thune empowering with mr. shots, as well, which goes to section 230. mr. markey and bloomenthol has introduced legislation to protect our children. marsha blackburn has important legislation to address these issues. what i have seen with these hearings is how a ranking member republican and richard bloomenthol leading that effort and bringing us together and drawing attention here. and it's my goal to be able to have some hearings here in the coming weeks to look at these legislative ideas and as i've shared in hearings and also with the press, it's going to be incumbent upon congress to mark these bills up and to move these bills out of the united states senate to the house by the end of the calendar year. i'm hoping by early december. we have to make a commitment for floor time to pass these pieces of legislation because of the kids that we've now seen that are vulnerable. young girls that facebook clearly was preying upon. and also the national security threats that began to reveal themselves more and more every day. this is comprehensive and it's the s

a third piece lead by john thune called the filter bubble transparenty act allows them to not generate by a secret algorithm. i should say it is important to know that congress doesn't need their permission to legislate. they will have to decide the extent to which they will separate the inherent tension between the parties that want to grow their platforms or not. >> kara, you have been a path breaker on criticizing facebook, what about these children's platforms and the parents, what needs to be done here? >> i don't know, >> i don't know. at this point i don't mind the executives are doing this in congress. it is up to congress to act. they've been doing nothing forever from the beginning of time of these things and have never done any laws or rules that protect children or privacy or data or deal with misinformation. it is time to stop making speeches like that one and do something and pass the legislation. that is their job. at this point it is the job of legislators and lawmakers to do something about it. and there's lots of different bills out there all through congress and they

the other thing i thought was interesting and i caught up with senator thune right before the vote, he acknowledged this was a tough one. republicans don't like taking votes when it comes to thinks like the debt ceiling especially not in this way when they have been talking about the trillions they're spending that the democrats are looking to do. we're talking about different pots of spending because the $3.5 trillion is probably lower than that when this is all said and done. that's not the money we're talking about here with the debt ceiling. it's already been spent in part because of the republicans' decision to do things like the trump tax cuts several years ago. nevertheless, when that's been the republicans' talking point, it puts them in a tough situation. i do think the thing to remember is they didn't necessarily vote or they did not vote to raise the debt ceiling, but they did vote to allow democrats to raise the debt ceiling. those are those 11 votes we're talking about here. >> ali, i'm glad you raised the point. it can't be under scored enough. these are two different poc

voting with the one thing republicans said they won't join with democrats to do but as senator john thune said sarcastically in when one member asked them if they have the votes. this has become such a political hot potato. now the senate does have that kind of time where the u.s. says the line of vet it will run out. it's another phase inner in situation here. that week in december is looking mighty, mighty dangerous when you consider can the fact that it's not just the debt ceiling deadline it's also government funding so this washington favorite game of kicking the can down the road will make us go through all of this yet again in december, and the big question at that point is going to be how they end up dealing with the debt ceiling then. mitch mcconnell struck this deal and has been trumpeting it as a reason that democrats can now use reconciliation. that's the mechanism that mcconnell has wanted them to use this entire time and it's also the thick that every senate democrat who i spoke to yesterday says they are absolutely not going to do. hallie. what's up? we're just going to hav

the fact that john thune said we don't want our name on increasing the debt limit. they don't care about the issue, they want to run ads saying only the other guys did it. this is so irresponsible, david. i don't know your comments. i'm just going to let you talk. >> it's for the most part no longer a governing party. you know, claire remembers there were times even though it's not like washington was laughs and giggles when she was there, but you could get stuff done. this party is sworn to trump, denialism, sworn to destroying the democracy. the only reason mcconnell blinked was he heard from manchin and sinema they would have a carve out on the filibuster. we've got better things to talk about. listen, the republicans don't want to do that. it's outrageous and hitch critical. i want them out there talking about the jobs and home health care and taxes raised on the wealthy. i wouldn't fall into this trap. it's an important issue of course. claire and i went through this in 2011. i would shrug your shoulders and say, we'll do this. deeply hypocrite call but that sh

. >> it's mit romney's it's the ben sass and john thunes that are standing in the schoolhouse store, standing in the senate door and they are stopping voting rights bills from being debated. >> why do you go into public life? what do you choose here? it's bigger than infrastructure now. historians are going to debate. at stake here is the fabric of american democracy. what can be bigger? why else do you choose this line of work? they'll talk about republicans and what they're trying to do with voting rights. let my say to my republican friends who i still consider you as friends even if you don't consider me. i can love you but you don't have to love me. if you don't like the bill as it's, get in there and do what legislatures are paid to do. tell them what you don't like about the bill. what will it take, lisa, murkowski, to get you to a yes. just let them debate on the bill and vote on it. mit romney, what do you not like about it? i am not going to vote to help them pass voting rights. what don't you like about it? don't hold a press conference. talk to them about it. say i don't