Marsha Blackburn Rips Durbin To His Face For 'Failing To Act' On Human Trafficking As Epstein Scandal Grows

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At today's Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) slammed Sen Dick Durbin's (D-IL) actions on human trafficking when he led the committee as Democrats demand answers about the Jeffrey Epstein files.

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00:00colleagues to work with me. Senator Blackburn. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. And as you have said,

00:08this issue dealing with Jeffrey Epstein is something that we have worked on for years.

00:15And the way we have approached this is to find out who was bankrolling this business. And I know,

00:24Senator Durbin, you're trying to reframe that at this point. But I think it's important to stay

00:31focused on a goal. And that is to get the information to find out who is benefiting

00:39and who is bankrolling this $150 billion a year human trafficking industry. And we know that there

00:51are in these trafficking rings, thousands of innocent victims. And this is indeed modern day

01:00slavery. And I will say again, it is important, and I am hopeful that we can uncover the information

01:10through his financial records and find out who is involved. Now, I think it is fair to say that

01:18most of us care deeply about protecting children. And I hope that we will work together to get justice

01:30for young women and girls who are being trafficked and who are sexually abused. And in that same vein,

01:40I hope that everyone will work with Chairman Grassley and with me to get justice for what we now know is

01:50hundreds of thousands of migrant children who went missing under President Biden's watch. We now know that 10,000 of

02:02those children have been recovered. But you know, Senator Durbin, under your leadership, the committee

02:10really failed to act on what is a humanitarian crisis. And this unfolded for the four years of the Biden

02:21presidency with that open southern border. And we do have a law and order president, President Trump,

02:30back in the White House. We have a DOJ and an FBI that is focused on law and order. And I hope we can

02:39decide to work together to get justice for these women and children. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

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