Minutes because thats theyll be focusing not only 17 victims in parkland, but the 13 victims in columbine that were killed in that 1999 shooting that really sparked this sort of awareness across the country. Andrea. Thank you, steve paterson. And the students at North High School in denver. We go to chicago, which is an hour earlier, rather an hour later, so they have already been out for an hour. Ron mott, a city rocked almost every day by violence in various neighborhoods but all reacting to what happened in florida. Ron . Reporter yeah, absolutely, andrea, good day to you. Im with young man from Leo High School here on the south side. You mention this is a daily problem here in chicago, gun violence. So these students who came out today, this rally wrapped up 10 minutes ago, those rally not just for those folks lost at parkland but all the people lost
daily basis in chicago to gun violence. Cash a, senior, what brought you out today and whats your message . I wanted to promote peace
Democrats of what is true, sounds like a political statement . 98 of what they did is the tradecraft, there is trade Craft Associated with analytics and that was followed. But just on that one piece about putins alleged preference for trump was not supported. Tucker ive never been clear on the underlying questions of all of this which is the hacking of the dnc servers and of john podesta as gmail account, and i asked the ranking democrat adam schiff about this and could not get a straight answer. Are we positive that the russian government was behind stealing that data . About as positive as you can be where it is very difficult, but i am comfortable believing that the russian government was behind the hackers that did all of this. Whether the entities were doing it word done about half of the russian government not on behalf, so i am comfortable making statement. Again, attribution is very the democrats have additional evidence, and they make reference to over and over that today hav
refused to do. and i found it. it s a powerful statement on the meaning of freedom of speech and freedom of the press. do you feel today given what we re all going through, it s an extraordinary time, i ve never seen the kind of control on information, agency after agency, no pentagon briefings, very few state department briefings, no white house briefings, very little interaction, do you feel there s there are threats to press freedoms with the president using a stylist term enemy of the people? you know, speech is different from action and we both know a lot of administrations clamp down on the press in the ways that they can, but it s never been this blatant in terms of the enemies of the people line which is just chilling. the book is extraordinary. i was up half the night reading your book. sorry to keep you up. no, it s something that
involved in a lynching. and you uncovered that in your research for this book? there was a wonderful friend and journalist who wrote a book about the case, and in that, there s one paragraph about a man who drove the car that carried the lynched body. it was the future chairman of the house un-american activities committee and i did a lot more research on that. you went to the archives and found the statement your father had written about how he felt as a patriot trying to deliver that statement. he was not permitted to. so you had never seen it before. that was the most powerful moment of my research. 63 years after he appeared before the committee, he wanted to deliver a three-page statement on what he felt it meant to be an american. the chairman said you can t deliver it unless you re contrite and name names which he
it s a very important lesson in history and it s a lesson for a lot of younger people who may not be as familiar with it. thank you so much. thank you. thank you for everything you re doing and writing. and the book is a good american family. bringing emergency health care to hard-hit rural america. that s in our next hour. stay with us. stay with us