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Students from parkland are not the only ones protesting. >> reporter: it seems there act vifl , this activism is spreading. they're acknowledging the tragedy that has happened here. in fact about, 300 of made their way here. a distance of about 12 miles. every time a new student showed up they were greeted by other students here cheering them on. and now we of course know that there are survivors from this school on buses headed up to tallahassee to meet face to face with lawmakers for change. these students are on a mission. >> everyone here today is here to effect change. >> reporter: travel...

Yeah, thoughts and prayers go out to people. we're going to propose these ideas. we don't need ideas. we need action from our elected officials and we need action from the civic people. without that, this is going to happen again. >> he is one of the fired up students you're talking about, students than want to effect change. i understand he came up to you and asked you to do something. >> well, i saw david again this morning. and just a few weeks ago, david interviewed me at douglas high school for their student television station where we had a chance to talk about this issue among others. h...

The harsh language he had or, you know, some of the things that happened at the campaign rally. why not then? >> i accepted the fact that, you know, the american public by their vote spoke and put a particular individual in office with all of the flaws, with all of the character issues. i was not there to judge that. i was there to see if there was an opportunity to effect change. i was especially concerned when i looked around the room that there were just a handful of persons of color there, and i said, well, wait a minute, what's going to happen to our community? what kind of initiatives wi...

Those around you and i got a problem with that lack of leadership. >> so, you know what folks are going to say, why not the access hollywood tape grabbing women. why not when he made fun of people on the campaign trail or the hash language he had and things that happened over the campaign rally, why not then? >> i accepted the fact by the more than public voted and put a particular person as president over all the flaws and character issues, i have not there to judge that i was there to see if there was an opportunity to effect change. i was especially concerned when you looked around the room...

Supported trump when he ran as a racist and hated immigrants. when he said he would take away health care. said he would not be for living wages. he did not talk act uplifting the poor. he lied about voter fraud and suppression. really that should be no surprise. >> this is a guy who was accused by the nixon administration of housing discrimination. would it be fair to say you went on the council with him and why did you do on a council with a man who had done all of these things? >> to effect change. sometimes you have to deal with what you have. that was one of those situations. as i said in...