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No -- at the white house at the time. the president will head back to d.c. for a journalism dinner later this evening. eboni? eboni: thanks, ellison. you have safe travels back to d.c. as well. looks pretty windy out there. the florida state senate wrapping up a rare saturday session as they examine stricter gun laws. a vote is expected soon on 450 million dollars in additional school security. florida attorney general joining us now. nice to see you, maam. thank you. first things first, you g...

Right now we secure our schools. we figure out -- next we figure out what we wrong and what we can do better and then well have the other public policy debates later. lets do this for those 17 lives that were lost at stoneman douglas. lets make those the last ones. thank you. [applause] >> i want to thank ryan and andy. heres our goal. we have a week and five days, four days, three days left in session. everyone of us, this is important to us. we have daughters and sons and brothers and sisters....

Active in their church. i cant imagine what the entire family is going through. ryan petty. >> so governor, thank you. thank you for taking leadership on this issue. andy, thanks for standing up. you were the first one to stand up and say this has to stop. i thank you for that. for those of you that didnt have a chance to know my daughter, she was as governor scott said, all ant service. she loved to serve. when she come into a room, she would light it up with her smile. she was everybodys frien...

Anywhere in our state and he -- his goal is to make sure this never happens in our country again. the father of meadow, andy pollack. [applause] >> so my daughter was murdered on the third floor in parkland. i have to live with that for the rest of my life. the reason im here right now is i want this country to come together as one party, were the human party. were not the democratic party, were not the republican party. were the human party. we all need to come together and discuss school safet...

Number of families and students that are concerned about the safety open their schools. im going to do everything i can the next week and five days or so. were going to get a good bill passed this session. were going to get the funding and make sure this doesnt happen in our state. i want to thank -- we have two parents here today. both of them want to make sure that this never happens to another family. so the first person i want to introduce is andy pollack. andy lost his daughter, meadow. if ...

But it was the parent of a student who was killed recently in parkland, florida, andy pollack -- his daughter was killed -- is that struck a chord with the president and others in the room. here is what he had to say. >> im very angry that this happened because it keeps happening. 9/11 happened once and they fixed everything. how many schools, how many children have to get shot? it stops here with this administration and me. im not going -- im not going to sleep until its fixed. and, mr. preside...

Would you most want me to know about your experience? what can we do to help you feel safe? and i hear you. we should note the president was briefed before the listening session but he did not have a teleprompter there. and he did go off script from what was written there on that white house post card that we can see. telling the people in that room that he stands with them, he is going to fight with them, and that he is grieving with them. but it was the parent of a student who was killed recen...