i hope that outrage will finally be channelled into overcoming here is the really important point the armies of lobbyists and lawyers that big tech has mustered to counter and combat this legislation. no more. there is absolutely no way that any one parent can feasibly manage the fire hose of online harms that are being directed at our kids every day. we need help from the federal government and we need it now. we see the vulnerables in this new report. one this three american teenage girls saying that they have considered attempting suicide. and they are clearly at a crisis point as they navigate a sometimes peril police online world. brianna keilar,e cnn, washingto. and as the michigan state
efforts to silence and punish conservatives. let s get to capitol hill. cnn s sara murray is there. how do the republicans plan to use this first big hearing. reporter: this has been sort of an obsession for jim jordan. he is the committee chairman, the subcarmack-altwies chafk. basically this notion that doj and fbi have been politicized and so today they are going to feature ron johnson who looked into this for presentation and will have tulsi gabbard, an ex-democrat going to give a presentation and then there will be a couple former fbi agents there. you know, the issue for jordan he s made a lot of big claims and offered scant evidence to back them up and says everything he has to say about the politicization of the government is backed up by these anonymous whistle-blowers. now, i think you can expect a lot of pushback from the democrats as we see this subcommittee hearing unfold. they disagree with the entire premise of this subcommittee, the notion there is weaponization of th
this hour president biden lands in tampa, florida, for day two of his post-state of the union road tour. the trip tries to check two box, one to quiet questions about mr. biden s age, to show he has the stamina to sustain a second grueling run for the presidency. the second box, to put republicans on defense about spending priorities. the president casting the gop as a threat to social security and medicare. not true, republicans say, but it is a determined effort by the president to shape both the debt ceiling fight and the battle for senior voters next year. let s start in tampa. cnn white house reporter priscilla alvarez is there. the president is coming there and his staff proving he will keep up the social security/medicare argument. reporter: that s exactly right. he is driving home his message today, he is protecting social security and medicare. an issue that gained the
fiercest reaction during the state of the union this week and he s doing it in a state where he s trying to draw a sharp contrast with senator rick scott, a republican of florida and in a state that is home to two potential gop challengers in 2024. now, as you mentioned, that proposal that would sunset federal legislation including social security and medicare in five years is the focus today and it s abundantly clear to the audience how aggressively the white house is leaning into it and each of those seats behind me rick scott s plan was on there and also attached to that was biden s plan so we expect to hear quite a bit from this, from president biden today when he speaks here. now, of course, senate majority leader mitch mcconnell dismissed this plan was ever going to gain traction. scott this morning on cnn pushed back saying that he has no intention of cutting social security and medicare but it is clear, john, that the white house sees this as an opportunity on a key issue as th