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Take It Down - March 7th, Hour 3
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Um this is now becoming a thing, and it is harming, it is hurting, it is traumatizing, especially young people.
Um, and that is when you go to the internet and people are putting up, you know, intimate imagery or deep fake pornography.
And because of artificial intelligence and technology, it looks very real.
And there are people that are doing that, and and even if you're an adult, it can be the most traumatizing event in your life.
Imagine how horrible it would be if you are a child.
And thank God our friend Senator Ted Cruz in Texas has were is working alongside the First Lady Melania Trump.
It's called the Take It Down Act, and it is a move to protect American citizens, especially young people in particular.
I mean, th this this can cause somebody to go over the edge.
It is so dangerous, it is so vile, it is so horrible what some people do.
It's it's just pure evil, but they will spread nonconsensual intimate imagery and deep fake pornography.
And with the first lady backing this crucial legislation, it is clear the Trump administration's serious about combating online harassment and exploitation, and it enforces very strict penalties on offenders and holds social media platforms accountable, ensuring that they act swiftly to remove harmful content.
And and you've got to give them a little bit of of slack, because we want freedom of speech.
However, and and these companies are trying to be as transparent as they can.
Uh, are they going to know that it's a a deep fake, phony imagery, or that this is non-consensual and it's a compromising position?
No, but they do have an obligation to police that.
And they're going to.
The act enforces strict penalties on offenders, hold holds these platforms uh accountable, and you know, people whining about encrypted communications are missing the point.
This is about protecting victims and upholding justice, and it's not about limiting people's right to freedom of speech.
You don't have the right to put somebody else's image.
You don't have the right to that person's image to put it up on social media as a form of harassment, embarrassment, intimidation, and maybe even blackmail in some cases.
Anyway, our friend Senator Ted Cruz of Texas is with us.
Senator, uh, it was great to see you the other night at the State of the Union.
I still can't get over what we witnessed in the chamber.
You never witnessed anything like that, did you?
Uh no, that that night was shocking.
It's great to be with you again.
It was great to be with you that night.
Uh, the State of the Union, the president gave a phenomenal speech.
I think the best speech he's ever given.
It was positive, it was forward looking.
It it it cataloged the incredible victories that that we've already won just just uh 40 days in into the administration.
And the contrast with the Democrats, they are the party of rage, they are the party of hate.
They would not stand or applaud or show anything other than anger the entire time.
It was a despicable performance.
But but one of the one of the moments that was really powerful is that that President Trump addressed this issue that that you uh you you just talked about.
Uh which which is the growing problem of of non consensual, intimate images, revenge porn, deep fake uh porn, attacking and targeting women and attacking and targeting teenage girls.
And and this is a problem that is growing over 3,000%.
And we're seeing well, Melania Trump, uh her guest at the State of the Union sit seated right next to her was a girl from Texas, Ellison Barry.
I know Ellison well.
She is from Alito, Texas, which is North Texas outside Fort Worth.
And she's 15.
When she was 14 a year ago, she woke up one Monday morning to a bunch of texts and calls from her friends.
And a classmate of hers had taken a perfectly innocent picture from social media, had used a an AI app online to create a deep fake so that it appeared to be naked pictures of her.
It wasn't in fact naked pictures.
They were fake, but you couldn't tell.
They appeared entirely real and that classmate sent it to every kid in her school.
And so this poor 14 year old girl wakes up just in tears with all of her friends thinking they're looking at naked pictures of her.
She and her mother they that they they tried to stop it.
They tried to get it taken down and one of the things they did is they reached out to me, their constituents and so they called their senator and Ellison's mom said, Can you help with what happened to my daughter?
I thought it was horrible.
I've got teenage daughters at home.
I thought what happened to her was wrong.
And so I drafted the take it down legislation in response to what happened to Elliston.
And and the take it down legislation does two things.
Number one it makes it a crime it makes it a felony to post nonconsensual intimate images.
That means in some cases they're real pictures say two people are in a romantic relationship they break up and one of them is pissed and decides I'm going to post these pictures of videos for the world.
You don't have a right to do that.
That is a grotesque violation of privacy, and it shouldn't be allowed.
But the other instance is what I just described, where it's a real person, but it's a deep fake, and AI lets you create pictures and even videos that you can't tell they're not real.
And the take-it-down legislation makes that a crime as well.
And then critically, it puts a legal obligation on the tech platforms to take the content down when the victim notifies them, that is non-consensual.
That's me.
Take it down.
and my legislation it it has passed the Senate 100 to nothing.
It's bipartisan legislation I teamed up with Amy Klobuchar Democrat from Minnesota and it passed the Senate with every Democrat, every Republican supporting it this week the first lady came to Capitol Hill Melania came and listened to the victims listened to multiple victims who've been targeted all over the country and and she called on the House of Representatives to take this up and pass it.
And then it's a State of the Union address President Trump called out Elliston Berry in particular and and called on the House passed this legislation put it on his desk so that we can protect women and and and teenage girls and and teenage boys and the victims of of this abuse.
You know, Senator you and I signed up we are in the political fray in this country and a lot of false things have been posted and said about both of us over our long careers and and we can both handle it right I don't know if ever did a deep fake porn on me because I just don't look at this crap anymore.
I just I if I want to aggravate myself you know I can spend a few hours and feel terrible about myself I can spend a few hours online and just you know read all the hateful comments I'd rather not I think I have better things to do with my time I think you probably do too um however this is very different.
I mean now we're talking about intimate photos real or fake and young people involved and there are instances and you're aware of it and I'm aware of it where young people see it and they're so distraught that they bring harm to themselves or they've committed suicide.
That's how serious this is can become that's how real this is to them.
Well Sean you're exactly right and and at the round table that that that we hosted with with the first lady this week one of the witnesses who who spoke at the round table with Brandon Guffy, who who is a state representative in South Carolina, and and tragically that happened to his son Gavin.
And what happened to his son Gavin, he was a teenager, and and he was approached over social media by what he thought was another teenage girl.
And he was convinced to send explicit naked pictures of himself to this teenage girl.
Well, it turned out a stupid mistake that any teenage kid might make, it is not that that uncommon.
And I'm just being real here with you, Senator.
I mean, kids get caught up in stuff.
Yeah, kids, kids do foolish things, and he thought it was a cute girl, and he was trying to flirt with her, so he sent the picture.
It turned out it was a scam artist and engaged in what's called sex torsion.
And they immediately began threatening him.
Okay, we're gonna take this picture of you and we're gonna send it to your friends, we're gonna make it public.
And and and Gavin, this teenager, he he he committed suicide.
He took his own life.
The entire time between the first outreach from this scammer and when Gavin committed suicide was one hour and forty minutes.
Oh my gosh.
This poor kid.
And by the way, Brandon, his father testified that after his son had committed suicide, they found this on his phone.
They found the communication.
The scammer then tried to blackmail the father and and said, Okay, you know, I have your son's naked picture, I'm gonna put it all out there unless you give me money.
And and and trying to shake it.
And they and they knew the kid was dead and that they were responsible for him dying.
What what the father said is the scammer bragged to him, said your son begged for his life, and I didn't care, and that's why he's dead, and send me money, or I'm gonna release it anyway.
Did we ever get this guy?
Did we ever find him?
No, no, and and many of the many of them are are foreigners, many of them are are in in other countries, and and and it can be big business to to shake people down uh for money and and for blackmail, and and we're seeing every year dozens and dozens of teenagers committing suicide because of this.
And and one of the maddening things is that it is an incredibly hard to take down the content.
And so Brandon was saying the provision, so the way I I wrote the law is is I actually borrowed a mechanism from a different law called the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, and that's existing law.
And so if if you or I, if you tweet out a song from the Lion King, they'll pull it down within a couple hours, because you can't tweet out something that's copyrighted.
And and then that's that's existing law.
And so the way we wrote the Take It Down Act is non-consensual intimate images are treated the same, which is when the victim notifies a tech platform, this is me.
It's explicit and I do not consent.
The tech platform has 48 hours to remove it, and I'll tell you, so when Ellison, when I first met her, she and her mother, Anna, came to my office and and we were doing a press conference because I was introducing the bill.
And I was visiting with her and hearing her story in in person, and I asked her then, I I said, Ellison, what what happened to the pictures?
And and she she got upset for a minute and she said, Well, they're still up.
We can't get them down.
It had been nine months, nine months since this had happened.
And she said, the mother, the the mother, Anna, said she had called Snapchat, she'd emailed them, and she just hit a brick wall.
They just didn't care.
Sean, I turned to my staff and I said, I want you to get the CEO of Snapchat on the phone today.
I want this garbage down today.
They took it down with hours.
Now it shouldn't be a sitting senator having to make a phone call to get it get it taken down, and this bill will give every victim the right to get that taken down, and that really empowers victims.
Quick break, right back.
Uh, we'll talk more with Senator uh Ted Cruz on this terrible, terrible crime of exploitation and sex tortion, and how real it is, and how uh you know how widespread it's really become on the other side.
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All right, we continue now with Texas Senator Ted Cruz as we discuss the terrible issue of sex tortion, uh, which is resulting in young people even taking their own lives on some occasions.
And thankfully he has now come up with the take it down act.
I got to imagine that that these tech companies are sympathetic towards us.
There was a case of this Nigerian man who was extradited to the U.S. after he was indicted, and in connection with I think this is the one that you're talking about with the sex tortion case of the South Carolina teen.
I mean, so we do get them occasionally.
There's got to be a digital footprint in all of these cases, doesn't there?
Uh there often is, and and and in some instances, it it's another teenager at the school.
And in it over 90%, in fact, upwards of 95% of the victims of this are either women or teenage girls.
And you see it in high schools where teenage boys think, hey, this is a great idea.
I I'm gonna make fake naked pictures of of my classmates and send it to everyone and they'll think it's real.
And and and it really is abusive.
And, you know, another person who testified at the round table is is a teenager from from New Jersey, Francesca Manny, who had the exact same thing happen to her that Ellison did in the very same month.
Uh October, uh October, just over a year ago, it happened to her as well, the same thing.
And she said, you know what, the boy who did it, they know who it is.
He suffered no consequences.
He still goes to school with her.
He, you know, he gets to laugh and see her every day, having sent these these pictures that everyone thought were real naked pictures uh to every one of her classmates.
Also a growing problem when you have people who are victims of human trafficking, and you have either children who are being sexually molested or or adults who are being sexually molested, and the predators will post the videos and post the pictures online.
And and the take it down act protects them here too, because if you've been through some sort of horrible abuse that that that is like the most terrific experience of your life, and as long as it remains up on a social media platform, you're re-victimized over and over and over again.
It doesn't terrible looking at it.
And so this bill gives you the right, and and so we heard testimony from victims of of abuse who the predators put it up, and and this gives them the right to say, I want that down.
That is me, and you do not have my permission to have it up there.
And so it really's about protecting and empowering the victims.
I'm glad you're drawing attention to this, Senator.
This is this is a real problem, and and these kids are very vulnerable, and this is a real crime, and it's it's a very sophisticated, dark, evil network of people that would do this.
And uh hopefully this will put an end to it.
Uh, Senator Ted Cruz, Texas, we appreciate you uh enlightening us on all this.
Thank you, sir.
Thank you, Sean.
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You know, they're never ever gonna get it on the left.
They just are not.
Um that hard-hitting news show, The View, Joyless Behar.
By the way, did I tell you, Linda, that they invited me on the show after I said, Well, they don't invite me anymore.
When?
Apparently they heard me say it.
Wait, wait, wait.
When did this happen?
It was the last time I said, Well, I used to go on that show, but they don't invite me anymore.
They they called, heard it, and wanted to invite me on.
Now, the last time I was on the show, it was a complete Adam Schiff show.
Yeah, but that was when they had Rosie there.
That was a hot mess.
Oh, do you think it's gonna be any different with Joyless?
Do you think it's gonna be any different with Sonny Houston?
I don't think so.
I actually think you want do you want to hear my idea?
It's actually this is a fantastic idea.
Everyone should sit down and just listen for a minute, because it's about to be her shower.
There we go.
Get ready.
I think that you and Stephen A should go one together.
It's gonna be six on one.
Not that I can't handle it, it's just why.
Six on one two.
First of all, SA's your boy, so you guys would be friends.
Like you'd be sitting there together, like battling.
No, no, no, no.
He's gonna be like, Yeah, they're right.
Yeah, they're right.
Oh, he's not gonna let him attack me personally.
He wouldn't do that because we're just gonna be.
I think it would actually be fun.
I think he'd be Switzerland, then I think it would be fun.
He wouldn't be Switzerland.
He can help, you know, the other night when in the State of the Union, I will give him credit.
He was texting me, and this is he's like, This is a disgrace.
He thought it was uh unbelievable discreet.
However, he he still kind of has that hate Trump in him, and he just doesn't he doesn't like Trump style.
That's what it really comes down to.
And I think he doesn't understand Trump and the policies.
And I said, Let me ask you, what do you know about weaponization?
We it was a serious conversation.
And st like, for example, on sports, when he asked me something about sports, if I don't know it, he's far more knowledgeable than me.
Uh, and he'll say, Stay in your lane.
When he talks politics, often I'll say back to him, you gotta stay in your lane.
And you know, now that now that everybody's been out there and he's been enjoying every second of this talk about him, maybe be running for president.
He's not running for president.
I know Stephen A. I tell you right now, if it's SA or Kamala, I'm voting for SA.
Okay, it's not gonna be essay or common law, it's gonna be essay in a conservative, and he he's not a conservative, but he's got more a more moderate common sense way of thinking about him.
So um and and not and on top of that, he's just a nice guy.
He genuinely is nice, he's willing to mix it up.
He's a broadcaster, he's talented, he's gifted, he's got all these great things going on for him.
And I'm I couldn't be more proud of him.
I'm so happy for him.
And you know, he he goes on the view, and they don't even understand him.
And and even they were like going after him for just just mildly, you know, defending Donald Trump, you know, like give Elon Musk a chance.
Can we give the guy a chance before we just you know openly condemn the guy?
And they their minds are closed.
So you're saying So their minds were never open.
I mean, you know, you're getting actually thought.
You actually want me to consider going on the view.
I think it would be fun these days because similar to what is happening with the Dems at the State of the Union or the joint address, whatever we're calling it.
I personally worth the cost of admi it might be worth the price of admission just to say joyless, it's so good to see you again.
Listen, they're gonna be hate that.
I think they're gonna be on their best behavior, and then they'll slowly become unhinged.
I think your biggest adversary would actually be Ana Navarro because she's so hate-filled.
She's really hate-filled.
Whoopi just seems angry about everything.
Joy is and joy is not like Trump Trump derangement on steroids and human growth hormone.
Anyway, they're discussing they're discussing the difficulties of being friends with a Trump supporter.
Gee, what a complicated mess this must be.
Listen.
Friends without Trump supporter, I won't give them a kidney, but I could be friends with Trump.
See, I mean, the question, the thing about it is it's not just about politics, it's about morality, ethics, it's about cruelty, it's about discrimination.
It's about a lot of things.
But what about personal human values?
We're not really just talking about fiscal conservative who pays more taxes.
We're talking about you as a human being.
So it's hard to be friends with someone who signs on to something like that.
On the other hand, they're open to discussion.
I like to talk to them, find out what exactly do you know about this guy.
Yeah, I I agree with that because I I I I think, you know, we're in abnormal times.
This is not the Republican party of yesterday.
This is this is sort of the Trump I think it's the Trump party in many respects.
It's it's so extreme.
And if someone is supporting or voting for someone who is hurting members of my family, members of my community, our elderly, our children, gutting our government, firing people.
I do have a hard time.
Um being friends with that person.
I I you can't reason with them.
They voted for a woman that supported five hundred and seventy-four riots, encouraged it and told them not to stop.
They voted for a woman that wanted taxpayer funded sex change operations and wide open borders and wanted to ban fracking and drilling.
I mean, uh, it's very hard to have a reasonable conversation.
Sonny House that actually went as far as to say people need to fight and die for their rights to oppose Trump.
Democrats are not meeting the moment against this existential threat.
They're out of their minds.
Chris Matthews is back.
Trump is Mussolini and he's using us in the media.
They're insane.
I I I can't handle it, actually.
Um it is a collo I think it would be a colossal waste of my time.
And I think that this audience, you know, would prefer and not waste my timing at, you know.
I don't know.
Maybe we should put a poll up.
What do you think?
Okay, so what's the poll?
How would you like it to read?
Would you like Sean to go on the view or not?
No, that's boring.
No, should that's not No, we should make it fun.
It should say something like Should Sean Hannity go on the view and and school whoopee and joy.
No, because now what you're doing is very tricky and sneaky, and I know what you're up to.
I'm not doing no, you you're not just asking.
You're trying to get the audience to vote the way you want them to vote because you want me to go up there and do this nonsense.
It's not going to be you sitting there getting yelled at for the thing.
I promise you, if you do this, I will be in the front row and I will rah-rah rah you the whole way through.
Oh, rah-rah-ra.
They're gonna look at you and probably remove you from the city.
They'll say security, please take the woman in the front.
You're gonna be Al Green getting, you know, removed.
I'll stand up and sing.
Uh to our busy phone, speaking of Al Green, Jim and Alabama.
What's up, Jim?
How are you?
Hey, good afternoon, Sean.
Um, as you said yesterday when they censured Al Green.
My first question is, what does that mean?
Secondly, he said he would do it again, and it sounds like there's little or no ramification.
So is there a ramification for the censure?
Is there a ramification for censure?
Yeah.
I mean, if it happens again, it then it goes to the next step.
And uh, you know, then he then they begin to lose floor privileges and then they can vote to remove them from Congress.
Listen, I don't really want it to come to that point.
I re and I may surprise people by saying that.
What he did.
I in the end, if this is who they are holding up their bingo cards, being unwilling to stand for mothers that lost children and a young man with cancer and a and a and a the wife of a hero that was murdered in the line of duty, then let them be that party.
If they want to be the party of endless wars, if they want to champion men's rights to play women's sports, if they want to champion the rights of illegals over our safety, if they want reckless spending in the hundreds of billions of dollars for their radicalism abroad, then let them be that party.
You know, America now sees them for what they are, and it took Donald Trump winning this election, you know, for a lot of this to get exposed and for people's eyes to be opened.
And now that they're opened, and now that they're doubling down on stupid, um, I think they they're just hurting themselves every step of the way.
Can you anyway, good call, my uh go ahead, last word, go ahead.
Can you go a little bit further now?
You said if they censor him a second time, what would happen?
Censure has long been viewed as a punishment of last resort, admonishing someone for something that is perceived as a serious wrongdoing and informs the public of a formal disapproval.
And what does censure mean in Congress?
Well, it comes just one step below expulsion and usually is triggered only for the most you know grievous wrongdoings and vote for censure.
Used to be few and far between, they've become fairly commonplace, and it's happened to other people.
More recently, you might remember Jamal Bowman.
It happened to him.
Uh Marjorie Taylor Green was up for a censure over past statements, uh, that never happened.
Um, but at some point they'll face expulsion if they continue these antics.
He said he would do it again.
I'm like, go ahead, do it again.
Anyway, thanks, my friend.
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Uh, let us say hi with uh Eric in North Carolina.
Hey, Eric, how are you?
Glad you called.
Hey, Sean.
Pleasure to speak with you for the first time.
Thank you.
So my question's all mine.
My question's very simple.
Which Democrat is gonna be the first one to step out of line?
Surely that somebody has the the fortitude to to look at what's what that was being proposed and what they're doing.
I after watching that speech the other night, I was like, somebody has got to have some real leadership qualities that they would actually step out of line and start disagreeing with the the the leadership of the Democratic Party.
And what is that what for that person, what is it gonna look like?
Well, it's interesting because apparently yesterday there was a behind the scenes meeting of the Democratic caucus, and the leadership was admonishing the way the Democrats acted during the State of the Union, but I didn't see Hakeem Jeffries or Chuck Schumer stand, so they're just as guilty as everybody else.
So I thought that was a bit of a joke.
They have to John Fetterman spoke out against it.
He's the only current member, Joe Manchin spoke out against it, but he's no no longer a current member.
Um I don't think there's gonna be anybody.
I think this is who they are, and it defines them, and the American people got to see it all.
Fortunate, that's for sure.
Anyway, my friend, God bless you, appreciate the call.
Pennsylvania Wayne, we have a minute.
Wayne, it's all yours.
Glad you called.
Hey, Sean, thanks for taking my call.
And I think you should do the view.
Um I want to talk about uh two.
I thought you liked me.
I thought you were my friend.
Okay.
Tuesday night.
Um we're not using Linda's push-poll language either.
If it's gonna be should Sean go on Hannity go on the view, yes or no?
That's it.
I only have a minute here.
So Sean, uh on Tuesday night with the State of the Union.
I look at the two parties um as brands, and the Democratic Party did some pretty bad damage to their brand on Tuesday.
And the Republicans have a wealth of campaign advertising material from that night.
And what they should do is they should take that DJ and split screen with what the Democrats were doing.
I mean, these people went through some traumatic tragedies in their life.
And Trump, you know, a lot of people say he lost his fastball.
He pissed Are you kidding me?
This guy has never been throwing harder in his life.
No, not only did he pitch a no-hitter, he came up to bat and hit a grand slam.
And big time.
The Democrats have some real problems, and for the legacy media to double down on what they did, the Democrats did on Tuesday night.
I mean, do they not see what they're doing?
I don't think they their party has become radicalized And extreme.
This is who they are.
And while they tried to hide it, it's been exposed by President Trump and Elon Musk and what now, and we saw it on the State of the Union.
And now people's eyes are open to it.
And once your eyes open as you can't unsee it anymore.
And if they try to moderate, I don't think it's going to come off as credible.
It's going to come off as political expediency, which is what it will be.
Anyway, Wayne, I wish you had more time.
We love our friends in Pennsylvania.
God bless you, my friend.
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Tonight, Hannity, 9 Eastern.
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