and these are the priorities of the government as well. i think we need to talk not just about what meta and instagram are doing or not doing but also about thistaxic suit. look at numbers of people who are wanting this material, why is that happening? and the toxic soup is several things. first an open border and cat called joe biden the sex trafficker in chief. we have people coming over the border, children, we have no idea what s happening but it s so much deeper than that. we have the normalization of foreign fio in the culture. younger and younger and the average age of young child looking at pornography is 10 years old and that content is becoming more and more administered core and affecting people into their adulthoods and then the sexualization of children, which we all know is happening and we have to we have groups, academics saying it s, you know, these are child adult attracted to child or coming up with the new name, minor attracted adults.
100% justified. thank you for pursuing it. we will endevour to help you in that pursuit. it s astonishing and disturbing how many adults let you dow and failed at one of the most basic responsibilities of adulthoods which is to look out for children, take care of them, behave properly and here entrust them. i guess on behalf of adults everywhere, we owe you an apology. what you have done today is impressive and it will make a difference and i m grateful to you for stepping up the way you have. thank you. thank you senator whitehouse. senator holly is on via webex. you ll see him on the screen in
0 job is to protect are getting away with this? this is not justice. enough is enough. i ask you to hear my voice. please doe all that is in your power to ensure these individuals are held responsible and accountable for ignoring my initial report. for lying about my initial report and for covering up for a child molester. in closing, i would like to express my deep gratitude to the united states senate a very power institution that from the very beginning has fought for us rather than against us. thank you. i welcome any questions. thank you. miss nickols. thank you for inviting me to speak to you today. i want to thank you for your commitment to pry tortizing athlete safety. i was named as gymnast two and previously identified by athlete a. this did not happen to gymnast two or athlete a. it happened to me, maggie nick nichols. i was elite level gymnast by the age of 13. by the time i was 14, i made the national team. i traveled internationally for four years and in 2015 at the
children and youth is incredibly important. this is the largest humanitarian crisis in our entire generation. you laid out numbers. let me layout more. 10,000 children have lost their lives. we have about a million children inside syria in hard to access areas. and over 3 million are out of school and have been out of school for about three years. so if we look at that generation of people, those are going to be the future leaders of a prosperous and stable syria. this calls upon the conscience of all of us as the secretary recently said, which means we all have to do more. the u.s. government is doing what it can to focus on pt needs of this important generation so that they don t lose their entire childhoods and young adulthoods to conflict. you just got back from meeting with syrian refugees in jordan. tell us what the regional impact is. if you look at the country like lebanon and jordan and turkey. in lebanon, for example, they ve
to explain to people about like what i learned from junior high and high school is that popularity in junior high and high school doesn t buy you anything in later life. and then i hear really you ought to look for the kids who are the dorkier you are at those important ages, the cooler you are probably going to be as an adult. it s not always true. that s what i observe. i think if you re being dorky or geeky it s a geeky, dorky time. you re being yourself. you re not trying to be something else. how many junior high or high school stars have we heard about who have just failed as adulthoods because they really haven t gone through that. they haven t gotten to know their true self. i sort of feel like i m waiting to meet my true self. i m looking at her. it s going to be in a dark alley and there s going to be a fight when it happens. one last question for you about politics. sure. that is, at the same time that we ve been seeing this transformation in the democratic party