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From newtown. they really turned things around up there on the hill. and i think people have started to realize that they need to bring all assets to bear in this battle. and that's part of what michelle obama has been doing. so i don't believe republicans fear her, in particular, over others, but i think everybody is now going to be making this a central issue and putting real faces on this gun debate. that's why you see at least temporarily the gun lobby again back on its heels. >> right. joy, it's no surprise that rush limbaugh marked the first lady's moving tribute to hydeia pendleton. tha...

Occasions speak to kids about herself as a kid growing up in chicago. and the fact that she really does believe that but for the grace of god and parents that had her in sports and had her in activities, and good grades and just, you know, having a family that supported her, she understands in reality that she could have been hydeia pendleton. she could have been any of these kids that are victims of gun violence. she feels it so personally. that speech was really impa impactful. it was real. it was michelle obama not as a first lady, not just as a mom but a girl from the south side of chicago...

Seen a time where it has been so deeply felt. a small number of people having such a huge impact. >> i, myself, bought extra guns, extra ammo in anticipation of all this nonsense. >> what does it take for us to change what we are seeing unfold? >> my child is gone. >> hydeia pendleton was me, and i was her. >> newtown, connecticut, deserves a vote. they all deserve a vote. >> let's get right to our panel. joining me here in the studio is joy reid, managing editor of the grio.com. jimmy williams is an msnbc contributor. and, of course, the great dane ma milbank is a columnist for the "washingto...

Obama's stop in chicago to attend the funeral of 15-year-old hydeia pendleton who was shot and killed a week after performing for the president at the inauguration. but then the president's words of gun violence which have made frequent appearances since the shooting in newtown, and we heard him talk about another subject which is a topic but until recently conspicuously absent from the presidential rhetoric. >> today, a family that works hard with minimum wage salary still lives beneath the poverty level. chicago is full of factories that have been packed up, and the pockets of poverty where ...

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