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Increase ambulance response time after a horrible incident like occurred at our school. >> just this week, ryan, something is haing in congress, not just florida. on a federal level there is a bipartisan bill from congressman mike thompson of california, democrat, and peter king, a republican of, no. it is a universal background check bill. they will be voting on it this week. do you draw a direct line from what happened a year ago to this? >> absolutely. i mean, just from the activism we have b...

Hogg who had an immediate call to action though he had just survived the shooting. >> please, this is the 18th one this year. thats unacceptable. we are children. you guys are the adults. you need to take some action and play a role. work together, get over your politics and get something done. >> joining us now david hogg and ryan diech, cofounders of the gun violence prevention program march for our lives. it is great to see you again. before we get to all you have accomplished in the past yea...

College or maybe already in it, ryan, but what do you plan to do with your lives? >> i plan to make sure nobody else, no matter the zip code has to live in constant fear of gun violence and make sure our generation is the last generation that has to live with the constant scourge of gun violence no matter if its 17 people killed at our high school or one person shot on the way to school. we have to end gun violence in every part of the united states. >> just frankly, me and david both took a gap...

Reason i spoke early on was for the first time in my life up to that point i had felt emotions. i felt empathy for my sister. at school that day she lost four friends. i didnt want anybody else to have to go through that pain. i didnt want anybody else to hear the suffering my sister went through that day. i wanted to make sure i was able to speak for those who couldnt at the time like my sister or manuel, oliver and the others who lost siblings or children that day so it wouldnt just be another...

. im in a closet with 19 other kids, waiting, fearing for my own life. now id like to ask you that after me and several others have been going out of their way, going to the state capital, speaking out, wed like to know why do we have to be the ones to do this? why do we have to speak out to the capital? why do we have to march on washington just to save innocent lives? >> our guests from here from the high school. ryan, that was quite a moment and a question. do you feel youre close oar to an...

Backpacks is something that really affects a lot of the students at the school and its not going to go away for a while. >> ryan, what are you hoping for tomorrow? >> im hoping that people can unify. im hoping that people out there, like all over the world, we have confirmed over 800 marches around the planet. seven continents. one in every 50 of the states. and i just hope that after this long battle of just people feeling disheartened, feeling without hope, like i hope that the hope will come ...

Were going through this together. >> ryan diech has the final word tonight. thank you very much. i really appreciate you be being here. well be right back. when you say you need a heart transplant... thats a whole different ballgame. i was in shock. i am very proud of the development of drugs that can prevent the rejection and prevent the recurrence of the original disease. i never felt i was going to die. we know so much about transplantation. and were living longer. you cannot help but be insp...

Ones bringing the change is unfathomable to us. >> i like the way you put that. we should be the ones teaching and everything ive learned in this journey, a lot of it has been from congressmen. when were talking to people the majority of information we see is from our phones, from the internet, from twitter. the majority of things i learn about through twitter before somebody can text me. the social media, all of this, we have the whole of human information in the palm of our hands. thats what w...