Transcripts For WPVI Good Morning America 20180222 : vimarsa

Transcripts For WPVI Good Morning America 20180222

Children. Fix it. Should have been one School Shooting and we should have fixed it. And im pissed. The and the students who survived. How are we not stopping this after columbine, after sandy hook. He and his classmates are here plus the reaction to President Trumps idea. And victory. Born in the usa team usa golden again for the first time in 20 years. Beating canada in a down to the wire shootout. Now the hero twins who helped america win have this message. Hi, im jocelyn. And im monique. And were the lamoureux twins, good morning, america. We do say good morning, america. What a game, a nailbiter. Team usa, olympic gold, 20 years in the making. Oh, look at the gloves come off. Uhhuh. Take a look at the usa house in south korea. Athletes and their families watching exploding that america won the first gold medal in 20 years. Amy in the middle of all of it right there. If shes got any voice left well talk to her. She sent out an email like favorite olympic moment ever. We are going to begin with the display of passion and actively. You saw these students stepping up to reduce gun violence protesting in washington rallying in floridas capitol. It was something to see and School Shooting survivors and parents meeting with the president at the white house. Emotional listening session and abcs dan harris starts us off with that power town hall that was held in florida overnight. Good morning, dan. Reporter hey, robin, good morning to you from the State Capitol of tallahassee. Over here overnight in tallahassee, 100 students boarded buss and returned to their homes after an emotional lobbying trip but the activism from the Parkland Community is far from over as we saw overnight, quite powerfully, in that wild town hall. Your comments this week and those of our president have been pathetically weak. Reporter overnight lawmakers stepping up to listen to the often blistering concerns of missi Parkland Students and victims including florida senator marco rubio who was endorsed by the nra in 2016. Look at me and tell me, guns were the factor in the hunting of our kids in this school this week and look at me and tell me you accept it and you will work with us to do something about guns. My daughter running down the ha hallway was shot in the back with an assault weapon, the weapon of choice. Yes, sir. Okay. It is too easy to get. It is a weapon of war. The fact that you cant stand with everybody in this building and say that, im sorry. Sir, i do believe what youre saying is true. We instead should make sure that dangerous criminals, people that are deranged cannot buy any gun of any kind. Thats what i believe i better answer will be. Your answer speaks for itself. Reporter rubio saying he would support a bill in congress to fix the National Background check system but when asked this question by a Parkland Student so, senator rubio, can you tell me right now that you will not accept a single donation from the nra in the future . The answer to the question is that people buy into my agenda and i do support the Second Amendment and i also support the right of you and everyone here to go to school and be safe. More nra money that is the wrong way to look first of all, people buy into my agenda. Reporter rubio a staunch defender of gun rights changed his position on the age limit for buying a semiautomatic rifle which nikolas cruz used last week. Number one, fred, i absolutely believe in this country if you are 18 years of age you should not be able to buy a rifle and i will support a law that takes that right away. Fantastic. Reporter also overnight the 100 students from parkland boarded buses here in floridas State Capitol and headed home after having learned some hard lessons about lawmaking. First we met with the speaker and he kind of dismissed us. We voted him. We can vote him out. Reporter students repeatedly asked republican state senator Kathleen Passadomo whether she would ban assault weapons. Id like to have that conversation. Somebody asked how do you feel about an Assault Rifle kind of thing. And my question was to define that. I dont understand something that can shoot so many bullets in a period of time can be in a civilians hands. Theres a lot of good issues that you bring up. Reporter as the senator repeatedly dodged questions, this parkland mother anna fought back tears. She said she didnt really know about guns and all that and she didnt understand. It was like it was hard. Know about it. If theyre voting for these things, they should know. Reporter while the students pressed their case in the halls of the capitol [ crowd chanting ] reporter outside a large loud protest and across america thousands of students walking out of schools in protest. We will not tolerate this in our country. Reporter progun advocates alleging the Parkland Students are being used by liberals and arguing that surviving a School Shooting does not make someone an expert in gun policy. One more note on that town hall on cnn overnight, there was a representative from the nra on stage who took questions. She stood firm on nra positions. She argued that the real problem with the parkland massacre was that Law Enforcement missed repeated red flags from the suspect, nikolas cruz. That town hall was quite intense. The activism that were seeing from these young people, is there any chance its going to lead to any real change, dan, when it comes to legislation . Reporter well, here in tallahassee, the answer appears to be yes in the next ten days of the session it appears they will pass a bill, it probably will not include something many of the kids want which is an outright ban on semiautomatic rifles but 3r0b8 will include more money for School Safety and Mental Health treatment in schools and a raising of the minimum age to purchase one of these semiautomatic rifles. Its a step. Thank you, dan. You could feel the heat in florida. You could feel it at the white house. Remarkable encounter with President Trump. Here passionate pleas from columbine to parkland and jon karl has that. Because my daughter has no voice. She was murdered last week and she was taken from us. We as a country failed our children. Reporter President Trump sat silently as one after another students and parents of shooting victims pleaded for action. 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. President , were going to fix it because im going to fix it. Im not going to rest. And, look, my boys need to live with this. Reporter andrew pollacks daughter meadow was 1 of the 17 killed at Stoneman Douglas high school last week. This shouldnt happen. We go to the airport. I cant get on a plane with a bottle of water but we leave it, some animal could walk into a school and shoot our children. Fix it. Should have been one School Shooting and we should have fixed it. And im pissed. Sam zeif was texting with his brother as a gunman murdered one of their classmates. I turned 18 the day after, woke up to the news that my best friend was gone and i dont understand why i could still go in a store and buy a weapon of war. Reporter Carrie Gruber whose son survived agreed its too easy for teenagers to get a gun. If hes not old enough to buy a drink to go and buy a beer he should not be able to buy a gun at 18 years old. Reporter President Trump said hes open to considering an increase in the age required to buy a firearm. In addition to stronger background checks improving Mental Health care and possibly even arming teachers. The coach had a firearm in his locker when he ran at this guy, that coach was very brave, saved a lot of lives, i suspect. But if he had a firearm he wouldnt have had to run he would have shot and that would be the end of it. Reporter that was not popular with most in the room. Does anybody like that idea here . Does anybody like it. Reporter mark bardens 7yearold son daniel was murdered in his first grade classroom in sandy hook. He said guns in the classroom put teachers in a tough spot. They have more than enough responsibilities than to have to have the awesome responsibility of lethal force to take a life. Reporter the nra wasted no time in responding to the idea of raising the minimum age to buy firearms. They put out a statement even before the School Shooting victims left the grounds of the white house coming out against it saying it would violate the Constitutional Rights of 18 to 20yearolds. But the president is under enormous pressure as he himself said after this is over, the world is watching. Michael. Thank you so much, jon. Pressure, indeed. We also spoke with a teacher named casey hanson in utah. She agrees with President Trumps suggestion and believes teachers should carry guns. She carries one with her every day. The thought of cowering in a corner protecting your students with no options other than just standing there hoping nobody comes in just didnt sit right with me. I wanted i wanted a better plan. I wanted more protection for my students. Reporter and you can hear more from casey and teachers on the other side of the debate on a special nightline tonight. George. Okay, right now we hear from three of the students you saw from Stoneman Douglas high. Sam zeif and Julia Cordover joined the session yesterday. Ryan deitsch was part of the group lobbying florida lawmakers in that town hall meeting. Thanks to all of you for joining us. Sam, let me begin with you. It was movinging to see you there with the president yesterday. The idea he seemed most engaged by yesterday was this idea of arming teachers. What was your reaction to that . I was in shock. I really couldnt believe that he would even think of the idea of putting that responsibility on teachers. Teachers need to focus and they do a great job of focusing on molding the minds of the future like julia and i, and how can you give them the responsibility of going to School Every Day and not knowing if theyre going to have to kill one of their students or not and knowing that they have the option to. And, julia, that was a pretty extraordinary back and forth with the president with all everybody in that room yesterday. Do you think he heard what you all were saying . What was your response to all that . Yes, i believe that he heard our true stories and our emotions. However, i was shocked to see that the nra was quick to respond before we even left the white house. My classmates and i. And i do not understand why the nra is not understanding of us students, of our lives, of their lives and of everyone else. Ryan, you had the chance to question senator rubio last night at that town hall meeting. Pretty clear that hes not going to walk away from the nra even though he told you youre already making a difference. Yeah, definitely senator rubio did not as cameron plainly put it, would he take the money and rubio danced around the question as politicians do. He just did not want to answer it even though the crowd knew exactly what he was saying, that he will continue to take money from an organization that has been known to help in the aiding of killing innocent lives. Sam, you know, the nra is one powerful organization. You mentioned yesterday that meeting with the president australias experience after they had a horrific episode they banned semiautomatic weapons and there hasnt been a School Shooting there since that happened but how do you respond to those who say that just cant happen here in the United States . I dont get how they could be so blind. I just dont understand. People are not coming into our school we have people with Mental Illnesses in our school. Theyre not coming in with Mental Illnesses and killing us. Theyre coming in with guns and killing us. Its just plain and simple. I dont understand how these politicians who get paid to lead our country cannot see this. Julia, you had a tweet last night. You said this is only the beginning. Right now we may be infamous for our tragedy but we will be famous for this movement of change. What specifically do you want to see . Thank you. Yes, i realize that the city of parkland has been pushing for this movement of change along with the other neighborhood schools and even broader to the whole country that is forcing this change because enough is enough. We are tired of losing innocent lives to situations that are preventable and starts with less gun, not more guns. As you said this is just the beginning. Thank you for your voices. I know this has been the week of your lives but as you said it is just the beginning. Thank you all very much for your time and voices this morning. Michael. Very impressive young people. Very impressive. Were going to switch gears now to that sweet victory at the olympics. Team usa, womens hockey taking home gold for the first time in two decades. Amy robach was there for the amazing moment and, amy, do you have any voice left after that celebrating last night . I did. I saved it for the show. It was such an incredible game and guess what, today marks the anniversary of the miracle on ice february 22nd, 1980 so 38 years later to the day the u. S. Wom womens hockey team accomplishing a miracle of their own beating their fiercest rival. It was a showdown for the ages. This is becoming a smashmouth game. Reporter canada who won gold in the last four Winter Olympics appeared to be on their way to a fifth up 21 in the final minutes of regulation. Ahead to monique reporter until Monique Lamoureux broke away. She scores. Reporter sending the game to a scoreless overtime. We are headed for a shootout. Reporter and a heartstopping shootout. Shoots and scores. Cuts down the angle and scores. Reporter in the end it was another lamoureux sister, moniques twin jocelyn who stepped up for the u. S. When it mattered most. She beats and scores. Reporter lifting americans to a 32 victory. Needs to pull everything together. Reporter american david wise also brought home the gold in the ski halfpipe after two lackluster runs. He stunned the crowd with this final run. Down to the bottom. Does he have the double, yes. Reporter another medal for Mikaela Shiffrin after winning gold in the giant slalom, she won silver in the super combined. But disappointing news for lindsey vonn in what might have been her last olympic race. The veteran skier missed her gate in the slalom portion and was unable to finish the race. Despite that disappointing finish for vonn better news for team usa snowboarder Jamie Anderson. She won her second medal here, a silver in the big air event, guys. Back to you. Was something to see. Well get back to you in a moment. Rob. Another round of rain for the areas flooded already. 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