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Were seeing a growing and ugly backlash among the fringe elements of the very hard right. various right wing websites have been targeting the young advocates falsely accusing them of being paid activists exploiting the tragedy for their own gain. the presidents eldest son don junior a father of five joined in. this week he liked a tweet that accused one of the parkland shooting survivors david hague of hating the president and covering up for the fbi because his father is a retired fbi agent. 17...

Another tweet donald trump jr. liked. "could it be this student is running cover for his dad who works as an fbi agent in the miami field office, which botched the tracking down the man behind the valentine day massacre? just wondering, just connecting some dots jacksonville the presidents son liked that. i want to give you a chance to respond to that sort of thing. >> the fact that these people are being critical of me as a victim -- as a witness and personally as a victim to this incident, hav...

Situations. and i thought that was a very mature response for a high school senior to come up with. >> mature indeed. i think thats one of the things thats struck so many of us. the maturity of all of these young voices that were hearing from. before i let you go, what are your students saying to you about this moment? they are growing up in i think this reality that for a lot of us we cant imagine practicing being on lockdown. that being a part of going to school. >> they have had varied reacti...

Showed you why nothing has changed on the gun debate because of how polarized democrats and republicans are on this issue. so to me, 58% isnt the story. it is the fact that there is really no movement. and until you have that, there is -- big stuff doesnt happen. >> there has been movement on assault weapons. >> it didnt look a lot, but okay. among independents and democrats, yeah. >> you know, i got to say those kids were great though. talk about polling people. >> i thought there was a maturit...

So i will not slow down because the legislature before even speaking to us has shut down something that we arent even completely for. were not for banning any type of gun. what we are is for stronger background checks. >> reporter: so there you go, chuck. you heard it. they are not letting this stand in their way. they are not looking at this as a road block or a hurdle. they are going to continue to push forward. and where one thing stops them, they will keep going forward and moving around it....

>> weve seen this before where the president gets a little tugged in terms of where his policy positions are and where his supporters are and where when it comes to kids how he views things like that. the thing although i have to say hes kind of lost the ground here in terms of when you look at this what happened with this shooting, hes not the one who is leading the nation in terms of comfortable the country and people. its these kids. and that to me has been the most striking thing is that all...

You havent lost anything. >> no. i think our sport really benefits maturity and experience. so i certainly have more of that than most in the field right now. and i really work hard to keep my body sharp and mind as well. so, i have got at least three more years. i have signed a contract extension through 2020. hopefully we can get that eighth championship if not more. rick: eighth champ i dont know about like year end champion you have bon won daytona twice. how do you feel going into this seas...

High school down in miami, i was surprised at how much they know now compared to what i knew at that age. meaning there is a lot of awareness, because of social media, theyre much -- this is sort of the way we were in college. >> you see it in their presentation, in these horrible fraught interviews, they are extraordinarily comfortable. >> surprising emotional maturity. they know what they want to say, they are completely comfortable in front of a camera, theyre completely comfortable discussin...

David especially. you were talking about this yesterday. dispalestinian with message. figuring this out. from the beginning they wanted to hide the fact that they had reason to be suspicious and negative on porter but didnt act on it. everything since then is, again, back to the walter scott poem, part of the tangled web. >> yeah. some problems here to christopher wray, head of the fbi, for standing up to independence and that institution. acting with some independence and maturity and respect f...

She said, you know, when the president wants to get people to stop thinking about the russia investigation or if anything happens, any controversy paups up, he always picks on three people. her, president obama, which those two are mentioned in those tweets. and the third, she said, african-americans. any day now, hes going to pick a fight with an african-american. this is a president who will -- for some reason, is obsessed, is fixated on hillary clinton. fixated on president obama. fixated on ...