Side of the gun debate, and later we are going to hear from a musical icon who has a personal tie to this whole thing. She lost her mother, her brother, her nephew, to gun violence. Speaking out tonight on this show the Jennifer Hudson is going to be here tonight. [ applause ] but first lets talk. Not now, not now. First lets talk, you know, Young Americans quest to save their own lives at some point was going to have to hit a tipping point. Because this is a generation that has seen way too much violence, too many funerals. They have grown up practicing how to run, duck and hide just so they dont get killed in their own classrooms. I didnt grow up that way. Its in sane. So i am very grateful for this martha was led by the parkland survivors who are determined to transform what happened to them into something positive for everybody. But this march also made me really, really sad. Because it really should not have taken these deaths and it shouldnt have taken this long. We have had two
people in chicago have been shot and killed. that s the equivalent of about 35 parkland shootings in just one year in one city. so i want to bring in two high school students. they are from the north lawndale college prep on the west side of chicago. 18-year-old deangelo mccabe shot in the leg and survived. sitting on his fronts porch and got shot on a drive by. and alex king nephew shot and killed by astray bullet. listen, i am very, very glad to have you here, and i m glad you are apart of this whole movement. you know, this movement is extraordinary in that it started out in parkland. and immediately it got bigger. but there is something that s said about chicago all the time that i want you guys to correct. a lot of times politics you talk about police brutality but you never talk about chicago. there has been a movement for peace on the streets in chicago for a very long time. and you guys have been a part of