remain unnoticed. they want to be back on top, unquestioned in their corruption. but we cannot and will not let that happen. [ cheers and applause ] today and everyd day, we will continue to fight for those things that are right. we will continue to fight for common sense. we will continue to fight for our lives. we will continue to fight for our dead friends. there will be no faltering, no pauses in our cause. every moment will be dedicated to those pieces of legislation. every march, every meeting, every moment, all for that assault weapons ban to keep these weapons out of the hands of civilians who do not need them. a or for the prohibition of high magazines, because no hunter will need access to magazines that can kill 17 people in mere minutes. for the closing of loopholes. there are so many things, so many steps to take, like right now. sign our petition. it takes two seconds and it matters. we will take the big and we will take the small. but we will keep fighting. when they give us that inch, that bump stock ban, we will take a mile. we re not here for breadcrumbs. we re here for real change. we are here to lead. we are here to call out every single politician, to force them into enacting this legislation, to addressing this legislation, to doing more than a simple band-aid on a broken bone. the pressure is on for every person in power. it will stay that way. because they know what is coming. they know that if there is no assault weapons ban passed, then we will vote them out. they know that if there is no tightening of the background checks, we will vote them out. they know that if there is no shrinking of magazine capacity, then we will vote them out. if they continue to ignore us, to only pretend to listen, then we will take action where it counts. we will take action every day, in every way, until they simply cannot ignore us anymore. today we march, we fight, we roar. we prepare our signs. we raise them high. we know what we want. we know how to get it. and we re not waiting any longer. thank you. [ cheers and applause ] kerry sanders is down in it. kerry? reporter: well, that was delaney tarr. she s a senior at marjory stoneman douglas, 17 years old, incredibly poised. she along with 17 other students in her class the day of the shooting went into hiding, unsure what was going on on-campus. you heard her very well-delivered speech. she is well-known at her school, because besides being one of the student journalists, she s the anchor on the in-house school television system. so very well-spoken. the first person we heard from there was cameron kasky, an actor at the school, somebody who is involved in debate, somebody who found himself thrust into this position where he is speaking along with others for their generation, something known as generation x. when the shooting happened on campus, cameron was concerned about his younger brother holden. his younger brother holden has autism and he was able to make his way to the classroom where holden was along with other students. and cameron went in there with a bunch of confused students who have autism and other emotional problems. and he was able to calm them down as he hugged his brother and others and was on the floor. and then finally between the two speakers, we heard that powerful speech from chicago. i met another young man who traveled here with that ung wyo man, keshon newman lost his brother to gun violence in chicago. he carries around on his phone something i did not know existed. he has an app on this phone and that app updates every four hours. and it gives the tally of gun victims in his community so that he can see what the numbers are, 110 for the month of march. when you consider that a student after losing a brother is look at the possibility of the statistics, you realize how dire this is, brian. incredible that the world of electronics and computers has to invent a workaround for something as heinous as that. demi lovato has just started performing. let s sample some of that. never had a chance do you have to make me feel like there s nothing left of me you can take everything i have you can break everything i am like i m made of glass, like i m made of paper and go on and try to tear me down i will be rising from the ground like a skyscraper, like a skyscraper as the smoke clears, i awaken and untangle you from me would it make you feel better to watch me while i bleed all my windows still are broken but i m standing on my feet you can take everything i have you can break everything i am like i m made of glass, like i m made of paper and go on and try to tear me down i will be rising from the ground like a skyscraper, like a skyscraper go run, run, run, i m going to stay right here watch you disappear yeah, go run, run, run it s a long way down but i am closer to the clouds up here you can take everything i have you can break everything i am like i m made of glass, like i m made of paper, oh, oh go on and try to tear me down i will be rising from the ground like a skyscraper, like a skyscraper like a skyscraper, like a skyscraper like a skyscraper stay strong! thank you. jacob soboroff is standing by in the crowd, after demi lovato s voice was heard throughout everied into and cranny of this city. jacob? reporter: brian, seven tenths of a mile away from that stage, we re with jocelyn garcia, representing the oldest and biggest student association in this country, so big, so old, such a legacy that they worked for dr. king to organize sit-ins at lunch counters. jocelyn, i say this respectfu y respectfully, you don t have much of an entourage, you didn t have to do much to get the students to show up today. not me personally, because students understand their rights, they understand there is power in numbers. they re not just naive people who don t understand how things work. students have power. and they wanted to come here to demonstrate their power. they knew they ll be able to create policy and change and not have to sit with prayers and thoughts. reporter: where does gun control, gun reform fall into the list of things that you think should be important to students? you ve spent time focusing on tuition, you work on daca. where does gun control play into all this? we believe in education justice. we believe anyone, no matter what your identity or background, should have the right to an education. you being able to feel on your campus is a part of that education justice. you being able to prosper in life after education involves you being alive. reporter: cameron kasky mentioned it, these young people will get out to vote. it s no secret to you that millenials have now passed baby boomers as the largest voting bloc in this country. do you think this will go from marching on the streets to marching to the voting booths? absolutely. ours and other organizations will ensure that that is possible. there are barriers that prevent students and other communities from voting. our organizations will be ensuring that students have access to cast votes. reporter: before we go, what is it like to be out here? this is unbelievable. it s amazing. you know, i m out here and i m processing everything. reporter: let me hold you here. brian, i ll send it back to you so we can go back up to the stage. we don t want to cut off any voices in the crowd except for those voices on the stage. so we ll go back up to the event. it comes out to $1.05. is that all we re worth to these politicians? $1.05? would $17.85, was that all it cost you that day, mr. rubio? i say one life is worth more than all the guns in america. [ cheers and applause ] this is not a red versus blue issue. this is a morals issue. and to the politicians that believe that their right to own a gun comes before our lives, get ready to get voted out by us. the future. we will not allow a price to be put upon our lives. we will no longer be hunted down and treated like prey by politicians who simply just don t care about us. we are fighting. we have been fighting. we ve been fighting since columbine, since sandy hook, since pulse, since las vegas. and we will continue to fight. until we put a stop to gun violence in america. [ cheers and applause ] because we are no longer a statistic in this country. we will not be treated like a statistic in this country. my school, pulse, every other mass shooting, will no longer be a statistic, because we re going to put an end to those statistics. and we will never stop fighting. thank you. [ cheers and applause ] [ crowd chanting ] [ crowd chanting vote them out ] my name is edna chavez and i am from south los angeles, california. [ speaking in spanish ] i am a 17-year-old senior and a member of an organization called community coalition, where i am a youth leader at south central youth empowered through action. at community coalition, we organize high school students to develop their leadership skills in order to push for educational justice in our communities. that s why i got involved. i wanted to impact policies and make sure our voices are heard. i am a youth leader. i am a survivor. i have lived in south l.a. my entire life and have lost many loved ones to gun violence. this is normal. normal to the point that i ve learned to duck from bullets before i learned how to read. [ cheers and applause ] my brother. he was in high school when he passed away. it was a day like any other day. sunset going down on south central. you hear pops thinking they re fireworks. they weren t pops. you see your brother s skin turn gray. ricardo was his name. can you all say it with me? [ crowd chanting ricardo ] i lost more than my brother that day. i lost my hero. i also lost my mother, my sister, and myself to that trauma and that anxiety. if the bullet did not kill me, the anxiety and the trauma will. i carry that trauma everywhere i go. i carry it with me in school, in class. walking home. and visiting loved ones. and i am not alone in this experience. for decades, my community of south los angeles has become accustomed to this violence. it is normal to see candles. it is normal to see posters. it is normal to see balloons. it is normal to see flowers honoring the lives of black and brown youth that have lost their lives to a bullet. how can we copy with it when our school district has its own police department? instead of making black and brown students feel safe, they continue to profile and criminalize us. [ cheers and applause ] instead, we should have a department specializing in restorative justice. we need to tackle the root causes of the issues we face and come to an understanding on how to resolve them. i am here to honor the florida students that lost their lives. and to stand with the parkland students. i am here today to honor ricardo. i am here today to honor stephon clark. i am here today to uplift my south l.a. community. [ cheers and applause ] enough is enough. question. how many more children have to die so that this problem is finally acknowledged? policymakers, listen up. army teachers arming teachers will not work. more security in our schools does not work. zero tolerance policies do not work. they make us feel like criminals. we should feel empowered and supported in our schools. instead of funding these policies, fund mentorship programs. mental health resources. paid internship and job opportunities. my brother, like many others, would have benefitted from this. so let s make it happen. it s important to work with people that are impacted by these issues. the people you represent. we need to focus on changing the conditions that foster violence and trauma. and that s how we will transform our communities and uplift our voices. this has not and shall not stop us. it has only empowered us. my name is edna lizbet chavez. remember my name. remember these faces. remember us. and how we re making a change. [ speaking in spanish ] . [ crowd chanting ] [ cheers and applause ] my name is alex wind. i m a junior at marjory stoneman douglas high school. in the wake of the tragedy on february 14th, we as students, as youth, decided that if adults weren t going to take action, we would. no gun-related legislation has been passed in this country since 2008. ten years ago. since 2008, there have been at least 95 mass shootings in this country and hundreds and thousands more, just senseless violence on the cities of our nation and cities like miami, chicago, and baltimore. it needs to stop. [ cheers and applause ] people believe that the youth of this country are insignificant. people believe that the youths have no choice. when joan of arc fought back english forces, she was 17 years old. when mozart wrote his first symphony he was 8 years old. to those people that tell us that teenagers can t do anything, i say that we were the only people that could have made this movement possible. together we will use our voices to make sure that our schools, churches, movie theaters, and concerts, and our streets, become safer without having them feel like prisons. if teachers start packing heat, are they going to arm our pastors, ministers, and rabbis? will they arm the guy selling tickets at the movie theater? this is what the national rifle association wants. and we will not stand for it. [ cheers and applause ] we do not need metal detectors and more weapons in our streets if there weren t weapons of war in the hands of civilians. for too long our government has been useless on this issue. our job as their constituents is to make sure we know what they re thinking. there are over 250 representatives that have not come out with a public stance on this issue. it is our job to make sure that we call them up and force them out of the shadows of corruption and into the light of justice. [ cheers and applause ] as teens, people think that we don t like to wait around for things. and they re sometimes right. a lot of you are probably wondering, what now? now we need to come together on all fronts and push aside those that divide us. now we need to get on the phone and call our representatives and push them to stop incumbency and take action. now we need to educate ourselves on which politicians are truly working for the people and which ones we want to vote out. because at the end of the day, bullets do not discriminate. so why should we? it is not about your race. it is not about your sexual orientation. it is not about your ethnicity. it is not about your gender. it is not about where you live or how much money you make and it most certainly is not about political party. all it comes down to is life or death. to all the politicians out there, if you take money from the nra, you have chosen death. if you have not expressed to your constituencies a public stance on this issue, you have chosen death. if you do not stand with us by saying we need to pass common sense gun legislation, you have chosen death. and none of the millions of people marching in this country today will stop until they see those against us out of office. because we choose life. [ cheers and applause ] thank you. i love you all. to our viewers, just a note. they re pausing here to play some videos. and when they do, we re talking to our friends here with us in washington. reverend al sharpton. and we ve now been joined by chris matthews here onstage. chris, i heard you on your broadcast say last night that you ve always urged people to come to this city to see what their tax dollars have purchased. but today takes on even more importance. yeah, i think i always say that working families and middle class families should come to washington on vacation, because you already paid for it. all these museums and monuments, it s a pretty inexpensive family trip and a great way to learn about your country. you also have a right under the constitution to petition, to go to congress and make your case. what i love about this today, my last big rally, by the way, brian, was 1967, the march on the pentagon, 51 years ago, pretty scary. it was anti-war. everybody jumped on to it and used it, everybody had their kiosks, their card tables. this one is really about guns. it s really not exploitive. these kids are concerned about safety and guns and it s a very pure, i think, demonstration of numbers. we may get a million people here today. i ve never seen crowds pouring out of union station like i saw an hour ago. it s incredible, the sea of people. al sharpton, i m told the next performance is lin-manuel miranda of hamilton, a new yorker here in washington. let s listen in. they ll tell the story of tonight they ll tell the story of opportunity have you ever felt like nobody was there have you ever felt forgotten in the middle of nowhere have you ever felt like you could disappear, like you could fall and no one would hear well, let that lonely feeling wash away maybe there s a reason to believe you ll be okay if you don t feel strong enough to stand you can reach, reach at your hand raise a glass to freedom, something they can never take away no matter what they tell you someone will come running to take you home raise a glass to all of us tomorrow there will be more of us telling the story of tonight telling the story of tonight it s only a matter of time even when the dark comes crashing through when you need a friend to carry you when you re broken on the ground, you will be found so let the sun come streaming in reach up and you ll rise again if you ll only look around you will be found when our children tell their stories they ll tell the story of tonight
enough murder. enough violence. enough inaction. moments ago, stoneman douglas survivor spoke in denver on what should have been her spring break. here s maddie king. i borrowed my friend s phone to text my mother because mine was on the backpack in the other side of the room. it s maddy, i told her. shooter at school. on the news. unsafe. i love you. later i learned i may not have been as safe as i thought. my building was directly next to the building that the shooter went in and he shot out windows directly at the wall that i was sitting against. one bullet aimed directly in my classroom could have been painted with blood. so how do we change? how do we stop another school shooting? i can tell you how we don t. by caring more about our guns than our children. arming teachers is not a solution. trained soldiers don t always hit their mark. the nypd misses four out of every five shots. my 60-year-old science teacher who s 5 11 with heels on cannot be expected to make any of her shots at a child she may have taught. let s go live now to denver and scott mclean and maddie king is right there with you, scott. yeah, that s right. i can t even tell you how many people were listening to the speech because i couldn t see the end of the crowd. that s right. we re talking to the 17-year-old maddie king here. i have to say that just before she came over, she s been sort of mauled by all these new fans of hers that want to hear from her and thank her. i wonder when you see a little girl that came up to you, wanting to shake your hand and wanting to get her picture taken with you, you re a role model for so many. it s humbling. just i didn t think i would be someone like that and it s also very rewarding knowing i can make a change for the better and maybe i m inspiring others to stand up for what they believe in and what they think and know is right. and i just i didn t expect any of it. yeah. you and your classmates at stoneman douglas high school and in parkland and really around the country have done so much to make this issue a big one and make it part of the national conversation. i wonder if you feel a responsibility to make sure that there s action after all of the enthusiasm of these marches. i think there is definitely a feeling of responsibility. it s you know, everyone turns up and we speak and people march and all of this stuff happens and there definitely has to be action for it. we re not just coming here to march for fun. we re here to make a change and that change needs to happen or else all of this was just a waste and we can t let it be a waste. you mentioned in your speech how many people have been affected by gun violence in this country, whether it be in schools or malls or really anywhere. you re one of those students now who have sent a text to their mother, mom, it s me, i m okay. i wonder how that s changed your perspective and your outlook. it s just you know, i used to kind of not have a strong opinion on this, i was kind of like, okay, guns, sure. but now it they re dangerous weapons and it s made me appreciate every day much more and made me appreciate the fact that i do have family here, and that i m still here and everything just seems like it s worth its wait in gold now. it s so much more meaningful. now you have an opinion on guns and on this issue and just from listening to you, you obviously have done your homework on this issue. what does need to change? well, i think for starters definitely raising the age to 21. you know, so many of the shootings have been people between the ages of 18 and 21. and so clearly there is something going on. and chances are, if you re 22 and you re getting a gun you don t have the same resentment towards a high school that you do six months after you graduate. along with that, we need smaller magazines because i didn t mention this, but he had to reload once and that allowed teachers to get children to safety in their classrooms. and so many more people could have been alive if he had to reload even just one more time. and as far as rifles, you can get a bigger magazine in there. handguns, you have to have a smaller magazine. that s so many more lives that could be saved by eliminating three bullets per magazine. we just heard a clip from your speech when you were talking about how you don t think that your teacher should have the responsibility of having a gun and maybe shooting at someone that they may have taught. as you go back to school at marjory stoneman douglas high school, as you see this security situation there, do you feel safer given that there s law enforcement and security though that has guns, that is armed? i think the first couple days back i don t necessarily think i felt safer. i think i just kind of felt more scared. it was, you know, besides constantly having a reminder that it happened it was even more of a reminder, it was more of a looking at someone to me like that s the kind of gun, that s so similar to what we brought on the campus. now that it s died down, i feel just as safe as i felt before. all of this happened. and that s safe, that i should feel at school. i feel just as safe at school as i do at home. and that s what it should be, but the heavy armed forces just made me feel even more anxious and scared than anything. maddie king, you have succeeded in motivating a whole lot of people. thank you so much for talking to us and all the best of luck. thank you. so ana, again, that s a 17-year-old student that we re talking about and so much, you know, when we hear about this issue and over the past couple of weeks, you re surprised that you re talking to kids. people who cannot even vote. and they have done so much homework and they have learned so much about this issue. you really do feel like maybe this is the moment where something will change. incredible. so articulate indeed at 17. thank you, scott. well, today, parkland survivors yelled welcome to the revolution, our revolution. joe johns reports. reporter: from sea to shining sea, activists pouring into the streets. enough is enough. reporter: from parkland, florida this stops now. reporter: to our nation s capital. students standing up to make their voices heard. my name is edna chavez. my name is kelly and just like all of you i had enough. reporter: powerful voices of those who have lost. gripping a world in awe of the power of our youth. people have said that i m a tool of some nameless adult. it s not true. reporter: as student led demonstrations demanded changes to the nation s gun law. i too am a victim, a survivor and victor of gun violence. we are done hiding and being afraid. we are done being full of fear. reporter: each one drawing thousands including celebrities. one of my best friends was killed in gun violence right around here. so it s important to me. reporter: the d.c. event brought famous performers like miley cyrus, ariana grande and common. one person not in attendance, president trump, who instead opted to leave town one day ahead of the march. the white house issuing a statement applauding the demonstrators, highlighting a new department of justice proposal banning bump stocks as part of the president s commitment to keeping children safe. for many that proposal is not enough. not even close. when they give us that inch, that bump stock ban we ll take a mile. we are not here for bread crumbs but here for real change. reporter: other lawmakers did show up. that the best way forward is to keep pushing forward. they will make their voices heard. and they will make them heard every single day and they will make them heard in every single election. you have to stay with us. one day is not enough. because the politicians are watching the nra which is going to be there tomorrow and the day after and the day after. reporter: with student after student offering a different message to their elected officials. we cannot and will not be influenced by money and demand the same from our elected officials. if you listen real close you can hear the people in power shaking. stand for us or beware, the voters are coming. reporter: young men and women demanding change. united america! reporter: obviously the question is whether all of this energy will translate into substantive change any time soon. organizers on their weekend visit to washington were encouraged in private meetings with thought leaders like former vice president biden to vote. to run the grass roots movement. and when it s time to run for office to keep the pressure on. organizers responded by registering people to vote at the march in all 50 states. joe johns, cnn, the white house. thank you. as we go to break now the 9-year-old granddaughter of martin luther king jr., yolanda king, shares her dream for change in front of the crowd in washington today. i have a dream that enough is enough. and that this should be a gun free world. period. -here comes the rain. 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it was electrifying and to see the students speaking up and leading the way, i m getting chills talking about it right now. so many moments of goose bumps all over. you get a sense where you see people these kids who took their the tragedy and are channeling it into something really great. you can t help be but inspired even though it s a sad moment. of course we don t want to see anyone s child killed viciously, but if this had to happen, i m glad that this is the outcome. well, you have that direct connection to these students having been at their school, graduate of stoneman douglas. and when you listen to them they re so powerful, so poised. they have such a presence at such a young age, what s your sense of what s giving them the courage to speak out in this way? well, you know, one of the things that douglas does so well, turned me into the activist and a television host, was the fact that they inspire you to be passionate about watever. to be positive, to be passionate, and, you know, when you see these kids being here they re doing that exact thing. they re showing up fearlessly and saying, no matter that this happened, i m going to still be passionate about an issue so i can save the lives for someone else and that s so beautiful. a lot of people are asking what s next? now when people go away, how does this movement propel itself forward? well, you know, the first i think i have to say i used to work in social services before i got into television i want to make sure that the kids are taken care of. i have been watching them share their stories and i m nervous for them. to be retraumatized over and over again, sharing your stories i want to make sure there are counselors and people available to support them. this is a traumatic event and next it s up to us to make sure we re reaching out to our neighbors, to our co-workers, to the people we re scared to talk to. that s what we do so well on netflix s queer eye. this is an issue that we should be standing for our future. it s not just about violence and gun violence. on your show, there s an honest conversation you have with a police officer. and you bring up the fact of like police violence against people of color. it has also become a huge issue in this in our day and time and this country. let s listen to a clip. my whole thing is obviously we don t want to all black people to get lumped into one category as criminals and sometimes we feel that way. police officers will be lumped into being the bad guy, you know? i get stereotyped because of that 10% that gets shown on the media of become excessive or killing a guy that didn t deadly force was used upon him. you had an incident in gwinnett county, the other officer that killed the guy in the face after he was handcuffed. there s nothing that makes it all right. i have to tell you just even hearing you acknowledge that the officer that used force should never have just heals me and gives me a little bit of relief. good. all i ever hear is cops sticking to and saying, well, what about us? and it is true, what about you all? but it s sort of like, well, what about us? we re both dealing with the same pain. two different ends. yep. but none of us are like acknowledging it. it does go both ways, i m glad you feel that way. black lives matter, they weren t able to be heard. and the police officers weren t able to be heard. if we could sit down and have a conversation like you and me just did, things would be a lot better, you know, in society. you know? everybody wants to talk, but nobody wants to listen. that s it. isn t that the truth? i mean, what advice can you offer to people to have those types of conversations? first of all, you cannot be afraid to reach out to people who are different than you or perceive are different from you. with cory, he s now one of my closest friends. but initially, going into this, i looked at him as a southern white cop, trump supporter. the opposite of everything that i stand for. so you had your hackles up a little bit? yeah, the guard was up fully. that s how most of us walk through this world. we have been trigger and traumatized so much and so often that you think well, they ll be closed off, so let me beat them to it, i ll be closed off first. what the kids are doing so amazingly well you have to let down that guard and let people into how you re feeling and how open and honest conversations so that way we can find the similarities, because at the end of the day, when love and acceptance are leading the way, we always are going to be united in what s right for our country. i love that message. thank you for lending your voice and your spirit to this day. great to meet you. tune in at 7:00 p.m. tonight. there will be a special edition of the van jones show. he ll be joined by parkland students who spoke in washington today as well as superstar jennifer hudson who performed at today s rally. she of course has a very personal experience with gun violence. we ll be right back. time to bask. in low prices! tripadvisor compares prices from over 200 booking sites to find the right hotel for you at the lowest price. refreshing, isn t it?. tripadvisor. the fastest samsung ever demands t-mobile, the fastest network ever. because fast should be fast. right now get the new samsung galaxy s9 for half off. if you d have told me three years ago. that we d be downloading in seconds, what used to take. minutes. that guests would compliment our wifi. that we could video conference. and do it like that. 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ask your doctor if myrbetriq is right for you, and visit myrbetriq.com to learn more. it is a march across america today, march for our lives. these are rallies being held from coast to coast. los angeles, houston, chicago, new york, we know there were multiple marches around the world. some 800-plus today. thousands of people taking to the streets calling for an end to gun violence and action at the congressional level. let s discuss, with us is molly ball. cnn legal commentator and president of the senate conservative fund ken cuccinelli and commentator and former hillary clinton campaign manager robby mook. when you look at the images and you hear what we heard today from the rally here in washington, does this feel like a real movement, something comparable to the civil rights movement or the anti-vietnam war protests? i mean, i don t know how old you think i am, i was not there neither was i. no, those were sustained movements that spent years and years organizing and doing different kinds of actions. this could be the beginning of that, but i don t know yet. i don t know that question say that s a movement on the scale. certainly it has that ambition, but look i ve covered the gun control activism and for incredible outpouring of emotion. yes, is it yet an effective political action? not yet. we don t know. meantime, the president has tweeted even about this today. we have seen tweets from president obama, from bill clinton, hillary clinton. the president current president is like the master of twitter. why hasn t he? well, of course they put out the white house statement that was positive and encouraging, you know, and they have talked about the things they have done like getting move moving to get rid of bump stocks by regulation, which they have the ability to do. as well as including the so-called fix nics in the omnibus bill which the president supported. i would take exception that many states and cities have extensive gun control. we are sitting in washington, d.c., one of the hardest places to purchase and own legally own a gun and one of the most violent cities, racked by gun violence. has been for a long time. chicago is another, baltimore is another. and these cities and others like them share one thing in common. they have succeeded in getting gun control policies passed. and they re governed by democrats that s why they can do it. but, you know, the consequences have been negative, not positive. but getting back to real quick the initial question, i mean, why hasn t the president put his stamp on what we re seeing today? i mean, what they re calling for is an end to gun violence. that s something that all people can agree on clearly. absolutely. when it s put that way. but that s not what you re really hearing. i mean, it of course we want to end gun violence and thankfully for the last two decades gun violence has been declining precipitously. but not in these mass school shoots. i m sorry, that s not the fact. it s absolutely the facts and it s the facts and from the fbi. pew i mean, i ll show you an npr article i m looking at the facts from the cdc, ken. when you look at gun deaths per year they have been going up 2014, 20015, 2016. those three years you picked the only uptick in the last 20 years. two-thirds of the increased say in 2015, two-thirds of the entire homicide increase was in ten cities. led first and foremost by chicago and baltimore. can i jump in here? i want to disagree with both people. what we saw today is a new generation stepping up to the plate and not just rejecting the total lack of action on gun violence, but rejecting our political system itself. i was part of the last presidential campaign, we play by the rules. we did things the way they have been done and look at what we have now. we have a government that is completely unresponsive to the needs of people. the proposals that these young people support are enormously popular. there s no there s no grass roots political resistance. there s a small minority and basically an industry that whips certain voters up in a primary context and makes republican politicians afraid to support gun control. ken, that s what the young people are sick of. it s a bunch of facts and statistics that don t speak to what s going on here. you want to know what s going on in our cities, because people buy the guns and bring them into the cities and commit the violence. it s not true. it is true. they use them illegally. you don t think they re obeying the law. this is the deal. can you go out to the parents that are sitting out here in the hallway in this studio and tell them, gun violence is going down, folks. i m sorry you lost your kids, gun violence is less of a problem than you think it is it is outrageous. you re peddling a bunch of pablum the false statistics. 1.5 million you want to say that? gun violence crimes in 1993. under 500,000 in 2011. do we want to get to zero, you bet we do. but they re outside of the school context. we re ignoring the truth which is you re ignoring the truth. you don t want data. ban the bump stocks, less people will die. it s this pablum that we spew all day long that the young people are rejecting and by god i hope they succeed. bump stocks are being succeeded up and you re not seeing the second they could ban the bump stocks and show up and pass the bill. well, the president negative action on that. of course he has. molly, when you listen to this, this seems to be emblematic of what s happening all around the world and in this country with the politicians and talking at each other instead of really coming up with solutions. we see signs today and hear the voices of these young people who are saying, power at the polls. and make your vote count. and we see people out on in washington who are signing people up to vote today as part of this. with the midterms right around the corner some of these youngsters are going to be turning 18 between now and then. do you get a sense that republican lawmakers i say republicans because they seem you know to be much more behold on the nra, are they concerned at all? i would reject the idea that republicans are only behold on the nra. i think most republicans are actually on that side of the issue. most of the republican members of congress actually agree with ken and his arguments. they believe it. now, they can be voted out of office by people who disagree with them, right? and the ones who are in swing districts may be thinking about that. seeing what s happening here today. i m biased because i cover politics but the only way to move the political system is by people voting and going to the polls and showing this is the issue that s going to motivate them to vote. this is the issue that will make them carry a sign and it will cause them to vote where they might not. young people have very low rates of voter turnout particularly in midterm elections. if we see that chart to change, the politicians will start to listen. ken i don t want to attack you personally. but if a plane crashes people s response isn t no no, let the plane stay as they are, the plane deaths are decreasing. when the bridge collapsed in miami the other day and killed in south florida and killed people, no one is like the bridges are fine, let s keep going. i don t think they re prisoner to a primary politics within their party. i really believe this, and it s been made worse by the gerrymandering off our districts. and this again these young people are not just protesting on guns but they re protesting a political system that is broken. i share their frustration. and i hope that they succeed because this is what i think some of us don t always understand. this is bigger than just guns. it s a political system that is that is not responsive when young people are dying. that s the problem. got to leave it there. thank you all for being there. and we are continuing our special coverage tonight. tune in for a special show. 7:00 p.m. special edition of the van jones show. he will be joined by the parkland students and jennifer hudson. we ll be right back. rey) when you have a really traumatic injury, we have a short amount of time to get our patient to the hospital with good results. we call that the golden hour. evaluating patients remotely is where i think we have a potential to make a difference. 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[ applause ] good evening. i m van jones. this is the van jones show. we are coming to you live from washington d.c. at the end of a truly historic day. we saw in this city around the world one of the biggest marches against gun violence ever, ever. and it was extraordinary. and it was led by a whole new generation of young activists who have taken this country by storm. tonight we are
historic crowd out there. today showed the movement that began on that fateful day last month has spread across the country. we saw young people mobilize and take to the streets and in every state sending a clear signal to lawmakers that enough is enough. most important, we heard from the survivors of the gun violence from around the country and including many students from parkland who made impassioned speeches demanding action. among them was emma gonzalez who stared down the cameras and in a poemt of silence that lasted six minutes. the time it took for the shooter at marjory stoneman douglas high school to carry out the murder of 17 students and staff. all of the survivors of mass shootings were brought together today by the pain they suffered with the loss of a classmate or their parent, sibling or friend. they showed the country they have a voice and they re not afraid to use it. help us but screaming as loud as you can, that we re tired of being forced under the rug. we re tired of seeing the faces of victims exposed on screens who were stolen from us too fast to even understand why what and why it happened. i need each and every one of you, no matter your age, to continue to fight alongside us. because hearts can not pump without blood and i don t want your community to join the ghastly inner circle that mine is now a part of. and to the politicians that believe that they re right to own a gun comes before our lives, get ready to be voted out. by us. when politicians send their thoughts and prayers with no action, we say no more. and to those politicians supported by the nra that allow the continued slaughter of our children and our future, i say get your resumes ready. the people demand a law banning the sale of assault weapons. the people demand we not sell high-capacity magazines and universal background checks. stand for us, or beware, the voters are coming. when they give us that inch, that bump stock ban, we ll take a mile. we are not here for bread crumbs, we re here for real change. we re here to lead. we will not need metal detectors and clear backpacks and more weapons in our streets if there weren t weapons of war in the hands of civilians. we need to arm our teachers. we need to arm them. with pencils, pens and paper and the money they need. they need that money to support their families and to support themselves before they can support the future in those classrooms. this needs to change. we ve been fighting for this way too long and nothing has changed. and we need change now. [ cheering and applause ] when will we as a nation understand that nonviolence is the way of life for courageous people. if we march today and vote 227 days from now, we will make this a turning point for our country. and we, the new diverse inclusive and compassionate face of america will lead this country once again down the path of righteousness. thank you. wow. joining me right now are three participatants, olivia mccarran from maryland, and greg pitman a history teacher at marjory stoneman douglas high school and tensel fellp is a sophomore at the same school. we re in the evening and look back at history today and it was made today and olivia you are first and you played a role in history. and chevy chase, an academic in this area. what did you think as a sister school to what happened in parkland. well i think it is just really important that students from montgomery county come out and show solidarity with the students in florida, even though we re in different states and different school districts we should recognize we are all students and in this together for the fight for safety in our schools. mr. pitman, you raised these kids well. i have to tell you. and i think that i look at little things. i looked at the fact that there was purity today. it was about guns and safety. they didn t get off not a bunch of people with little coffee tables and kiosks selling some ideology crap that was all about safety of schools. they stayed on the topic. and i didn t see anybody there manipulating or exploiting it for other purposes. it was powerfully struck by the purity of it. i think you could see everything from the students there that came from the heart. they re very focused on keeping it i guess right along the lines with it pure on this issue and this very black and white question. you re either for us or against us or for gun safety or you are not and we ll see what you say and whether you meet with us or you don t meet with us and what goes forward. so i think the students did quite a good job of that today. tensel, do you think you have the people that don t want to do anything on the defensive? there are a lot of people out there that don t do anything. i think specially in merck, we have the opportunity to do something about it. so we should do something about it. i would respect a person more that talks about their beliefs even though they are on the opposite side of us because thaer they re using their rights to stand up for what they believe in. where does the second amendment stand compared to the first amendment when you expressed today. the second amendment kills. it takes away people s lives. the first amendment, i don t think anyone died today at the march and we were using our first amendment right. you know what i thought, a couple of observations to throw at you and i never heard the word democrat used today. anywhere. on a sign, i didn t see and i know progressives hate to hear this, or gee whiz i have a lot of i didn t hear the name of any politician mentioned today except trump. so are there any heros or did anybody notice or talk about, but i did in the the lack of old time partisan talk was missing today. talk about that. i actually wasn t surprised by that because the truth is that the shooter, the bullet, they don t know whether a student is democrat or republican or anywhere in between. and this is no longer a partisan issue. it is amoral issue because so many lives have been lost. i think it is important to mention that there was a few politicians mentioned that are bought and owned by the nra and people made sure to expose politicians like marco rubio, everyone had little tags that said a dollar and five cents which is the they took the number of students in school districts in florida and the amount of money that marco rubio takes from the nra. so they divided that and that came out to $1.05 per student in florida. so it is very important that they re putting emphasis on the politicians that take money from the nra, while still managing to keep it nonpartisan and focus on saving lives today. and i noticed today, this celebration was a celebration of democracy. i thought this is what washington is supposed to be. when people think of this city, which i ve loved all of these years, they should think about what you did today and not guys in three-piece suits up on the hill. stuffed shirts. but when they think of washington and should imagine it people in the streets, not politicians behind closed doors. if you look at times in history such as the civil rights movement, again march across the bridge in selma, you see many of these were led by children. by students. and we in my history class i teach the student or try to in the junior class, they take the one about the importance of voting and they ll be voters and they need to exercise that right and be leaders future leaders and in our local and state and national communities and we seen them step up with that and think back to the question of the politics. you did not see them go after anyone other than the president. they are quite aware that we need both democrat and republicans and the bullets when they came down the halls when they came down the hall shooting from room to room using the asaul assault weapon even as i understand digressing but under court cases that have been handed down by the federal court in the last ten years, that they ve ruled that assault weapons are not something that are protected by the second amendment. these students were all exercising their first amendment right and i think unfortunately for too long the second amendment right even though i think that is not all for sure how do we translate as a history, how do we translate what the people the framers metropolitan when they say arms. they meant a musket when is not a particularly accurate weapon. jam it in for the top and a brilliant apparently reloaders could do two or three a minute. it wasn t meant to be a rapid fire and pull the trigger until it stops and rup out of bullets with magazine on it. how do you get back to that chance lation in the courts. want to add one thing. we came down and there were 200 students on thursday, we went to the african-american museum of history and culture and one of the pictures that i took from that exhibit was there was a picture of a sword and a musket and again so when i was thinking when the forefathers created the second amendment in 1791, they were not envisioning this type of technology that we have today that created this assault weapon. they do not look at that as you are saying. the musket, if they were fast or got two or three shots a minute that is why the ban was more important than the rifle. because in close contact, you kill more people with the bayonet than the old time me mesk musket. and i sense a creation atmosphere and a birth of a nation in a good sense that you are out there and the women are out there doing something. what happens a year from now when you are all a year ahead in school, and maybe in college and you notice nothing has been done? how long can you keep the optimism? i think right now there is a sense of hope in the air. and i it is been about it is been a lot of weeks. a couple of weeks, about six weeks. and we ve kept it going. and i think we re at a turning point in our country and i don t think we re going to stop a year or two years in two years the next presidential election will be taking place and that is when when i ll be able to vote. i won t be able to vote in november. in 2018. but i will be able to vote in 2020 and i will not be voting for anyone that doesn t care about our lives. how do you olivia you answer this because the nra strength comes from my brother is one. he s an nra guy. they vote on one issue. they want gun rights. how do you match that single mindedness, that almost tunnel vision. we only think of one thing. one is a hawk and one is a dove on foreign policy an one for the tight money and then loose money and more or less spending and one for single pay or not there are so many things to choose from and you think i m not going to think about that. for my generation, i m going to focus on one issue. to protect kids in school from guns. how do you get people to vote that w that single mindedness. nra people do. yeah. well going back to the fact that it really is a moral issue. children are it is for them too, by the way. it is. they think it is a moral right. they definitely think it is. brain washed to a point. but the thing about the nra and their one-track mind is they are trying their very hardest to sweep us under the rug and not pay attention to us and like you were just saying, we ll all be eligible to vote in the 2018 election some of us and if the nra owned politicians don t want to listen to us now, we re in their districts knocking on doors and voting in those eee elections. it is almost maniacal and but you think you can stick to it. absolutely. absolutely. thank you. it is a delight to have you have. i shouldn t say it is anything great than to you have on. gary pitman, you are a great performer and getting points across which is point in this television age. thank you. thank you. tank you, tensel. pronunciation brilliant. coming up, has the shooting in parkland change the gun debate. i ll ask mark kelly, husband of gab gabby giffords husband. and hardball is back after this. it s 6 am. 40 million americans are waking up to a gillette shave. and at our factory in boston, more than a thousand workers are starting their day building on over a hundred years of heritage, craftsmanship and innovation. today we re bringing you america s number one shave at lower prices every day. putting money back in the pockets of millions of americans. as one of those workers, i m proud to bring you gillette quality for less, because nobody can beat the men and women of gillette. gillette - the best a man can get. they feel that they have to drink patients that i see that complain about dry mouth a lot of water. medications seem to be the number one cause for dry mouth. dry mouth can cause increased cavities, bad breath, oral irritation. i like to recommend biotene. biotene has a full array of products that replenishes the moisture in your mouth. biotene definitely works. it makes patients so much happier. [heartbeat] we lost a president by gun violence that i met on occasion, president kennedy. we lost a leader that i got to know and work with 50 years ago by the name of martin luther king jr. because of gun violence. we lost a young senator by the name of robert kennedy that i worked for because of gun violence. we must end gun violence once and for all. end it. welcome back. that is a great and i mean the great john lewis at a rally in atlanta. among the marches here in washington was gabby giffords from arizona. she tweeted this photo with her husband retired astronaut mark kelly and together they are the founders of the group courage to fight gun violence. she wrote, fighting gup violence takes courage, after i was shot in 2011 i didn t know what the next day would bring but i knew you had to push on. our fight does not end at the march for our lives. we need to keep speaking out and we need to organize, we need to vote. i m joined now by her husband captain mark kelly. thank you for joining us. and i guess you are in the navy. whatever. john lewis talked about bobby. i remember when that happened. i wrote a letter to my congressman and never did before or since. nothing happened. but there was some action back in 68 and some in 94 but it all seems to limit the sun set and they stop being important and enforced. i don t think we have gun regulation today. we have some regulations and we ve been very successful but no tommy guns. and no silencers. they are hard to get. there are other things prohibited. you don t have the right to own just about everything. but when we look at what happened today, this could be a moment that might be a seismic shift. i saw a lot people out there today that want to see some change. now what needs to happen is the kids need to motivate those people and their classmates to get out there and vote. how do and you re in the battle, how do they go out there and basically in high noon and face down the people who want open carry walking into bars and there are people that i think are deranged about this. they want guns in bars. they want guns in restaurants. walking into any hotel with a gun showing. they re up against the opposite that that opposite is militant. i think they re on the right side of this issue certainly. sensible people know that. they are on the moral side of the issue. and they understand that. and that empowers them and they are smart kids. they re motivated to do something about it. they know that as adults we have collectively messed this up for them and put them in a terrible position. and i don t and they are not afraid. when you watch them up there today, he don t think they re intimidated by anybody carrying a gun into a bar. they ve been through a lot. these kids a lot thex have been in a fire fight. and they are tired of it. good phrase. we re tired of it. they re tired of it. if you hear this tuesday or next tuesday or next thursday after that, there was a gun shooting at a school, you will not be surprised. i would not be surprised. i m not surprised. no. because that is the way we are. between now and next tuesday we ll not have changed any laws. mitch mcconnell is not going to come in next week i think they are off for two weeks or paul ryan and say 800,000 people were on the street. we better go and have some debate and pass some legislation. they will not do that now. however, if they can change the voting pattern of people who are between the age of 18 and 25 or 18 to 30, that could have a significant impact on the election in november and then they start to notice. and i think it will change what happens in this country. president trump is down in mar-a-largo this weekend. he has mentioned the march hasn t mentioned the march on twitter but the white house released a statement. we applaud the many courageous young plerns exercising their first amendment rights today keeping our children safe is a a top priority of the president, this is the person speaking for the president, which is why he urged the congress to pass fix nics and passed them into law and the rule to ban bump stocks following through on the president. i m very skeptical about this sort of this executive order thing through the justice department. people like dianne feinstein say you need legislation. so even on this limited step, i m not sure he s for real. well, i mean, legislation is always preferred over an executive action or a doj ruling, as with bump stocks, it is a small step. fix nics is a positive thing. but at the same time it is a pretty small minor tweak to our nation s gun laws. what we need is universal background checks for all gun sales. they don t want to do gun shows. ore or over the noipinter and that will impede the sale of firearms. is this about money? it is about money. it is billions of dollars a year spent in this country and money on the margin. they want to sell that one more gun how about the teachers. is that part of the game? get teachers to buy guns. escalate it with guns. it is a big market. and we heard the story from those who had lost loved ones to gun violence. among them was edna chavez of south central los angeles who told us about her brother. let s watch. it was a day like any other day. sunset going down on south central. you hear pops thinking they are fireworks. they weren t pops. you see your brother s skin turn gray. ricardo was his name. can you all say it with me. ricardo, ricardo, ricardo. [ chanting ] this is the stuff that got to me. and we heard from mia middletop of chicago with a high school freshman was held up at a convenience store and here is her story. he comes towards me and i couldn t move. i couldn t breathe. i couldn t talk. i couldn t think. all i remember is seeing dark jeans coming toward me. he pulled out this silver pistol and points it in my face and said these words that to this day haunt me and give me nightmares. he said, if you say anything i will find you. and yet i m still saying something today. [ cheering and applause ] mark, i heard some numbers toe. a young kid from chicago, i heard in the car coming in, the kid he s a kid. he gave us the numbers. 5,000 dead kids in chicago alone since 2006. 16,000 wounded, probably serious wounds. life-changing. but 5,000 dead kids from shootings in the neighborhoods in chicago. yep. and it gets very little national publicity. probably be more this weekend and every weekend after that until we decide to make gun trafficking a priority and stop the gun trafficking that happens from indiana and from you re an expert. why only in america. japan and the brits don t have this problem or the germans and it is nowhere in asia or africa. the crazy number of firearms in this country. i m a gun owner. a responsible gun ownerm there are responsible gun oer owner out there. but the fact that we have 350 million guns across this country we should be taking extra steps to make sure that they do not fall in the wrong hands and what we do is we do the opposite. we make it as easy as possible for anybody even a felon to walk out of a prison and go to a gun show or buy one on the internet. and another one you are running against, the head fake from the gun lobby, they say we have to solve mental and emotional illness. to solve it because they re going to have access to guns so make sure they are not crazy. i shouldn t use the word crazy. they think they are being legitimate. let s get rid of mental health. it is part of human live. but they say that is the solution. get rid of those problems. we don t have a higher rate of mental illness in this country than any other country. than norway. and people like that we ve seen the mass shootings lately and it is a problem and there are things we could give people better health care but instead we do the opposite. we take it away. so if they are saying that, they should be supportive. and in the second this guy who is the defendant goes to trial, execute him. they talk about insanity and until it comes to trial and then the language they were using to get away from any kind of gun safety, they say burn the guy. isn t it funny how they change. he s insane until he goes to trial and then they want to execute him. it is so easy how their brain works. the arguments do not pass the logic test. and we saw some very articulate and logical kids who are motivated to do something. they make you cry. they were so real. the kid had a vomited. it is a strange thing to say. but from butterflies in sports and the locker room and everybody knows what it is like to go on stage and you get sick from fear. that kid was for real. you could tell that. and he recovered. and she said i feel great. and in a strong way and came back. what a statement. an interesting statement but we ll not forget. it thank you, captain. thank you. up next, today s protest extended far beyond the nation s capitol from parkland, florida, to l.a. and in california. we ll have a live report from the ground and including from the city of san francisco. this is special edition of hardball where the action is. we took legendary. and made it liberating. we took safe. and made it daring. we took intelligent, and made it utterly irresistible. we took the most advanced e-class ever. and made the most exciting e-class ever. the 2018 e-class coupe and sedan. lease the e300 sedan for $569 a month at your local mercedes-benz dealer. mercedes-benz. the best or nothing. the lsave up to 50 percent onon hundreds of your favorite items. all at the lowest prices of the season. train well. be well. live well. only at gnc. brbut how will his dentured to thicope with. a steak. luckily for brad, this isn t a worry because he s discovered super poligrip. it holds his denture tight and helps give him 65% more chewing power. leaving brad to dig in and enjoy the tastiest of t-bones. super poligrip, helping you enjoy the foods you love. looking for a hotel that fits. whoooo. .your budget? 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800 cities around the world. people are still demonstrating on the streets of san francisco. we re going to editor beth fooey who is there with the people. beth, tell us about it. reporter: i m in san francisco, i know it is a city that you love, chris. it is very nice and sup and sy here. this is the end of the march over my right shoulder. this is market street. the big main street in san francisco where some tens of thousands of people marched down from city hall and then came down here to the beautiful ferry building where they sort of finished up the march and everybody is going back to their homes. but we had an incredible day and there were energy and power here and students. and to talk about the march, i have bridget culver, shalea fisher and amiya barken. some representatives of california, oregon and they are all here to tell us why they showed up. bridget, go first. i showed up because i m a strong believer in gun control and i think it is unreasonable to ask teachers to be armed in a classroom. it is a situation that no student should be in in a situation with an active shooter and we should be showing up to marches, showing up to the polls and showing congress who works for us that this is what we demand. so shalea, to that point, folks your anyone aren t known for being voters. you are the folks who stay home in your dorm rooms an politics doesn t matter that much to you. is something different now. i think that is very untrue. historically that is untrue. i think young people are the people that make change in this world and that is very clear right now. we ve grown up in an age of extreme gun violence and i think that needs to end today. and i don t think that we can have any more children s lives lost before the congress decides to make any more decisions. i think that we need to make action now and that is through voting and that is through getting out and protesting like today and through telling everyone that we re not going to stand up for this any more. and amiya, what brought you down from portland, oregon, to come to san francisco to march. i grew up in morin and this is my home and i want to support the people that are here and around the whole country and show up and say this isn t cool. i can t imagine being in a situation like this and it hurts that people younger than me, children have been in situations threatened by guns. so are the people you know, they are planning to vote, they are going to get out and as i did last election, and as i will this next election and every election after that. and do you feel like all of your friends are feeling similarly motivated. oh, yeah. there is strength in politics. you could just see the majority of people out here are young. look at this crowd right here. i mean look at this the march continues. that is what people people continue. they are not satisfied that the march is technically over. they are continuing to march on their own. and we have to keep the energy going up until the next election and every future election after that. it is not ending today. this is just the beginning. because at first you ll hear from your parents and adults like me that marching is one thing but getting out and voting is something entirely different. and that is going to be the thing that makes change. we have to get out there and tell them this isn t okay for us and our votes matter. thank you. bridget and shalea and amiya. great to have you. thank you so much. great reporting from san francisco. beth fooey. with me now is congressman ted deutsche from district parkland, high school. you are the expert. you know what you face. how are you going to get let s talk turkey, how are you going to get the speaker of the house and massly over rated than paul ryan, he won t let a gun control or safety bill on the floor, is he? that is what he does. he protects his members from the vote. you know what the message was today. the message to paul ryan was you can move forward on the common sense gun safety legislation that has broad bipartisan support throughout the country, or you won t be speaker any more. that was the message today. these kids who but he cares more about the freedom caucus than he does you guys. he cares about being speaker and i ll tell you what, if he s not prepared to allow the bipartisan universal background check bill come to the floor for a vote, the bipartisan 21 to buy a gun bill to come to the floor, common sense measures, these then students who are soen eshlgized will show up id sh they will show up and vote out. and they will show up and vote out the people who stand in the way of these people, young people, should they be optimistic that you are right and there will be a vote this summer perhaps on the 21-year-old minimum age for by buying a firearm. i m telling them to be optimistic about the power that was on full display today. the power that said we need action now, but if we don t see it, then we re going to come out in droves in the election. chris, they re creating single issue voters for themselves for the generation are you confident of that. you bet i am. look, these kids the kids from stoneman douglas who understand how important it is to work with students from all across country who face gun violence on a regular basis, these kids who have seen carnage that no one should ever have to experience, they understand what is at stake here. they want to be safe. they re tired of politicians telling them that there is some extremist view of the constitution that prevents them from taking action. what about the people in the gun rights right wing. they say there is socialist grown ups behind the kids. they are doing it again today. this is all extremists. let me tell you something the kids are not accused of being extremist. the figures in the background, they keep alluding to. they have to do that, because if they because they can t they try to attack the kids first, remember and then that was just so outrageous they had to stop and now looking forfully way to discredit what happened. they can t do. i m answering my own question but extrapolate, i m overwhelmed by these young women and the girls. i m overwhelmed by their honest and some the guys were a little more perhaps talking more politically. but the ones who were talking from their gut, the one who threw up, this is for real. this isn t somebody who wrote something and wants to show off. this is somebody who feels in their gut literally the importance of this issue. whosy gun violence survivor. that is why she was able sam an that y she was so caught up by the moment she lost it. and then pulled herself together because she knew that her peers and her school and her country needed to hear what she was saying. that is what i will remember. her name is samantha. i will remember her. and all your life you are hearing about jocks before a game and they get butterflies an bob hope would get up set and throw up before big performances and it means you are out to do your best and this is so important to you. and this is it. in your life to do that when she did that, i go, my god, this is a person whose total being is here. it means they are not reading lines, they are not using talking points, they are just being themselves. and when is he said i just threw up and i feel great. i m sorry, i ve never heard that said before so eloquently. congressman ted deutsche of florida, representing florida well parkland. you don t have to explain that to people. they will know what that meaps. it was a memorable day on washington but what is going forward. i want this to be important. what can congress do? what will it do? and what is president trump do goi going to do. apparently very little. except the bump stock promise because the executive order excuse me, pass a law, mr. president. you are watching a special edition of hardball. 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fact, be the factor that smokes out the gun lobby because my colleagues are going to see that playbook no longer works. welcome back to hardball. that that was connecticut senator richard blumenthal and the message of the march for our lives to his colleagues in the u.s. senate as hundreds of thousands of students, about 800,000 descended on washington calling on congress and the president to do something about gun violence. president trump is in florida. of his own volition down at his resort. he chose to leave town. white house there is no such place as the white house. who is this person that put out a statement on the march through a spokesperson referencing some recent measures writing keeping our children safe is a top priority of the president, speaking in third person which is why he urged congress to pass the fix nics and they and the fix nics passed and trump signed it into law to improve the nation s background system but several democrats calling their colleagues to do more. fix nics, i supported. but let me tell you, 17 lives in parkland and the lives that we lose every work are worth much more than fix nics. people should know we have introduced an assault weapons ban, we are asking for a hearing. there may be amendments made to it. but there is an opportunity to do it. the problem is we need 60 and we don t have a single republican. for more, i m joined by john pierre from move on.org and john bray man and geoff bennett, white house correspondent. i m going to start off with jeff. the president skipped town today. he did. he skipped out when 800,000 people came to speak they re thoughts to him. and he said i m not interested. i m leaving town. remember when there was that march for life, the anti-abortion rally on the mall. he did that simulcast speech from the rose garden. and mike pence went in person to that event. the president was prescheduled to be out of town this weekend he set the schedule. that is truech but wh but ri he left for the golf course, they sent out the statement where he touts the two pezures that he signed into law in the omnibus spending bill. but those two measures were so modest all they do is reinforce existing law. it is nowhere near what the kids from park land called for and what the president stated support for just a few weeks ago, expanded background checks, raising the purchase age for some semi automatic weapons. what did you make of what she said, not a single republican supports the bill. i want to go back to the president because i think you re being unfair to him. go head. in the president s statement he did make this clear these are great americans out there marching and that is important the white house did. but that is the president. that doesn t go out with the president not knowing. so when that happened during the iraq war george bush put out a statement saying maybe they could find something more important to do like pick up trash. to me this was the president saying, look this was democracy in action. and commended him. second of all, the bill that you are talking about does do more. one is this is the justice department that now is doing something about bump stocks. the obama administration didn t. so let s start giving him credit. he is talking about stringent stronger background checks. there are some things in motion. let s keep in mind that the last four years there have been 70 shootings in schools. which shouldn t be acceptable to any of us. but that happened three of the years were the obama administration and one was during trump. so isn t it a good thing that finally we re all coming together on important issue and at least having a dialogue. why are we blaming this president and blame the previous president. commend the people today that they are great americans for what they did. let s hope that i m talking about failure to act the expert on assault weapons and diane can t get 60 votes to clear a debate. that is not also forget that the democrats under barack obama had the senate and had the house. i m talking about every opportunity what happened and everybody blames the nra like the nra what is going to happen. in a batman movie. the nra has about 5 million i m not doing it that way. i m asking what is going to get done in response to this today. i think there will be serious dialogue on background checks. i think there will be changes made much more stringent. no. and they will look at things because this isn t about school shoot gz. this is about school violence and more than just guns, about how to protect kids in school and they ll look at this more globally and just say how do we get rid of the guns and that will create a solution. and that is the chief criticism. people on the left say the president trump and republicans have tried to reorient this whole narrative. away from guns and more about issues about school security and mental health when the chief issue is about guns and you mings the fact that the nra has 5 million members and they have a disproportionate say is because people on the right, guns is not it is not about safety, it is about a culture. so what would you do? get rid of all of the guns. that is not for me to decide. and you are criticizing the republicans. what should be done. you re a progressive, what should be done about about asaul weapons. what should be done? i think we do feed to get rid of assault weapons. what do you mean by outlaw or get rid of them, how do you do it. i think congress needs to do something. but here is the thing tell me what you want done on assault weapons. take that one issue killing these kids. i think we should not have ar-15s on the streets of the country. weapons of war country. we don t need. we stop sales of all ar-15s. universal background checks. we need to do that. out right ban. jeff. can we get a vote on that? doubtful. it s not going to happen in congress. these kids were absolutely right. what they said today which was, vote them out and they registered people to vote. we need a new congress in order to have it. it s going to happen? i think we need to make sure we get people. it s not going to happen with republicans. who s going to vote for the ban you want? well you have to elect folks that are going to be able to do that. it s not republicans. why didn t it happen why didn t it happen then? only voting for democrats who support a ban on ar-15s. i support on common sense gun laws. that s what i support. you re fading here. i m not fading. here s the thing to donald trump. his first executive order was to make sure that mentally ill people were able to get guns. i got do close this down. we ll be right back. you re watching a special edition of hardball. if yor crohn s symptoms are holding you back, and your current treatment hasn t worked well enough, it may be time for a change. ask your doctor about entyvio, the only biologic developed and approved just for uc and crohn s. entyvio works at the site of 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importance of today to prosperity. these kids are amazing. they re inspiring. this is what we knneeded in thi movement. young people to step in and take the lead. we saw this in the 50s and 60s. there s nothing new here but i m gloods th glad this happened. we need to change this issue and turn it into an electoral force. i m looking forward to november. i think it s empowered these students to know they are of more value than just in a presidential year. republicans we look and say at some point they will pay taxes and care about this. we ll get them. they are now politically active not at 18 but 14, 15 and 16. we better start talking to them at that age. the gun bedadebate has been asymmetrical. guns tend to be a cultural issue for people on the right. these kids spoke with such energy and eloquence that the needle could be moving here. the other thing is the rally we saw today, i think, was the physical representation of all the behind the scenes machinery. the thing we didn t focus 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