and senator from texas, i'm going to step out for a minute. and when your eight minutes are up, would you call on senator kobachar? >> sure. thank you, mr....