it under the rug in the senate and refuse to deal with it at all. tough, not simple does not mean you shouldn t deal with it is what you re saying. ambassador and international affairs analyst joins us. if you were to summarize it, it is paraphrasing, saying we re still being attacked and we re still being attacked by foreign entities here. and then you have the senate majority leader saying we don t need to consider this election security bill saying there s already been money allocated to it. and you heard what ben was saying, that this is falling within the purview of states and localities. well, i think the majority leader should seize upon this report. i actually think this gives him a moment and it gives president trump a moment to pivot away from their old arguments. remember, their basic argument, president trump doesn t want to
factory. if the company still buys from that bad factory, if the company stops buying, if the company tells a factory to change, all of that, transparentem reports. nike and brooks sports got back to us but did not want to discuss the report. joining us now is the ceo of transparentem, ben skinner. ben, it only took three years. that s a lot of data but you re a data guy. when we look at this very issue of what some people call slaves or child laborers, poison workers even, do their hands when we look at this, do they actually make the clothing that we wear? thanks, richard. yes is the short answer. the longer answer is, yes, but it s complicated and it s hidden, which is why we do what we do. we are fundamentally
i was hit a couple times for not bringing back enough, for talking about. you re always supposed to bring back more than 100. i was at least, i don t know about other girls. between me and my boyfriend at the time, there was a lot of violence. i had black eyes, he used to choke me all the time. i would have never thought i would have been in this situation. i would have never thought i would have sold myself for any other person. i would have never thought that i would have let myself be treated as badly as i was being treated by him. ben skinner, you were offered a slave? on four continents i was witness to the sale of human beings. how does it work? let s say we re in brooklyn, new york, where i was living at the time. some eight hours from there, in port-au-prince, hatepy. i pulled up in an suv, rolled down a window. there were four men standing in front of a barber shop. everyone in the neighborhood knows what these men do. they re brokers.
you are both? and i became very, very passionate about this particular cause. so afterwards, the u.n. asked me to become their good will ambassador. ben, why do we call it human trafficking, as opposed to what? as opposed so drug trafficking, organ trafficking. as opposed to arms trafficking. today if we re talking about the best estimates that we have, there are organized criminal cindy cats that make more money from human trafficking than illegal arms trafficking. human beings are the second most lucrative commodity after drugs. who are these syndicates. put the idea out of your head that these are vast mafias. in some cases, in the case of some of the mexican cartels operating out of juarez, there s
which city is a hub for child prostitution. are your neighbors harboring illegal workers? all that next on larry king live. good evening, governor schwarzenegger of california formally signed a bill today that requires retailers and manufacturers who do business in the state to publicly disclose their efforts on human trafficking from their supply chains. joining us to talk about this issue that affects us all are julia ormond, actress and activist, president of the alliance to stop slavery and end trafficking. ben skinner, the senior fellow at the schuster institute at brandice university. he s author of a crime so monstrous, face-to-face with modern day slavery.