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Those are the things we augts to be talking about. parents right now that are trying to talk to their children or those parents grieving because they lost 17 in parkland, they are thinking maybe if he didnt have that assault weapon, my child would be alive. >> he made the same appeal and said hes hearing it from students. i was talking to jared, a state rep. he made an urgent appeal. he said you can change your legacy. we thought there was a turning point at newton and there wasnt. kinds kinderg...

Was a guatemala citizen twice deported from our country for being here illegally. ainsley: wow. so the driver and the linebacker, they were in the car and linebacker was getting sick. so they pulled over on the side of the highway. and they i were outside of the car. that man right there, allegedly ran them over was three times the legal limit, was drunk. and one of the individuals he hit flew into the middle of the road. was run over again. this guy has been deported two times, once in 2007 and...

One of the favorite things ive seen recently is democracy is a verb, so i approached the year with an idea of what can i do every day. so i didnt set out after the march last year, which was incredible, by the way, i didnt set out to run for office immediately. what i did was met with my representatives. i met with my state rep. i went to his office hours. i saw how he was approaching issues and how he was approaching the people coming to him, and i saw that there wasnt a lot of -- there was hea...

Violence, whatever else, and a very daily basis. >> shannon: of course, he and the president happen -- the mayor and the president -- have been very combative. they have many differences on a number of topics. he didnt want the national guard on the streets, thought it wouldnt be helpful. they have except additional atf agents working on the gun issue issues. but the idea of u.n. folks roaming the streets of chicago, for a lot of americans, that is not something they are prepared for. do you thi...

Violence, whatever else, and a very daily basis. >> shannon: of course, he and the president happen -- the mayor and the president -- have been very combative. they have many differences on a number of topics. he didnt want the national guard on the streets, thought it wouldnt be helpful. they have except additional atf agents working on the gun issue issues. but the idea of u.n. folks roaming the streets of chicago, for a lot of americans, that is not something they are prepared for. do you thi...

State house races that gave control of these states in a place like wisconsin, which then set about passing these laws going after labor and voter i.d. and sort of entrenching state power. what does it look like from your organizational vantage point of how interested people are in running for something like state rep? >> people are excited. weve had more than 15,000 young people sign up with us, since we launched on inauguration day, so say, they want to run. theyre excited. and they want to ru...

Jones winning 18-44-year-olds by 23 points, which is also astounding to me. >> yes. >> moore winning 45 and over by ten. amanda, your cause is getting people to run for office. and it struck me watching this race, even if everything happens and this crazy story comes out in "the washington post," if its 2014, you dont have a candidate, you cant even take advantage of it. >> it seems so obvious. you cant win if youre not on the field in the first place. we are so lucky that doug jones was there, ...

>> it seems so obvious. you cant win if youre not on the field in the first place. we are so lucky that doug jones was there, that he was a really good candidate, regardless of what was happening with moore, that he was authentically rooted in his community, had deep connections, especially to the african-american voters in alabama. were lucky he was there. >> and he was a credible guy who could be a u.s. senator -- >> credibly so. >> but the kind of dynamic we saw with roy moore, that kind of s...

Safe bet. youve got to get on the field, run a good campaign, connect with voters. you could win. >> what you -- yeah, cornell? >> but this is why you need, again, the 50-state strategy. you have to put in place the structure and infrastructure and the people and the resources to take advantage of these opportunities. and i think democrats are being caught flat-footed. look, without sort of these eruptions around moore, democrats arent spending money in alabama, but if were going to see -- if we...

And now this is the final thing. but, you know, if hes our candidate i think the one thing to remember is there is a good candidate we have, mr. jones, who, in fact, is a former u.s. attorney, a prosecutor, someone running on trust, someone running on his record. someone who is talking about things that matter to the people of alabama like affordable health care and affordable college. so there is an alternative out there. and as was noted earlier on your show the numbers are closing in the poll...