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You mentioned schools. i want you to respond to the question about the effect on kids and teens that are exposed to these crimes in their communities. what are you seeing in terms of the people you talk to in your community? >> so what i see every single day as i mentioned, i grew up on the south side of chicago. i currently live in the kenwood neighborhood, which is right up the street from the high school where hadia pendleton was shot and killed. so our young people, they see these things. they don't just see it on the news. they see their friends. they also think about themselves. i see my...

0 new town. it's been barely a hundred days since 20 innocent children and six brave educators were taken from us by gun violence including grace macdonald and loren russo and jessie lewis whose families are here today. that agony burns deep in the families of thousands. thousands of americans stolen from our lives by a bullet from a gun over these last hundred days, including adia pendleton who was killed on her way to school less than two months ago and whose mom is also here today. everything they lived for and hoped for taken away in an instant. we have moms on this stage whose children we...

Opposed to some kinds of guns because we think they have no lawful purpose and regulating them or banning them would be an important step to limiting crime, but we're not hostile to guns in general and certainly we're not hostile to the people in many parts of the country for whom guns are a big part of the culture. hunting it a big part of the culture and an ethos of self protection that guns are legitimate as a means of protection. so they are, indeed, walking a line in trying to balance different interests on this kind of issue. >> john, some people have been surprised that the president ha...

but when i read the first charge, i actually got physically ill. i couldn't read anymore for a couple of days. >> the university responded to the family in a written statement saying, it is understandable and appreciated that people will draw their own conclusions and opinions from the facts uncovered in the freeh report. president obama will head to chicago on friday to talk about economic proposals that he'll be laying out in this week's state of the union address. the president will also talk about gun violence that has affected communities across chicago and across this country...

Last cabinet members to announce plans to either leave or stay for a second term. the mother of 15-year-old hadia pendleton is remembering her daughter, who was killed in chicago by gun violence a week after she performed at the president's inauguration. cleo, her mother, spoke to msnbc's the reverend al. >> you know, she had aspirations for being an adult, but, you know, she was just 15 and enjoying it. we talked to her about these years being some of the best years of your life and just enjoying. you are going to make a difference. she was hadea. she was special. >> in response to the late...