thank you so much it really is such an honor to be here and not just because I'm standing next to two awesome Gators but because we're here for something so much more important than a game and that a game will ever be it really is humbling um there's a couple people that I'd love to thank and I'd love to start by thanking Camille Cooper from our team who has put so much work into this and been a part of fighting for people for a very long time that was the first clap of the day let's go yeah you can loosen up you can have a little fun with and I also want to just thank Senator Corin for authoring this bill um thank you for um for stepping up and doing this and um congresswoman Debbie werman Schultz and Senator Blumenthal with Senator Corin I think the three of you guys have for the last 20 years done more to help fight and protect kids than almost anybody else that have walked these grounds and so I want to say thank you you've done it for a long time and Cong congresswoman Laura Lee I know your heart beats for these kids we've had many convers ations and I know that your heart beats to want to protect every single one of these boys and girls and so it's my honor to be able to stand up here with the four of you um because I know that this matters that this isn't um about policies or politics it's about people it is about people it about every single one of those boys and girls it is about how can we possibly get to as many of those boys and girls as possible so I'm honored to be able to stand up here you know five months ago we came and we had the opportunity to testify in front of Congress and and and share our heart about what we believe is one of the worst evils in the world and that's the abuse of all of our boys and girls right here in our backyard and you just heard Senator Blumenthal share some of the Staggering statistics because sometimes people just think oh it's just a it's a photograph it's an image it's a video no it's not it's a boy or it's a girl it's a little boy or it's a little girl and we just need to to meditate for a second on some of the numbers that he mentioned 4.3% of those are infants little boys and girls that's over 2100 infants 47% of them are rap bondage torture beastiality it's not just images it's not just videos it's boys and girls that are in the worst moments of their life and then people are celebrating it meditating on it focusing on it reliving it over and over and over again and you think well this isn't that bad what I just want to read one of the the chats recently of some of the offenders of what they were saying in a chat room and by the way this is also filtered so it can be a little bit more appropriate for today one of the offenders in the chat asked what the others were into next man replied he was mainly into five to nine-year-olds another said he was 60 and a very violent man and no isn't an option for him one of the offend venders then said he has 20 terabytes of baby rape videos and if they DM him he would give them to him for a good price another offender confirmed and said he would show the others how to abuse his own kids and get away with it then another replied he has a daughter that he would love to share then the next replied when asked if his wife knew about his abuse the man said heck no it's our little secret though I am on the lookout for others as she is getting old now NEX responded how old is she the offender said8 that's what we're talking about here today that's why it's so important that's why we're we have to be urgent that's why it's so important that we're bipartisan that's why I'm so grateful that all of you would come together to fight for every single one of these boys and girls and we really believe that we're not just here today talking about one of the biggest problems but also giving a piece of the solution is it the whole solution I don't think so but is it a piece absolutely and we believe that this bill the renewed hope Act of 2024 is going to do four very crucial things it's going to build a bigger Rescue Team it's going to be able to allow C3 to bring in experts it's going to allow them to coordinate and deconflict and then it's allow the best victim identification training in all of the world and why would we not have the best training in all of the world because our boys and girls should matter that much to us I hope that they do and I believe that they do to the four of these in incredible men and women but you know when I I read that chat it hurts and I mourn and grieve a little bit when I read it but I also have hope because I know that we're being able to bring a piece of the solution here today and you know unfortunately many times people with a goal to do evil work better than people with a goal to do good I say that today with a heavy heart but you know I also believe here today that people with the goal to do good are working together in an incredible way and that gives me hope that gives me a lot of Hope today and you know I love what this bill is called renew renewed hope Act of 2024 and I love what renewed means to give someone the ability to flourish once more and man I hope from this bill from all of these incredible men and women that there would be so many lives that have the chance to flourish one more because we are willing to come together to put down our differences and to say for every single one of those boys and girls they're worth it to do whatever it takes however it takes whatever we got to do so that they could be protected so that they could be loved so that maybe they could experience the faith hope and love that they so desperately desperately deserve and desperately need because right now as we're talking they're crying so we better do more than talk we better act cuz they're waiting thank you guys so much and God bless