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former president Trump's oldest daughter
Ivanka testifies she says she doesn't
know much about her father's financial
statements Attorney General latia James
says she does nd's legal correspondent
Arlene Richards has more
details Ivanka Trump quietly arrives at
the courthouse wasting no time to get
inside where she will testify in the
Civil fraud case brought against her
father and two brothers attorney general
Leticia James who filed the lawsuit is
not so quiet Ivanka Trump secured
negotiated
loans um to obtain favorable terms based
on fraudulent statements of financial
condition um and she will attempt today
to distance herself from the company but
unfortunately the facts will reveal that
in fact that she was very much involved
we uncovered the scheme um and she
benefited from it personally No cameras
were allowed in the courtroom Wednesday
the first time since the trial began
Ivanka is not a defendant in the case
and she didn't want to testify arguing
she would suffer undue hardship by
having to travel from her home in
Florida in the middle of a school week
but the judge rejected that and later
she dropped her appeal Ivanka generally
says that she knows very little about
financial statements that the judge
determined fraudulently inflated the
value of her father's assets to secure
favorable insurance rates and bank loans
on the stand she often stated I don't
recall to questions about her father's
finances the AG's attorney showed Ivanka
her own email Communications with
potential lenders for her father's Miami
Hotel property the term required that
her father have a net worth of $3
billion in another email Ivanka had
requested lowering the required net
worth to $2.5 billion yet her father's
statement showed a net worth of over $4
billion on cross-examination the defense
tried to establish that Ivanka didn't
know much about the financial statements
Ivanka Trump is the AG's last witness
but before her testimony ended the AG's
attorney filed a letter with the judge
during the break they want to block
several of the Trump team's Witnesses
from testifying arguing that the issues
that will be discussed were already
resolved by the judge when he ruled the
statements were fraudulent they have
requested to be heard on
Thursday and some good news for former
president Trump he will be on the
Minnesota ballot for the GOP Primary
Election the state supreme court is
rejecting a challenge based on the 14th
amendment's Insurrection Clause the
amendment blocks officials from holding
office again if they engaged in
Insurrection but there's little
precedent for how it should be applied
especially as Trump hasn't been charged
with Insurrection the Minnesota Court
dismissed the case but said Challengers
can try again to block Trump from the
general election ballot if he does win
the nomination which is looking likely
based on recent
polling voters cast ballots yesterday to
choose governors in Kentucky and
Mississippi decide legisla of control in
Virginia and New Jersey and determine if
the Ohio state constitution should
enshrine access to abortion and's Dan
manahan has the latest
results Republicans and Democrats were
tuning in to see if the results and key
races would provide insight into the
upcoming 2024 elections starting out
with the gubernatorial contests Democrat
Governor Andy Basher won reelection in
Kentucky defeating Republican state
attorney general enal Daniel Cameron
that's in a state that voted for former
president Donald Trump by more than 25
percentage points in 2020 a July poll
conducted by morning consult raided
Basher the nation's most popular
Democratic governor Cameron had
repeatedly criticized Basher for vetoing
transgender related bills including one
that banned cross- seex procedures on
minors and another that prevented men
who identify as women from participating
in women's sports in Miss Missippi
Republican Governor Tate Reeves won his
bid for reelection against Democrat
Brandon Presley a second cousin of
singer Elvis Presley Reeves had
consistently led the polls in the Deep
Red State which has not elected a
Democrat as governor in 20 years over to
the legislature all 40 seats in Virginia
Senate and 100 seats in the House of
delegates were up for grabs one of the
House of delegates races includes a
candidate embroiled in a sex scandal
Democrat Susanna Gibson allegedly
engaged in explicit acts with her
husband on a pornographic website
Democrats held control of the Senate and
won control of the house in those races
the Democrats sweep thwarts the
possibility of a new 15-week abortion
ban that Republicans had vowed to pass
had they won control of the legislature
in New Jersey Republicans were fighting
for control of either legislative
chamber in the deep blue state where all
seats in the general assembly and Senate
are in play Republicans have gained
ground since 2021 when they flipped
seven seats and campaigned on issues
ranging from the economy to parental
rights some races have yet to be called
but the Washington Post reports that
Democrats held on to enough seats to
thwart Republican attempts to take
control of one or both Chambers for the
first time in over 20 years over to a
pair of Ohio ballot measures Ohioans
voted to enshrine abortion access in the
state constitution
that will nullify a six-week abortion
limit signed into law by Republican
Governor Mike dwine voters also approved
a ballot measure legalizing marijuana
for recreational use turning to the
courts Democratic candidate Daniel
mcaffrey won the open seat on
Pennsylvania's Supreme Court defeating
Republican Carolyn carlucho for the
10-year position his victory widens the
Democratic majority on the state's
highest court to 5-2 Daniel Monahan and
TD
news what are the key takeaways from
last night's election results and what
do they tell us about the general
election coming up next year sharing his
thoughts is a former Trump
Administration official who says that
disinformation about the roie Wade
decision is having an
impact and now joining us is Cash Patel
senior adviser to Trump for National
Security defense and Intel and former
senior Trump official uh so we have uh
yesterday's election results now so
maybe to start off give us a sense a
general sense what do the results tell
us for uh you know 2024 and the overall
political
landscape well I think it's great to be
with you and I think it says a multitude
of things of course Republicans want to
win as many seats as possible that's the
idea of politics um but when you analyze
where the losses were and where the wins
were you start to dissect what is and
isn't the quote unquote Republican
movement down in ten excuse me in
Kentucky with the attorney general
Daniel Cameron a popular candidate for
governorship he was defeated in Kentucky
by the incumbent Democrat and I think
what president Trump pointed out early
on when he endorsed Daniel Cameron was
there would be a surge and there was a
surge but Daniel Cameron was also tied
to Mitch McConnell very unpopular uh
Republican establishment figure and I
think those two ended up washing each
other out to a little bit of a certain
degree and when you go over next door to
Virginia and you see the state house
delegations that were supposed to have
been a victory for Glenn yunan the
Republican governor I think what you see
is that the establishment Rhino
Republican class is not winning out the
day Don whether you like Donald Trump or
dislike Donald Trump the Republican
party has
changed um and that is reflective in
these polls and some especially in the
places where the Republicans lost where
they thought they were going to win and
let me mention abortion it seems like
there was a win for abortion access
Advocates uh I mean what do you think
this result says about uh the state of
the country and how people feel about
abortion I think many individuals are
actually uh have been submitted to
another disinformation campaign um
specifically with the Supreme Court
decision where everybody keeps saying
Row versus Wade was overturned legally
that's actually not what happened what
happened in that decision by the Supreme
Court this past year was that it sent
the decision of abortion to the states
and the states were supposed to then
enact legislation whether it's a 15we
ban a multi-month ban or what have you
and exceptions to it for rape incest and
threat to life of mother and things like
that and so what I think you see is
state legislators in certain districts
taking advantage of that Supreme Court
decision and putting that issue on the
ballot but I still think there's a lot
of work to do on educating conservatives
that what actually happened in the Row
versus way decision or the subsequent
decision
and what state legislators need to do in
their home districts um to protect
against it if you are in fact uh you
know for uh
life know some Outlets are saying that
this puts the GOP in a bind for 2024 I
mean do you think there should be any
cause for concern for some GOP
candidates well look it's it's always
going to be a cause for concern when you
don't win as many seats as you had hoped
or any positions that you has hoped for
but I think if you look at the polls for
president Trump they speak for
themselves and he's now beating
President Biden in five of six key swing
States and they've been on the campaign
president Trump for a year so obviously
there is a big messaging component that
is resonating with the electorate Across
America um but just to positioning those
with the results from last night again I
go to Virginia and Kentucky specifically
where they didn't embrace all of
President Trump's Republican uh
conservative ideologies and did not
align themselves with just president
Trump but other figures who are more
controversial in the Republican party so
I think you're seeing this slow change
continue in the Republican movement and
whether you like Donald Trump or dislike
Donald Trump you can't argue that he has
brought the Republican party to a new
position and that's why he you know
people are now calling for the ouster of
some of the old
leadership and just one more question do
you think there needs to be any change
uh for Republican presidential
candidates in terms of abortion
messaging no I I don't think people
should change their positions on
abortion I think they should maintain
what they believe in firmly and I think
that a lot of the electorate and a lot
of the American uh voting class has
spoken and whether you're uh pro-life or
or or or not I think the the exceptions
um to a abortion are become quite
popular such as you know exceptions for
the mother for rape incest and threat to
life I think those are realistic
exceptions that candidates need to be
talking about more and more especially
with the abortion debate that's going to
be front and center of this next uh
presidential election cycle and I think
president Trump has laid out those three
exceptions uh as part of his platform
but um I think other candidates need to
address that it used to be just Hardline
yes or no I don't think it as black and
white anymore
all right thank you so much today cash
Matel thanks so much for having me have
a great
day the third goop presidential debate
is kicking off tonight in Miami the
lineup of presidential hopefuls on stage
is now down to five candidates tonight
on stage you'll see Governor Ron
DeSantis former Governor Chris Christie
and Nikki Haley Senator Tim Scott and VC
ramaswami former president Trump will
skip the debate and hold the rally of
his own near Miami at the same time
several recent polls show that Trump is
leading President Biden in the 2024 race
a new poll from CNN shows just one in
four Americans believe Biden has the
stamina and sharpness to serve a second
term while more than half say Trump does
the poll found Biden's support among
several key groups is significantly
weaker than in 2020 that includes people
under 35 Plus independent Black and
Latino voters
you can catch analysis of the third GOP
debate as well as a concurrent Trump
rally right here on NTD tonight join
Tiffany Meyer and a panel of experts
from 10: to 11:00 p.m. eastern time hear
more reactions from voters and a
breakdown of the key moments that starts
at 1 p.m. eastern time on TV and on our
website ntd.com and a fresh round of
subpoenas in the probe into the Biden
family's business dealings the house
oversight committee issued subpoenas
today for the president's son Hunter
Biden and brother James Biden the
committee chairman Congressman James
comr signed the subpoenas he's also
seeking interviews with several other
Biden family members and Associates that
group includes Melissa Cohen Hunter
Biden's wife and Sarah Biden James
Biden's wife comr said in a statement
the house oversight committee has
followed the money and built a record of
evidence revealing how Joe Biden knew
was involved and and benefited from his
family's influence pedaling schemes
Financial records obtained and made
public by House Republicans show a
network of shell companies set up by the
Biden family while President Biden was
vice president the records indicate that
the family and their companies raked in
more than $24
million the White House today calling
Comer's investigation baseless meanwhile
on the war in Gaza the Biden
Administration again calling for
Humanity Arian pauses but also
reiterating opposition to a ceasefire
nd's White House correspondent Irish ta
has more in response to a SL sub penis
targeting President Biden's family the
White House study calling the
investigation by the house oversight
committee baseless watch and has turned
up zero evidence of wrongdoing by the
president uh because there is none uh
but Republicans continue to double down
on a baseless a baseless uh smear
campaign against the president meanwhile
on Israel Secretary of State Anthony
blinkin is in Japan today meeting with
the foreign Ministers of the G7
democracies while they together called
for humanitarian pauses in Gaza blinkin
today again stepped up his opposition to
a general ceasefire in Gaza watch all of
us want to end this conflict as soon as
possible and meanwhile to minimize
civilian suffering but as I discussed
with my G7 colleagues those calling for
an immediate ceasefire
have an obligation to explain how to
address the unacceptable result it would
likely bring about and both secretary
blinkin and the white house today saying
that they oppose an Israeli reoccupation
of Gaza but suggesting that there might
need to be some kind of a transition
period after the conflict meanwhile as
the war in the Middle East continues a
new poll by CNN suggests that 36% of
Americans see Biden as an effective
world leader while 48% see Trump as one
it further puts Trump slightly ahead of
Biden in potential 2024 rematch the
White House today saying that they're
focused on National Security not poll
results back to
you and the US military has conducted a
self-defense strike on a facility in
eastern Syria used by Iran's Islamic
revolutionary guard Corps and Affiliated
groups that's according to a statement
from the defense department the strike
was conducted by two us f-15s against a
weapon storage facility the strike is a
response to a series of attacks against
us Personnel in
Iraq the house voted yesterday to
censure Michigan representative Rashida
Talib a punishment one step below
expulsion the 234 to 188 final vote came
after some Democrats sided with
Republicans to pass the
measure representative Rich McCormack
moved to censor TB for what he called
her anti-semitic rhetoric and for
calling for the destruction of the state
of Israel Talib said she will not be be
silenced and her criticisms were
directed to the Israeli government she
said quote the idea that criticizing the
government of Israel is anti-Semitic
sets a very dangerous precedent many
opponents of the centure in both parties
cited Free Speech as their objection and
warned of the president this censor
could set T becomes the 26 person ever
to be censored by the chamber and the
second person this year TB will have the
formal repr read aloud to her on the
house floor in a hearing today Senators
grilled the Secretary of Homeland
Security Alejandro mayorcas over the
ongoing border crisis he defended the
administration strategy On the Border
while requesting additional funding
entities Jason Perry has the story do
you think that millions of people
crossing our border illegally creates
the risk of a terrorist attack in our
country in a hearing on Wednesday the
Senate Appropriations Committee took a
closer look at the budget requests for
the Department of Homeland Security and
the Department of Health and Human
Services Senator um uh I think that uh
the men and women of the Department of
Homeland Security do an extraordinary
job of ensuring the Safety and Security
question I asked yes or no do you do you
think that creates a millions of people
come here are here illegally we're not
even talking about the Goda ways how
many Goda ways are in our country here
illegally does that create the risk of a
terror attack in our country let me
question let me assure you Senator that
the Safety and Security of the American
people is the single highest priority of
the you say it does create a risk
mayorcas also blamed the high number of
illegal Crossings on what he called a
broken immigration system Senator Patty
Murray expressed different concerns to
Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro
mayorcas noting that last year there
were almost 110,000 drug overdose deaths
secretary
what what will the president's
supplemental request allow you to do to
stop fentanyl from entering our
country uh chair Murray um it will
assist us significantly in our
interdiction efforts we already have
done an extraordinary job the men and
women of US Customs and Border
Protection and Homeland Security
investigations have engaged in a number
of operations which is surging our
personnel and our technological
resources to the ports of Entry where
the majority of the fentanyl is smuggled
into our country mayorcas went on to say
that 90% of the fentel smuggled into
America is smuggled through the ports of
Entry Senator Susan Collins suggested
that that did not represent the entire
situation what we heard was that 90% of
fentanyl is seized at Port
Sentry what that doesn't tell you is how
much fentanyl is coming in through
drones and coming through from Goda ways
the second point I will quickly make is
D DHS cannot ignore the role that Mexico
and China are playing playing in the
fentol crisis the precursors the pill
pressors are coming from China to the
Mexican cartels although most of the
hearing focused on mayorcas Health and
Human Services secretary Javier Basera
said the US is facing a child care
crisis he explained that the average
cost of child care ranges from $5,000 to
$177,000 a year he said the proposed
funding could help provide parents with
affordable highquality child care Jason
Perry NTD
news and billions of dollars are flowing
from foreign adversaries to our college
campuses enabling information campaigns
from regimes like the Chinese Communist
party and the Hamas terrorist group now
the house is taking action to shine a
light on this pervasive foreign
influence and TI's Molina Weis cup has
the story education is a Battleground
for influence over the next generation
of Americans and unfortunately our
foreign adversaries understand this very
well that's the heart of the issue that
Republican congresswoman Michelle steel
and Virginia Fox are tackling with their
deterrent Act it would require colleges
and its staff to report even $1 worth of
gifts given to them by foreign countries
of concern we know that the Chinese
Communist party is not giving money to
these institutions for nothing may be
trying to get sensitive National
Security information they may just be
wanting to influence the way students
think an issue that lawmakers on both
sides acknowledge leading to a
bipartisan vote to advance the bill to
the house flooor what China has been
doing in terms of uh intellectual
property threat goes well beyond
traditional Espionage the scale of
threat is unprecedented in human history
to infiltrate their development programs
or research programs uh particularly
when it comes to Advanced uh military uh
research but China's subversion is only
one piece of the puzzle college students
are directly impacted today with Rising
anti-Semitism a report finds that that
over 200 American colleges and
universities received $13 billion from
foreign regimes which has helped fuel
anti-Semitism on college campuses and
the colleges and universities raking in
money from the Middle East appear to be
ignoring title six while they allowed
Jewish students to be threatened and
harassed on campus in the house
Judiciary Committee today held a
separate hearing to examine the rise in
anti-israel sentiment on college
campuses and the vi violence that are
directed at students who are supporting
Israel reporting from Capitol Hill
Molina Weis cup ND
news a chemical plant exploded in Texas
earlier today forcing local residents to
temporarily take shelter officials in
sentin hinto County said the explosion
took place at sound resource Solutions a
company that recycles and repackages
various chemicals it's in a rural area
about 60 Mi Northeast of Houston the
solvent produced in the factory are used
to make glue and paint remover the
company confirmed there was a forklift
incident and said a worker suffered a
minor injury officials warned that
chemicals from the plant are toxic and
can cause eye and skin irritation a
shelter in place order was lifted in the
afternoon but authorities are warning
locals to limit all unnecessary outdoor
activity Highway 59 remains closed due
to the
fire the Los Angeles County Sheriff's
Department is mourning the deaths of
four employees who tragically died this
week all by Suicide entity's Christina
Corona has more on the
story within the span of 24 hours four
former and current LA Sheriff Department
employees died by Suicide the sheriff
department said three were active
members in the agency while one was
retired the deaths were reported Monday
and Tuesday one of the individuals was
commander Darren Harris who was
discovered dead in his Santa clus
residence Monday morning Harris served
for 25 years as the chief Department
spokesperson Anonymous sources revealed
to the times that his passing resulted
from a self-inflicted gunshot wound on
the same day authorities found the body
of retired Sergeant Greg hovland at his
Courts Hill home in the afternoon
another employee was discovered dead in
Stevenson Ranch shortly after Sunset the
fourth death occurred at 7:30 a.m. on
Tuesday as Sheriff's homicide detectives
responded to a Pomona Hospital where an
employee took their own life LA County
Sheriff Robert Luna said in a statement
we are stunned to learn of these deaths
and it has sent shock wavs of emotions
throughout the department as we try and
cope with the loss of not just one but
four beloved active and retired members
of our department family former Sheriff
Alex villanua posted on X these four
deaths bring the total of nine suicides
within the La Sheriff Department
headquarters this year why so many from
one agency prayers for all who are
hurting look out for each other there is
no indication that the deaths were
related or that Foul Play was involved
however the third and fourth deaths were
discovered as news of the earlier ones
spread through the agency and if you or
anyone you know is suffering from
thoughts of self harm please call the
suicide and crisis Lifeline at 988
Christina Corona entity news Los Angeles
California is aiming for 100% renewable
energy by cutting emissions entirely but
one columnist says NTI tells ntid the
state's policies are not sustainable and
are impacting the cost of
living California strives to reach zero
emissions by relying on all renewable
energy but if you look at what we really
use to generate electricity in
California it's mostly Natural Gas Su
shell is a columnist with Southern
California news group she discusses with
California Insider Cami about
California's renewable energy policies
she says renewable energy only provides
about 30% of what the state needs and
every day starting at about 4:00 it
begins to decline and by the time the
sun goes down it's at the solar energy
is at zero and people say oh well
batteries well batteries maybe 3% of the
energy we're using at Night comes from
batteries and they run out by midnight
$10 billion investment in zero emission
Vehicles Governor Gavin announced last
year that the state plans to achieve
100% zero emission Vehicles by 2035 to
reduce greenhouse gas emissions oil
refineries have also been shutting down
but Shelly says natural gas and oil are
still needed to generate electricity
when the state can't produce enough of
its own it will have to import resources
they're mandating all electric trucks
well the infrastructure for electric
trucks is not ready the electric trucks
aren't ready but the infrastructure for
the trucks isn't ready according to
Shell the government seeks to regulate
when people will use electricity and how
much to use it it would make the cost of
living more expensive too as the cost of
clean Transportation could pass on to
Consumers and higher taxes on gasoline
all of our Global greenhouse gas
emission percentage in California is one
1% the whole state could shut down and
it would make no difference to the
global climate we are in California
bearing this tremendous burden
financially to model good climate
behavior and it doesn't do anything it
has no effect on the climate and other
people may not follow it anyways if they
don't follow it then for sure it has no
effect Shelly says it is a balancing act
between keeping the air clean but also
generating enough reliable and afford
energy for people to use shocking
accusations made against the United
Nations agency today the organization is
allegedly stirring up hatred against
Israel in Gaza starting with children in
schools ntid's Arian pazar has
highlights from a congressional hearing
on Capitol Hill there needs to be plans
for the phasing out of unra over time
unra the United Nations relief and works
Agency for Palestine refugees in the
near East front and center at a hearing
on Wednesday there should only be be one
agency that deals with refugees
worldwide the Palestinian one has failed
unra was founded in 1949 to support
Palestinian refugees Witnesses told the
house Foreign Affairs committee that the
agency has been infiltrated saying that
teachers at unra schools in Gaza teach
kids anti-semitic hatred which has had
serious outcomes graduates of unra who
have committed terrorist attacks and
this is over the past 20 years and they
site numerous graduates of un schools
who commit terrorist attacks with as
Jonathan Lincoln who worked with the UN
for 15 years agreed in part saying
teachers at those un schools should be
replaced now unra of course is just one
of many agencies belonging to the United
Nations but Witnesses at Wednesday's
hearing didn't just talk about unra they
cited some concerning numbers regarding
the un's handling of Israel for example
the executive director of un watch says
that the UN promises equal rights to
countries but is treating autocracies
like China better than than Israel take
a look never does the UN blame Hamas for
launching the war for embedding
themselves inside hospitals homes
schools and mosques at the UN General
Assembly last year there was one
resolution on Iran one on Syria one on
North Korea and 15 on Israel zero
resolutions were adopted on China
Venezuela Zimbabwe and 180 other
countries Jonathan Lincoln said that
although not perfect unra is still very
important for Gaza calling it the only
agency that can guarantee necess Aid to
refugees in Gaza at this point in time
Aran pastar NTD
news alifa Hospital above a shelter for
thousands of injured Gins below a
reported Hamas Command Center for
Israel's military a critical Mission
objective here's more among the Israeli
military's main objectives is the
capture of alifa Hospital the largest
hospital in Gaza and one of the very few
still standing over 2,000 injured Gins
inside despite a bed capacity of only
700 and over 50,000 Gins Sheltering
there according to the Hamas run Health
Ministry underneath the alifa hospital
is the Hamas Command Center it is
several stories deep we believe that
there could be Israeli hostages held
there we believe that there is fuel
that's been diverted there we believe
there are Rockets down there researcher
Jonathan shanzer suggests this means the
hospital will be the center of attention
very soon it can be met of
days the Israeli forces will take
control on
every ER part that we see as important
part of the city of Gaza including the
area of shifa Hospital former Israeli
security official itamar says Israel has
contacted the hospital and has asked the
hospital management to clear everyone
out so that the building is empty before
Israeli troops arrive it's not clear
whether the hospital got the message we
feel that they're coming closer and
closer so so the main feeling is that
prepare yourself to the moment where
they are going to get in to the shifa
hospital a Hospital surgeon said on
Tuesday that everyone at the hospital is
a civilian and that you don't see a
single gun he believes hospitals are
usually protected by international law
former Israeli security official itamar
says Israel has no interest in
casualties inside hospital but he says a
hospital is not an insurance policy if
for example the Israeli forces will face
fire that will come out of this building
they will use fire against it and you're
right ER in this case there will be
casualties he says the Israeli military
hopes to capture the hospital within
days B quter NTV news
turning now to Africa Aid agencies say
refugees arriving into Chad from Sudan
have reported a surge in killings and
fighting in De for ethnic related
killings have intensified since fighting
broke out in April between the Sudanese
armed forces and the paramilitary group
The rsf according to Witnesses and Aid
groups the uncr says since then 1.2
million people have fled to two
neighboring countries Chad received most
of them followed by South Sudan and
Egypt how often are children exposed to
sexual exploitation on social media
platforms like Instagram and Facebook
the issue is in the spotlight after a
meta whistleblower testified in Congress
yesterday joining me now is Lena neon
from the national Center on sexual
exploitation so I wanted to talk to you
about the hearing with the Instagram
whistleblower yesterday um so uro bear
testified saying that uh from his
research 13 to 15 year olds have
received uh unwanted sexual advances on
Instagram so my my question to you is
how did we get here to this
point wow well it's been a long history
I'd say decades long since Instagram
started back I believe in
2012 of um them continuously
prioritizing profit over people and in
particular kids um while the revelations
from the hearing you know are um
disturbing sadly they are not new and
Instagram two years ago we had another
whistleblower Francis Hogan showing the
Instagram knows that they are harming
teens and yet continuously choose not to
do the right thing and not to put in
substantive changes that will actually
Safeguard their youngest
users and you said that meta actually
provides the very tools and features for
predators to easily Target and access
children can you explain how this is
yes so they are uh by their own
admission creating an atmosphere and um
creating vulnerabilities of the children
themselves for example reducing the
mental health of young teen girls in
particular while simultaneously creating
tools like allowing predators to access
children their whole uh business model
is based on users connecting with each
other and staying on the platform as
long as possible so they make it quite
easy for strange adults to connect with
young kids adults can see what kids are
doing online so predators can very
easily tap into vulnerabilities or
identify things that they can use to
create um a relationship to then further
groom them and they allow them to talk
in direct messages which is a more
hidden way where we know a lot of the
grooming and sexual exploitation
actually happen so again they're
simultaneously creating vulnerabilities
in young people and then giving access
to by strange adults and predators to
these young children um trying to make
those connections that the predators of
course take advantage of knowing that
likely nothing will happen to them and
just to further Hammer Hammer home the
severity of the situation if you could
paint us for us a real world picture o
of the stakes uh that uh in terms of
what's being what's being done what what
the harm
is when we speak to young people teens
the harm is so prevalent that they
almost aren't even recognizing it we
have spoken to girls where they say they
get weekly images of sexually explicit
content you know images of men's private
parts on a weekly basis and it's become
so normalized that they're not even
realizing it Instagram in particular is
known to be a top destination for sex
trafficking sex tortion again especially
of young boys um it's pornography
exposure it is one of the most dangerous
platforms um for young people and yet
they are not doing this and not doing
enough to stem the abuses and we are
seeing children from all walks of life
from every demographic being to being
approached by Predators on Instagram
this is very important for families to
understand that this is just the normal
interactions that are happening on this
very popular very rich
platform so what needs to change for for
meta so that children can be absolutely
safe so first of all we really need
Congress to act they need to um hold
these tech companies accountable of
course it's not just uh meta and
Instagram that are perpetuating harms um
although they are among the worst
Congress needs to hold them accountable
Instagram has proven itself incapable
and unwilling to do what they need to do
um but meta also should be making
substantive changes we believe that they
should stop allowing D direct messaging
altogether for 15 uh 14 and 13 year olds
that's something that Tik Tok actually
did when they recognized that grooming
was such a problem um they need to stop
adults being able to um find young
profiles and young user profiles and
comment on um accounts because that's
another form of grooming they need to
stop making uh pornography accounts
available to young people and really use
all the tools that are available there
are tools available um technology to
scan for grooming child sex abuse
material and predatory behavior they
tell us they're doing it they are
clearly not doing enough all right thank
you so much today Lena neon thank
you and now for your sports news here's
ntid's Dave Martin with an update on the
ongoing Michigan football investigation
that's right Don the Big 10 in Michigan
could do legal battles should the
conference suspend head coach Jim haral
this week according to multiple reports
now Monday the conference sent a notice
of disciplinary action to Michigan which
is required when a school is likely to
be sanctioned for violating the
conference's sportsmanship policy the
policy gives the commissioner power to
suspend a head coach for up to two games
and impose a $10,000 fine now whatever
the sanctions are though could be
announced as soon as tomorrow meanwhile
the ncaa's investigation into possible
sign stealing is still ongoing that
investigation likely won't conclude
until after the season though Michigan
which is 9 and0 and ranked third in the
college football playoff rankings is
reportedly planning to take the
conference to court should they suspend
their head coach now deciphering
opponent play calls isn't actually
against the rules but inperson scouting
of future opponents is as well as using
electronic equipment to steal signs is
prohibited and for your sports viewing
schedule tonight the NHL's a triple
header planned highlighted by the
reigning Stanley Cup champion Las Vegas
golden knights the team is off to a
blazing start with an 111 inone record
they'll host the LA Kings meanwhile in
the hardwood after night off the NBA is
back with 14 games tonight including a
pair of intriguing matchups first Victor
wanyama makes his Manhattan debut
against the Knicks at Madison Square
Garden just two games removed from his
3810 rebound performance in Phoenix also
on the docket the defending Champion
Denver Nuggets host the Golden State
Warriors in a matchup of the past two
NBA champions and that's it for your
sports news today Dawn back to
you