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>> im kerry, justins dad. and ill be brief. justin was texting me hiding in a closet saying good somethiif happens i love you, and you cant imagine what that is like. and his phone died and i didnt know what happened for another hour. so 17 lives are gone. i was lucky enough to get my son home. you b but 17 families, this is -- this is not left and right. it is not political. it is a human issue. people are dying. and we have to stop this. we have as to top v sthave stop. if he is not old enough...

And activists and the media. how do you respond to that? >> i respond to all of that by saying, it is a great help to see people out there with influence and money being able to donate with us, being able to speak about our movement. but by all means, this is a movement of the students for students, to be able to feel safe in a school, to be able to feel safe outside their home and inside their home. so they wouldnt have to fear some gunman coming in and by all means, the -- you can say this is ...

A closet saying that if somebody happens, i love you. you cant imagine what that is like as a parent. an then his phone died. i didnt know what happened for another hour. so 17 lives are gone. i was lucky enough to get my son home. 17 families. this is -- its not left and right, its not political. its a human issue. people are dying. we have to stop this. we have to -- if youre not old enough to buy a drink, to buy a beer, you should not be able to buy a gun at 18 years old. thats just common se...

Solution so this never happens. no child, no person in this world will have to go through something so horrific. >> the solution is not going to be singular. its going to be multifaceted. >> it is not left or right, not political. its a human issue. >> i cant understand why i can still go in a store and buy them back a weapon of war. >> stories of the terror. for the father of meadow pollack, the anguish and anger of a parent who will never see their child again. >> there shouldve been one schoo...

Differences from the direction that this administration seems to be taking. >> now, my impression of aids policy at the national level over the last couple of decades, since the cowl seunsel was firs created, its one of the few issues in which democrats and liberals, people living with aids, the gay community, might actually find a few nice things to say about george w. bush. the counsel in particular and the work of the national aids policy, the national aids-related policy was seen, i think, p...

Administration. but the council in particular and the work of the national aids policy, the national aids-related policy was i think particularly because of the bush administration as being not the most partisan thing in the world. certainly there were differences of opinions, differences how things could be funded. but this was something where the partisan heat had been removed. >> absolutely. hiv and aids is not a partisan issue. its a human issue. its a human rights issue. its a civil rights ...

Disabled, rely on them for their health, well-being, families? can you promise theyre going to still have the same coverage that they have today? >> listen, as we go forward theyll have to be some reforms made with medicaid in particular. like with ronald reagan and oneil with how they reformed social security. but in doing that they had to make sure those were truly taken care of. there would have to be some type of long care reforms done in a careful and prudent way that anyone who needs assis...

Those who shouldnt have guns. the fact that our attorney general has decided not to enact a basic protection. >> that was to be clear voted by the people. >> won by the majority of the voters. >> it was a ballot initiative. >> yes. >> it was not the members of your body passing legislation. >> no. it was the majority of nevadans and voted and said background checks are a good idea. >> how strong is the nra here? and not just the nra, which i think is a stand-in for the politics of guns, which ev...

Dream. thank you all for being here. im really excited to talk to you guys because one of the things we wanted to do, and ill start with you, jen, is to take people out of the mindset that the issue of daca is just about mexican migrants. because i think a lot of people have this stereotype that every single daca recipient came to the united states from mexico and that immigration is literally just a mexican and american problem. but its much bigger than that. tell us your story. >> right. so my...

Carla perez. thank you for being here. im excited to talk to you. one of the things we wanted to do, jim, is to take people out of the mindset that the issue of daca is just about mexican migrants because i think a lot of people have the stereo type that every single daca recipient came from mexico and immigration is just a mexican and american problem. but it is much bigger than that. tell us your story. >> so my parentsa and moved fro south korea when i was 7 and they knew the education system...