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Josh, you broke the story. break it down for us. >> so tish james is demanding that former president trump sit in her office in new york on january 7th and answer questions about potential fraud and his businesses for her civil investigation into his company. what she and her office are pursuing is that the former president made wildly different variations on his property values based on what was beneficial to him and whether he committed any fraud by valuing them wildly differently based on who he was talking to. as you said earlier, katy, there is also a criminal probe going on. former presi...

Months, he's talked about it regularly, that he's fearful of what they're doing to him and how they're out to get him. the former president would have to come to the new york attorney general's office and under oath talk about his business. >> tom, there are a lot of different investigations within the new york offices into trump and his organization. can you just try to separate them out for us and explain what we're seeing here? >> the good news is a lot of the topic areas are pretty much the same. so as josh kind of alluded to, this investigation, the civil component and the criminal compon...

Approve anti-sex trafficking bill. the language gives victims the power to take websites posting traffic and content to court. the bill is not the president desk. some sites such as craigslist and red hat have dropped their personal ad in escort pages. joining me now, sponsored the bill, congresswoman jan wagner from missouri. thank you for joining us. we appreciate it. >> is, elizabeth had great to be with you to talk about the topic near and dear to my heart. elizabeth: absolutely. i want to ask you it took so long. probably a question you have as well. >> this has been a five-year lift. thi...

Down, predators behind bars and i hope act as a deterrent to those flooding the website and the internet. this is a big piece of legislation that is the criminal, civil component and goes in an immense. >> for folks at home, their websites such as craig's list and read it where you can elicit whatever you wanted and it was protected on the communications act. so you had to list that essentially is one of the biggest components in this piece of legislation, correct? >> it is. it was considered the holy grail. the fact of the matter is quartz wanted us to explain congressional content and make i...

Criminal online and back page in hundreds of other websites were hiding behind the immunity clause in the communications decency act. they were getting off scott free, selling women and children. elizabeth: are you getting pushback from these websites? >> we sure do. we have fought big lobbies with google and others, but it was great to have commerce come together in a bipartisan fashion along with advocates and comes with law enforcement, prosecutors who knew they should have a civil remedy, criminal enforced and ago and in amend the communication piece. that's a 20-year-old piece of legislat...