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The president met with local and state officials at the white house yesterday to discuss school safety and had this exchange of the commissioner of the florida department of education. >> we are required to have a fire drill in schools once a month. we are not required to have active shooter drills. and so a practice like that where you put something like that into place -- >> but active shooter drills is a very negative thing, i'll be honest with you. if i'm a child and i'm 10 years old and they say we're going to have an active shooter drill, i say what's that? people may come in and shoot y...

Welcome back. you're watching cnn. i'm brooke baldwin. stoneman douglas held active shooter drills. we're talking 4-year-olds trained to know what gun shots sound like, taught to hide in closets or even play dead. teachers become bodyguards creating barriers against classroom doors, carrying out escape plans and the issue was brought up with president trump today. i want you to watch that exchange. >> we are required to have a fire drill in schools once a month. we are not required to have active shooter drills. a practice like that, where you put something into place. >> that's a very negativ...

To harden schools like you have armed guards at the white house, on capitol hill. you should arm your teachers at schools. >> i think the nra has lost their ability to understand real life and i think they have lost their seat at the table in terms of understanding what really needs to happen to their only concern in my opinion is perpetuating a culture of violence in this country. they don't seem to understand that that's not solving the problem. it is not solving the problem to continue to arm people. that's not going to help. think about what happened in diana's school. their hallways were ...

Issues, that needs to be a practice where we are helping students feel connected so we don't reach the point of tier three or to your former we've got to have the mental health services intervene on individuals like that individual. practices being in place, we are required to have a fire drill in schools month-to-month. we are not required to have active shooter drills. a practice like that where you put something like that. >> president trump: active shooter drills are very negative thing. if i am a child and i'm ten years old and i say we are going to have an active shooter drill, what's th...

I saw him periodically. and for the past, like, year i don't think i saw him. and i think i saw him like last year. and i haven't seen him since. >> yeah. i want to read this. and joey perhaps you can spanned. it's a part of an open letter written by another student at your high school. it says this tragedy is about a gun. my best friend texted me as the tragedy gand his text read second fire drill today. i hear gunshots. we're about to die. his text did not read, i hear a mental illness we're about to die. i hear a sick minded person, we're about to die. the text read, i hear gunshots and we'...