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To do it. >> i'm out of time, congressman. i have to ask you quickly, you have this plan now to try to avoid this dow the road, right, to eliminate this sort of weirdly traditional drama over the debt ceiling that keeps coming up in congress. in ten sonds or less explain what that is. >> it would give the president the right to raise the debt limit or suspend and congress would have the ability to disapprove of the president's action. it was actually -- this is an idea that was conceived by mitch mcconnell. itill be interesting to see how he reacts to that. >> congressman, as promised, making ...

We have profiled many families who lost children who bought a counterfeit pill they bought through social media >> there are social media apps that intentionally make it so that the information so someone creates a story on snapchat, that's a 24-hour story. >> reporter: that's why the kids like it. >> yes. and it's also why the drug traffickers like it. >> reporter: should social media companies be doing more to help you? >> yes there is no question in my mind that social media companies are not doing enough to stop this problem. >> reporter: her critique as social media companies come under i...

>> i still firmly believe it's gadd thing to build a version of instagram designed to be safe for tweens. we want to take the time to talk to parents and get consensus how to move forward. todd: parent company facebook pausing kids app. after major push back from parents and lawmakers. jillian: as the company denies accusations that the app. is toxic for young users. author of "woke inc." is vivek ram. >> thank you. >> jillian: is there a need for instagram kids? what would be the benefit of having an app. like this for kids? >> i don't want to interrogate second guess companies general decisi...

Mole if a kid, for instance, under the age of 13, if they want an instagram account, what can realistically be done to stop them >> well, i think what adam is telling you in that particular segment is that it's hard to track and hard to stop right? i mean, instagram, 13 is kind of the age that you're allowed to have an account on facebook, on instagram, but none of the companies have a firm handle on how to stop users younger than that from signing up and so i think that's an industry wide problem. it's one that nobody has gotten a handle on yet. even though there are rules that indicate that ...

It's not a perfect process again, it's why we think a healthier place is a version of instagram designed for tweens that parents have the option to give their kids access to as opposed to letting kids sometimes sneak in and go rogue. and then eventually the parents or we find them and take them off. there's a risk we want to mitigate >> so age verifications. features are coming. >> yeah. we are continuing to do a lot of work on age verification i think we're doing as much if not anybody in the industry, but it's a difficult challenge >> all right thank you for your time. >> thank you i want ...