insane. rachel, talk to me about the set of policies and the literally the criminal justice policies that seem to do more criminalizing than creating justi justice, and make these vulnerable children even more vulnerable, so is what puts a person at risk initially and how do the policies create more risk to them? it is the risk factors that we know that 70 to 90% of both children and adult women who end up in the sex industry were abused prior to the recruitment. the correlation is very high. and so they are victimized initially, and that is in part creates a greater vulnerability for a second round of victimizatio victimization. yes, in this country talking about low income girls and girls of color, and race and class and that determines how much of a victim we believe you are. new york state passed the first
with shutting down the adult section of backpage.com, so i urge liz to move in that direction and consider that with the mirror being held up. i would hope that other citizens would join us on the petition. unfortunately, we have to wrap, and this is a huge issue and one in which there are many complex issues, and i appreciate all of you joining me at the table to discuss it today. and mira out in l.a., and liz mcdougal out in seattle, and also thank you to rachel lloyd and catherine henderson for being at the table. coming up, we will talk about mitt romney and his long trek towards the presidency or not. [ male announcer ] capri sun has 25% less sugar
all of your panelists today with rachel, with mira and with reverend henderson about the severity of the problem and the fact that this problem exists in the united states not just globally. it is long overdue for recognition in the united states. the difference that we have is the role of technology in fighting human trafficking online. we certainly, we don t deny that the internet has become a tool that traffickers and pimps are using in the exploitation of children and women and in labor exploitation as well. however, the internet has always offered tremendous opportunities for combatting human trafficking at unparalleled levels, and we believe that the, i, personally, believe that coming from more than a decade of cyber crime that to stop human trafficking online, you have the fight it online, aed on the fight it
appropriate first response, but it is the one i had when i heard it. how did ann romney react? well, she took to twitter that night with the very first tweet saying, i made a choice to stay home to raise five boys, and believe me, it was hard work. so let me show you the extra matches that rosen tossed into the flames as witnessed by her flurry of tweets after her comments. tweeting, i have nothing against ann d. romney, but i don t want mitt using her as an expert on women struggling financially for their families, because she isn t. and this one from ann romney, i am aware that struggling to raise children, and i am raising children, too. and #heneedsmore. and anndromney, you will find twitter exhilarating and awesome place. okay. when i think of the tweets, this is the first thing that comes to mind. all right. zip it. you can t even zip it. zip! look, all i m ladies and gentlemen of the jury, exhibit a. would you back me up. look, i m zippy long stockings,
costello. quite a long time. my shoe is unbuckled. 6:01 on monday morning, still not together. i know. but we re here for you, we really are. welcome to american morning. ali velshi is off, christine is on assignment. i m kiran chetry. up first the united states in talks with the taliban trying to end the war in afghanistan. days away from retirement, defense chief robert gates confirming that negotiations got under way a few weeks ago. he appeared on cnn s state of the union yesterday calling the talks preliminary but necessary to bring our troops home. well, i think first of all, we ve just killed the guy who was responsible for attacking us on september 11th, and we have taken out a lot of other al qaeda as well over the years. look, we ended up talking to people in an bar province and iraq who were directly killing had directly been involved in killing our troops. that s the way wars end. gates cautioned against withdrawing u.s. troops from afghanist