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State lines, you know, kids being taken all over. you see this problem, you want to attack it. how? >> chris, first, i appreciate you guys putting a spotlight on this. we've talked about it before, but tragically we've had a big increase in sex trafficking, human trafficking. and all the experts look at it come up with the same conclusion which is that the internet is the reason. in other words, the dark side of the internet here is that groups like backpage.com, which is a website we have investigated, are selling women and children online. and really doing it without any ability for prosecut...

Trafficking you cannot hide behind immunity and takes the federal law to exist against sex trafficking putting it clearly in place with regards to these websites. the one most offensive, promoting most of this is called backpage.com. we spent two years investigating this organization. found out they were knowingly, again, selling girls and women online illegally, and we just need to have a way to be able to allow victims to be able to get the just it they deserve and allow the states to make this change including the department of justice to go after despicable websites engaged in this sex tra...

>> all right. there we go. president talking to small business owners at the white house as part of america dreams week. now they're going to continue with the ceremony. we'll keep an ear on it. as you know, anybody who watches me on msnbc knows i talk about the economy. i love talking about that stuff. we're going to be talking a little bit later with robert schiller, a yale economist, nobel prize winning economist whether or not you should be buying into the stock market. next they're trying to fight sex trafficking on the internet. backpage.com post ads for sex workers. senator rob portma...

So as victims of sex trafficking tell me, rob, it's gone from the street corner to the smart phone and the internet side of things has caused a huge increase. this is a problem that has to be addressed. you're right, the women and girls who have attempted to seek justice have been blocked. it was never the intent of congress to block them from getting the justice that they deserve from companies that knowingly stop sex trafficking. the first circuit court of appeals called on congress to do exactly what we're doing. 47 attorneys general around the country, almost every state has written in and...

Everybody was looking to sell a bike or old clothes. instead, some people started selling people. human trafficking. some of those being sold were as young as 14 or 15 years old, many of them girls. they were targeted and plucked from their communities, often forced to take drugs and sold into under age prostitution which is illegal everywhere in america. some of the girls were able to escape and fought back choosing to sue back page for children being allowed to be sold on their website. many victims lost their cases because of a 1996 law called the communications decency act or cda which bas...