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This very thing that weigh doing is turning a blind eye and acting as if this is not a human and moral issue, we will do something about that in the fall. its incumbent upon the american people to understand and know that they have a right to just not allow these kinds of things to continue to happen but threw have the power and they have the tools to do something about it. >> matt, your group was protesting outside paul ryans office today. what was that about? >> we were demanding the same thin...

Nothing. and i dont know whether to feel despair or rage about that. >> lucy mcbeth and matt post, thank you both. >> thank you. >> coming up, progress on gun control has been happening. in three months since parkland. happening in state houses. plus, the president spent the morning tweeting pretty wild stuff as he escalates the open warfare on his own justice department. were back in two minutes. and thats how he intended to keep it. then he met the love of his life. who came with a three foot,...

I think that any other person that is willing to be about the business of do is whats right for democracy, for the people that put them in office, yes, they deserve to be there but if but are not about that, then you must be removed. >> matt, youre in high school now. am i right? >> yep. >> i always wonder, what is it like in a high school that you havent had a shooting there as far as i know. after something like this happens, you how do kids talk about it. >> kids are afraid. people are scared...

They need help. if they are going to do the right thing and demand that our legislators be accountable to them, i was going to do whatever it took to help them. that is the reason why ive decided to run for congress because i know that as a victim, i have the ability to you speak to credence to this issue. and that is my number one policy agenda in washington. im going to do whatever i can to prevent these tradition and our children from dying in their own schools and on the streets. >> matt, yo...

Legislators who wont get this done. we all eventual families. we have kids. and you know what? they deserve to be able to go out in public without fear of being shot. >> fred guttenberg, i really appreciate you taking time tonight. i hope you get some time to process this all this evening. i really appreciate it. >> thanks, chris. >> lucy mcbath is the mother of jordan davis a victim of gun silence. sley served as spokeswoman as a democratic candidate for congress. matt post from montgomery coun...

This very thing that weigh doing is turning a blind eye and acting as if this is not a human and moral issue, we will do something about that in the fall. its incumbent upon the american people to understand and know that they have a right to just not allow these kinds of things to continue to happen but threw have the power and they have the tools to do something about it. >> matt, your group was protesting outside paul ryans office today. what was that about? >> we were demanding the same thin...

But i want to begin with a pair of student activists who spoke at this weekends march. david hogg and matt post, high school senior and safety advocate from maryland. david, i want to start with you. you know zion. and its been really interesting to watch you guys from parkland travel and talk to students from other places, other neighborhoods will look very different from the one you came to. what have you been talking about? what has that exchange been like? >> this is not an issue that just l...

To say. >> we know thats the only focus instead of american safety is to dismiss it. >> why was yours so different? >> we stood up and spoke out and because of our white privilege. >> matt, that thing you said there really struck me. in the aftermath of parkland, the conversation got very specific very quickly. how do we stop school shootings and massacres like the one we saw in parkland? we got to put metal detectors. i watched you and david and others make sure to push that conversation out mo...

Realize the inequality in this country and how so many communities have to live through this every day, its unbelievable. >> i want to play a little bit of what you and both of you had to say. >> we know thats the only focus instead of american safety is to dismiss it. >> why was yours so different? >> we stood up and spoke out and because of our white privilege. >> matt, that thing you said there really struck me. in the aftermath of parkland, the conversation got very specific very quickly. ho...

Minority of the shootings. we need to be focused on american safety, not school safety. thats why the bills going through congress that dont mention guns, thats why things like arming teachers or metal detectors is trying to put gum at the bottom of a bucket with an enormous hole. its not going to solve the real root of the problem, which is a sickness of gun culture in this country. >> david, what is your take away from that day? what was that experience like? >> it was so empowering to witness...